197th New York State Legislature

197th New York State Legislature
197th New York State Legislature
	New York State Capitol (2009)
Overview
Legislative body	New York State Legislature
Jurisdiction	New York, United States
Term	January 1, 2007 – December 31, 2008
Senate
Members	62
President	Lt. Gov. David Paterson (D), until March 17, 2008
Temporary President	Joseph Bruno (R), until June 24, 2008; Dean Skelos (R), from June 24, 2008
Party control	Republican
Assembly
Members	150
Speaker	Sheldon Silver (D)
Party control	Democratic
Sessions
1st
1st	January 3 – ?, 2007
2nd	January 9 – ?, 2008

The 197th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 3, 2007, to December 31, 2008, during Eliot Spitzer's and the early part of David Paterson's governorship, in Albany.

State Senate[edit]

Senators[edit]

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Assemblyman Darrel Aubertine was elected to fill a vacancy in the Senate.

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District	Senator	Party	Notes
1st	Kenneth LaValle*	Republican
2nd	John J. Flanagan*	Republican
3rd	Caesar Trunzo*	Republican
4th	Owen H. Johnson*	Republican
5th	Carl L. Marcellino*	Republican
6th	Kemp Hannon*	Republican
7th	Michael Balboni*	Republican	on January 1, 2007, appointed NYS Deputy Secretary for Public Safety^[1]
7th	Craig M. Johnson	Democrat	on February 6, 2007, elected to fill vacancy^[2]
8th	Charles J. Fuschillo Jr.*	Republican
9th	Dean Skelos*	Republican	Temporary President and Acting Lt. Gov. from June 24, 2008
10th	Shirley Huntley	Democrat
11th	Frank Padavan*	Republican
12th	George Onorato*	Democrat
13th	John Sabini*	Democrat	in June 2008, appointed NYS Racing Commissioner^[3]
14th	Malcolm Smith*	Democrat
15th	Serphin R. Maltese*	Cons./Rep.
16th	Toby Ann Stavisky*	Democrat
17th	Martin Malave Dilan*	Democrat
18th	Velmanette Montgomery*	Democrat
19th	John L. Sampson*	Democrat
20th	Eric Adams	Democrat
21st	Kevin Parker*	Democrat
22nd	Martin Golden*	Republican
23rd	Diane Savino*	Democrat
24th	Andrew Lanza	Republican
25th	Martin Connor*	Democrat
26th	Liz Krueger*	Democrat
27th	Carl Kruger*	Democrat
28th	José M. Serrano*	Democrat
29th	Thomas Duane*	Democrat
30th	Bill Perkins	Democrat
31st	Eric Schneiderman*	Democrat
32nd	Rubén Díaz Sr.*	Democrat
33rd	Efrain Gonzalez Jr.*	Democrat
34th	Jeffrey D. Klein*	Democrat
35th	Andrea Stewart-Cousins	Democrat
36th	Ruth Hassell-Thompson*	Democrat
37th	Suzi Oppenheimer*	Democrat
38th	Thomas P. Morahan*	Republican
39th	William J. Larkin Jr.*	Republican
40th	Vincent Leibell*	Republican
41st	Stephen M. Saland*	Republican
42nd	John Bonacic*	Republican
43rd	Joseph Bruno*	Republican	Temporary President until June 24, 2008; Acting Lt. Gov. from March 17 to June 24, 2008; resigned his seat on July 18, 2008
44th	Hugh T. Farley*	Republican
45th	Betty Little*	Republican
46th	Neil Breslin*	Democrat
47th	Joseph Griffo	Republican
48th	James W. Wright*	Republican	resigned effective December 31, 2007
48th	Darrel Aubertine*	Democrat	on February 26, 2008, elected to fill vacancy^[4]
49th	David J. Valesky*	Democrat
50th	John A. DeFrancisco*	Republican
51st	James L. Seward*	Republican
52nd	Thomas W. Libous*	Republican
53rd	George H. Winner Jr.*	Republican
54th	Michael F. Nozzolio*	Republican
55th	James S. Alesi*	Republican
56th	Joseph Robach*	Republican
57th	Catharine Young*	Republican
58th	William Stachowski*	Democrat
59th	Dale M. Volker*	Republican
60th	Antoine Thompson	Democrat
61st	Mary Lou Rath*	Republican
62nd	George D. Maziarz*	Republican

Employees[edit]

Secretary: ?

State Assembly[edit]

Assembly members[edit]

The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.

Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."

District	Assembly member	Party	Notes
1st	Marc Alessi*	Democrat
2nd	Fred W. Thiele Jr.*	Republican
3rd	Patricia Eddington*	Democrat
4th	Steve Englebright*	Democrat
5th	Ginny Fields*	Democrat
6th	Philip Ramos*	Democrat
7th	Michael J. Fitzpatrick*	Republican
8th	Phil Boyle*	Republican
9th	Andrew Raia*	Republican
10th	James D. Conte*	Republican
11th	Robert K. Sweeney*	Democrat
12th	Joseph Saladino*	Republican
13th	Charles D. Lavine*	Democrat
14th	Robert Barra*	Republican
15th	Rob Walker*	Republican
16th	Thomas DiNapoli*	Democrat	on February 7, 2007, elected State Comptroller
16th	Michelle Schimel	Democrat	on March 27, 2007, elected to fill vacancy^[5]
17th	Thomas McKevitt*	Republican
18th	Earlene Hill Hooper*	Democrat
19th	David McDonough*	Republican
20th	Harvey Weisenberg*	Democrat
21st	Thomas Alfano*	Republican
22nd	Ellen Young	Democrat
23rd	Audrey Pheffer*	Democrat
24th	Mark Weprin*	Democrat
25th	Rory Lancman	Democrat
26th	Ann-Margaret Carrozza*	Democrat
27th	Nettie Mayersohn*	Democrat
28th	Andrew Hevesi*	Democrat
29th	William Scarborough*	Democrat
30th	Margaret Markey*	Democrat
31st	Michele Titus*	Democrat
32nd	Vivian E. Cook*	Democrat
33rd	Barbara M. Clark*	Democrat
34th	Ivan C. Lafayette*	Democrat
35th	Jeffrion L. Aubry*	Democrat
36th	Michael Gianaris*	Democrat
37th	Catherine Nolan*	Democrat
38th	Anthony S. Seminerio*	Democrat
39th	Jose Peralta*	Democrat
40th	Diane Gordon*	Democrat	lost seat on April 8, 2008, upon conviction for bribery^[6]
41st	Helene Weinstein*	Democrat
42nd	Rhoda S. Jacobs*	Democrat
43rd	Karim Camara*	Democrat
44th	James F. Brennan*	Democrat
45th	Steven Cymbrowitz*	Democrat
46th	Alec Brook-Krasny	Democrat
47th	William Colton*	Democrat
48th	Dov Hikind*	Democrat
49th	Peter J. Abbate Jr.*	Democrat
50th	Joseph R. Lentol*	Democrat
51st	Félix W. Ortiz*	Democrat
52nd	Joan Millman*	Democrat
53rd	Vito J. Lopez*	Democrat
54th	Darryl C. Towns*	Democrat
55th	William Boyland Jr.*	Democrat
56th	Annette Robinson*	Democrat
57th	Hakeem Jeffries	Democrat
58th	N. Nick Perry*	Democrat
59th	Alan Maisel*	Democrat
60th	Janele Hyer-Spencer	Democrat
61st	John W. Lavelle*	Democrat	died on January 24, 2007
61st	Matthew Titone	Democrat	on March 27, 2007, elected to fill vacancy^[7]
62nd	Vincent M. Ignizio*	Republican	on February 20, 2007, elected to the New York City Council
62nd	Louis Tobacco	Republican	on March 27, 2007, elected to fill vacancy^[8]
63rd	Michael Cusick*	Democrat
64th	Sheldon Silver*	Democrat	re-elected Speaker
65th	Pete Grannis*	Democrat	on April 1, 2007, confirmed as Commissioner of NYSDEC
65th	Micah Kellner	Democrat	on June 5, 2007, elected to fill vacancy^[9]
66th	Deborah J. Glick*	Democrat
67th	Linda Rosenthal*	Democrat
68th	Adam Clayton Powell IV*	Democrat
69th	Daniel J. O'Donnell*	Democrat
70th	Keith L. T. Wright*	Democrat
71st	Herman D. Farrell Jr.*	Democrat	Chairman of Ways and Means
72nd	Adriano Espaillat*	Democrat
73rd	Jonathan Bing*	Democrat
74th	Brian P. Kavanagh	Democrat
75th	Richard N. Gottfried*	Democrat
76th	Peter M. Rivera*	Democrat
77th	Aurelia Greene*	Democrat
78th	Jose Rivera*	Democrat
79th	Michael Benjamin*	Democrat
80th	Naomi Rivera*	Democrat
81st	Jeffrey Dinowitz*	Democrat
82nd	Michael Benedetto*	Democrat
83rd	Carl Heastie*	Democrat
84th	Carmen E. Arroyo*	Democrat
85th	Rubén Díaz Jr.*	Democrat
86th	Luis Diaz*	Democrat	resigned in July 2008
87th	J. Gary Pretlow*	Democrat
88th	Amy Paulin*	Democrat
89th	Adam Bradley*	Democrat
90th	Sandy Galef*	Democrat
91st	George Latimer*	Democrat
92nd	Richard L. Brodsky*	Democrat
93rd	Mike Spano	Republican
93rd	Mike Spano	Democrat	changed party affiliation in July 2007^[10]
94th	Kenneth Zebrowski*	Democrat	died on March 18, 2007
94th	Kenneth Zebrowski Jr.	Democrat	on May 1, 2007, elected to fill vacancy^[11]
95th	Ellen Jaffee	Democrat
96th	Nancy Calhoun*	Republican
97th	Ann Rabbitt*	Republican
98th	Aileen Gunther*	Democrat
99th	Greg Ball	Republican
100th	Thomas J. Kirwan*	Republican
101st	Kevin A. Cahill*	Democrat
102nd	Joel M. Miller*	Republican
103rd	Marcus Molinaro	Republican
104th	John McEneny*	Democrat
105th	Paul Tonko*	Democrat	on June 15, 2007, confirmed to head NYSERDA^[12]
105th	George A. Amedore Jr.	Republican	on July 21, 2007, elected to fill vacancy^[13]
106th	Ronald Canestrari*	Democrat	Majority Leader
107th	Clifford Crouch*	Republican
108th	Timothy P. Gordon	Ind./Dem.
109th	Robert Reilly*	Democrat
110th	Jim Tedisco*	Republican	Minority Leader
111th	Bill Magee*	Democrat
112th	Roy J. McDonald*	Republican
113th	Teresa Sayward*	Republican
114th	Janet Duprey	Republican
115th	David R. Townsend Jr.*	Republican
116th	RoAnn Destito*	Democrat
117th	Marc W. Butler*	Republican
118th	Darrel Aubertine*	Democrat	on February 26, 2008, elected to the State Senate
119th	Joan Christensen*	Democrat
120th	William Magnarelli*	Democrat
121st	Albert A. Stirpe Jr.	Democrat
122nd	Dede Scozzafava*	Republican
123rd	Gary Finch*	Republican
124th	William Barclay*	Republican
125th	Barbara Lifton*	Democrat
126th	Donna Lupardo*	Democrat
127th	Pete Lopez	Republican
128th	Bob Oaks*	Republican
129th	Brian Kolb*	Republican
130th	Joseph Errigo*	Republican
131st	Susan V. John*	Democrat
132nd	Joseph D. Morelle*	Democrat
133rd	David Gantt*	Democrat
134th	Bill Reilich*	Republican
135th	David Koon*	Democrat
136th	James Bacalles*	Republican
137th	Tom O'Mara*	Republican
138th	Francine DelMonte*	Democrat
139th	Stephen Hawley*	Republican
140th	Robin Schimminger*	Democrat
141st	Crystal Peoples*	Democrat
142nd	Michael W. Cole*	Republican	in May 2007, censured by the Assembly^[14]
143rd	Dennis Gabryszak	Democrat
144th	Sam Hoyt*	Democrat
145th	Mark J. F. Schroeder*	Democrat
146th	Jack Quinn III*	Republican
147th	Daniel Burling*	Republican
148th	James P. Hayes*	Republican
149th	Joseph Giglio*	Republican
150th	William L. Parment*	Democrat

Employees[edit]

Clerk: ?

References[edit]

^ Spitzer Appoints Republican to Security Post by Danny Hakim, in The New York Times on December 26, 2006
^ 7th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ Sabini is appointed head of Racing and Wagering Board by Irene Jay Liu, at timesunion.com on June 13, 2008
^ 48th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ 16th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ Diane Gordon Convicted by Azi Paybarah, at observer.com on April 8, 2008
^ 61st District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ 62nd District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ 65th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ Assemblyman Mike Spano Comes Out of the Political Closet in the Yonkers Tribune on July 15, 2007
^ 94th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ NYSERDA to Vote on Tonko by Ted Phillips, in The Bond Buyer on June 15, 2007
^ 105th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections
^ Assemblyman Is Censured for Fraternizing With Intern by Nicholas Confessore, in The New York Times on May 4, 2007

Sources[edit]

Senate election results at NYS Board of Elections
Assembly election results at NYS Board of Elections

[1] Spitzer Appoints Republican to Security Post by Danny Hakim, in The New York Times on December 26, 2006

[2] 7th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[3] Sabini is appointed head of Racing and Wagering Board by Irene Jay Liu, at timesunion.com on June 13, 2008

[4] 48th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[5] 16th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[6] Diane Gordon Convicted by Azi Paybarah, at observer.com on April 8, 2008

[7] 61st District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[8] 62nd District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[9] 65th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[10] Assemblyman Mike Spano Comes Out of the Political Closet in the Yonkers Tribune on July 15, 2007

[11] 94th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[12] NYSERDA to Vote on Tonko by Ted Phillips, in The Bond Buyer on June 15, 2007

[13] 105th District special election result at NYS Board of Elections

[14] Assemblyman Is Censured for Fraternizing With Intern by Nicholas Confessore, in The New York Times on May 4, 2007

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