Teachout challenged Cuomo for the Working Families
Party ballot line last month.
WFP leaders had accused Cuomo of creating the Women's Equality
Party ballot line last year as a way to potentially undermine the left - leaning, union - backed party.
Not exact matches
Andrew Cuomo, then running for governor in 2010, at the
last minute agreed to run on the WFP's
ballot line, thus saving them from spiraling into the political black hole that swallowed up the now - defunct Liberal
Party.
The
party was initially formed as a «Stop Common Core» ballot line — an issue - based ballot line that was added to the ballot last year as Cuomo's re-election campaign installed the Women's Equality Party ballot
party was initially formed as a «Stop Common Core»
ballot line — an issue - based
ballot line that was added to the
ballot last year as Cuomo's re-election campaign installed the Women's Equality
Party ballot
Party ballot line.
The Reform
Party, a
ballot line formed
last year by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, filed its first campaign finance report since it was rechristened this election season, showing a single, massive donation from a limited liability company.
Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his
last shots at a minor
party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials
party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence
Party line, election officials
Party line, election officials said.
Grisanti retains the Independent
Party ballot line and is the
last sitting Republican in the Senate to have supported same - sex marriage.
Rob Astorino's push to launch the Reform
Party — a re-naming of a
ballot line created
last year set up to oppose the Common Core education standards — is part of a larger struggle for the 2014 Republican gubernatorial nominee to gain some leverage over the state's Republican apparatus.
But Conservative
Party leaders, who huddled at their annual meeting in Albany over the last two days, are concerned with both the name of the line and the party's place on the ba
Party leaders, who huddled at their annual meeting in Albany over the
last two days, are concerned with both the name of the
line and the
party's place on the ba
party's place on the
ballot.
The Conservative
Party's executive committee voted
last month to formally oppose the new
ballot line, and its county chairs are being urged to dissuade candidates from the taking the Reform
Party line.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo established his own
ballot line last year, the Women's Equality
Party, which will also continue through this current election cycle.
LaVenia's fellow co-chair, Howie Hawkins, whose gubernatorial candidacy
last fall brought the Greens official
party status and a
ballot line for the next four years, concurred, saying:
The
last time a minor
party candidate achieved ballot access was in 2000, when Pat Buchanan ran on the Reform Party
party candidate achieved
ballot access was in 2000, when Pat Buchanan ran on the Reform
Party Party line.
The jostling over the minor
party's
ballot line is just one twist in the scramble for attorney general, following Mr. Schneiderman's abrupt resignation
last Monday after The New Yorker detailed four women's accusations of being physically assaulted by him.
The spot also reminds voters that Grisanti is on the Independence
Party ballot line after losing the Republican primary
last month to Kevin Stocker.
After Rockland County Democrats scored a victory late
last week by re-affirming
ballot status for the county's Women's Equality
Party candidates, Onondaga County Republicans on Monday scored a win in court, knocking some 20 candidates from the
ballot line.
The Cuomo - Hochul ticket received 50,000 votes on the
line last year, giving the
party ballot status in the current election cycle.
Grisanti, who voted for the SAFE Act in 2013, lost his Republican primary
last month to Kevin Stocker, but retains the Independence
Party ballot line next month.
No money was allocated to Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti, who lost his GOP primary
last month to Kevin Stocker, but retains the Independence
Party ballot line.
In a gaggle with reporters in New York City Friday evening, Cuomo noted he received more than 50,000 votes on the
ballot line last year — a testament, he said, to the desire for a
party that promotes women's issues.
It's a move that comes after the Conservative
Party's executive committee formally voted to oppose the formation of the new
ballot line, which was formed out of the Stop Common Core
ballot line created
last year.
Democrats in Rockland County late
last week scored a victory for candidates running on the Women's Equality
Party line after the Republican elections commissioner sought to toss them from the
ballot.
In Buffalo's 60th Senate district, NYSUT is spending $ 50,000 on radio ads supporting Democrat Marc Panepinto, who hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti, who lost his GOP primary to Kevin Stocker
last month, but retains the Independence
Party ballot line.
A majority of the candidates who ran on the newly formed
ballot line last year have not signed off on a set of rules for the
party and a judge's ruling this month threw the
party's status into legal limbo.
A ruling issued on Wednesday by the Appellate Division «found no statutory support» for the competing claims for control of the
party that a package of rules be approved by a majority of the candidates who ran on the
ballot line last year.
Grisanti, who retains the Independence
Party ballot line, was endorsed by Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos
last week.
Yuh -
Line Niou, the Working Families
Party candidate for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, claimed to have voted for President Barack Obama in Harlem during a NY1 debate
last night — but Board of Elections documents indicate she didn't cast a
ballot in the election.
Long has led the
party for the
last 26 years, which has become a must - have
ballot line for any Republican running statewide.
He has pledged to withdraw his
party's endorsement and
ballot line from all four GOP senators who voted «yes» and enabled the bill to pass, 33 - 29,
last month.
The
party wasn't the only issue - based
ballot line formed
last year.
Quinn, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor
last year, has emerged as the point person for the Women's Equality
Party, a
ballot line Gov. Andrew Cuomo created this year as a way of promoting the women's agenda as well as to gain more women voters.
It flirted with endorsing Teachout, and she and some of her supporters believe the
party — and its permanent
ballot line — is a strong and
lasting force for dragging New York's political discourse to the left.
Green
Party candidate Howie Hawkins will also appear, while five other non-major-
party candidates filed petition signatures
last week to create their own
ballot lines.
He remained on the Independence and Working Families
party lines, and members of the Independence Party as well as some city hall staffers and others mounted a push in the last couple of weeks in an effort to get voters to cast ballots for Rich
party lines, and members of the Independence
Party as well as some city hall staffers and others mounted a push in the last couple of weeks in an effort to get voters to cast ballots for Rich
Party as well as some city hall staffers and others mounted a push in the
last couple of weeks in an effort to get voters to cast
ballots for Richards.
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.
Councilman Antonio Reynoso joined former Assembly candidate Jesus Gonzalez and members of the immigrant advocacy group Make the Road Action Fund to make a
last - minute plea to Hispanics to vote along the Working Families
Party line — which they argued is the
ballot row most reflecting the interests of Latinos.
Former Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, both Democrats who have championed the WEP
line, vowed
last year the
party would prove «transformative» in 2016, with Clinton leading the
ballot.
Turns out Gov. Cuomo's Women's Equality
Party — which won a permanent
ballot line last November by attracting 50,000 votes for governor — may not be legal.
Mr. Sambevski's name came up
last year in an operation run by Frank Sparaco and Superintendent Ballard to collect absentee
ballots for the minority
party lines to place Ballard's name on those
lines in the 2013 election for Highway Superintendent between him and Democrat Dennis Malone.