For all the huffing and puffing the " no IDC " people did years back, it certainly didn't stick very long in the 19th Council ...

From the Wall Street Journal : State Sen. Tony Avella, a former member of a now-defunct group of breakaway Democrats who lost to John Liu ...

From the Queens Chronicle : New York State is a different place today. It's littered with the wreckage of what once was the Independen...

From City Limits : The two men agree on most policy issues. They both disagree, for instance, with Mayor de Blasio’s bid to change the ent...

From the NY Post : Scandal-scarred former New York City Comptroller John Liu is attempting a political comeback — emboldened by the stunni...

From the Times Ledger : In late November, Democratic Party leaders sent IDC members an ultimatum calling for reunification of the party th...

From the Daily News : A top aide to Gov. Cuomo says reunifying the fractured state Senate Democrats will be almost impossible as long as S...

I had to laugh when I saw this. Avella just got re-elected by a gigantic margin after being in the IDC for 2 years and there were zero prote...

From NY1 : The breakaway Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, will now have eight members with its newest addition, state Senator Jo...

From the Epoch Times : The unusual power-sharing arrangement in the New York state Senate between Republicans and a splinter faction of De...

From the NY Observer : The rift between mainline Democrats and the Independent Democratic Conference appears to have been mended. Gov. A...