Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Fashour adds that $ 100,000 of the money raised at the Thursday night fundraiser will go to the campaign of Yonkers Assemblywoman Shelly Mayer, who is running as a mainstream Democrat in a special
Senate seat election on April 24th.
Not exact matches
This year's poor performance - only six House
seats gained, two
Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats after the
election.
Many Republicans slammed the political strategist Steve Bannon for throwing his weight behind the former judge Roy Moore, who lost in Tuesday's special
election in a massive upset that delivered Alabama's first Democratic - controlled
Senate seat in decades.
While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S.
Senate, Democrats occupy most of the
seats up for
election in two years.
A former chief of staff to
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had the following assessment after Democrat Doug Jones defeated embattled Republican Roy Moore in the special
election to fill a
Senate seat in Alabama: Anyone out of the phone book — aside from Moore — would've won as a Republican.
Jones faced off against Judge Roy Moore in a special
election for Jeff Sessions»
seat in the U.S.
Senate.
The special
election to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions's vacated
senate seat first drew national attention when Moore won the Republican primary over President Trump's preferred candidate, Luther Strange.
Virginia and New Jersey will hold gubernatorial
elections later this year, and all 435
seats in the House and 33 of the 100
seats in the
Senate will be contested in the 2018 midterm
elections.
On the morning of November 3, 2010, for example, the day after
Election Dight, Facebook announced that 74 percent of House of candidates with the greatest number of Facebook fans on their ballots won their contests, while in the
Senate 81 percent of candidates with the most Facebook fans won
seats.
The White House didn't want to open up Cotton's Arkansas
Senate seat after the GOP's shocking loss in the Alabama
Senate race and other special
elections.
Whether we elect our Senators or whether we have
elections where the government chooses to appoint our Senators, we're still dealing with the current situation, which is that the
Senate itself does not reflect the national population distribution in that, you know, Alberta has six
Senate seats, and New Brunswick, with about one fifth of Alberta's population, has 10
seats.
O'Donnell also talked about some of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008
election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S.
Senate seat.
This is usual for sixth - year
elections, as Ramesh Ponnuru points out: «In the last nine sixth - year
elections, the president's party lost, on average, 34 House
seats and seven
Senate seats.»
In 2010, Monserrate tried to return to the
Senate by running in a March special
election for his old
seat.
The IDC announced earlier this month it would dissolve and its members would rejoin the Democratic conference in the state
Senate, ahead of a broader push to give Democrats control of the chamber after a pair of
seats are filled in an April 24 special
election.
Monserrate lives in Queens — in the 39th AD, which used to be represented by Jose Peralta, who vacated the
seat to block Monserrate from regaining his
Senate post in a March 16 special
election.
Cuomo administration officials confirm the governor will call special
elections to fill five vacant legislative
seats — four in the Assembly and one in the
Senate — to conincide with village
elections on March 20.
@MontyHarder Agreed, and an interesting fact to note is that we got rid of that model for Senators in favor of direct
elections because an Illinois governor was involved ina scandal to sell the
Senate seat to the highest bidder... and almost 100 years to the day of that amendment to the constitution you had another Illinois governor do the exact same thing.
Mayer is running in a closely contested special
election to fill the
Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Westchester County Executive George Latimer, facing Republican Julie Killian.
It's an
election year for all 212 (plus one added
seat should the
Senate redistricting plan be allowed) and an off - cycle year for the governor.
Democrats expect to do well this cycle given the turnout in presidential
election years has historically given them more
seats in the
Senate.
Democrat Lew Fidler just sent out a press release congratulating David Storobin on his victory in the special
election for the 27th
Senate District
seat that has been vacant since Carl Kruger plead guilty to corruption charges.
The battle to reunify Democrats in the
Senate was sparked in part by the addition of Brian Benjamin, who won a special
election last month to fill a vacant
seat and giving the party 32 enrolled members again the
Senate.
The Kaminsky victory in the 9th
Senate district also narrows the November battleground map heading into the fall
elections, making other suburban
seats, like the one held by Latimer, potential targets.
Senate Democrats on Monday sworn in two new lawmakers: Sens. Shelley Mayer and Luis Sepulveda,
seats the party retained in last week's special
elections in the Bronx and Westchester County.
The 2014
election was the only one that was both good for Republicans and had significant opportunities to switch
Senate seats from Democrat to Republican.
At the same time, the WFP had blasted Cuomo on the night of
Election Day for not doing more to help
Senate Democrats, who did not gain full control of the chamber after a trio of freshman lawmakers lost their
seats to Republicans.
Cuomo campaigned and pushed for Mayer, the victor in a costly special
election to fill an open
Senate seat in Westchester County.
The party is 0 - for - 2 in Tuesday's special
election, failing once again to flip a suburban
Senate seat that has been the source of several expensive races.
Sen. Mark Grisanti, one of the
Senate Republicans» most vulnerable members who must first succeed in Thursday's primary
election against attorney Kevin Stocker before defending his
seat in November against the Democratic primary winner, announced that he has landed the coveted endorsement of former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
At the same time, Cuomo is being pushed to call
elections for
Senate seats that could potentially open, including one expected to be vacated in the Bronx next month by Ruben Diaz, Sr., in order to keep the party's numbers in the chamber.
Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, the Democratic candidate for the
seat of former State
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, accused his GOP opponent, Chris McGrath, of «cozying up» to a pro-Common Core group that funded a $ 1.2 million ad buy in advance of the April 19 special
election.
A Siena College poll released on Saturday showed Kaminsky, a freshman assemblyman, trailing Republican Chris McGrath by 8 percentage points in the 9th
Senate district special
election to replace disgraced former
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County
seat.
McGrath, an attorney and first - time candidate for public office, faces Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in a special
election on Tuesday to fill the
seat vacated by disgraced Republican former
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.
Senate Democrats retained two open
seats in a Tuesday special
election, giving them a numeric 32 - member majority in the chamber, but Sen. Simcha Felder will continue to conference with Republicans, keeping the GOP in control.
The plan requires both the IDC and mainline conference to work together on filling two open
Senate seats in a special
election and drop support for primary challenges against each others» members.
The town supervisor of Bedford has filed papers with the state Board of
Elections to run for the state
Senate seat being vacated at the end of the year by Westchester County Executive - elect George Latimer.
The state
Senate next year will likely once again be a flash point in 2018 when all 213
seats in the Legislature are up for
election.
Skelos's Nassau County
Senate seat flipped to Democrat Todd Kaminsky in an April special
election.
I think that the 2011 - 2014 period is easily explainable given that the 2010
Senate seats were mostly Republican prior to that
election.
Felder announced last week he would remain with the Republican conference in the
Senate as Democrats retained two
seats in special
elections for districts in the Bronx and Westchester County.
The special
election to fill the
Senate seat vacated by Republican ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos will be held April 19, the same day as the state's presidential primary.
Progressive activists — including Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, who launched a strong but unsuccessful primary challenge to Cuomo in 2014 — are calling for the rejection of this plan, unless the governor immediately calls special
elections for the two
Senate seats that will become vacant on Jan. 1.
Diaz, along with Sen. George Latimer, will leave office at the end of the year and have their
seats filled in special
elections to be called after the state budget is completed, based on a Democratic unity push for the state
Senate.
The race is one of two special
elections for
Senate seats taking place tomorrow.
In order to make sure the 2010
election was what I remembered it, I reviewed the AEC full distribution count for NSW
Senate seats [1].
Bolstering the argument for this today is the expected win of Democratic
Senate candidate Brian Benjamin in a special
election to fill a vacant
Senate seat.
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.
Democratic Assemblyman James Skoufis has created a campaign committee geared toward running for the state
Senate seat being vacated by Republican Bill Larkin, a filing at the Board of
Elections shows.
This month in Albany two new Democrats took
seats in the Legislature after winning special
elections in the
Senate and Assembly.