Sentences with phrase «assembly seat after»

Flanagan ran for his father's Assembly seat after his father died.

Silver, who gave up his speaker position but retained his assembly seat after his January arrest, has been on trial simultaneously with state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son on charges that the Republican badgered companies to give his son more than $ 300,000 in exchange for his political support.

He had been rumored as a City Council or state Senate candidate after he lost in a June Congressional primary and subsequently vacated his Assembly seat after declining to seek reelection.

He was later ousted from his Assembly seat after a felony conviction on corruption charges.

Democrat Ginny Fields, who lost her Assembly seat after losing a party primary last September, is looking to make a comeback by running for $ 76,800 a year post of Islip tax receiver in November.

The lone Republican candidate, Ronnie Cabrera, is again seeking the local Assembly seat after being defeated by Rosa in the general election in 2012.

Not exact matches

Three weeks after being selected as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Premier Jim Prentice still does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

In 2010, Caller started running in the race for the seat Felder vacated, but dropped out of the running after a chat with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was backing another candidate, Joe Lazar.

Earlier this year, Democrat Bill Perkins left his Senate seat after securing a seat on the city Council, which is increasingly stocked with former members of the Assembly and Senate.

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, attacked Kaminsky for being on the hustings this week and not in his seat in the state Assembly, which is back in session this week after passing the budget.

She won the 143rd Assembly Seat in 2014 after it was vacated by Democrat Dennis Gabryszak, who retired amid allegations of sexual harassment against a number of female staffers.

This month in Albany two new Democrats took seats in the Legislature after winning special elections in the Senate and Assembly.

Espaillat, who won his Senate seat in 2010 after serving in the Assembly, has consistently backed safe - streets initiatives.

Here's a round - up: Adriano Espaillat, Senate District 31, Washington Heights, Marble Hill, Upper West Side (Incumbent)-- Espaillat, who won his Senate seat in 2010 after serving in the Assembly, has consistently backed safe - streets initiatives.

A day after Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) announced that is a candidate for the 25th Congressional District seat left vacant by the death of Louise Slaughter, there is a candidate for Morelle's 136th district seat in the Assembly.

Four years after an unsuccessful bid to be the Democratic nominee for an open - congressional seat in the Capital Region, Phil Steck was victorious in an effort to be his party's representative in a race for the 110th Assembly District (Spoiler Alert: He still has that seat).

Simanowitz won the special election for the seat in September after his former boss and predecessor, Nettie Mayersohn, 86, announced her retirement from the Assembly after 28 years in office.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1974, he was elected to a New York Assembly seat from Brooklyn at age 23.

SEIU 32BJ is throwing its support behind Francisco Moya's effort to land the Queens Assembly seat vacated by Jose Peralta after his special election success in blocking the return of expelled ex-Sen.

Kaminsky and Eramo, a Verizon field technician and chief steward of CWA Local 1106, both ran for the Assembly seat in 2014 after Assemb.

After leaving the Assembly he made one last political run, but lost his campaign for a seat on the City Council.

Kaminsky vacated the 20th Assembly District seat after winning a seat in the State Senate in April.

Democrat Christine Pellegrino is emotional as she hugs Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone after declaring victory in the special election for the Ninth Assembly seat left vacant when Joe Saladino became Oyster Bay Supervisor, Tuesday evening, May 23, 2017, in Massapequa Park.

Mr. Weprin's potential candidacy comes after a head - spinning couple of hours yesterday when Assembly member Rory Lancman announced that he would not seek a seat in Congress currently held by fellow Democrat Gary Ackerman.

The 8 p.m. Far Rockaway event is taking place six hours after a more secular campaign kick - off Goldfeder will attend with another Assembly special election contender tapped by the Queens Democrats this week: Michael Simanowitz, the former chief of staff to retired Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn who is now running for his old boss» seat.

-- Queens Assemblyman Rory Lancman runs in a primary for the House seat currently occupied by Rep. Bob Turner, (assuming NY - 9 still exists after redistricting and Turner doesn't end up in a general election head - to - head with Rep. Joe Crowley or Rep. Gary Ackerman), loses and then goes back to run for his Assembly seat.

State Assembly candidate Aravella Simotas will face no challengers in her bid for Assemblyman Michael Gianaris's (D - Astoria) seat after John Ciafone dropped out of the race last week.

His long list of politicians convicted also includes former state Sen. Carl Kruger, Assemblyman Eric Stevenson and City Councilman Larry Seabrook — and he's currently going after his biggest fish yet, deposed Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who lost his title but still retains his seat.

It will, however, be the first time since the early 1970s that the Assembly chamber will be Weprin-less, since David Weprin replaced his brother, Mark, (the sibilings switched seats, with the later taking the former's NYC Council slot after he gave it up to run a failed bid for NYC comptroller in 2009).

The council appointed Nicoletti to a vacant seat last year after former councilor Pamela Hunter was elected to the state Assembly.

Hiram Monserrate, who three months ago failed to regain the State Senate seat he had lost after being convicted of misdemeanor domestic assault, is again running for office, this time for a Queens Assembly seat.

The operative, Sigfredo Gonzalez, who in 2008 lost an election for the 79th District Assembly seat now held by Mr. Stevenson, had begun cooperating with authorities after he was caught trying to bribe Mr. Castro, who was already assisting the government.

After the urging of numerous local civic and community leaders and after consulting with his family and friends, long time northeast Queens Civic Leader and Community Board Chairman Jerry Iannece is announcing that he is launching an exploratory committee to run for the newly created open 25th Assembly District After the urging of numerous local civic and community leaders and after consulting with his family and friends, long time northeast Queens Civic Leader and Community Board Chairman Jerry Iannece is announcing that he is launching an exploratory committee to run for the newly created open 25th Assembly District after consulting with his family and friends, long time northeast Queens Civic Leader and Community Board Chairman Jerry Iannece is announcing that he is launching an exploratory committee to run for the newly created open 25th Assembly District seat.

Kolb, who heads a GOP bloc of 50 in the 150 - member Assembly, will likely have 51 votes, one more than needed to block an override, after the Nov. 8 elections, when an open seat near Buffalo is expected to go Republican.

Calls have been mounting for Lopez to give up both his party post and his Assembly seat in the wake of last week's announcement by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver that he had censured the veteran lawmaker after a bipartisan ethics committee found he had sexually harassed two female staffers.

The North Fork's assembly seat remains vacant after former assemblyman Dan Losquardo was elected Brookhaven Town Highway Superintendent earlier this year.

He's had to develop a relationship with a new state Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, after corruption charges toppled longtime speaker Sheldon Silver from the rostrum and from his seat in closed - door budget discussions with the other leaders.

He stepped down as speaker after his January arrest, but he retains the lower Manhattan Assembly seat he has held for nearly 40 years.

Silver stepped down from his speaker post after his January arrest but retained his Assembly seat

And so, in a matter of days Wood emerged both as her party's heroine — after dramatically clinching a Welsh assembly seat in Rhondda from Labour — and as a controversial figurehead, following this nomination for the top job.

He noted the case after World War I when the Assembly refused to seat three socialists elected to office.

With the current Welsh Government being a minority government run by Welsh Labour, the main opposition party from May — mid October was Plaid Cymru but after one of Plaid's Assembly Members resigned from the party, it had equally the same seats as the Welsh Conservatives.

Though Justin Brannan, straightedge punk rocker and Gentile's staffer, and Linda Sarsour, professional self - promoter, have been frequently discussed as likely candidates to succeed Gentile after 15 years, Peter Abbate will probably resign his assembly seat to join the council.

There are currently 11 vacant seats — nine in the Assembly and two in the state Senate — due to legislators leaving office after being elected to different state and local positions in November.

This year, Cuomo took weeks to set a date for a special election to replace resigned Rep. Michael Grimm (the bill would not cover congressional special elections) and did so after Karim Camara resigned his Assembly seat to join the administration.

We managed to win back control of the Senate before apportionment; we had a net pick of of at least seven Assembly seats, and we won back some high profle seats, like John Hall's and kept a couple that could have gone the other way after unforced errors (Eric Mass's seat comes to mnd).

Former Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback will run for the South Shore Assembly seat vacated after Todd Kaminsky's Senate victory but may face a crowded Democratic primary.

Silver was forced from the Manhattan Assembly seat he represented for 20 years after the Democrat was convicted in December on corruption charges.

Cusick, who has served on the state Assembly since 2002, said he would not seek the Democratic nomination to run against District Attorney Dan Donovan for the seat vacated after Grimm pleaded guilty to tax fraud, the Staten Island Advance reported.

Ronald Castorina Jr. speaks Thursday night at Grand Plaza in Great Kills after being named the Republican candidate for the South Shore Assembly seat.