Sentences with phrase «city council seat against»

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The District 3 City Council race, for the seat held the past 14 years by Speaker Christine Quinn, pits two passionate and energetic L.G.B.T. contenders against each other for what has often been dubbed «the gay seat.»

With the battle over, the question now is whether the Republicans can form any sort of detente that will allow them to defend several Council seats against in the next city election, take on State Sens. Tony Avella and Joe Addabbo in 2012, and defend Bob Turner «s congressional seat.

Mr. Lopez failed to win a City Council seat after leaving Albany and even mulled a run against his successor, Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, before settling on petitioning for district leader and state committee, sources say.

And while the borough has had several uncontested elections in past years, the Democratic party nominated medical marijuana advocate Dylan Schwartz to run against Joe Borelli for the South Shore City Council seat and retired engineer Rich Florentino to run against Steven Matteo in the Mid-Island Council district.

He's running for a City Council seat in Northern Queens and facing off against Assemblyman Francisco Moya, who is being backed by the powerful Democratic County machine.

The account was created by Alex Castex - Porter of Washington Heights in 2014, after Jackson, who was term - limited out of the City Council in 2013, ran for and lost the District 31 state Senate seat against Adriano Espaillat.

Kamillah Hanks, a Staten Island native, launched a run against Debi Rose in the Democratic primary for her North Shore City Council seat last month.

A Manhattan judge today threw out a fraud case brought against Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, allowing him to remain on the ballot for in the February 14 special election for the vacant City Council seat that formerly belonged to Assemblywoman Inez Dickens.

Like Ms. Niou, Ms. James is a Democrat who ran on the WFP ballot row against a Democratic opponent in a special election — in Ms. James» case, for a Brooklyn City Council seat in 2003.

City Council member Rosie Mendez had been considering a run for Kavanagh's seat, but told us this afternoon she's decided against it.

Two other state Legislators are also running for «open» City Council seats, though no apparent complaints have been lodged against either.

The former councilman's most prominent opponent is Kimberly Council, an East New York activist who ran against Espinal for the City Council seat, losing both in the Democratic primary and the general election on the Working Families Party line.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.

Queens Library External Affairs Director Jimmy Van Bramer handily won what turned out to be a rigorous primary contest against Deirdre Feerick, the City Council attorney endorsed by the Queens Democratic Party, in the race for Councilman Eric Gioia's (D - Sunnyside) seat.