Sentences with phrase «ai speaker race»
Four years ago there was another speaker race, and Crowley was also aligned with the Bronx, although at that time the Democratic chair in the borough was current Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.
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Ryan insisted he did not think vulnerable congressional seats and close races were «going to hinge on whether Paul Ryan is speaker or not.»
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he was taking the gloves off in his battle against Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House after taking a scorching from speakers at the Democratic National Convention.
Just like he did before becoming speaker, Ryan is saying he doesn't want it, that it won't be him, that people should focus on the candidates in the race and all the rest.
She's an avid Spanish speaker, race runner, and music maker.
However, the smart speaker race to launch in new countries is an important angle to the voice assistant competitive landscape and Amazon is moving toward checking off two more countries right after the New Year.
The culture of dialogue may lead to a kind of Groundhog Day of race talks and symposiums where audiences show up to hear a lineup of black speakers and reminders that in the body of Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek but we are one in Christ.
She ran for Congress in 1952 and lost to a popular Democratic incumbent (she lost another congressional race under similar circumstances in 1970), but by then she was already a popular public speaker and formidable debater whose passions were unyielding anticommunism and a strong nuclear defense in the Cold War.
The final hours of the Council speaker's race were a flurry of phone calls, meetings and — allegedly — threats.
Assemblyman Carl Heastie's team is working overtime to make him look like the inevitable winner of the speaker's race, and while he is indeed perceived as the frontrunner at this point, his fellow contenders aren't quite ready to throw in the towel.
Crowley is back from his overseas travels with President Obama and called a noon meeting at party HQ of the borough's Assembly delegation to discuss the speaker race.
My own panel, «How to Act Like Obama Online When You DO N'T Have a Billion in the Bank» (which will talk about applying Obama 2012 lessons to this year's advocacy and electoral campaigns), is coming together nicely — we just signed up Ethan Roeder, Obama's chief data manager for the presidential race and who's now gone back over to the New Organizing Institute, as a speaker.
Mr. de Blasio has been criticized for his unprecedented involvement in the speaker's race.
Mark - Viverito's 2017 account started as a way to raise money for the 2014 speaker's race, when she was trying to woo the support of her colleagues.
Republicans in local races are making an issue out of the Lopez scandal, either calling on Silver to resign as speaker for concealing more than $ 100,000 in settlement money paid to two of Lopez's victims, or challenging their Democratic opponents for not calling on him to step down.
While a vast majority of New York Democrats support both, the issue is especially problematic for Mr. Williams because he is a member of the council's Progressive Caucus, which includes many LGBT and pro-choice advocates, and is hoping to play a significant role in the speaker's race.
A Queens Democratic source said Mr. Weprin was growing «frustrated» in the Council, especially after losing a heated race for City Council speaker in 2014.
Crowley is close to the Queens Democratic party, which backed Dan Garodnick over Mark - Viverito in the speaker's race.
Council staffers have been concerned about their jobs since Mark - Viverito won the speaker's race earlier this month.
Yeger was a supporter of Council Member Mark Levine in the speaker's race.
Yuh - Line Niou, the WFP candidate in the race to replace Sheldon Silver in the state Assembly, lost to Alice Cancel, who was supported by the disgraced former speaker's allies in lower Manhattan.
WASHINGTON — A few hours after Conor Lamb, the Pennsylvania Democrat, claimed victory in a House race with a vow to oppose his party's leader, Nancy Pelosi, the once - and - perhaps - future speaker was explaining to a group of female congressional candidates why she did not retire after 2016.
When Mr. de Blasio took office as mayor in 2014 and Mr. Heastie was the Bronx Democratic county chairman, they found themselves on opposite sides of the race for City Council speaker.
These are some of the Democrats already moving: Mr. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Mr. Skelos» Senate seat; Mr. Kavanagh, the leader of the reform caucus that emerged during the speaker's race; Mr. Perry, the chairman of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; Mr. Mosley, who took on his seat from now - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and almost got the Caucus nod Mr. Perry did; Marcos Crespo, new Bronx Democratic chairman and close friend of Mr. Heastie; Mr. Blake, a former Obama staffer from the resurgent Bronx; and Ms. Rozic, who at the time of her election was the youngest woman ever elected to the Assembly.
His opponents spent the final weeks of the primary race unleashing everything they had against de Blasio, from his association with slumlords that he had gone after as public advocate, to his support for overturning term limits when he wanted to be the City Council speaker in 2005.
The fireworks aren't over in the speaker's race, even as it appears East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito has seized the momentum.
The council speaker, who has been locked in a tight battle for the top slot since Weiner entered the race, said the election has to be about ways to improve the city.
Heastie's ascension to the speaker's chair — he would become the first African - American to hold the post — was all but assured Friday when Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, a Democrat from the Rochester area, dropped out of the race and threw his support to the Bronx Democrat.
Heastie's ascension to the speaker's chair — he would become the first African - American to hold the post — was all but assured Friday when Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle (pictured), a Democrat from the Rochester area, dropped out of the race and threw his support to the Bronx Democrat.
Earlier this month, he opted to travel to Albany to attend Cuomo's State of the State Address the day of the vote for the next speaker — he was one of two candidates left in the race — and conceded in a statement.
But the poll also found that, while most disagreed with Quinn's stance against poultry, the speaker was still dominating the early race to replace Mayor Michael Bloomberg, with 39 percent of Democrats wanting her as their candidate for 2013.
He's going up against more seasoned political operators who have already invested time and resources into the speaker's race.
«I'm deeply committed to the Bronx and the Bronx council delegation and we, as a delegation, have agreed to be a unified force in the speaker's race so I will support whomever the Bronx delegation decides to support.»
She was widely regarded as a strong contender for the speakership and her exit from the Council left the speaker race dominated by men.
Mr. Johnson, who is white, prevailed in the eight - way campaign for speaker despite the prominence of race in the contest.
«As with the speaker's race, my sense is, he just outworked everybody.»
At the last public forum in the race to become the next speaker of the City Council, seven of the eight men contending for the Council's top leadership spot took turns making their argument for why they would be the right person to continue Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's legacy of protecting and promoting the cause of women, transgender, and gender non-conforming New Yorkers.
The speaker's race is an internal process so there are private conversations to be had, it's not a public campaign to be waged.»
Her announcement also led to concerns among some members that the crowded race could yield a white male speaker from Manhattan, a possibility that was once considered unlikely for a body that boasts a majority of members of color, and which is currently led by Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, an outspoken Latina and the first Puerto Rican to hold the post.
Torres, a Bronx Democrat and the youngest candidate in the race for speaker, raised $ 264,819 this election cycle, but he was also a public funds participant and ended up spending $ 108,851 for his reelection.
«It is because of him that the race for speaker has become so heated this early.»
The retirement of Julissa Ferreras - Copeland is said to have «upended» the race for speaker, but that argument gets everything backward.
«I have interests in the (New York) City Council speaker's race and who gets it is crucial for me.»
Supporters of privatizing NYRA, including Marchione and several speakers from Saratoga Springs — home to Saratoga Race Course — said the state's control is impeding long - term plans and track upgrades.
«Eight years after losing a race for speaker of the City Council, Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio is determined to win one.»
De Blasio is holding sit - downs with several candidates vying to be the next City Council speaker this week, in a race where there is still no clear front - runner, and hopefuls for the position are striving to show their independence from the mayor.
He would not reveal what was discussed, but the speaker's race came up, he said.
«I have not spoken to the mayor ever about the speaker's race and my emphasis is on talking to my colleagues and talking to important allies in this process, whether they be labor leaders, county organizations, activists and others who have a stake in the outcome,» Levine said.
NEW YORK CITY — The race to become the next speaker of the City Council is a costly one.
«If they try to meddle in the Assembly speaker race that would not be good for any candidate they support right now.