Sentences with phrase «east side democratic»

The fund - raising email, sent from Mr. Kallos, also urges Upper East Side Democratic clubs to volunteer for Mr. Gentile.

LENOX HILL — A powerful Upper East Side Democratic organization was poised to endorse Christine Quinn for mayor, but shifted course because of the City Council speaker's stance on the controversial marine transfer station, an organization leader said.

Quinn's Lower East Side Democratic Club will play a pivotal role in the County Committee vote.

The East Side Democratic club's change of course comes after the MTS issue gained prominence in citywide politics.

But an increasing number of members reconsidered their position because the former comptroller now adamantly advocates against the station's construction, East Side Democratic Club President Betsy Feist said.

«I won because my community supported me,» Cancel said, surrounded by a small group of supporters at the Lower East Side Democratic Club.

Kellner told the East Side Democratic Club Thursday night he's relinquishing his seat at the end of his term this year because the controversy surrounding his alleged misconduct has become a distraction.

East Side Democratic Club President: Betsy Feist 140 East 81st Street, Suite 8G New York, NY 10028 Email: [email protected]

The East Side Democratic Club, which serves Yorkville and parts of the Upper East Side, decided to withhold its support Sunday night, said Betsy Feist, the group's president.

Sponsors included: Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan; Chelsea Reform Democratic Club; Coalition for a District Alternative (CoDA), Democracy for New York; Downtown Independent Democrats; East Side Democratic Club; Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club; Frederick E. Samuel Community Democratic Club; Gramercy Stuyvesant Democratics; Greater NYC for Change; Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club; Lenox Hill Democratic Club; The Lexington Democratic Club; Lower East Side Democratic Club; Manhattan Young Democrats; Muslim Democratic Club of New York; Northern Manhattan Democrats for Change; Pride Democrats; The Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Club; Stonewall Democratic Club; Upper East Side for Change; Village Independent Democrats; The Village Reform Democratic Club and 504 Democratic Club.

In a flurry of mailers sent to New York's Upper East Side Democratic voters, challenger Reshma Saujani claims that incumbent Rep. Carolyn Maloney has taken $ 2.5 million from «special interests» while she has accepted none.

Not exact matches

She had the support of Lower East Side Democrats plus the Harry Truman Democratic Club last year during the special election for Silver's seat.

In the dying days of Tammany Hall, Silver laid claim to this patronage law secretary perch, a job routinely parceled out to machine Democratic clubs like the one he had joined on the Lower East Side.

Records show that Cox, who is campaigning in a competitive GOP primary to challenge Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop, cut at least two personal checks from his old address on the Upper East Side of Manhattan even after he re-registered to vote in the 1st Congressional District, at his family's home in Westhampton.

Democrat - turned - Republican supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis is apparently returning to his old Democratic fundraising roots, hosting an event at his Upper East Side apartment on June 22 for Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr..

Taylor, a Republican, appeared with Rep. Carolyn Maloney's Democratic primary challenger, Reshma Saujani, at an Upper East Side subway stop today.

The former MTA chairman outlined his education agenda at a policy forum with his fellow candidates at the Central Synagogue on the East Side Tuesday night, where the sharp differences between the Democratic and Republican candidates were on full display.

In Democratic districts along Manhattan's Upper East and Upper West sides, state income tax deductions were worth $ 45,122 and $ 39,867 more than property tax deductions, respectively.

At an unrelated news conference at his East Side office Monday, Cuomo was asked about legalizing marijuana, something for which his Democratic primary opponent, Cynthia Nixon, has advocated.

«You've heard witness after witness say there was no quid pro quo,» Steven Molo, a lawyer for the Democratic assemblyman from the Lower East side, said during his closing argument Monday in federal court in Lower Manhattan.

Though Democratic mayoral contender Sal Albanese recently came out against the station, the East Side club decided not to endorse him because its members preferred other candidates, Feist said.

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The Democratic County Committee in the 65th Assembly District overwhelmingly favored the longtime district leader and Lower East Side resident over four other contenders.

Assemblyman Micah Kellner was dumped after losing the Democratic primary for Manhattan's Upper East Side council seat amid sex - harassment allegations.

Lower East Side District Leader Paul Newell was victorious this afternoon in capturing 72 % of the weighted vote from the Manhattan Democratic Committee.

Cancel will now face Republican businessman Lester Chang in the heavily Democratic district, which includes Chinatown, the Financial District, the Lower East Side and Battery Park City.

The two Republicans who will be running on both the GOP and the new party lines against incumbent Democratic Assembly members are Rebecca Harary, challenging Dan Quart in the affluent Silk Stocking District on the East Side, and Jon Kostakopoulos, challenging Rebecca Seawright, whose East Side district is just to the north of Quart's.

The one selected is likely to win the April 19 special election in a heavily Democratic district encompassing Manhattan's Lower East Side, Chinatown and Financial District.

Tonight, New York gay leaders have a long - awaited sit - down with Senator Hillary Clinton in the Upper East Side apartment of Democratic donor Sally Minard.

Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

Silver, faced with his first Democratic primary contest in over two decades, trounced opponents Paul Newell and Luke Henry, snaring a hefty 68 percent in his Lower East Side district, with 100 percent of the vote in.

With the special election less than a month away, Alice Cancel, 61, a Lower East Side district leader, has not been seen on the campaign trail since former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's allies and political club last month helped hand her the Democratic nomination to replace him.

«Christine Quinn [a top Democratic rival] carried the east side of Manhattan in the primary, Joe Lhota [Mr. de Blasio's Republican rival in the general election] did unusually well in the Trump Towers part of the West Side, for example, so I think the racial divide has been there all along and that may now mirror the partisan divide in New York City.&raside of Manhattan in the primary, Joe Lhota [Mr. de Blasio's Republican rival in the general election] did unusually well in the Trump Towers part of the West Side, for example, so I think the racial divide has been there all along and that may now mirror the partisan divide in New York City.&raSide, for example, so I think the racial divide has been there all along and that may now mirror the partisan divide in New York City.»

The Lower East Side Democrats and Mr. Silver's Harry Truman Democratic Club played a crucial role in securing the Democratic line for Ms. Cancel in the race for Mr. Silver's old Lower Manhattan territory.

She said her Democratic neighbors in her east - side neighborhood have supported her, as well.

Whiter and more affluent neighborhoods like Riverdale, the Upper East Side, Forest Hills and eastern Queens also favored centrist rivals like Ms. Quinn in the Democratic primary.

District 4 In District 4, which stretches from the Upper East Side to Stuyvesant Town and Waterside Plaza, three - term Democratic Council Member Dan Garodnick is term - limited.

Lower East Side district leader Alice Cancel — the Democratic candidate for disgraced ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — defended her nomination by a group of insiders close to the fallen pol, and attacked her Working Families Party opponent as a transplant and an interloper.

A reader forwarded this invite to an April 26 fundraiser Rep. Carolyn Maloney will be hosting at her Upper East Side home for her would - be Democratic colleague, Erie County Clerk Cathy Hochul.

U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez was on the Lower East Side yesterday, campaigning during the final weekend before Tuesday's Democratic Primary.

Alice Cancel, a longtime Lower East Side district leader, triumphed in a backroom battle for the Democratic nomination to take over the Assembly seat of disgraced former Speaker Sheldon Silver.

He served the Lower East Side district for 40 years and his power base, the Truman Democratic club and other allies, could determine who succeeds him.

With the special election less than a month away, Alice Cancel, 61, a Lower East Side district leader, has not been seen on the campaign trail since Silver's allies and political club last month helped hand her the Democratic nomination to replace him.

UPPER EAST SIDE — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's girlfriend jumped into the East Side congressional race Monday and campaigned for Reshma Saujani at the corner of East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primEAST SIDE — Mayor Michael Bloomberg's girlfriend jumped into the East Side congressional race Monday and campaigned for Reshma Saujani at the corner of East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primEast Side congressional race Monday and campaigned for Reshma Saujani at the corner of East 86th Street and Lexington Avenue ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primEast 86th Street and Lexington Avenue ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primary.

Gigi Li, the chairwoman of the Lower East Side and Chinatown's Community Board 3, who serves as the director of Neighborhood Family Services Coalition, is also running for the Democratic candidacy.

The Lexington Democratic Club Executive Committee has renewed its commitment to reaching out into the community and being part of the civic spirit of the East Side.

«He's a little bit like Evita Perón,» says Liz Krueger, a Democratic state senator from Manhattan's East Side.

And on the East Side of Manhattan, the winner of a four - way Democratic primary was Jonathan L. Bing, a lawyer and Democratic state committeeman who was coordinator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster legal services program.

Since the June 8 coup, when renegade Democratic Sens. Hiram Monserrate (D - East Elmhurst) and Pedro Espada (D - Bronx) sided with Republicans in the Senate, Smith's campaign has spent more than $ 36,000.

«Donald Trump would have a nosebleed here,» joked a guest at Rep. Carolyn Maloney's Upper East Side home, where Democratic women pols gathered to celebrate the 44th annual Women's Equality Day.