Dems say it’s a wrap
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- January
- 6
Sen. Malcolm Smith, D-Queens, just announced that he has 32 votes to be elected majority leader when the legislative session opens tomorrow. Members of the Senate Democratic conference held a closed-door meeting to discuss leadership and other matters.
Toward the end of of the meeting, they were joined by three New York City Democrats who had threatened to join forces with outgoing Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R-Nassau County. Conference members (except for one, Sen. Hiram Monserrate) emerged a few minutes later, with Smith confirming that he had 32 votes in support of his leadership.
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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. 
