While there's been no shortage of talk
about the candidates running in the 33rd State Senate District — the seat currently occupied by Pedro Espada, Jr. — we thought we'd provide a rundown of who's competing in myriad other local races.
The show evolved out of Race2Represent, a multimedia initiative MNN introduced last fall to provide quality, hyperlocal information
about candidates running for Manhattan City Council seats and the Borough President's Office.
Families That Can has created easy - to - read, nonpartisan voter guides to help you learn more
about the candidates running for school board in a variety of communities across the state, including Oakland.
What do you know
about the candidates running in your county?
Not exact matches
All told,
about 16 Republican
candidates are expected to join the race, including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and Jeb Bush, the former governor or Florida, who have yet to declare their plans to
run.
After learning
about Casino Gaming School in 1994 from a faxed advertisement, Zimmer asked Kallos to send him
candidates for six openings at O'Shea's, a small downtown operation he was
running at the time.
Neither
candidate has said much
about what they would do to help small businesses get the funding they need to
run their business.
The
candidate from her party
running in Buenos Aires — the country's biggest province — has demurred when asked
about the situation in the Venezuela, saying that he did not know «in detail» what was going on there, later stressing the differences between the tenures of Chavez and Maduro and calling for dialogue with a third party, such as the Pope.
Releasing one's tax returns isn't technically required when
running for president, but it is a longstanding tradition that lets voters learn more
about a
candidate.
But not only is he the leading
candidate for the Republican nomination, and therefore someone the media has to cover, he is such a ratings win that most news outlets can't help but
run as many stories
about him as possible.
But if you're looking for more hints that The Rock is beginning to seriously consider a presidential
run, his comments to Fallon
about why people were looking to him as a possible
candidate certainly sound like those of a politician.
Emotions have
run exceptionally high in this campaign — so high that hyperbolic statements
about the likelihood of one
candidate or the other torpedoing stocks, capsizing the bond market, or crippling the economy have the ring of truth for many voters.
At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to
run against a
candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals
about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.
There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the
run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist -
candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns
about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.
In an interview that featured both Fallon's lighthearted bantering style and strikingly low - key candidness from Trump, the Republican
candidate opened up
about his motivation for
running for president and was not afraid to poke fun at himself and some of his trademark campaign behavior.
Then this morning I did see something
about historic fact - facing of the party, that it could finally
run a
candidate without mentioning the «G» word as well as not mentioning Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.
Ok CNN, you are going to
run these stories
about the GOP
candidates....
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story
ran last year, as part of a series
about the faith lives of the leading Republican presidential
candidates.
Gallup first asked Americans
about support for a Mormon presidential
candidate in 1967 when Romney's father, George Romney, was
running for president.
This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says
about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when
running in Chicago against a conservative black
candidate.
Just ask any Republican
candidate about the separation of church and state... or try to
run for a political office as an atheist.
Obama is a skilled
candidate, and a determined liberal, but Obama could not have
run as a post-partisan pragmatist if the media (or anyone) had successfully publicized his record of opposing extending legal protections to newborns that survived botched abortions and had lied
about his votes.
Ramesh Ponnuru wrote
about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the
candidate she wanted to
run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»
If a Jewish
candidate was
running and the opposition press started printing stories
about strange and extreme practices in Judaism, people would see exactly what was going on.
Think
about the fact that your
candidates have spent millions of dollars for the right to
run against President Barack Obama.
So what is it
about a
candidate who says something akin to a «man in the sky inspired me to
run for president»?
The whole thing might've already cost the university more than $ 14 million, and the Vols are burning through so many potential
candidates, the internet's
running out of jokes
about it.
I wish
candidates ran without any party affiliation noted, it might make folks actually learn something
about the
candidates other than the D or R after their names.
During the ’06 election cycle, I was baffled
about why more
candidates weren't
running ads on local political sites, since they're usually quite cheap, often on the order of $ 25 or $ 50 per week, and they're reaching a very tightly targeted audience.
For more
about future Republican
candidates» organizing online, see also this piece that
ran in Politico over the weekend: 2012 prelude: GOP hopefuls go online.
The president noted that just as it is the case in the United States, the health of the
candidates is something that the electorates will talk
about, but then that will not form part of his campaign «I noticed in the US elections too there were issues
about candidates» health so it's something that people will talk
about but I don't take advantage of a person's health... I believe that I have enough to talk
about without
running on somebody's health».
Many of those who did vote were not enthusiastic
about any of the
candidates running.
The 2010 GOP Gubernatorial
Candidate said if Trump is serious
about running it's time to prove it.
Koch told me he has had second thoughts
about letting Espada be a «hero», even though he met the criteria by signing the ethics, budget and redistricting reform pledges sent to all
candidates — both insurgents and incumbents —
running this fall.
As for who the
candidate would be — with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries on the fence
about running — the most obvious choice would be Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..
Intermediaries for Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, the presumptive GOP gubernatorial
candidate, recently reached out to former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, a Democrat,
about running for attorney general on a fusion ticket.
«With Donald Trump as president, it's no surprise Nicole Malliotakis has emerged as the Republican
candidate to take on Mayor de Blasio — after all, it was only four years ago she talked to Trump
about running for Governor of New York,» the email states.
The Daily News reported presumptive Republican gubernatorial
candidate Marc Molinaro has even reached out to former U.S. Attorney Preet Bahara
about running on a fusion ticket.
Clinton soon will launch a PAC as a way of «acting as a quiet catalyst» for organizations she cares
about, and eventually will help 2018 congressional
candidates — but with no intention of making it a vehicle to
run for anything herself.»
Both Kolb and DeFrancisco have said they intend to
run as their own
candidates when asked
about expected attacks from Democrats linking them to Trump.
A bid for attorney general is a much riskier bet, especially considering state election law is fuzzy
about whether a congressional
candidate can
run for the post this late in the midterm election cycle.
In a session among Democratic senate
candidates held by the Chicago Tribune to determine who the paper would endorse in the Democratic race to
run against Kirk, Duckworth was asked
about ensuring refugees would not pose a security risk.
Libby Post, of Capital Women, Amanda Farias, of New American Leaders, and Brette McSweeney, of Eleanor's Legacy, joined Poozer Politics to talk
about the obstacles that have prevented women from
running in the past, the recruitment of
candidates and preparing female
candidates for campaigns.
Since Sanders's surge is mostly
about Democrats liking a really liberal
candidate, you could argue that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren should
run for president.
«If the Democrats
run a Brooklyn
candidate in the congressional special, it signals that they aren't serious
about the race.
Spitzer didn't go public
about his
run until the evening of July 7; the next morning, the Board of Elections opened the window for accepting completed petitions from
candidates.
Many names have been bandied
about as a possible
running mate for Republican Gubernatorial
candidate Marc Molinaro.
In between stops, the actor and underdog
candidate talked
about how Hillary Clinton's loss in the 2016 presidential race helped inspire her to
run for governor and why she thinks Andrew Cuomo is not doing enough to help the state.
Other possible strong
candidates for attorney general include former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (who reportedly may
run as an independent), Queens state Sen. Mike Gianaris, and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who reportedly believes he could
run in the Democratic primary, despite legal questions
about whether he could also be on the ballot for Congress.
They're trying to
run this national message in part
about fiscal discipline, but they've recruited a number of
candidates not credible to carry that message.»