Sentences with phrase «assembly seat with»

Former City Councilman Guillermo Linares, Espaillat's longtime rival and new - political ally, is poised to win the race for Espaillat's soon - to - be vacated 72nd Assembly seat with 90 percent of the vote against Inwood resident Dan Russo (R) with 63 precincts reporting.

«I am endorsing Cindy Doran for the 107th NYS Assembly seat with great enthusiasm because of [her] tremendous experience and energy as a former teacher, mentor and public servant,» said Fahy, D - Albany.

Not exact matches

The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists» 46 in the 167 - national National Assembly, the election board said, with some districts still to be counted.

Escobar went along with Colombia's democratic system and won a seat as a backup for a legislator in the National Assembly.

With 14 votes in the U.N. General Assembly, the region can be key to Canada's 2020 bid for a non-permanent U.N. Security Council seat.

Triggered by the resignations of former premiers Ms. Redford and Mr. Hancock and PC MLAs Ken Hughes and Len Webber, the votes allowed Mr. Prentice to win a seat in the Assembly along with PC candidates Stephen Mandel, Gordon Dirks and Mike Ellis.

Over the past week, things have gone downhill quickly for both Lopez, who announced he won't be seeking re-election as Brooklyn Democratic chairman, but has refused to heed calls to resign his Assembly seat; and Silver, who was revealed to have negotiated a secret settlement of $ 103,000 worth of taxpayer cash with two women whose harassment claims against Lopez pre-dated those sent to the ethics committee.

Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb told Kaitlyn Ross on CapTon last night that he expects to have «anywhere from 49 to 51 seats» come Jan. 1, and predicted the GOP will be a power the Democrats are forced to reckon with — even if Speaker Sheldon Silver maintains his veto - proof majority.

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.

Cuomo administration officials confirm the governor will call special elections to fill five vacant legislative seats — four in the Assembly and one in the Senate — to conincide with village elections on March 20.

If there's a primary battle for the Democratic line in NY - 6 and Meng loses, she can still — with some political maneuvering — seek re-election to her current Assembly seat.

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.

«I think we're going to be anywhere's from 49 to 51 seats, but I think the significance of being that close, especially in this environment, I think there's going to be some Assembly Democrats across the state that'd be a little reluctant just to vote in lock - step with the leadership and the New York City - dominated Assembly majority.»

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has been sparring with Cuomo for CSNE bragging rights, was seated front and center with his former top aide, Dean Fuleihan, who now works for Kaloyeros.

Gannett's Jon Campbell caught up with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who said his conference's plan will consolidate a number of districts in Queens and Nassau County to eliminate the second seat.

She hasn't ruled out seeking re-election to her current seat, which she would be able to do, thanks to the fact that the Senate GOP balked at the Assembly Democrats» desire to move the legislative primaries to conincide with the court - ordered federal primary date.

During the Assembly elections in which Lo won her seat, this animus manifested itself in hate mail and an aggressive internet campaign, which she bore with remarkable good humour.

Jamaal Bailey, an attorney and Bronx district leader who has close ties with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, is running for the seat, as is a well - known Bronx pastor, the Rev. Que English.

With the count still ongoing on Friday morning, there were seven new UKIP assembly members — the first Welsh seats ever claimed by the eurosceptic party.

Maybe we'll win 15 seats, but we will have more than 51 seats, which will give the Assembly minority much more with respect to upholding the governor's vetoes, more seats on committees, more impact for the minority, which is good.»

The district is one of nearly a dozen seats in the Legislature that will be filled in a special election on April 24, with nine alone being decided for the Assembly.

The Truman club was Silver's old club, and cancel wound up winning the seat with support and help from Silver's longtime friend and Chief of Staff Judy Rapfogel, Cancel then ended up losing the 65th Assembly District seat to Yuh - Line Niou in a contested Democratic Primary later that same year (more on the Truman Club in a minute).

Because the selection will the made by the full Legislature, the overwhelming Democratic majority in the 150 - seat Assembly has far more influence over the process than the 63 - seat state Senate, where Republicans hold a bare majority along with Brooklyn's Sen. Simcha Felder.

A separate incident with curious timing involves the filling of the Common Council seat vacated a year ago March by Mickey Kearns when he won election to the state Assembly.

Cuomo on Saturday called a special election for the seat for April 19, which will coincide with the presidential primaries and special elections for three Assembly seats, including former Speaker Sheldon Silver's.

Schneiderman joined the Community Free Democrats, Nadler's Upper West Side club, and began hanging around with the slightly older Nadler and the slightly younger Scott Stringer, now Manhattan borough president, who took Nadler's assembly seat in 1993, when Nadler went to Congress.

Niagara Falls Republican Angelo J. Morinello ousted him from his 145th District Assembly seat in the most expensive Assembly race in upstate history, with more than $ 2 million spent by the candidates, the parties and outside groups.

«If you can win the special, ultimately you have a better chance (in the general election)-- if in fact you follow through, you stick to your core principles, have integrity, and you do what's right and... are connecting with the constituents,» said state Sen. George Amedore, R - Rotterdam, who won a 2007 special election for the 105th Assembly District seat and retained the job with a win in the 2008 general.

The increasingly bitter campaign for the northeast Queens state Assembly seat came to an end Tuesday night with Democrat Ed Braunstein's victory over his Republican challenger Vince Tabone.

On April 24, Doran will face off against Republican county legislator Jake Ashby, with both looking to fill the empty assembly seat that was formerly held by Republican Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin.

Political scientist Dr. Gerald Benjamin says there are some indications beyond the Mayer win that Republicans could be in trouble in November, pointing to a Long Island Assembly seat that flipped to a Democrat and two Assembly races in the Capital Region with Republican candidates leading, but too close to call.

Over half of Welsh voters chose the Tories, Plaid Cymru or the Liberal Democrats in May this year, yet under Two Member First Past The Post, those parties would be left with less than a third of the seats in the Assembly.

The NYS bar already controls the assembly with Prime Minister Sheldon Silver at the helm, 20 seats in the Senate, now, if elected, one of those elite 20!

With 105 out of 213 seats in the full Legislature, the Assembly holds close to a majority, but Heastie still needs Flanagan's cooperation to just convene a joint meeting of the Legislature.

Ms. Crowley is locked in a tight three - way race with Assembly members Grace Meng and Rory Lancman — who has also been rolling out some union endorsements of his own for a seat currently held by Congressman Gary Ackerman, who is retiring.

Experienced pol Charles Barron is on his way to retaking the family seat in the 60th Assembly District (East New York), with 64 percent of the vote vs. Chris Banks, who gathered 36 percent.

With the verdict, Silver immediately lost the Assembly seat he'd held for nearly 40 years.

In the ACT Legislative Assembly, where Labor governs in coalition with the Greens, and the Government controls 9 seats out of 17, the Speaker, Vicki Dunne, is actually a member of the Opposition.

With the New Jersey Senate and Assembly included, Democrats in 2017 collectively sought to defend 80 state legislative seats against Republican challengers.

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.

Today, Plaid Cymru is the junior party in a Welsh Labour party coalition with 15 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Assembly.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

The Republican primary for New York's 115th Assembly district seat is too close to call with the final result dependant on outstanding absentee ballots.

-- 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.

There are already six vacant Assembly seats — all of them previously held by Democrats, and all of them to be filled in special elections to run concurrent with the upcoming September primary.

The Welsh Assembly currently has a top up system with FPTP elections for the current 40 Westminster seats, and 20 top - up seats for each of five regions.

This past Election Day, all three statewide incumbents were easily re-elected, the Assembly's Democratic majority got bigger, but consistent with the overall Republican political tsunami seen across the nation, the Republicans took back control of the state Senate and picked up some New York Congressional seats.

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).

In all, 2,700 English councils seats were fought over, along with 129 Scottish Parliament seats, 60 in the Welsh Assembly, and all Police and Crime Commissioner posts in Wales and England.

In East Harlem, front - runner Robert Rodriguez, former chairman of Community Board 11, won the state assembly seat vacated by Powell with 36 percent of the vote.