Sentences with phrase «senate election efforts»

ALBANY — The progressive wing of the state Democratic Party pushed again on Monday for the party's backing of Democratic reunification efforts in the state Senate, though a resolution calling for party funds to be used for Senate election efforts was tabled at their fall meeting.

The progressive wing of the state Democratic Party pushed again for the party's backing of Democratic reunification efforts in the state Senate, though a resolution calling for party funds to be used for Senate election efforts was tabled at their fall meeting.

(CNN)- Despite a disappointing showing by Republican Senate candidates on Election Day, the man who spearheaded the GOP Senate election effort is poised to take the number two position in the party's leadership behind Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, several GOP aides told CNN.

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On the elections front, Zuckerberg highlighted efforts to identify misinformation and remove «tens of thousands» of fake accounts sharing content related to elections in France and Germany, as well as a special Senate election in the United States.

The Russian active measure efforts did not end on Election Day 2016,» Senator Mark Warner, ranking chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters.

It's a familiar coalition for the Senate Democrats, with many of those groups contributing not just financial resources, but also a get - out - the - vote effort on Election Day that aided Democratic candidates.

The proposal appears to be the latest effort by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to show his public intent at uniting Democrats in the Senate, a fractious chamber that has become an increasingly sore point for liberal activists in New York that was heightened in the wake of President Trump's election.

Sources said Nassau County GOP Chairman Joe Mondello likes the idea of an independent line because he thinks it might help his hometown US Senate candidate, Bruce Blakeman, in the general election against the Conservatives» nominee, former Rep. Joe DioGuardi (assuming DioGuardi doesn't succeeed in his petitioning effort to get onto the primary ballot and defeat both Blakeman and David Malpass in September).

Like so many others, he is waiting to see the outcome of the April 19 special election for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, which could indicate which way the wind is blowing in terms of the GOP's effort to retain the majority.

The push is part of a broader effort to achieve a working 32 - member majority for the conference, a process that is deepening following the election of Democrat Brian Benjamin to an open Manhattan Senate seat.

The anti-Felder protestors are not the first to employ Trump in their efforts to achieve a Democratic - controlled Senate since the Nov. 8 elections.

MIDTOWN — As the federal investigation into his political fundraising activities continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio questioned the political motivations behind the leak of a letter from the State Board of Elections questioning the legality of his effort to raise money to help Democrats take control of the state Senate in 2014.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

While Cuomo's praise for Republican initiatives may help the party as it attempts to fend off Democratic efforts to win the Senate, it's not certain how big an issue drug abuse will be in a busy presidential election year.

After moderate success in that election, Schneiderman quarterbacked then - State Senator David Paterson's effort to unseat longtime Senate minority leader Marty Connor, seen as an important step in changing the culture of the Democratic Party in the Senate.

A state Elections Board enforcement counsel accused de Blasio and his aides of funneling large contributions from unions and other donors through county Democratic committees to three State Senate candidates upstate in 2014 in an unsuccessful party effort to retake control from Republicans.

A bill passed by both the Senate and Assembly would include New York in an effort to change the allocation of electoral votes in presidential elections.

The mayor is sitting in hot water with Senate Republicans for the time being after an elections probe into his 2014 effort to help Democrats win back the chamber.

Also being probed is whether de Blasio's effort to win control of the state Senate violated campaign finance and election laws.

«These fringe groups have repudiated efforts by the state Democrats, Senate Democrats and the governor to go into the November elections with a unified party,» he said.

With Donald Trump increasingly looking like the candidate for the Republican party, Assemblyman Francisco Moya said that the push by the Senate GOP was an effort to «score political points in an election year.»

The News on April 22 reported that Board of Elections Chief Investigations Counsel Risa Sugarman in January had found enough «willful and flagrant» violations to warrant a criminal referral to the Manhattan DA's office pertaining to de Blasio and his allies» efforts to raise money for state Senate Democrats in 2014.

State Senate Republican President Len Fasano accused Malloy of making a political speech in an effort to set up the Democratic Party agenda for the November election.

The mayor is facing investigations into whether his unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 as well as fundraising efforts for the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda, violated campaign finance and election laws.

Authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful effort to win control of the state Senate violated campaign finance and election laws.

(CNN)- Hillary Clinton applauded efforts in a Republican Senate runoff election in Mississippi to reach out to voters outside its usual voting bloc.

But he credits Cuomo for endorsing the Democrat, Todd Kaminsky, in his successful effort in a special election to replace former Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos.

The week began with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albany.

Democratic State Senate candidate Adam Haber won a write - in ballot effort to appear under the Green Party line come Nov. 4th, according to Nassau election officials, but party members are vowing to appeal the results in court.

Catsimatidis also said de Blasio solicited him to donate $ 50,000 to an upstate county Democratic committee that wound up going to candidates the mayor was trying to help win election as part of a failed effort to win Democratic control of the state Senate.

Kaminsky triumphed anyway and, as the governor looked to burnish his national profile in the run - up to the presidential election, he helped in State Senate Democratic campaign efforts.

«There were people there who may have a view about her and 2020, but we hosted the fund - raiser because we have admired Kamala for years, and we applaud her efforts to support House and Senate Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterm elections,» Mr. Johnson said.

The head of the Senate Democrats» election efforts, Senator Mike Gianaris, is encouraged by the poll.

Republicans seized on signs of movement in their direction yesterday as they unleashed a massive election - eve voter mobilization operation in an effort to stave off potentially substantial losses in the House and preserve at least a slender majority in the Senate.

MIDTOWN — Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is being «singled out» by a federal probe into his efforts to raise money for upstate senate candidates in 2014 and that a «double standard» was being applied around election laws he's accused of violating.

That appears to be the message from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had suggested the enforcement counsel at the state Board of Elections leaked a memorandum critical of is fundraising efforts for Senate Democrats, after a state inspector general report found it was a Republican spokesman at the board.

New Yorkers Together this election cycle has been especially active in Long Island state Senate races on behalf of Democratic challengers to Republican incumbents, most recently funding efforts to bolster Democrat Ryan Cronin's bid against Sen. Kemp Hannon.

A state Board of Elections spokesman is being blamed for the release of a confidential memorandum that recommended criminal prosecution for the fundraising efforts by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on behalf of Senate Democrats.

NY1's Bobby Cuza is at the Bronx Board of Elections with Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who announced he has collected some 10,000 signatures — far in excess of the 1,500 requirement, which more or less guarantees he'll be on the September primary ballot in spite of Democratic leaders efforts to bounce him from the party.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio make enemies in the GOP conference, thanks to his failed effort to help the Senate Democrats take the majority in the 2014 elections.

Labor unions are plowing money into the 2016 elections at an unprecedented rate, largely in an effort to help elect Clinton and give Democrats a majority in the Senate.

Laurence Laufer, de Blasio's longtime election lawyer, lashed out over the leak of a damning government memo alleging criminality in the mayor's fund - raising efforts for a failed, Democratic bid to seize control of the state Senate in 2014.

Laurence Laufer, a de Blasio campaign consultant, sent a letter Sunday blasting a state Board of Elections official who alleged that de Blasio's 2014 effort to flip the GOP - controlled Senate to the Democrats broke campaign finance laws.

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor, did not comment on the specifics on the meeting with the Republicans, but he said, «The governor campaigned for Democrats during the election cycle and the Senate Democrats thanked him for his efforts,» adding, «He is now governing and is working in a bipartisan way.»

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance released an almost simultaneous statement that his office would not arraign anyone in relation to the mayor's failed 2014 fundraising effort for the State Senate Democrats, which the state Board of Elections indicated involved a concerted effort to circumvent contribution limits.

The sudden switch could hurt the efforts by mainstream Dems to reclaim control of the Senate in this year's election cycle, and no one will just forgive that.

De Blasio's camp is reportedly reeling from a leaked memo from the state Board of Elections that emerged late Friday accusing de Blasio's office of carrying out «willful and flagrant» violations of campaign finance limits in their fundraising efforts to back Democrats in two 2014 state Senate races upstate — and suggesting the behavior was severe enough to warrant criminal prosecution — according to a memo first obtained by the Daily News.

The governor, who quietly advised the G.O.P. - I.D.C. coalition that led to Republican control of the Senate back after the 2012 elections, opted not to strenuously endorse several competitive Democrats in 2014, and some party members say he hindered their efforts to elect Marc Panepinto in Buffalo (though he would eventually win).

The former DMV commissioner and Broome county executive had transferred more than $ 140,000 from an old campaign account into her Senate effort, while raising about $ 20,000 since this summer, a filing at the state Board of Elections show.

«I think because of a very coordinated effort the state party is making, their whole ability to drill down on voters makes this election too close to call right now who will take the Senate,» Paterson said.