Sentences with phrase «as democrats after»

Maragos, the county comptroller — who is running as a Democrat after leaving the Republican Party last fall — reported raising $ 3,406 since mid-January.

Instead, he said he learned of Levy's exit as a Democrat after a midnight call from a Newsday reporter.

He is a registered Republican who ran as a Democrat after losing a Republican primary.

Teachout, a Fordham University law professor, recently won an appeal to get on the ballot as a Democrat after Cuomo's supporters had challenged her residency requirement.

Not exact matches

But while history may also be on the Democrats» side — the party in power often loses Congressional seats after a President's first two years in office, even when that President is not as controversial as the current occupant — they actually face a very difficult Senate map.

Of the companies included in the survey, such as Enterprise - Rent - a-Car, Alamo, and MetLife, more Democrats said they had a better opinion of these companies after finding out that they had cut ties with the NRA.

Sony decided to release the film after U.S. President Barack Obama, as well as such Hollywood luminaries as George Clooney and Republicans and Democrats in Washington, raised concerns that Hollywood was setting a precedent of self - censorship.

BOSTON (Reuters)- Combative Maine Governor Paul LePage said on Tuesday he would consider resigning as he faces a wave of criticism from both fellow Republicans and rival Democrats after leaving a lawmaker a profanity - filled voicemail last week.

It's an agenda that Obama started selling in the run - up to his State of the Union address this month, and that House Democrats have sought to echo as they regroup after losing more members in the midterms.

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.

The slip - up came after Democrats in both chambers called for extensive investigations into Flynn's relationship with Russia, as well as the country's meddling in the 2016 election.

I think she is astonishingly good in terms of running the Congress and as a Democratic leader,» Steyer, who is also from California, said after being asked whether Pelosi should remain the House Democrats» leader.

Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).

«Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals briefly swooped into Likely several days after the tailings pond failure assuring the town everything was all right, but then disappeared as the bad news rolled in,» said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

VICTORIA — As Premier Christy Clark hosts Canada's premiers in Vancouver, New Democrats are challenging her to clarify the Liberals» support for the Enbridge pipeline after B.C. signed on to a national energy plan that lays the groundwork for the pipeline to push ahead.

Trump spoke as his White House tried to pick up the pieces after Democrats» apparent victory in a special election in a western Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by 20 points in 2016.

If the sequester happens, the most likely scenario (as I see it) is that public pressure will result in some House Republicans allying with the House Democrats and a large majority in the Senate to restore the cuts after some face saving compromise that doesn't save the Republicans much face.

So, Democrats — including several Catholics, such as Senator Tim Kaine, who are «personally» though not professionally opposed to abortion — voted to filibuster the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the Republican leaders who could have moved a bump stock ban bill to the floor after the Las Vegas massacre did not.

He was appointed in 2009 - a year after the «Kennedy Democrat and Reagan Republican,» as he'd described himself in his letter to Clinton, spearheaded Obama's outreach to Catholic voters in the 2008 presidential campaign.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

After reading and hearing about some of my friends * doing fund - raising and volunteering for the Obama campaign, last weekend while out running errands, the family and I stopped in our local Democrat headquarters and I inquired as to what I could do to help.

House Republicans opposed the bill as a needless expansion of government by the lame - duck Congress weeks after voters punished Democrats at the polls.

In another part they simply thought that the «blue dogs» (Democratic voters that always voted Democrats), would all vote for Hillary (as well as she herself thought that) but after what she pulled of against Sanders many of them just didn't vote at all or voted Trump just to pay Hillary back.

The Liberal Democrats came sixth with just 474 votes, after left - wing party Solidarity, who had former MSP Tommy Sheridan as their candidate.

Democrats on the national level are pushing for Sessions to step aside as attorney general after the DOJ acknowledged he met with Russian's top diplomat to the U.S. last year.

Nick Clegg was accused of trying «every trick in the book» to distance himself from his record today, after he made a keynote speech describing the Liberal Democrats as the only genuine party of the middle ground.

«Picture it: history in the making as a Liberal Democrat leader entered, finally, into the corridors of power, preparing to unshackle Britain after years of Labour and Conservative rule.

Shortly after the 14 - minute mark of an extended interview you can access by clicking the above link, Sen. Diane Savino provides details of the heated exchange that took place between herself and Sen. Kevin Parker back in February 2010 (not 2009, as the blog reports) while the Democrats were discussing whether to expel then - Sen.

After putting off choosing a favorite, the Queens Democrats quietly endorsed Ron Kim, a Flushing resident and former ombudsman for Govs. Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, last week as their favorite to succeed Meng.

As the Nunes Memo was at this stage about one week ago, it is not out of the question that the Democrat's Memo could be released to the public after it has had time for the rest of the House of Representatives to review the information in the new memo and assess it's value to the public.

Skelos's sentencing comes just over a week after his former counterpart, ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in a separate case involving the Manhattan Democrat masking bribes as legal referrals.

In the video, Jacobs touts his tenure as the Erie County clerk and the economic revitalization of the Buffalo area, which came after a heavy state investment and dose of attention from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.

Ulrich was widely seen as having the right of first refusal to run for Weiner's seat, and he backed Turner after deciding against taking a gamble on a Democrat - dominated district that might not be long for this world anyway.

State Senator Marc Panepinto and his supporters are firing back after the Buffalo - area Democrat was mentioned in a GOP defense of their initial decision not to replace Dean Skelos as Majority Leader.

«Their party is stuck with Sandy Frankel when Democrat after Democrat chose not to run, acknowledging that Cheryl Dinolfo is the best choice to serve as our community's next County Executive,» Reilich added.

After running as a democrat against a republican?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo set up the IDC as a means to subvert the results of the Election vote, and keep the GOP in control of the NYS Senate, even after Democrats won a majority in the NYS Senate!

The web is a natural haven for the out - of - power — part of its brilliance is that it can make mighty the small and small the mighty — and just as Democrats and progressives began working online in earnest after they lost Congress and the White House, Republicans will naturally use new media to create channels for organizing and message - distribution now that they've been pushed out of institutional authority.

The Senate is once again a key flashpoint in this year's down - ballot elections as Democrats seek to gain a majority eight years after losing control following a tumultuous, two - year term.

It was the full nature of this new group, announced after the last European elections in 2009, which led to my protest and eventually leaving the Tories (I had been Leader of their MEPs 1997 - 2001) and, as a lifelong pro-European, joining the Liberal Democrats in 2010.

The remarks will be interpreted as a calculated attack on the Liberal Democrats, after Nick Clegg told party activists in Birmingham that the Act «is here to stay».

or else raise the debt ceiling for a lot longer, until after the 2018 elections (denying Democrats the tool for a long time, eliminating the debt ceiling as an issue during the 2018 campaign, and allowing Congress to deal with it the next time fresh off an election and relatively safe from concerns about the following election in 2020).

The Liberal Democrats have sacked former MP David Ward as their general election candidate for Bradford East over accusations of anti-Semitism, after leader Tim Farron had earlier decided not to drop him.

Her comments, made at a news conference in which mainline Democrats unveiled a «resistance» agenda to bolster liberal gains made before the election of Donald Trump as president, come days after yet another lawmaker moved to the IDC: Queens Sen. Jose Peralta.

Even if this latest peace deal between Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and IDC Leader Jeff Klein holds when lawmakers return to Albany after the Easter / Passover break next week, and even if the Democrats win both the April 24 special elections (the Westchester County race is really the deciding factor there, since the Bronx seat seems a safe bet), the Republicans will still have control of the chamber as long as Felder, a conservative Democrat, continues to caucus with them.

U.S. Senate Republicans finally released their secretive bill to repeal Obamacare after weeks of backroom negotiations — and it was immediately slammed as «heartless» by Democrats and too soft by hardline conservatives.

The state Senate Republicans face new pressure to back a bill that would let judges confiscate weapons from dangerous individuals after several Democrats who share power with the GOP signed on as co-sponsors.

The 21st district remains a conservative one, even as Democrats have been successful there in the past with Rep. Bill Owens after his victory in a bruising special election to replace Republican John McHugh.

Much of New York's political class — particularly the Democrats — has decamped, as they typically do after Election Day, for Puerto Rico, where the Somos el Futuro fall conference is taking place.

Her statement was released shortly after Nassau County DA Madeline Singas, appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to act as special prosecutor and investigate Schneiderman, promised to leave «no stone unturned» in her investigation of the ex-AG, a two - term Democrat whose hopes for a third term disappeared as the scandal exploded.