Sentences with phrase «13th district seat»

Among those nominated: Freeport trustee Debra Mule for the 5th District seat being vacated by Curran; Eileen Napolitano for the 13th District seat being vacated by retiring presiding officer Norma Gonsalves (R - East Meadow), and Joshua Lafazan, who in 2012 won a spot on the Syosset Board of Education at age 18, against incumbent Legis.

The fundraiser, according to the source, will be held in New York City on May 15 — just five days before the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 13th District seat on May 20.

On Nov. 7, 2006, Ketron won re-election to the 13th District Seat in the Tennessee State Senate, defeating opponent Vince Springer (D).

On paper at least, North Carolina's 13th District seat is the most competitive in the state for Democrats next year.

Ketron was re-elected to the 13th District seat in 2010.

Not exact matches

Normally a council member's top assistant has the inside track on succession, and it is a measure of the decline of the fortunes of the Rivera family that the front - runner for the seat is Ritchie Torres, a staffer for CM Jimmy Vacca in the adjoining 13th District.

That, combined with the retirement of Republican incumbent Tim Johnson, had turned the 13th from a safe Republican seat to a swing district.

Seven candidates for the 13th congressional district seat currently held by Charles Rangel met for a candidate forum Sunday.

McMahon, who represents the North Shore on the City Council, and Straniere are running for the 13th District Congressional seat left open by Rep. Vito Fossella, a Republican who opted not to seek re-election after it was discovered he fathered a child outside of his marriage.

«I am surprised and deeply humbled by the efforts last night to advance me as a candidate for the 13th Congressional District, a seat I was honored to hold for almost twelve years.»

Ten of New York's Democratic - held House seats were ranked as competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report prior to the election; the 4th District was ranked likely Democratic; the 13th, 22nd and 25th Districts were ranked as lean Democratic; the 1st, 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th were ranked as toss - ups; and the 29th District was ranked as likely Republican.

In March, a Republican polling firm surveyed 11 competitive seats, including McMahon's 13th District, and reported that a majority of respondents there opposed the Democratic health plan.

McKevitt will represent the 13th District of his native East Meadows on a seat left vacant by longtime GOP incumbent Norma Gonsalves.

Lanza declined to run for the 13th Congressional District seat — which includes a slice of Brooklyn — two years ago, when GOP Rep. Vito Fossella, Lanza's longtime friend, dropped his re-election bid amidst scandal.

UPPER MANHATTAN — On their last full day of campaigning, the leading candidates for the 13th Congressional District seat tried to convince voters in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx that experience was the factor they should use to decide who they want to be their representative.

With 98 percent of precincts reporting, State Senator Adriano Espaillat declared victory Tuesday night in the Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District seat held by Charles Rangel as his chief rival refused to concede the race.

Updated 12:01 a.m. State Rep. Brendan Boyle easily defeated three other Democrats Tuesday night, including former Rep. Marjorie Margolies, to win an open - seat primary in Pennsylvania's 13th District.

Yet Democratic operatives say Margolies has run an astonishingly poor campaign in the 13th District, an open seat thanks to Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz's gubernatorial bid in the Keystone State.

But it was also bigger than the two men running: it was the distillation of a struggle over where the seat of power would reside in the 13th Congressional district.

Mr. Sloan is making an improbable bid for New York's 13th Congressional District seat, but appears to be more than a little ambivalent about whether he wants anyone to know that he's actually running.

The Democratic candidates vying for New York's 13th Congressional District seat (NY - 13) gathered at...

Rep. Charles Rangel, D - NY, right, and State Senator Adriano Espaillat debate for the Democratic Primary seat for the 13th Congressional District.

Tweedie, who represents the 13th House District, said he will seek the GOP nomination to run for the seat, which represents Andover, Bolton, Glastonbury and Manchester.

«They did what the special master should have done and took the politics out of it,» said Vince Morgan, a candidate for the 13th congressional district seat.

Democratic state Sen. Adriano Espaillat's win in New York's 13th District on Tuesday night marks the first time since the 1960s that someone not named Charles B. Rangel was elected to fill that seat.

New Jersey's 13th District: The elevation of Robert Menendez to the Senate opened up this northern New Jersey seat.

And shortly midnight, CNN called the 13th District — the seat once held by Vito Fossella — for former FBI agent Michael Grimm in a huge upset over Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon.

SD31 In Senate District 31, which includes the Upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood and runs down the West Side into Hell's Kitchen, Senator Adriano Espaillat is leaving his seat to run for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional district — an election he is favored to win, which would make him the first politician born in the Dominican Republic to be elected to the House of RepresenDistrict 31, which includes the Upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood and runs down the West Side into Hell's Kitchen, Senator Adriano Espaillat is leaving his seat to run for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional district — an election he is favored to win, which would make him the first politician born in the Dominican Republic to be elected to the House of Represendistrict — an election he is favored to win, which would make him the first politician born in the Dominican Republic to be elected to the House of Representatives.

In April 2013, Boyle announced his candidacy for Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, with the heavily Democratic leaning seat being vacated by the incumbent congressperson, Allyson Schwartz, who declined to run for reelection to make an ultimately unsuccessful run for Governor.