Sentences with phrase «state assembly race»

He then worked at a top political campaign consulting firm, winning a New York State Assembly race and running several grassroots campaigns.

A New York state Assembly race in the Hudson Valley has the incumbent declaring victory and the challenger not conceding.

He also endorsed Kearns in the New York State Assembly race in 2012 to replace Buffalo city comptroller Mark J. F. Schroeder.

View the debate between the Democratic candidates for the 138th State Assembly race, Rachel Barnhart and Harry Bronson.

The Reform Party of California is fielding Alan Reynolds in the 41st District State Assembly race.

In a state assembly race one big donor can give $ 4,100 dollars — already 150 % more than what you can raise from 50 neighbors giving $ 50.

Just more than two weeks after Election Day, a New York State assembly race in the Hudson Valley has an unofficial winner.

Mr. Espaillat is also asserting his influence in a State Assembly race, where he has supported another Dominican woman, Carmen De La Rosa, who served as his campaign manager in the congressional primary and as the chief of staff to Ydanis Rodriguez, a Dominican city councilman.

The AEG scandal has now oozed over to the other side of the Capitol and is infecting a state Assembly race.

NEW YORK — The key witness in a federal corruption investigation is a Bronx political wannabe whose dreams of political office were dashed when he lost a state assembly race to a challenger who wanted to make cupcakes the official state snack.

Ron Kim handily won the Flushing state Assembly race this month, but some polling numbers suggest many voters struggled to choose between their ethnic communities and their political parties.

Despite a reported anti-incumbent, anti-Democrat mood across the nation, all the seated Democrats won another term in the state Assembly races in western Queens this year, according to unofficial election results from NY1.

Among the upcoming legislative primary elections, two Brooklyn State Assembly races with very different storylines are intensifying.

But instead of just backing Senate Democratic's as the union's VOTE - COPE independent expenditure committee has done so far, NYSUT is also spending money in a handful of state Assembly races as well, filings with the state Board of Elections show.

This chart shows how many candidates ran for state assembly in Nevada in past years and the cumulative amount of campaign spending in state assembly races, including spending in both primary and general election contests.

In New York State Assembly races, the Democrats designated Gail Tosh (120th), Keith Batman (126th), Al Stirpe (127th), Pamela Hunter (128th) and William Magnarelli (128th).

The region's Republicans scored several victories in the state assembly races, even though Democrats statewide still maintain a slim 70 - 64 majority in the state house.

The news release may have gotten more coverage than those from all of the other state assembly races combined, warranting mentions in music trade blogs, The New York Times and even London's Daily Mirror.

State Assembly races are typically run in near - anonymity, but make Billy Joel a campaign issue and you're bound to get attention.

Not exact matches

Within the field in which I am working — race relations in the United States — I am well aware that church leaders have continually stood up for the righteous cause and have often persuaded their churches when they meet in assembly to express themselves for principles along the same line, even when that course was not always popular.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced a measure that would schedule party primaries for local and state races for June 26, extending a long - running dispute with majority Republicans in the Senate who want an August date.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver does not seem terribly perturbed about the prospect of having three separate primaries — federal, state and presidential — despite the fact that he and his Democratic colleagues have indicated a preference for moving the state contests up to conform with Judge Gary Sharpe's mandated June 26 date for the House and US Senate races.

«That would allow more people to run in state Assembly and Senate races,» she said.

In an interview with NY1's Erin Billups earlier today, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called the charter schools legislation passed by his house in the wee hours of the morning a «good bill» that will enable the state to make a strong application for Round II of «Race to the Top» funding by June 1.

The race had hinged in large part on two different visions: Faso was knocked by Teachout for his work as a lobbyist and tenure as a state lawmaker in the Democratic - led Assembly.

He is competing for the party's official designation against Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse state lawmaker who entered the race in February and appeared to be the frontrunner after Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb ended his campaign.

He beat out a fellow Brooklyn Democrat, Walter Mosley, for the position in a race that many viewed as a showdown between the old and new guard in the state Assembly.

NIAGARA FALLS — John D. Ceretto lost his re-election race for the Assembly, but he's back on the state payroll, working at Niagara Falls State Park in a newly created post of project coordinator that pays more than $ 80,000 a state payroll, working at Niagara Falls State Park in a newly created post of project coordinator that pays more than $ 80,000 a State Park in a newly created post of project coordinator that pays more than $ 80,000 a year.

In recent years, Faso, a former Republican leader in the New York State Assembly from Kinderhook, has only served as a political donor, avoiding electoral politics, himself, since his 2006 loss to Democrat Eliot Spitzer in the governor's race.

The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage.

There will be 11 potential upsets, with nine Assembly races and two in the state Senate.

There are also races for Congress, State Senate and Assembly, a proposition to extend the Community Preservation Fund, and more.

StreetsPAC today announced a second round of candidate endorsements in fall races for the New York State Senate and Assembly, backing the reelection bids of State Senator Tony Avella and Assembly Members Nily Rozic and Felix Ortiz, and the campaigns of Brooklyn State Senate challenger Dell Smitherman and Suffolk County Assembly challenger Jason Zove.

Eight members of the state Assembly from Queens have signed on to a bill that would push Primary Day for state races from September to June to offset a new federal law that would force New York to hold separate primaries for Congress and the U.S. Senate.

And there were races to fill nine state Assembly seats.

Ms. Briccetti's notable career achievements include serving as assistant counsel to the New York State Senate majority, as a legislative aide and counsel to the New York State Assembly majority committee on Racing and Wagering, and special counsel in the New York State Attorney General's office.

The safe - streets political action committee has put its support behind the reelection efforts of Manhattan State Senator Adriano Espaillat and Suffolk County Assemblyman Edward Hennessey, Bay Ridge Senate challenger James Kemmerer, Suffolk County Assembly challenger Tom Schiliro, and Pete Sikora, who's running a primary race for Assembly in Brownstone Brooklyn.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

Bill Lipton, New York State director of the Working Families Party, said Jennifer DiSomma's hiring shows that Schaffer is not as neutral in the Assembly race as he says he is.

The race for Silver's former seat in the 65th Assembly District has drawn one of the biggest and most ethnically diverse fields of candidates this year — despite the fact that it is now just one of 150 Assembly seats and no longer controlled by one of the state's most powerful figures.

Joining us to explain where sports betting in New York state stands right now and its future is the chair of the Assembly Racing and Wagering Committee, Assemblyman Gary Pretlow.

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — New York State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R — Canandaigua) today announced he is withdrawing from the race for New York governor, less than two months after throwing his hat in the ring.

For now, the Republican contenders being talked about for the gubernatorial race this year include Assembly Minority Leader and Canandaigua resident Brian Kolb who has already declared he will seek the nomination, as well as possible contenders State Senator John DeFrancisco, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro and former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra.

Tenney, a three - term member of the State Assembly, enters the primary race with a campaign debt of $ 110,000 from her last congressional bid, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Governor Cuomo refused to endorse more than two candidates in New York State Assembly and Senate races this year.

► PTA Mom Wins Primary for Assembly Seat on the Upper East Side ► Assemblyman Felix Ortiz Fends Off Challenger to Win Democratic Primary ► District Leader Wins Democratic Primary for Eric Adams» Senate Seat ► Williamsburg State Senator Defeats Progressive Challenger in Primary ► State Sen. Toby Stavisky Tops Community Activist Challenger S.J. Jung ► Adriano Espaillat Narrowly Defeats Robert Jackson in Primary Race ► Assembly Incumbent Margaret Markey Beats Primary Challenger in Queens

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

«I'm honored to have Governor Cuomo's support in my race for State Assembly,» Fernandez.

«(W) e would like to extend our thanks and congratulations to Congressman and Queens County Leader Joe Crowley on his victories in both Queens Assembly races,» the email states.