Sentences with phrase «york house seat»

The exchange drew considerable attention in the media and Democrats — who see Grimm's New York House seat as a possible win for them in the 2014 midterm election — seized upon the threat.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner won't seek a central New York House seat that has been a battleground district over the last decade, she said in a statement to Capital Tonight.

Democratic congressional candidate Anthony Brindisi on Wednesday has been named to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Red to Blue program, a key step in his bid to flip a Republican - held central New York House seat.

Steele will be gone shortly after March 31, if the Democratic candidate fills Gillibrand's New York House seat.

Tenney faces Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi in the central New York House seat that is considered one of the top battleground races this fall.

Miner, who announced she would not run for a central New York House seat this November, has not ruled out running statewide this year.

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She did not win her bid for a seat representing New York in the House of Representatives.

Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

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The statement of support comes, though, after some liberals grumbled at Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to flip Republican - held seats in the House of Representatives in upstate New York and Long Island, arguing the effort should be focused on the state Senate.

The Transit Workers Union and the Working Families Party is at odds over the push directed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to help flip Republican - held House seats in New York.

Before Hinchey's retirement announcement, it looked like two freshmen Central New York Republicans — Ann Marie Buerkle and Richard Hanna — would likely end up in a primary battle when state lawmakers finished redrawing the House lines and removing two seats — a move made necessary by New York's slow population growth as compared to other states.

Speaking at an unrelated press conference on the New York City Housing Authority, IDC Leader Jeff Klein suggested the conference would play a role in filling the seat in the Senate being vacated by Sen. George Latimer, who was elected Westchester County executive earlier this month and leaves Albany at the end of the year.

I wrote yesterday about House Speaker John Boehner's diss of Wendy Long when he said there's no «significant» US Senate race in New York — a factor that could hurt down - ballot Republican congressional candidates who are fighting to retain their seats or oust incumbent Democrats.

As we already know, New York is on tap to lose two House seats because it grew slower compared to other states.

It was not quite the blue wave that Democrats in New York had hoped for, but the results of Tuesday's special elections in 11 state legislative seats did give the party hope that they might be able to help national Democrats retake the House of Representatives in the fall.

The New York State United Teachers union on Thursday will endorse Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle for the Rochester - area House seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Louise Slaughter.

Their party must pick up 30 seats to win control of the House, and to even come close, they need to sweep all or most of the competitive New York seats.

Amid a sexting controversy involving women, the New York Democrat resigned his U.S. House seat in 2011 only to have new allegations doom his 2013 run for mayor.

Democratic county chairs in New York's 19th District are meeting Saturday to select their candidate of choice in a must - win seat for the party to make gains in the House.

In New York, 30 - year - old Elise Stefanik, a former aide in President George W. Bush's administration, captured an open seat and when sworn in this January will be the youngest House member.

Grimm led Donovan, 49 percent to 39 percent, among GOP voters in New York's 11th District in the poll released by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats» political arm, which hopes to flip the seat blue in November.

In today's Congressional Corner, New York state Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democratic candidate for New York's 22nd House district seat, wraps up his conversation with WAMC's Alan Chartock.

RIPPLE EFFECT: Rep. Michael Arcuri, campaigning in Utica, is fighting to keep his House seat and is the only New York Democrat in Congress to break ties with Charlie Rangel and call for his resignation.

Even if Collins is not in immediate jeopardy of losing his House seat, said Gerald Benjamin, a longtime professor of political science at State University of New York at New Paltz, his warm embrace of Trump is ideological anathema for a candidate with statewide ambitions.

New York City Housing Authority General Manager Vito Mustaciuolo was inside a city council hearing Wednesday, in the hot seat again, as he was grilled about health hazards.

Hayworth held a U.S. House seat in the 19th District from 2010 - 2012, and after New York's redistricting, was defeated by Maloney in the 2012 18th Congressional District election.

But there is a politically expedient solution for Democrats if they want to show him the door: Neuter his district in the redistricting process, which will require New York to lose 2 of its 29 seats in the House of Representatives.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who spent a lot of time after the November elections crowing about how the GOP has gained more House seats in New York (6) than any other state in the nation, just released the following statement in response to former Rep. Chris Lee's resignation yesterday:

Republican Rep. John Katko, the Central New York freshman who is fighting to hold onto his seat in one of the most competitive House races in the nation, is out with his fourth TV ad, which questions the ability of his opponent, Colleen Deacon, to act independently of the Democratic conference if she's elected in November.

Former White House staffer Elise Stefanik, who is the GOP nominee in the open - seat race for New York's 21st District.

That seat was held by Michael Grimm, the only Republican House member from New York City.

via New York Post John Faso is running for a House seat in the Catskills, and that's good news for New York.

Democrats have six potential pickup opportunities in New York this fall, and to make a dent in their 30 - seat deficit in the House, the party needs to win most of them.

Primaries in Competitive General Elections New York's 21st District The GOP brawl between attorney Matt Doheny and former Bush White House staffer Elise Stefanik for retiring Rep. Bill Owens» upstate New York seat could go down to the wire.

But his decision is likely to make New York's 22nd District one of the most competitive House races in the nation next year for an open seat in a traditionally moderate swing district.

New York's Junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has had very close ties to the White House, ever since she was appointed to fill Hillary Clinton's vacant seat.

New York is a battleground for control of the House of Representatives, with at least six seats in major contention.

The DCCC, the campaign arm of House Democrats, views New York as one of the key battleground states in its effort to flip enough Republican seats to gain control of the House in the November election.

In deep - blue New York, Republicans took over House seats on Long Island, upstate near Syracuse and in the North County along the border with Vermont, and reelected Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm in the face of a multi-count federal indictment.

Ten of New York's Democratic - held House seats were ranked as competitive by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report prior to the election; the 4th District was ranked likely Democratic; the 13th, 22nd and 25th Districts were ranked as lean Democratic; the 1st, 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th were ranked as toss - ups; and the 29th District was ranked as likely Republican.

New York needs to lose two House seats this year, which means four sitting members will end up having to decide between running against one other and early retirement.

New York will now have 27 seats in the House, down from the current 29, the U.S. Census Bureau announced, prompting what is sure to be a long and heated battle over where the new district lines are drawn.

Concern that the special master's congressional maps will cost Democrats seats in true blue New York has spurred House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to get involved in the state's redistricting battle.

New York State held a special U.S. House election on May 24, 2011, to fill the vacant 26th district seat.

Boehner's swing through the Golden State, where Democrats control 38 of 53 House seats and both Senate seats, follows his recent sprint through the North East, where he raked in cash for a slew of GOP candidates, including Lee Zeldin, John Katko and Elise Stefanik of New York; Marilinda Garcia and Rep. Frank Guinta of New Hampshire; and Bruce Poliquin of Maine.

New York's 3rd District becomes the seventh Democratic seat on our list of competitive House races, compared to 25 seats on the chart currently held by Republicans.

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon endorsed former New York Rep. Michael Grimm's challenge to Republican Rep. Dan Donovan for his old congressional seat.

Cuomo was in town stumping for his reelection bid and also with goals of Democrats flipping the U.S. House of Representatives to a Democratic majority and extending their narrow one - seat majority in the New York State Senate, where Republicans still control the body.

The results of a four - way primary for a New York Senate seat may help Republicans keep control of that house in the long run.