Independent Democratic Conference

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rdf:langString The Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) was a group of members of the New York State Senate from the Democratic Party who were elected as Democrats but formed a coalition to give the Republicans the majority in the chamber, and attempted to create an independent caucus or a third caucus in the New York State Senate or a third party in the State of New York and prevent the Republican Party from gerrymandering the state senate districts of the 8 IDC members. At the time of its dissolution, the IDC included eight members: Jeffrey D. Klein, Marisol Alcantara, Tony Avella, David Carlucci, Jesse Hamilton, Jose Peralta, Diane Savino, and David Valesky. Klein, Savino, Valesky, and Carlucci formed the IDC in 2011 due to disagreements with John L. Sampson, the Democratic leader in the New York State Senate. The IDC allied itself with Senate Republicans throughout its existence. During the 2013–14 legislative session, the IDC and the Senate Republican Conference controlled the Senate jointly, as the Senate Republicans did not have sufficient numbers to form a governing majority on their own. After negotiations with Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had previously supported it, the IDC dissolved, its members rejoined the Senate Democratic Conference, and Klein would become the Deputy Democratic Conference Leader in April 2018. In the subsequent Democratic primaries in September, six of the eight former IDC members were defeated; only Carlucci and Savino won their respective primary contests. In 2020, Carlucci opted not to seek re-election to the senate and instead ran to succeed the retiring Nita Lowey as the U.S. representative for New York's 17th congressional district; he finished fourth in the Democratic primary. In February 2022, the Staten Island Advance reported that Savino, the last remaining IDC member in the New York State Senate, would not seek re-election in 2022.

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