Sentences with phrase «democrats running this year»

However, Democrats running this year in certain red states may have to tread carefully around the issue.

In walks Mayor David Dinkins, Governor David Paterson, Congressman Charlie Rangel; in walks just about every Democrat running this year for the top job in City Hall: John Liu, Bill Thompson, Christine Quinn.

Not exact matches

Perry, who also ran for president in the 2012, making much of his five years in the U.S. Air Force, was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat 1984, but he switched party affiliations in 1990.

If Hillary Clinton is elected, that will likely spell a continuation of the status quo, with a Republican House of Representatives thwarting Democrats from accomplishing the goals that run counter to the interests of much of the business community, leaving free - market enthusiasts no worse off next year than they are today.

And several Democrats said recent conversations with Springer, as well as his schedule, suggested he seemed to be more seriously interested in running this time than in years past.

He is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year, and knows he will have to appeal to voters beyond his own party in a race against the incumbent Democrat, Bill Nelson.

The Democrats, however, must do more than licking their wounds and repeating how difficult it was to run in an election year where the Presidential» s approval numbers were in the low 40's.

Richard Painter, a longtime Republican who was chief ethics lawyer for George W. Bush's White House, intends to run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year as a Democrat, according to a filing he made recently with federal elections officials.

--» Minnesota state Rep. Kerry Gauthier, Democrat lawmaker involved in a rest - stop se «xual encounter with a 17 - year - old boy says he won't run for re-election after all.»

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

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.

And he lost by 18 votes and then crushed her in the rematch 2 years later, not sure what your point is except that maybe the voters tested a Democrat and then when they saw her in action, they ran for the hills and switched alliances fast.

The incumbent, Republican - turned - Democrat George Maragos, is running for county executive next year and not seeking reelection.

But today, more than a hundred years after the first of the parties affiliated to the Second International won a plurality in a parliamentary election (in Finland in 1907; Anderson, 1992, 307), social democrats may finally be running out of rope.

With Democrats holding the presidency and running Congress, you'd expect progressive interests to be having a field day, but a combination of the economic crisis and Barack Obama's ambitious agenda could bury much other legislation in the months and years ahead.

«A lot of Republicans who might have run for office this year said, «I don't have faith in this leadership,»» I think that every one of those incumbents should be thrown out of office — Republicans and Democrats,» said former Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, who ran for Senate in 2008.

McCaskill was seen as perhaps the most endangered of the Senate Democrats running for re-election this year (Gillibrand has made a point of conducting her «Off the Sidelines» campaign to elect more women to public office, a narrative that her own GOP opponent, Wendy Long, has gleefully sought to turn on its ear).

The huge field of Trump - inspired Democrats planning to run in the next two years creates even more demand, though Virginia's 2017 state elections might at least help us find a few new faces.

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

Hanna is running again this year at a time when anti-incumbent sentiment is very high and the Democrats are expected to take a hit in the mid-term elections.

Democrats are counting on a «blue wave» to sweep down - ballot candidates running this year into office and potentially gain a working majority in the state Senate.

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.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce announced he will not run for reelection, boosting Democrats» chances of winning his Southern California district as they work to regain control of the majority this year.

But the arrest has expanded the map for Senate Democrats, who hope to run competitive races on Long Island in order to gain control of the chamber this year.

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.

At the same time, this is one of the more formalized and concerted efforts by Cuomo, harnessing the state committee that he controls, to aid Democrats who are running in down - ballot local races as he seeks another term later this year.

Sue Sullivan, a strategic planning consultant from Ulster County, has officially filed paperwork to run in next year's 19th district race, making her the fifth Democrat to officially file to challenge Rep. John Faso, R - Kinderhook.

In that same year, he ran on the WFP line and lost to Democrat Yen Chou, so that didn't work out, and rumor had it he moved back to New Jersey until the time was right to move back to NY to try and steal another seat.

Mr. Cuomo is the Democrat many party leaders prefer as their gubernatorial candidate next year, believing he would stand a better chance of winning should Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, decide to make a run for the office.

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.

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).

HOOSICK FALLS >> The Democrat running against incumbent state Sen. Kathy Marchione found a unique and high - profile way Tuesday to criticize the Halfmoon Republican over her handling of the water contamination crisis that has plagued the village and the town of Hooisick for nearly a year.

Mindy Meyer, a 22 - year - old Orthodox Jewish intern in Kings County Supreme Court, is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines against Democrat Kevin Parker in Brooklyn's new 21st Senate District, but her official website is decidedly unorthodox.

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.

Earlier this year the region's state Senate race also promised to be quite spirited when Democrats nominated New Suffolk resident Regina Calcaterra, an energetic corporate lawyer, to take on veteran GOP incumbent Kenneth LaValle, who ran unopposed two years ago.

With more women stepping up to run this year, Democrats hope their House caucus in 2019 will have significantly more gender equality.

Democrats are especially focused on Nassau County races this year in particular, with potential pickup opportunities with the seat being vacated by Sen. Jack Martins, a congressional candidate, and the one held by incumbent Sen. Kemp Hannon, who is running for re-election.

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.

She has also run on a more conservative - minded platform and nabbed the support of the state Conservative Party earlier in the year, which was seen as a blow for Turner, who had the backing of the third - party organization when he defeated Democrat David Weprin.

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.

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.

Democrat James Kemmerer, owner of a tech company, is running against Golden this year and is determined to keep the incumbent from winning Bay Ridge, or any other part of the district for that matter.

The Working Families Party has had a tough time getting many of their key issues, such as paid family and medical leave, across the finish line in the General Assembly but most of the Democrats running for governor this year have come out strongly in favor of those types of progressive policies.

Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has run the Assembly for two decades, was arrested and faces up to 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

The Democrat ran in a special election that year to replace her husband, Walter Capps, who died of a heart attack less than a year into his first term in Congress.

«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.

Erik Bohen, a Democrat who ran on the Republican line, won in an area where the governor has spent much time in recent years with a decidedly anti-Cuomo message.