Sentences with phrase «republican opponent»

Joe Lhota, Mr. de Blasio's Republican opponent, won middle and working class areas of southern Brooklyn and the whole borough of Staten Island, where Mr. de Blasio's brand of populism is still viewed warily.

His Republican opponent, Angie M. Carpenter, the Suffolk County treasurer, spent $ 513,000.

New York: First - term U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D - NY18, pictured) is in a tough fight for re-election against a Republican opponent he beat two years ago.

Gov. Cuomo's campaign operatives are being accused of dirty tricks for allegedly sponsoring a biased «push poll» to convince voters that Rob Astorino, Cuomo's Republican opponent, holds politically unacceptable views...

«As to her Republican opponent, she will be more than happy to debate him once his name appears on the Republican line, in the November election, which is where his name belongs,» the statement read in part.

Sen. Bob Menendez says he won't resign, launches attack on Republican opponent Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, in his first press conference a week after being «severely admonished» by the Senate's ethics committee, said he has no plans to resign and launched an attack on his likely Republican opponent in November, calling him «unethical.»

Her Republican opponent was Margaret Hostetter, a realtor who had never held public office.

Cuomo's Republican opponent, Rob Astorino, the Westchester county executive, said the deal the governor struck with the W.F.P. was problematic and would lead to higher taxes.

Cuomo selected Hochul because he wanted a conservative that would appeal to the voters in Western NY, a majority of whom favored his far right 2010 Republican opponent, Carl Pallodino.

Meng's Republican opponent this fall, City Councilman Dan Halloran, called Meng's interest in microstamping a «diversion.»

His Republican opponent, Joe Lhota, has said the estimated $ 500 million that would be raised by such a tax could be covered by finding «inefficiencies» in the existing city budget.

In a statement, Baez's campaign took a swipe at challenger Fernando Cabrera, referring to him as her «Republican opponent.»

He faces no opposition in the primary, but will have a strong Republican opponent in the general election.

The winner, Democrat Bill Foster, focused heavily on the troubled state of the economy and hit his Republican opponent — dairy magnate Jim Oberweis — as a willing advocate for the President Bush and the administration's policies on Iraq.

Malloy, a Democrat, attacked his Republican opponent in much the same way that a national Republican group recently blasted a Democrat running for governor in Wisconsin for alleged plagiarism.

Linda McDonough, his underfunded, virtually unknown Republican opponent, drew 2,228 on the Conservative line and 2,382 on the Independence.

A side story amid the subway crisis has been a reigniting of the rivalry between Mayor de Blasio and his former 2013 Republican opponent, newly reappointed MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.

Not a surprise really and the DCCC has no game plan other than to personally attack the republican opponent, its beyond embarrassing at this point.

But his Republican opponent George Phillips is doing just that, blasting out a link to a Business Insider story that includes Hinchey's ties to a project that has benefited from federal aid.

Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey is unlikely to face a Republican opponent in the November general election.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries took turns kicking NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio for «playing footsie» with the governor's 2014 Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

Cuomo's «fantastic» candidate in the important Nov. 3 special state Senate election, Democrat Barbara Fiala, will be «crushed» by her Republican opponent, Fred Akshar, because the governor reneged on his pledge to go all out to help, anonymous senior Democrats told Fred Dicker.

On Tuesday, de Blasio appeared with Cuomo's Republican opponent in his 2014 re-election bid, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

The campaigns of Kaminsky and his Republican opponent, Chris McGrath, traded barbs today over debates and responding to corruption as the race for Skelos» seat enters its final phase.

But as Rob Astorino, his Republican opponent, makes a play for state workers and teachers, there's some push back from the Cuomo camp.

Maloney faces Republican opponent Phil Oliva, a former aide to Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, for re-election in the 18th congressional district in the Hudson Valley.

If Poloncarz's Republican opponent, Assemblyman Ray Walter, wins the election and gets his way, town and city governments will receive an average $ 166 per resident from the 8.75 percent sales tax — compared to the current $ 139.

After Spicer spoke, Republican Senator Dean Heller became the fifth Republican opponent on Friday, saying he would not support the bill in its current form.

Cuomo won re-election handily and had $ 10 million left in his campaign account from his victory over his Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

The campaign of Rep. Louise Slaughter is blasting what appears to be an independent expenditure ad that is supporting her Republican opponent, Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks.

He does not does have a Republican opponent, but faces a Green Party candidate.

He's currently leading Republican opponent Harry Wilson by a 45 - 22 percent margin, though 33 percent of voters are undecided.

Kaminsky once again faces his Republican opponent from the April special election, Chris McGrath.

Here's an analytical look at Governor Cuomo's campaign speech today and a recent evolution in his attacks against Republican opponent Rob Astorino.

But what about in the November vote against a Republican opponent?

And he'll probably win a second term in November against a conservative Republican opponent.

Four years later, his share of the vote had shrunk to 54.2 percent, with the overwhelming majority of the state's counties going to his Republican opponent.

In the race between Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and her Republican opponent, Joseph DioGuardi, Gillibrand holds an 11 percentage point lead among likely voters in New York State.

Hochul is running for a full, two - year term in a deeply Republican Red district in western New York, in a race in which her potential Republican opponent will either be Iraq war veteran David Bellavia or ousted former Erie County Executive Chris Collins.

Hinchey's Republican opponent for his U.S. House of Representatives seat, George Phillips, told the Times Herald - Record that he saw Hinchey physically shove the reporter into Phillips» path.

Still, Paladino may claim the inside lane in the 2018 race, especially after a potentially powerful Republican opponent — Rep. Chris Gibson of the Hudson Valley — recently announced he will leave politics at the end of this term to teach at Williams College.

Democratic Senate candidate Chris Eachus today is taking his Republican opponent to task for failing to show at a candidate forum organized by the Times Herald Record.

At the same time, the PAC reported spending $ 52,555 on mailers opposing her Republican opponent, Chris Jacobs, the Erie County clerk.

Democratic State Senate candidate Justin Wagner vowed if elected he would block any legislation authorizing any transfer of municipal land for the construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline, a pledge he contended could not be promised by Republican opponent Terrence Murphy based on his voting record in Yorktown.

De Blasio isn't on board with the governor's call for the city to ramp up its spending on the MTA, but his likely Republican opponent, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, is.

Democratic Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke on Monday released a TV ad knocking her Republican opponent Tom O'Mara over a bill that would make it easier for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

A poll conducted by the Global Strategy Group for Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney shows the Democratic congressman with a 6 - point lead over his Republican opponent, former Rep. Nan Hayworth, heading into the final stretch of their re-match in NY - 18.

Then it was down to business, stumping for Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei, who's facing a competitive Republican opponent in former federal prosecutor John Katko in the race for the 24th Congressional District.

Washington (CNN)-- Directly mentioning the Newtown, Connecticut shootings for the first time in a campaign ad, Democratic Massachusetts Senate candidate Ed Markey criticized his Republican opponent Gabriel Gomez for opposing gun - control legislation.

Democrat Rep. Dan Maffei and his Republican opponent John Katko appear together in their first debate of the campaign with Grant Reeher of the WRVO's Campbell Conversations.