New Senate leader to visit Binghamton
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- June
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New Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos plans to visit Binghamton next week, the second stop on an upstate tour for the state’s most powerful Republican, a spokesman said today.
Skelos, 60, a 24-year veteran lawmaker from Rockville Centre, Nassau County, was elected last week to succeed Joseph Bruno, who stunned the Capitol by suddenly quitting the leadership post.
Skelos, who has pledged to make solving upstate’s economic problems his second-most important priority (behind controlling property taxes) is starting his tour Wednesday in Buffalo and then visit Rochester Thursday. Then he plans to visit Utica, Binghamton and Syracuse next week.
NO day has been set yet for the Binghamton visit, But while there he will almost surely will appear with Sen. Tom Libous of Binghamton, who also wanted the top job but has gone out of his way since Skelos wax elected to show support for the new leader.
The Republicans now have a mere 32-30 majority in the Senate, which they have controlled every year but one since 1938.
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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. 
