Sentences with phrase «about running a primary»

Some «chatter» has started about running a primary challenger to President Obama's left in 2012, but few think it will materialize into an actually candidacy.

Asked about running a primary against Cuomo, he said, «I am not contemplating a primary for governor against Andrew.

Not exact matches

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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.»

Thus there is little hope for our recovering a feeling of truly belonging to the cosmos as long as we hold onto the assumptions about physical reality (such as the primacy of primary qualities and cognate assumptions) underlying scientism and materialism.5 For we will continue to have a gnawing suspicion that the real world is so different from our projections that we are still without a home in the universe as it runs on colorlessly and meaninglessly beneath our secondary and tertiary «subjective» projections.

If a world class player on the inside feels that way then it suggests to me that Arsene isn't the primary cause of the headaches we experience at AFC, and maybe, just maybe, he knows more than we do about how to run a football club.

They don't oversee much of the club's day - to - day running, but remained patient with Van Gaal through the tumultuous months that ended 2015 on a sour note and their primary concern is that of Champions League football — for the financial benefits — with the duo not overly fussed about the brand of football employed at Old Trafford as long as it equates to results.

«I know what I'm doing in the future; I am running for re-election, there is no question about that in anybody's mind,» said the speaker, whose last significant challenges came in 2008 when he easily defeated two primary opponents — his first in some 20 years.

I've long felt that Rudy's apparent strength in the polls will evaporate once average Republican primary voters look past the tough - guy pose (remember the Onion article about his running for President of 9/11?)

The only holiday we're talking about is the day of the actual election, but counting primaries and run - offs there could be more days throughout the year that require voter participation.

In the State Senate we already know about Bill Perkins (D - Manhattan) who is running in a February 14 primary.

On the GOP side, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are running neck - and - neck with New York Republicans, 31 - 29, about two months from the April 24 primary.

The first started running about a week after the Sept. 14 primary, following by a trio of spots released last week.

Reyes, who is running against Eric Ulrich in a Republican Primary, noticed something very peculiar about Ulrich's visit to National Night Out Against Crime, he had a criminal in tow.

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.

He acknowledged he was also approached about running for sheriff in 2013, but opted instead for a Democratic Primary challenge to Mayor Byron W. Brown, in which Brown easily prevailed.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who battled Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary and created a revolutionary movement among millennials, is having discussions about running for president again.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, a one - time ally and now political foe of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said she's been approached about the possibility of running a Democratic primary against him in 2018 — and hasn't ruled it out.

Hotel executive Suraj Patel, who is running against Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the Democratic primary, posted «creepy» statements on social media joking about his attraction to Olympic gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney — when she was just 16 - years - old.

While Mr. Herr, the party chairman, would not go into detail about the primary challenge, Mr. Reisfield, who has been running Mr. Havemeyer's campaign, said the challenges were based on witnesses» signatures missing town and / or county information.

«I think regardless of what the Assembly and Senate do there's a good likelihood that she may decide to run in the primary,» said Jacobs, who said he spoke with Rice about her interest.

By Samar Khurshid On Tuesday, April 19, thousands of New Yorkers cried foul about how the city was running the state's most consequential presidential primary elections in decades.

He was an upstart, running in the Republican primary against two sitting congressmen, but he was making a serious go of it and people were talking about him.

The next day, they ran a story about Ms. Rivera's main primary challenger, Mark Gjonaj, calling for an investigation.

During a candidate forum Wednesday, Dietl talked about a judge who blocked him from running in the Democratic mayoral primary this year because of a paperwork error.

Former President Bill Clinton, campaigning for his wife ahead of the June 7 California primary, urged Democrats to «relax» about her general election prospects, even though polls show her running even with, or even slightly behind, Donald Trump.

Speculation arose last week that Democrat Paul Vallone, who came in third in the Sept. 15 primary with 22 percent of the vote, would run on the Republican line, replacing Auburndale attorney Dan Halloran after a story surfaced earlier this month about Halloran's leadership in a pre-Christian pagan religion.

Trump defended «New York values,» blasted Republican leaders for running a «rigged, dirty» primary system, called rival Ted Cruz «a really bad guy» and said everything about Democrat Hillary Clinton's life is a «big, fat, beautiful lie.»

Attendees at Weprin's birthday party included Public Advocate Letitia James, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (who spoke about Weprin's expertise on financial matters), Rep. Joe Crowley, chairman of the Queens County Democratic Organization, and Queens borough president Melinda Katz, who served with Weprin in the Council before running in a crowded primary against him for City Comptroller in 2009.

When Democrat John Edwards ran for president in 2004, he gained traction in the primaries by talking about «two Americas» — one wealthy and powerful, the other poor and weak.

Bill Samuels, a passionate oppponent of Cuomo, says he's seriously thinking about challenging the governor's hand - picked running mate, former Rep. Kathy Hochul, in a Democratic primary.

Barrett, who lost the Democratic primary in 2002 and then lost to Walker in the 2010 general election and the 2012 recall election, was talking to advisers about another run, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, citing unnamed sources.

Also, Stern has launched the first TV campaign ad in the congressional primary, in which he talks about his late mother, Idalee, who ran a T - shirt shop, as an inspiration.

But the same survey shows more than half of Republican voters in the South Florida House district remain undecided with about one month to go before the special primary to replace Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, who resigned his seat effective Sept. 26 to run in Senate District 40.

Thats similar to what they said about John Kerry when he was running 4th in the Iowa Caucuses and 4th in the New Hampshire primaries... he came out front after a concerted effort to portray Howard Dean as way too liberal by people in his own party.

Democrats said they made no promises to Mr. Specter about committee positions or other incentives to switch, but the party can provide significant campaign support and deter other Democratic candidates from running against him in the primary next year.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

They have estimated this approach could yield them about $ 6 million before the first primaries, certainly enough to run television ads in key states.

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

Despite those pronouncements about running for Governor Thomas seemed to leave an out or two, saying if Pence did not run for re-election or the primary field looked to crowded he would not for Governor.

When Espaillat ran against Rangel in the Democratic primary this past June, he spoke openly, but selectively, about the possibility of becoming the first Dominican member of Congress in the United States.

While Gulliani is out, thank God, Pataki is talking about a run in the primary against Lazio, who lost to Hillary.

September 2005 Newsletter Newsletter includes information about the candidates endorsed by the 504 Democratic Club running for election in the September 13th Democratic Primary

Another five Democrats, including primary candidates Joe Nicoletti and Marty Masterpole, spent about $ 308,000 throughout the year in runs for mayor.

«It's all about race,» Wimes said, noting the difference in EMILY's List's involvement in this race compared to its neutrality in the 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary when longtime abortion - rights liberal, former state Sen. Nan Rich, ran against former Gov. Charlie Crist, who had been a self - styled «pro-life» Republican before leaving the GOP.

Mayday backed Teachout and Wu in the run - up to the Democratic primary, and was responsible for about $ 50,000 in small donations.

In recent weeks, both Democrats started running negative ads about their opponent — a telling sign the primary is more competitive than previously anticipated.

He's neither made any plans nor had serious conversations about running, though he's heard the speculation that he could run either in the Democratic primary or as an independent in the general election.

The bill, if enacted, would allow anyone to run in any party's primary, regardless of whether the candidate is a member of that party or not, and regardless of what party officers think about the candidate.

This 100 % in line with anything so far known about Trump, and definitely not an earth shattering revelation about his character or tactics (remember the kerfuffle about GOP nomination acceptance vs. 3d party run if he loses the primaries?).