Sentences with phrase «republican designee»

«I think we really need to go back at this and start with a clean slate,» Boyle, the Republican designee in the race for Suffolk County sheriff this fall, said in an interview.

NEW YORK — Political novice and tea party ally Carl Paladino has beaten the Republican designee in the race for the party's nomination for New York governor.

Days after becoming the Republican designee, local Conservative Party leaders endorsed Katko.

failed to get onto the ballot himself The winner: Gary Berntsen, the Republican designee to take on Democratic US Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Without the paperwork being filed to specifically allow her to be the Republican designee as a non-Republican, this means she will be confined to running only under the Conservative Party's banner.

Not exact matches

Ever since the convention, Republican US Senate designee Bruce Blakeman has been slamming his primary opponent, David Malpass, accusing him of being an «ivory tower» candidate and portraying himself as a more down - to - earth, «pizza and beer» type of guy who really understands working people.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long just told me that he has received an assurance from state GOP Chairman Ed Cox that the Republicans are probably going to scrap their controversial plan to establish an independent line for all their designees to run on in the general election.

US Senate designee Gary Berntsen is the latest in what I expect will be a long line of Republicans to pressure his Democratic target — in this case, Sen. Chuck Schumer — to turn his back on Rep. Charlie Rangel following news of the ethics charges being brought against him.

Former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, who lost the 2006 governor's race to Democrat Eliot Spitzer, is sounding the alarm in a letter to fellow Republicans, urging them to unite behind the GOP gubernatorial designee, Rick Lazio, or risk «a re-run» of what happened four years ago.

«As far as Malpass and DioGuardi are concerned, it's no surprise they're both upset at Chairman Cox's backing of Blakeman, though the mature reaction would entail the two of them understanding the position Cox is in, given that Blakeman is the party's designee,» the Republican reasoned.

Republican US Senate designee Gary Berntsen just endorsed Chris Cox in the NY - 1 congressional race — a contest in which Berntsen himself was competing until his last - minute pre-convention decision to switch tracks and challenge Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer instead.

Moschetti served the Assembly Republican conference as its designee on the now - defunct Temporary State Commission on Lobbying.

Earlier this morning, Republican gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio called on AG Andrew Cuomo to investigate the developers of the Cordoba Mosque, which is set to be built in lower Manhattan despite widespread criticism.

Today's Q poll is a mixed bag for GOP / Conservative gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio, showing him with a double - digit lead over his primary opponent, Carl Paladino, but with 49 percent of Republicans who have a favorite in the race saying they're open to changing their minds before the Sept. 14 election.

«There are only, you know, in my mind there's one, you know, there are two candidates.There's only one candidate that's the official designee of the Republican Party and the Conservative Party.»

I'm the official designee of the Republican and Conservative parties.

When Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey announced Katko as the winner, nearly 300 GOP committee members who attended the convention gave their designee a standing ovation.

AG Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic gubernatorial designee, is scheduled to appear today with Republican Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano to call for passage in Albany of the statewide property tax cap Cuomo proposed in his «New New York Agenda.»

Jay Townsend, one of two Republicans vying to take on Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer in November, has formally announced his endorsement of GOP gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio.

Last I checked, the Senate Republicans were backing Lazio for governor, although they seemed open to the idea of competition prior to the convention at which the former congressman became the party's official designee.

Paladino is a tea party - supported Republican who shocked the GOP a week ago in winning the primary over the party's designee, former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio.

New campaign filings also show that in the Republican primary for Smithtown Supervisor, Patrick Vecchio, 87, who is battling for his political life after 40 years in office, has spent $ 56,504 in his race against GOP designee Edward Wehrheim, a town board member, who has spent $ 41,884.

Republican gubernatorial designee and one - time Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio «opposes the plan to build the Cordoba mosque across from Ground Zero, and shares the concerns of many over the [proposed mosque's] imam's view that Hamas is not a terrorist organization,» said his spokesman, Barney Keller.

The big contest in Nassau was the Democratic primary between Laura Curran, the party designee, and George Maragos, who switched from Republican to Democrat to make the run.

State Sen. John Bonacic, the Republican who chairs the Senate's judiciary committee, took issue with language in the bill that would make an exemption in the state's grand jury secrecy laws to allow the special counsel to hand over usually confidential information to the governor «or his designee» as part of the recommendation for action.

Republican congressional contender Christopher Cox last week began circulating petitions to wage what's called an «Opportunity to Ballot,» aimed at setting up a write - in primary Sept. 14 against Randy Altschuler, the minor party's designee.

Republicans are increasingly nervous that self - funding Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, whom recent polls have shown on the move against Lazio, will be able to defeat their designee in the Sept. 14 primary, leaving the party deeply fractured with Lazio on the Conservative line and Paladino (maybe) on a third party Taxpayers line.

After two rounds of balloting on Thursday, Mr. Blakeman, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for state comptroller in 1998, emerged with just over half of the votes of Republican delegates, making him the convention's designee.

Calling Republican congressional candidate John Katko «the representative Wayne County needs to make Washington work for us again,» nearly every member of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors endorsed the GOP's designee Tuesday.

Ms. Jones said that UpIsland party leadership chose not to endorse Mr. Wilkinson's Republican running mates, Steven Gaines and Richard Haeg, candidates for the town board and instead provided de facto support for the local designees, Bill Mott, an Independence Party member, and Marilyn Behan, a Democrat who received Wilson Pakula authorization from party leaders to run on the Independence Party line.