{"id":14559,"date":"2016-11-08T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/?p=14559"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:52:22","slug":"14559-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/14559-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Jesse Hamilton of Brooklyn Breaks Away &#038; Joins Independent Democratic Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY \u2014 Bronx State Sen. Jeff Klein\u2019s influential group of breakaway Democrats gained a new member Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Sen. Jesse Hamilton announced he would join the Klein-led Independent Democratic Conference, dealing a pre-election jolt to the mainline Democrats and their hopes of capturing control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Independent Democratic Conference delivers for New Yorkers: the best paid family leave program in the nation, a $15 minimum wage, and the toughest gun laws in the country,\u201d Hamilton said in a statement. \u201cThey get results. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve decided to join my fellow Democrats and become the newest member of the IDC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fafafa; display: inline !important; float: none;\">With Hamilton\u2019s defection, the IDC will likely have at least seven members when the Senate reconvenes in January, further boosting Klein\u2019s leverage in the leadership debate expected to take place after the election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fafafa; display: inline !important; float: none;\">\u201cWe welcome Senator Jesse Hamilton aboard the Independent Democratic Conference as our seventh member and look forward to achieving even more results for the people of New York with his support,\u201d the IDC said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/brooklyn-senator-joins-breakaway-democrats-article-1.2863277?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fblogs%2Fimpactpanel+(Blogs%2FImpact+Panel)\">NY Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY \u2014 Bronx State Sen. 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Jesse Hamilton announced he would join the Klein-led Independent Democratic Conference, dealing a pre-election jolt to the mainline Democrats and their hopes of capturing control of the Senate. \u201cThe Independent Democratic Conference delivers for New Yorkers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2866],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Senator Jesse Hamilton of Brooklyn Breaks Away &amp; Joins Independent Democratic Conference - Brooklyn News and Events<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/14559-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senator Jesse Hamilton of Brooklyn Breaks Away &amp; Joins Independent Democratic Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ALBANY \u2014 Bronx State Sen. 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