Sentences with phrase «democrat running a primary»

What remains to be seen is if Democrats run primaries against members of the Independent Democratic Conference or IDC, something Governor Cuomo does not want to see as he publicly calls for the two warring Democratic factions to come together in a show of party unity.

Debbie Medina, the Democrat running a primary challenge to Sen. Martin Dilan, has been endorsed on Thursday.

It's unlikely, for now, the Democrats running primary challenges against Klein's IDC members will stand down, even if they are denied resources and endorsements from party officials.

The Democrats running the primary include Cortland Councilman Richard Becker, former Clinton, Spitzer and Paterson aide Sean Patrick Maloney, Duane Jackson, Wappnigers Falls Mayor Matt Alexander and Thomas Wilson.

Not exact matches

The community's political leanings left no viable option for Clarke but to run as a Democrat and make it through a contested primary, as he has managed to in every election since.

Sanders emboldened many progressive Democrats and independents with his Democratic primary run, leaving some looking for an alternative to Clinton in the general election.

Very rarely will undecided voters hit your site: unless you're running a paid campaign to bring them in, or if it's a contested primary and active Democrats are educating themselves on all the candidates.

One might argue that the Democrats (in both houses) have more to lose, with several of their members who are running for Congress perhaps enjoying the insurance policy that two primaries brings — the option to run for their current seats if a bid for higher office doesn't work out.

Sen. Bill Perkins, whose outspokenness has so angered some fellow Democrats and charter school advocates that they're shopping for a primary challenger to run against him, will formally kick off his campaign this Sunday.

Schumer, as reported yesterday by City & State, is lending his support to Queens Democratic Sen. Toby Stavisky, who was drawn by the Democrats into a primary with her colleague, Sen. Tony Avella, and so has opted to run in the new Asian - majority district instead.

Both Tabone and Bronx Republican Chairman Jay Savino were acccused of accepting $ 40,000 in bribes in exchange to sign a Wilson - Pakula waiver so Smith, a Democrat and member of the five - member Senate IDC, could run on the Republican line in a mayoral primary.

UPDATE: Another reaction to Spitzer's news — and reiteration of support for Stringer — was sent out by Sen. Daniel Squadron, a Brooklyn Democrat who is running in a primary for the public advocate post that de Blasio is vacating.

Find candidates to run Primaries against Democrats and fund the hell out of em.

That candidate could still be Felder's declared primary opponent, Blake Morris, but Democrats are open to finding other candidates who could competitively run in the district.

He has always been something of an outsider, conferencing with the Republicans during his last stint in the Senate and then running against an incumbent Democrat, former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., in the 2008 primary.

Mascia, who's now 70, is running for a seat on the Common Council as a Democrat in a three - way primary.

He ran for LG last fall and threatened to primary Cuomo's pick, then - Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, before switching gears to focus on helping the Senate Democrats.

And of course the state party may be able to help you if there's no primary (if there is, it's even more important to make friends with other local Democrats who have run and won elections in your district — ask for their endorsement and their list).

Felder is a registered Democrat and is running on the Democratic line, (NOTE: He also is facing a primary challenge from a fellow Democrat, Abraham Tischler), but he has a history of alliances with Republicans — most notably, Mayor Bloomberg (back before he switched his enrollment for the second time and became an independent).

With just six months to go before the primary, time is starting to run short for progressive Democrats hoping for an opponent to take on Cuomo.

Failed Syracuse mayoral candidate Democrat Juanita Perez Williams has changed her mind and plans to run for Congress in NY - 24 challenging Republican Rep. John Katko, according to the Democratic Party chairman, though she has to make it through a primary first.

SEIU 1199 has endorsed Assemblyman Adrian Espaillat's bid for the seat Sen. Eric Schneiderman is vacating to run for AG, giving the Manhattan Democrat yet more field firepower as he prepares for the September primary.

The Democrats are predicting a big victory, assisted by a significant GOTV effort that, ironically, is being run with the assistance of the Working Families Party, putting it temporarily on the same side as Cuomo, whom it snubbed to endorse his Democratic primary opponent, actress Cynthia Nixon.

State Sen. George Latimer is the choice of the Westchester Democrats to run for county executive against Republican incumbent Rob Astorino, though County Legislator Ken Jenkins has vowed to fight on in the September primary.

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon urged Democrats on Saturday to carve out an identity apart from just opposition to the president and run «bluer Democrats» in 2018, as she herself mulls a primary challenge to Cuomo.

They have selected Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky as their candidate to run for the Skelos seat, and as Jimmy Vielkind astutely pointed out, Democrats have fretted that a fluid national Republican Primary could boost Republican turnout on Strong Island.

At the center of the scandal is a powerful state senator Malcolm Smith, a Democrat, who bribed Republican GOP county leaders to grant him a waiver to run as Republican in GOP mayoral primaries.

Of the 12 who ran this year, five Democrats and two Republicans won their primary.

Democrats will have a competitive primary between state Rep. Steve Santarsiero and small - business owner Shaughnessy Naughton (who ran a competitive race in last year's primary).

And in Florida's 26th District, Democrat Joe Garcia is running again after losing to Republican Carlos Curbelo, 51.5 - 48.5 percent, in 2014, although Garcia has a competitive Democratic primary first.

Sal Albanese, 68 Party: Reform Party (previously ran as a Democrat in the primary election) Current role: Former city councilman and public school teacher Brief bio: Albanese was born in Calabria, Italy, on Aug. 29, 1949, and immigrated to Brooklyn when he was 8 years old.

Sanders» top consultants have also signed on to two Senate contenders who are running in primaries against candidates endorsed by national Democrats.

Assemblyman Francisco Moya, a Queens Democrat who's running for the NYC Council, simultaneously claimed primary residences at two different addresses to get a mortgage and a tax break — prompting his ex-con opponent, former Sen. Hiram Monserrate, to blast him as a «liar» and a «fraud.»

Here's one of two TV ads Sen. Bill Stachowski is running as he battles a primary challenge from Erie County Legislator Tim Kennedy in a fight that every well could be the last the veteran Buffalo Democrat wages.

Vanderhoef says he plans to sit with the Republicans if and when he gets to Albany (the local Democrats tapped David Carlucci, the Clarkstown town clerk, to run, although it's unclear to me whether he'll be facing a primary).

Zephyr Teachout isn't planning another run for governor, but does expect incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo will face a primary challenge once again next year.

Espaillat's effort to join the Senate Democrats» is a bit more complicated, as he's running in a four - way primary for the seat in the 31st SD (upper Manhattan and the Bronx) that Sen. Eric Schneiderman is giving up to run for state attorney general.

Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield has tapped his ally Kalman Yeger to run for his City Council seat, in a deal criticized by good government groups who say it deprives Democrats of the chance to choose a candidate in an open primary.

Six Democrats are battling for the party's nomination to run for the lower Manhattan Assembly seat once held by Silver, making it one of the most closely watched and unpredictable contests in Tuesday's slate of state legislative primaries.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

She now has more than $ 5 million cash in her campaign war chest — which, when combined with public matching funds, is more than the $ 6.4 million candidates are allowed to spend during the primary — leaving her with $ 2.4 million for the general election or a potential run - off with a fellow Democrat.

-- Simone Pathé and Bridget Bowman This week... Chris McDaniel launched another Senate primary run in Mississippi, voters picked their candidates in Arizona, and underdog Democrats used the gun debate to make their mark.

«Also, the more Cuomo needs to attack Nixon during the primary, the more he will have to pivot later to appeal to progressive Democrats nationally if he wants to run for president in 2020.»

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

Because the district is largely split between the two parties and only one Republican is running, just one Democrat is expected to be among the top two finishers in the «jungle» primary.

Rachel Barnhart secures signatures for congressional primary to run for Slaughter's seat, Democrat and Chronicle, April 6, 2018

Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife ahead of the June 7 California primary, urged Democrats to «relax» about her general election prospects, even though polls show her running even with, or even slightly behind, Donald Trump.

I received an e-mail today from Paul Newell, one of two Democrats who ran unsuccessful primary challenges to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the fall of 2008 — the first opponents the powerful Manhattan lawmaker had received from inside his own party in two decades.

At the same time, Democrats say they are ready to run a candidate this year should Boyle win his September primary and resign the seat in the Senate in order for Republicans, potentially to run someone in the November general election.

Erie County clerk candidate Michael Kearns, a lifelong Democrat and Assemblyman, would not commit to running in the September Democratic primary, leaving open the possibility the registered Democrat may compete only on the Republican and Conservative lines in the November general election.