Sentences with phrase «district congressional seat»

He was elected to the 1st District congressional seat in 2004 and has spent much of the last several years preparing for a rematch.

It's been just about a week since the Democratic Party announced documentary filmmaker Aaron Woolf as its candidate for the 21st District congressional seat Bill Owens currently holds, but Woolf has yet to make a public appearance or return emails since then.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, and Matt Funiciello, the Green candidate for the 21st district congressional seat, said today that they oppose the massive development in the Adirondacks at Tupper Lake that recently won an Appellate Court decision and has the support of Governor Cuomo.

Beals is a member of the Woodstock Democratic Committee, and has been working on the grassroots level since last November's election, when he joined with Swing Left, a new national activist movement, to throw a gathering in Woodstock in March, with the aim of winning back the 19th district congressional seat in the 2018 elections.

(WHAM)- On Monday morning, New York State Assemblyman Joe Morelle stood in front of a podium and declared his candidacy for the 25th district Congressional seat.

BY EVAN WECHMAN In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

Also at the convention, Connecticut Republican Party insiders endorsed former Meriden Mayor Manny Santos to run for the 5th District Congressional seat being vacated by Democratic Representative Elizabeth Esty.

In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

McMahon, who represents the North Shore on the City Council, and Straniere are running for the 13th District Congressional seat left open by Rep. Vito Fossella, a Republican who opted not to seek re-election after it was discovered he fathered a child outside of his marriage.

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It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

Former Congressman Blake Farenthold today sent a letter to Governor Greg Abbott explaining why he will not pay for the special election to fill his now vacant District 27 Congressional seat.

Tuesday afternoon, Governor Abbott set that date to fill the 27th congressional district seat and candidates have only a few days to file.

Earlier this week, I reported on the upcoming special election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district, where Republican Rick Saccone is running against Democrat Conor Lamb to fill Republican Tim Murphy's seat.

Rep. Evan Jenkins» U.S. Senate dreams have prompted a rush of candidates to seek his seat in West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District.

Cuomo set the special elections for the ninth congressional district and six vacant Assembly seats on Sept. 13.

Babinec is running in a three - person race for the 22nd congressional district in central New York, facing Republican Claudia Tenney and Democrat Kim Myers for the seat being vacated by Rep. Richard Hanna.

In 11 newly - drawn congressional districts in 11 seats, the enrollment difference between enrolled Democrats and Republicans is less than 40,000.

The results can be ludicrous at times (at least one member of Congress is reputed to hold her seat because her colleagues in the state senate so despised her that they happily tailored a Congressional district to her needs), but they can also be flat - out obscene.

A Senate GOP source confirms several reports that the congressional district currently held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY - 22) has been carved up in the their House redistricting plan, along with Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman's seat.

«Bottom line — if the Hayworth campaign is able to appropriately fund paid media for the final push to get Nan's message out to voters in the district, she can win back this congressional seat on November 4th,» the memo concludes.

And yet another candidate in the 19th congressional district is announcing plans to run for the seat held by Republican Rep. John Faso.

Democrat Will Yandik, the Livingston deputy supervisor who ran for the 19th congressional district Democratic nomination in 2016, won't run for the seat in 2018, he announced on Tuesday in a statement.

Senate District 7: Republican incumbent Jack Martins is running for the congressional seat being vacated by Democratic Rep. Steve Israel in Nassau County.

Cox notes Republicans held all of their congressional seats while also fending off challenges from Democrats in both the 19th and 22nd congressional districts.

On the same day Gov. Cuomo declared May 24 the date for the special election to fill the vacant seat in the 26th Congressional District, the seven Democratic county chairs in the district announced they are beginning the process of interviewing prospective canDistrict, the seven Democratic county chairs in the district announced they are beginning the process of interviewing prospective candistrict announced they are beginning the process of interviewing prospective candidates.

Clegg is among the crowded field of Democrats running for the nomination in the 19th congressional district in the Hudson Valley, a seat held by Republican Rep. John Faso.

The candidates are vying for the 26th Congressional District seat.

The last straw for the activist was a Sanders campaign ad released Friday that opens with a biographical look at Lucy Flores, a surrogate who recently endorsed Sanders and is locked in a primary battle with Ruben Kihuen for Nevada's 4th congressional district seat.

Walters is running in California's 45th Congressional District to fill the seat being vacated by the retirement of Rep. John Campbell, R - Calif.

A day after Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) announced that is a candidate for the 25th Congressional District seat left vacant by the death of Louise Slaughter, there is a candidate for Morelle's 136th district seat in the ADistrict seat left vacant by the death of Louise Slaughter, there is a candidate for Morelle's 136th district seat in the Adistrict seat in the Assembly.

Grimm led Donovan, 49 percent to 39 percent, among GOP voters in New York's 11th District in the poll released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats» political arm, which hopes to flip the seat blue in November.

In today's Congressional Corner, New York state Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democratic candidate for New York's 22nd House district seat, wraps up his conversation with WAMC's Alan Chartock.

Four years after an unsuccessful bid to be the Democratic nominee for an open - congressional seat in the Capital Region, Phil Steck was victorious in an effort to be his party's representative in a race for the 110th Assembly District (Spoiler Alert: He still has that seat).

But first, he has to win a Democratic primary to run for the 21st Congressional District seat held by Republican Elise Stefanik.

The northern part of the state saw most of that growth, and the congressional seat was placed in the northwest corner of the state, where Tom Graves served in the 9th District.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee placed field organizers in Issa's district nearly a near ago, and opened an Orange County office last year aimed at flipping the Issa and Royce seats to Democrats.

WAMC / Northeast Public Radio will host a live debate among the Democratic candidates for New York's 19th Congressional district seat held by Republican John Faso on May 31 from 1 - 2:30 p.m. at The Linda in Albany.

He previously ran for a U.S. Congressional seat in the 6th District but lost to Democrat Rev. Floyd Flake.

Seven candidates for the 13th congressional district seat currently held by Charles Rangel met for a candidate forum Sunday.

Hayworth held a U.S. House seat in the 19th District from 2010 - 2012, and after New York's redistricting, was defeated by Maloney in the 2012 18th Congressional District election.

Should Rice or Maloney win the attorney general nomination at the state party's convention on May 23rd and 24th, a «declination period» would start for the congressional district during which the lawmaker would decline the party's nomination for his or her House seat.

They hope to play offense in the district that is likely to be vacated this year by Sen. Jack Martins, who is running for the congressional seat opened up by the retiring Rep. Steve Israel.

Martins gave up his seat in the state Senate last year to run for an open congressional district being vacated by Democratic Rep. Steve Israel.

The heads of the borough's two major parties are expected to name their nominees to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner by later this week at the earliest after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a Sept. 13 special election to fill the vacant 9th Congressional District seat in Forest Hills.

Hanna did not have a Democratic opponent in 2014, and so far no Democrat has declared as a candidate for the 22nd Congressional District seat in 2016.

They will represent districts Democrats carried with big margins in presidential election years — seats the newly minted Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján will probably want back.

via Daily Freeman KINGSTON >> John Faso has clinched the Ulster County Republican endorsement for the state's 19th Congressional District seat, giving him the backing of the GOP -LSB-...]

But Lujan said Friday that Perez Williams, who lost November's election for Syracuse mayor, had earned the right to run for the 24th Congressional District seat.

Doug Enyart, owner of Clearwater Forest Consultants and a former U.S. Marine, was recently elected from a pool of candidates to represent the Constitution Party for the 8th Congressional District seat vacated by JoAnn Emerson.