Sentences with phrase «9th district seat»

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon won re-election to her 9th District seat, which encompasses part of South Buffalo, Lackawanna and Hamburg, where Democrats have the majority.

There's also Grayson's girlfriend, Dena Minning, a biotechnology entrepreneur who announced a bid for the 9th District seat Grayson is vacating to run for Senate.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a special election on April 19 to fill that 9th District seat.

Turner's win over state Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) in the special election for the 9th District seat, which opened after former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner resigned amid a sexting Twitter scandal, was seen as an upset for the largely Democratic district.

Jorge Bonilla, a conservative blogger and Navy veteran, announced on Monday that he will challenge Grayson for the 9th District seat.

Former Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) lost the 9th District seat after he was convicted with his son, Adam, in December on eight federal counts of bribery, extortion and conspiracy.

If Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema vacates her 9th District seat to run for Senate, there could be no LGBTQ women in the House in the next Congress.

Not exact matches

The Kaminsky victory in the 9th Senate district also narrows the November battleground map heading into the fall elections, making other suburban seats, like the one held by Latimer, potential targets.

A Siena College poll released on Saturday showed Kaminsky, a freshman assemblyman, trailing Republican Chris McGrath by 8 percentage points in the 9th Senate district special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County seat.

Barring a successful legal challenge from Republicans, Democrat Todd Kaminsky is likely to be seated as the next senator from the 9th district, replacing scandal - scarred Dean Skelos, the former majority leader.

The northern part of the state saw most of that growth, and the congressional seat was placed in the northwest corner of the state, where Tom Graves served in the 9th District.

The heads of the borough's two major parties are expected to name their nominees to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner by later this week at the earliest after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a Sept. 13 special election to fill the vacant 9th Congressional District seat in Forest Hills.

The union has endorsed Sen. Todd Kaminsky's re-election in the 9th Senate district, the seat formerly held by ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos in an April special election.

That said, what happens during redistricting is anybody's guess, and for everyone who thinks that Weiner's seat will be withdrawn would do well to remember that there was little talk about eliminating the 9th when Weiner represented the district.

Christine Pellegrino was a last - minute candidate for Democrats in the special election for the 9th District Assembly seat, which she won in an upset victory against Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

Kaminsky (D - Long Beach) leads McGrath, an attorney from Hewlett, by 780 votes in unofficial returns in the race for the vacant 9th Senate District seat.

Kaminsky and McGrath are vying for the 9th Senate District seat, which was vacated in December when Skelos was convicted on federal corruption charges.

Democrat Christine Pellegrino ran against Conservative Tom Gargiulo, 59, a retired BOCES special education teacher from Babylon, for the 9th District Assembly seat vacated by Joseph Saladino, who resigned in January to be appointed supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay.

With the state set to lose two congressional seats due to redistricting following the 2010 census, most political observers believe the 9th Congressional District — which covers Forest Hills, Rego Park, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Howard Beach, part of the Rockaways and Brooklyn — will be eliminated, which makes the seat less attractive to ambitious politicians.

In the 9th District, Democrats are confident of holding the seat being vacated by Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, who is running for Senate.

The special election for the open seat in the 3rd Assembly District is scheduled for Tuesday, February 9th.

The special election for the open seat in the 24th Assembly District is scheduled for Tuesday, February 9th.

Former U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson wants his old seat back, and is preparing to file Tuesday to take on fellow Democrat and incumbent U.S. Rep. Darren Soto in Florida's 9th Congressional District.

Siena Research Institute has released this poll for the September 13 special election to fill the vacant New York U.S. House seat, 9th district.

Political action committees have donated to Assemblyman David Weprin's (D - Little Neck) campaign at a rate nearly 50 times as high as his Republican rival, Bob Turner, in the race for the 9th Congressional District seat, Federal Election Commission records showed.

He said the Board of Elections would need to create multiple sets of ballots since all county Democrats and Republicans can vote in their respective primaries although only residents of Skelos» 9th District could vote for that seat.

McCain's Senate seat is rated Leans Republican by the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report / Roll Call while Sinema's 9th District is rated rated Safe Democrat.

Democrats worry Grayson could have his eye fixed on his former seat in Florida's 9th District held by freshman Democratic Rep. Darren Soto.

Democrats may have a 3 - 1 advantage over Republicans in the 9th Congressional District, but President Barack Obama's unpopularity and the state of the economy sank state Assemblyman David Weprin's (D - Little Neck) chances of winning the seat over Republican Bob Turner, according to political observers.

Weprin, who doesn't reside in the 9th district, was supported by the Queens Democratic Party to try to help the seat in Democratic hands until it can be eliminated in the redistricting process next year.

«At a meeting between Queens County Republican Party Chairman Phil Ragusa and Brooklyn Republican Chairman Craig Eaton, Bob Turner was officially chosen to be the Republican Party's candidate to run for the vacant congressional seat in New York's 9th district.

In the open - seat 9th district currently held by retiring Rep. Sue Myrick (R), former state Sen. Robert Pittenger looked poised to win, though the race was not called as of 10:10 p.m.

Flanagan said it would take an «uphill battle» for the GOP to win the 9th Senate District seat, which Skelos vacated after his conviction on federal corruption charges.

«Because [Democratic New York Assembly Speaker] Shelly [Silver] doesn't have to make a hard decision on the Democrats — and then it's Turner for Republicans,» the source said, referring to Rep. Bob Turner (R), whose 9th district may be the GOP seat that is dismantled in the redraw.

And although former Rep. Alan Grayson didn't have a primary opponent in the 9th district, the Democratic nominee for the Orlando - area seat came away a winner.

New York fills the vacant 9th district U.S. House seat on September 13.

Indiana's 9th District: The biggest mover on this month's Line is the southeastern Indiana seat held by freshman Rep. Mike Sodrel (R).

For them, the race for the White House is secondary to a special election for Long Island's 9th Senate District seat, which was vacated when former GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos was convicted of corruption in December.

Kaminsky and McGrath, who will square off in an April 19 special election for the vacant 9th Senate District seat, filed their 32 - day pre-election spending reports on Friday.

Turner, the representative of the 9th Congressional District, was a relatively unknown businessman before winning a special election for the seat last year after U.S. Anthony Weiner resigned in the midst of a sexting scandal.

The vacant seats were in the 59th, 62nd and 65th Assembly Districts, as well as the 9th Senate District.

The Albany County Board of Elections knocked Scavo off the ballot for listing a Barclay Street address as his residence on petitions for a 9th Legislative District seat.

There are a lot of Quinns involved in the 9th District Erie County Legislature race, a seat currently held by incumbent Lynne Dixon, I - Hamburg.

Sen. Todd Kaminsky (formerly of AD20) filled the 9th District state Senate seat following the expulsion of Dean Skelos.

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Washington, D.C. — March 1, 2016 — Ocean Champions, which works to build political power for the oceans by helping to elect pro-ocean candidates to the U.S. Congress, proudly endorses State Senator Darren Soto for the House of Representative open seat in Florida's 9th District.