Sentences with phrase «party ballot line include»

Hawkins noted that Democratic elected officials who were also on Working Families Party ballot line include Cuomo, a virtually every Democratic legislators, and every member of the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference.

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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.

«The Women's Equality Party will have its own ballot line,» she told a crowd that included former Council speaker Christine Quinn.

In one of the hotel's inner courtyards, two committee members said they were still debating whether or not to support Cuomo, who has reportedly expressed a willingness to back some of the party's priorities — including raising the minimum wage, and backing a Democratic State Senate — in return for the party's ballot line.

He began with an opening statement and then answered questions on topics which included the Independence Party (whose ballot line Cuomo is on), the protest at the rally and Cuomo's efforts on passing the DREAM Act, a recent report that 34,000 people have been designated under the SAFE Act as ineligible to own guns and the prospect of Ebola - related restrictions on commercial flights.

He has been floated as a potential candidate himself on several occasions — including by some people inside the Working Families Party, who worry AG Andrew Cuomo will ultimately reject their ballot line, leaving them in need of a candidate who can attract 50,000 votes.

The ads come as Democrats are creating the Women's Equality Party, a new ballot line that is aimed at highlighting support for the women's agenda package, which was first proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013 and includes anti-housing and workplace discrimination measures and a provision aimed at curtailing human trafficking.

The victims include dozens of residents of city housing projects, all registered to vote on the Working Families Party line, who had absentee ballots filed in their name that included forged information, including signatures and the excuses for why they could not vote in person.

There will be other candidates on the November ballot, including independent Bo Dietl; Green Party nominee Akeem Browder; Albanese, who has the Reform Party line, and others.

The added indignity was that Cuomo said he'd only take the ballot line if the party supported his platform, which included property - tax cuts, pension reform and a spending cap.

A community board member, Ms. Richardson's victory in a crowded field — including two other people who, like her, identify as Democrats despite the party's empty ballot line — represents a considerable win for the Working Families Party, which suffered some tough losses in Noveparty's empty ballot line — represents a considerable win for the Working Families Party, which suffered some tough losses in NoveParty, which suffered some tough losses in November.

With McMillan out of the race, the ballot's third - party candidates include the Green Party's Howie Hawkins, Michael McDermott running on the Libertarian line and Steve Cohn, a candidate for the Sapient Pparty candidates include the Green Party's Howie Hawkins, Michael McDermott running on the Libertarian line and Steve Cohn, a candidate for the Sapient PParty's Howie Hawkins, Michael McDermott running on the Libertarian line and Steve Cohn, a candidate for the Sapient PartyParty.

Hawkins» campaign manager Ursula Rozum said Hawkins has accepted an invitation to the Buffalo debate, but should also be included in the New York City forum because the Green Party has earned a permanent ballot line.

«The top priority is for the voters of Woodstock's will to be honored in this race,» said Ricci, who thinks the ballots may have been rushed after a back - and - forth discussion over whether the Women's Equality Party line should be included.

Mr. Cuomo also struck a deal last summer with the Working Families Party, long a potent attack force for unions on fiscal issues, to appear on their ballot line in exchange for their pledge to support his agenda, including his promise not to raise or impose new taxes.

After a series of increasingly desperate pleas for gubernatorial votes on their line — including an email blast from Executive Director Dan Cantor titled «Imagine a state with no WFP» — the party had picked up more than 108,000 votes for Mr. Cuomo as of this writing, more than double the 50,000 needed to cling to the ballot for four years.

In order to create a new party line on a ballot, a candidate must generate 15,000 independent signature statewide, including a certain number from each Congressional district.

Of the 60 New York City - based incumbents who were uncontested from within their parties this cycle, 58 are Democrats, including State Senator Simcha Felder, who caucuses with Republicans in Albany and has both the Democrat and Republican lines on the ballot this year.