Sentences with phrase «democrats last ran»

When the Democrats last ran a candidate for that office in 2009, they received 31 percent.

Not exact matches

After reading and hearing about some of my friends * doing fund - raising and volunteering for the Obama campaign, last weekend while out running errands, the family and I stopped in our local Democrat headquarters and I inquired as to what I could do to help.

According to Queens and Albany sources, the Senate Democrats had been working on Avella's behalf to smooth feathers he ruffled with local Democrats thanks to his handling last year of a local NYC Council race and his short - lived run for borough president.

Kllian last ran for the seat in 2016, challenging then - incumben George Latimer, a Democrat.

Former Congressman — and convicted felon — Michael Grimm sounded ready to run for his old seat last night as he blasted the Staten Island representative who replaced him, Republican Dan Donovan, calling him a «liberal Democrat.»

Cuomo last year did endorse and provide contributions for several Democrats running in key races.

Smith, a Democrat, is accused of trying to bribe Republican officials into letting him run for mayor on the GOP line last year by obtaining a Wilson - Pakula letter.

Clarkstown Town Clerk David Carlucci told county Democrats last week that he will run for the 38th District seat.

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.

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.

Bohen, a Democrat, ran in last week's special election with the local Republican committee's support after failing to gain his party's endorsement for the special election.

Smart use of email fundraising from the Daily Kos activism list today: they sent out a message this afternoon asking activists to support last - minute Get Out The Vote work on behalf of three separate several Democrats running for state legislature in Virginia.

We know this because Doe Fund founder George McDonald, a Democrat - turned - Republican who is running for NYC mayor next year, tweeted a photo of the governor with said cake, and a message that he had «a wonderful time» celebrating with Cuomo last night.

Shane Hubers, a Republican who ran for local office last year, challenged the registration of dozens of voters — the majority of them Democrats — in Beaufort County.

The exchange came after Latimer told reporters last month Stewart - Cousins had acknowledged to him in private she was considering the race and that there was poll with her name in the mix, despite the Yonkers Democrat insisting she was «not running» for the post.

Jonathan Clarke, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for Oyster Bay supervisor last fall, expressed concern about Harris Beach's connections to the new Democratic administrations in the county and Hempstead Town.

In the name of keeping the State Senate out of the hands of the sorts of Democrats who used to run it, Cuomo gave his blessing late last year to the formation of the coalition of Republicans and breakaway «independent» Democrats who now lead it.

State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez, a Democrat from East Harlem running for the City Council, has a second job at an asset management and financial consulting firm that has earned him hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years.

I feel I am carryingboth his and Eleanor's legacies: FDR was the last Democrat to hold the State Senate seat I am running for.

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).

When it's happened in the past, even when the Democrats have held a big registration advantage, it happened at the end of Cuomo, for instance, the last Cuomo when he was running for a fourth term, and George Pataki ran as kind of an outsider and an independent.

Maragos, the county comptroller — who is running as a Democrat after leaving the Republican Party last fall — reported raising $ 3,406 since mid-January.

Last Thursday, Lancman went to Ackerman's house and told the longtime lawmaker he would not run against a fellow Democrat.

We reported last week on the raft of Democrats and Republicans threatening to run against Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat running for a full - six year term, last reported $ 10.5 million in cash on hand and is expected to easily outraise Long.

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.

That's no small thing for a candidate, even if it seems basic: the last two Democrats to run in the 19th district, Sean Eldridge and Zephyr Teachout, were dogged by carpetbagging criticism in the battleground races.

«For eight years, this guy has governed as a Republican in New York, literally empowering a Republican state Senate, bashing Democrats, putting forward a centrist agenda and coasting on his last name,» said one person who's spoken to Nixon about a possible run.

James, who kicked off her campaign for attorney general last week, running as a Democrat, did not attend the WFP's annual state convention at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem yesterday.

Last month, Suffolk County Water Authority chairman James Gaughran, a Democrat, said he was «leaning toward» running for the seat — prompting speculation among some Democrats that the incumbent might not run again.

Christie had reportedly met with Astorino late last year to discuss a potential run for governor against Cuomo, a Democrat who the New Jersey Republican has had a publicly cordial relationship.

As Paterson has failed to resurrect his dismal poll numbers - 70 % of New Yorkers, including 65 % of Democrats said in a Marist poll last week that they don't want him to run next year - momentum has been building for him to step aside.

Saugerties county Legislator Chris Allen, a second - term Democrat who had indicated interest in running last year, was unavailable for comment on Niccoli's candidacy.

The teachers union worked unsuccessfully in the last election to help Democrats running against incumbent Republicans.

Cuomo and de Blasio have gone from political rivals to near enemies, and Cuomo's last - minute push with lawmakers was another tweak to his fellow Democrat: the appointment of Joe Lhota, who was de Blasio's Republican opponent in 2013, to run the M.T.A.

Speculation arose last week that Democrat Paul Vallone, who came in third in the Sept. 15 primary with 22 percent of the vote, would run on the Republican line, replacing Auburndale attorney Dan Halloran after a story surfaced earlier this month about Halloran's leadership in a pre-Christian pagan religion.

Though far drier than the governor's State of the State addresses last week, the budget plan made clear that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, remained intent on casting his 2017 agenda as an answer to the concerns of the middle class and the economic struggles of upstate New York, a formula that some observers have taken as the prelude to a possible presidential run in 2020.

Curran, who has sent out mailers from her legislative office with her photo, was critical of mailings by Republican County Executive Edward Mangano — including an eight - page document last November touting his record — and Comptroller George Maragos, a Democrat also running for county executive.

As Florida Politics reported last week, Democrats believe they are on the precipice of retaking the Florida Senate for the first time in the 21st century — but JJR's congressional run, which since Rick Scott's signature put resign - to - run back into Florida law for federal offices, and which would require JJR to leave the Senate in April, could jeopardize their narrow path to do so.

She left the party job last year and is now running for the Assembly herself, challenging incumbent Democrat José Rivera.

Smith — who was named the leader for the Democrats after their historic takeover of the state senate for the first time in 43 years in 2008 — stunned his party and the political world last summer when he announced that he was considering a run for mayor as a Republican, according to the New York Post.

Senate Democrats lost their supermajority last month when Los Angeles - area Sen. Tony Mendoza resigned rather than face an extremely rare expulsion vote over sexual misconduct allegations, and he's running again for the same seat.

Last month, Klein and Governor Andrew Cuomo announced an agreement under which the I.D.C., which currently runs the Senate in coalition with the Republicans, will join with the regular Democrat conference after the November elections.

Mr. Najmi told the Observer last night that many people had encouraged him to run, but that he decided he wanted to help elect other Queens Democrats rather than running himself.

The Board of Elections last week knocked Democrat Justin Wagner, running to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Greg Ball (R - Putnam), off the WEP line after invalidating 60 percent of the 4,602 petition signatures filed on his behalf.

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.

Mr. Crespo's opposition to the Women's Equality Act, a ten - point package of bills, raised eyebrows because it has been championed by Assembly Democrats and Mr. Cuomo, who even created the Women's Equality Party as he ran for re-election last year.

The winner of the Ulrich - Reyes primary will run against State Senator Joseph Addabbo, a moderate Democrat who dropped his opposition to same - sex marriage last year and is being hit with some harsh mailers from a little - known PAC.

And while the Senate Democrats say their leadership is different than the last time they controlled the chamber during a disastrous run in 2009 - 10, Flanagan contends that «their positions are ideologically more liberal than they were then.»

«The goal is to present the most qualified and experienced ticket,» said Maragos, who switched his party affiliation last year from Republican to Democrat to run for county executive.