Sentences with phrase «13th congressional district»

In 2006 voters in Florida's 13th Congressional District election learned firsthand that there is little recourse when e-voting election results are in dispute.

The two men are locked in a bitter contest for the second time in two years and the Democratic primary for the 13th Congressional District is less than two weeks away.

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.

«Senator Gillibrand's support for Keith Wright is extremely significant, not only for her popularity among men and women from throughout the 13th Congressional District,» said spokesman Hank Sheinkopf.

The Espaillat campaign told the Observer that 3,000 TWU members reside in the 13th Congressional District, but the union tends to have greater sway in state issues than local elections.

The race for the 13th Congressional District is not over.

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 Representatives.

Back on July 1, following a prayer breakfast in Harlem, pastor, presidential advisor and former Ambassador - at - Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan «Sujay» Johnson Cook, announced that she was running to represent New York's 13th Congressional District.

Though the 13th Congressional District has been traditionally a base of African - American political power, it is now majority Latino and could elect someone like Ms. Mark - Viverito, one of the most prominent Hispanic elected officials in the city.

The New York State AFL - CIO and the New York City Central Labor Council are coordinating a massive door - to - door campaign, where union members take part in a «Labor Walk», visiting the homes of fellow union brothers and sisters in the 13th Congressional District on Staten Island.

Confident of your prayers and inspired by your faith, I am announcing right here, today, right now, that I am indeed a candidate for the United States Congress, for the 13th Congressional District.»

The new 13th Congressional District is majority Latino.

ALBANY, NY (07/01/2008)(readMedia)-- Denis Hughes, President of the 2 1/2 million member New York State AFL - CIO today announced the State Labor Federation's «early endorsement» of Michael McMahon in the 13th Congressional District.

The three Democratic candidates in the 13th congressional district met Thursday evening for their first debate.

The 13th Congressional District was redrawn and expanded in 2012.

Among it's victories is it's mayoral campaign - saving endorsement of Bill de Blasio, and it's endorsed Charles Rangel in the 13th Congressional District primary.

The late, great Howard Cosell made a brief appearance on the 13th Congressional District campaign trail:

With the likelihood of paper and affidavit ballots producing the roughly 2,000 votes Mr. Espailat needs to match Mr. Rangel quite low, the Observer decided to identify a few winners and losers beyond the four Democrats who ran in the 13th Congressional District race.

«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.

The election of Espaillat marks a huge change not only for the 13th Congressional District, but also in the House of Representatives.

Former Congressman Vito Fossella, is a Republican who represented the state's 13th Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for six terms — from 1997 to 2009 serving as the lone Republican from New York City.

That is what Adriano Espaillat, who was sworn in as U.S. Representative for the 13th Congressional District, told a cheering crowd of Northern Manhattan residents in Washington, D.C. on Tues., Jan. 3rd.

«From Norwood to Inwood to Harlem, there is strong, grassroots support for Congressman Rangel's reelection from the voters of the 13th Congressional District,» the congressman's campaign said in a statement.

«I believe that the people of the 13th congressional district are searching for leadership with bold, new ideas in Washington D.C.,» said Espaillat, who would become the first Dominican - American elected to Congress.

Michael Grimm, a Marine who fought in Desert Storm, just emerged from a primary battle in the 13th Congressional District, which includes Staten Island and a bit of Brooklyn.

The poll question was: On June 24 a primary election will be held to determine the Democratic candidate that will stand for election in November the primary election to be a Member of Congress from the 13th Congressional District.

«After an overwhelming amount of encouragement from community leaders, voters, family and colleagues, I am proud to announce my candidacy for the 13th Congressional district,» Espaillat said in formalizing a run against Rangel, who was first elected to the House in 1970.

Former Ambassador Julissa Reynoso, the first Dominican to become an Ambassador in the U.S., threw her support behind 13th Congressional District hopeful State Sen. Adriano Espaillat.

Mr. Rangel's cell phone tactic was the most colorful moment of an acrimonious debate last night between the top three candidates vying to represent uptown's 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem through parts of the Bronx.

Joining Mr. Espaillat at a senior center in her East Harlem, Ms. Mark - Viverito championed Mr. Espaillat as the best candidate to represent New York's 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem into the Bronx.

senior center in her East Harlem, Ms. Mark - Viverito championed Mr. Espaillat as the best candidate to represent New York's 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem into the Bronx.

«The reason Congressman Rangel is running for reelection is because he is the best person to keep fighting for the people of the 13th Congressional District,» the campaign said.

Rangel's redrawn 13th Congressional District takes in parts of The Bronx as well as northern Manhattan.

The 13th Congressional District, spanning Mr. Espaillat's upper Manhattan base and the northwest Bronx, was once the African - American stronghold that Mr. Rangel dominated as one of the so - called «Gang of Four.»

Soto denied that Garcia has been a stay - at - home candidate, saying she has been knocking on doors in Spanish - speaking communities in the Bronx, a rather small part of the 13th Congressional District, which is mostly in northern Manhattan.

As a result, the labor activists visited between 3,000 and 4,000 union households within the 13th Congressional District.

Mr. Espaillat came just over a 1,000 votes of beating Mr. Rangel two years ago in a vicious primary battle that oftentimes seemed to devolve into a war between the black and Hispanic alliances in the quickly - changing 13th Congressional District, which spans from Harlem though Washington Heights to the Bronx.

In the most - watched and only competitive primary in New York City, nine candidates contended to be the Democratic nominee for New York's 13th Congressional District, where longtime incumbent Charlie Rangel announced he will step down after 46 years in office.

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

The 13th congressional district is a Democratic stronghold taking in norther Manhattan and the portions of the western Bronx.

East Harlem politicos with close ties to City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito are borrowing Mayor Bill de Blasio's «Tale of Two Cities» campaign motif to explain why they have thrown their support behind Sen. Adriano Espaillat instead of Charlie Rangel in the Democratic primary for the 13th congressional district.

Sam Sloan, running in the 13th Congressional District race, has an unusual strategy: Wait out the competition and see what happens.

«Congressman Rangel represents a significant percentage of the 33rd senate district within the 13th congressional district.

«The record is clear — from East Harlem to Washington Heights to Norwood, noone is fighting harder for all the people of the 13th Congressional District than Charlie Rangel,» said Freedland.

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

In the 13th Congressional District of Florida, David Jolly, R - Fla., is facing Alex Sink, D - Fla., in a March 11th special election.

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.

Christie is backing GOP challenger Michael Grimm in the 13th congressional district race against Democratic Rep. Michael McMahon.

«Voters from throughout the 13th Congressional District elected a country boy from Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic to be the nominee of the Democratic Party,» he remarked.

Earlier this year, Espaillat was a candidate to serve the 13th Congressional District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.