As the Women's Equality
Party ballot line fails to gain traction with candidates this election year, the ballot line founded by Republican Westchester County Executive Rob Asotorino will include more than 1,900 candidates.
Not exact matches
If all else
fails, Paladino is planning to petition his way onto the
ballot as an independent candidate, although he will not be naming his self - created
line the «Tea
Party,» because that would be seen as «an anathema» to activsits, Caputo said.
Dietl
failed to earn a major
party endorsement, and will be running as an independent on the «Dump the Mayor»
ballot line.
The WFP's small pro-Cuomo faction tried and
failed to both delay the nod for a month and keep the
party's
ballot line blank, but eventually the committee overwhelmingly voted 91.5 percent to back the «Sex and the City» star and activist.
If the
party fails to win at least 50,000 votes for its gubernatorial contenders on its
ballot line, it will both its
line and its official status — and basically all but cease to exist.
Libertarian nominee Mike McDermott captured only about 14,000 votes, putting the
party far short of where it was in 2010 and
failing to secure a
ballot line.
As Senate Democratic candidates have
failed to get the
ballot line, the coalition behind the Women's Equality
Party have began to urge candidates sign pledges to signify their support for the omnibus bill.
The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen candidates for state Senate
failed to qualify for the Women's Equality
Party, the new
ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.
Another Democratic candidate running for the state Senate this year has
failed to obtain the Women's Equality
Party ballot line.
Wagner, who like most Democratic candidates running for state Senate
failed to file the necessary signatures to run on the Women's Equality
Party ballot line, faces Republican Terrence Murphy.
At the time, Teachout was challenging Cuomo for the Working Families
Party ballot line, which ultimately
failed.
(Remember that former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, he has the Conservative
Party line and
failed to get onto the
ballot at the convention, has launched a petition drive to get into the GOP primary against Malpass and Blakeman).
If Gallo loses the Democratic primary and
fails to get on another
party line, he would be left off the
ballot entirely in November.
In the three Democratic primaries for county legislator, two incumbents were denied the
party line for November and one of two Republican legislators
failed to secure that
ballot line:
But he was kicked off the
ballot after
failing to gather enough valid petition signatures for the Independence
Party line in the November election.
Giambra, a former Democrat who
failed to garner much traction with Republican and Conservative
Party leaders in the state, left open the possibility of running on the Reform
Party ballot line, created in 2014 by then - GOP nominee Rob Astorino out of opposition to the Common Core education standards.
If a
party line fails to get 50,000 votes, it is removed from future
ballots.
Mr. Grimm won the
party endorsement in 2012, but was booted off their
ballot line for
failing to file enough signatures.