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Related: About this forumDe Blasio huddles with I.D.C. to talk about reconciliation
Jimmy Vielkind
ALBANYNew York City mayor Bill de Blasio met on Monday afternoon with state senators from the chamber's Independent Democratic Conference to discuss the possibility of a reconciliation with the chamber's mainstream Democrats, three people familiar with the meeting said.
The talks were described as still in the preliminary phase, one person said, and come as an array of Democratic officials and allied groupsincluding de Blasio himselfhas threatened to back primary challengers to the five I.D.C. senators unless they agree to some sort of rapprochement.
Last week, Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins told the Wall Street Journal that she had an amenable but not conclusive conversation with Senator Jeff Klein, the I.D.C.'s Bronx-based leader, about an alliance. She told the Journal that she held no personal animosity toward Klein, who soured relations with several of his former Democratic colleagues with sharp words and primary challenges after he seceded from conference in 2011.
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