Senate Democrats Start Upstate Caucus
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Trying to beat back the label as New York City-focused, Senate Democrats announced today an Upstate Caucus, “a five-member body that will concentrate on ways to help families live, work and thrive in upstate regions of New York state.”
Senate Democrats are trying to win the Senate majority for the first time since 1965, and will likely need to pick off an upstate seat or two to knock off the GOP majority. Republicans hold a two-seat majority.
The caucus will be made up of: Sens. William Stachowski, D-Buffalo; Neil Breslin, D-Albany; David Valesky, D-Oneida; Antoine Thompson, D-Buffalo/Niagara Falls; and Darrel J. Aubertine, D-Cape Vincent.
No Westchester County Democratic senators are on the panel, though.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
