Sentences with phrase «as democrats hope»

The endorsement comes as Democrats hope Brooks's race in the 8th Senate district is newly competitive after Venditto's father, Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, along with Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, were charged in an alleged bribery plot.

As Democrats hope for a blue wave this November, Pelosi told the Boston Globe she plans on again leading House Democrats.

Alcantara will join the Senate as Democrats hope to take control of the chamber and all of state government.

The campaign releases themselves (a typical headline: «Amedore Voted For 96 Tax Increases In Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voters.

The governor's full - throated endorsement of Gaughran in a battleground Senate district held by longtime incumbent Republican Carl Marcellino comes as Democrats hope for unexpected wins on Long Island next month, helping them to retake control of the Senate.

But the message hasn't stuck as well as Democrats hoped.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump on Wednesday gathered with senators on the chamber's tax - writing committee — including Democrats — as the GOP crafts a plan it hopes to pass this year.

Germany's fellow euro zone members are unlikely to welcome the spending blueprint either, as they had hoped the Social Democrats, part of Germany's governing coalition, would steer the EU's economic powerhouse away from austerity.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.

Trump has long sought to cancel the DACA program, but hoped to use it as leverage with Democrats in exchange for additional funding for his wall.

The footage serves as a plausible facsimile of the war as defined by the Pentagon; it tells viewers nothing about the origins and nature of an enemy that Republicans and Democrats alike have been ignoring for the last ten years, out of deference to the demands of Big Oil and in the hope that a world of six billion people might wake up one morning, consider the odds, and start bowing to Bill Gates, Michael Jordan, and the Goddess of Democracy.

If you are happy with one of the parties that presently exist, you can be a bore and say why — though I would hope people could be a bit more imaginative, because let's face it, the Democrats are a 1930s paradigm that fits in about as well as a zoot suit, and the Republicans are so splintered they seem to be an illusion of a viewpoint rather than the reality of it.

But more likely the Democrats will hope that the scheme as is will eventually prove to be popular as it is implemented.

Democrats this year, as they do virtually every election cycle, hope to make in - roads in suburban districts like the Nassau County seat.

NYSUT tried unsuccessfully to make a similar argument in hopes of assisting Democrats who were facing challenges from pro-charter primary opponents (as it turned out, the incumbents weren't in need of help).

As in 2004, both parties have taken radically different approaches to online - offline organizing, with the Republicans seemingly trying to channel supporters narrowly into certain activities, like walking their precinct and talking to registered Republicans, while the Democrats appear to be encouraging a much - more freewheeling array of user - generated activity on their site, presumably in the hopes of drawing more supporters in and then turning them toward party - building work by Election Day.

As Senate Democrats hope to flip control of the state Senate with victories in the downstate suburbs and in the Hudson Valley, Democrats on Long Island this evening say turnout has especially heavy — a sign they believe is especially beneficial for candidates like Jim Gaughran and John Brooks.

While Kennedy and Democrats weren't as successful downstate as they may have hoped, they did get some news in New York's 8th Senate district, this week.

Compounding problems for Democrats hoping to win the seat, a majority of voters — 54 percent — are locked into their decision as to who they will vote for in the special election, while 33 percent said they were «fairly certain» they won't change their mind.

LG Kathy Hochul says she fully anticipates running again as Cuomo's running mate in 2018, despite some Democrats hoping she would challenge an incumbent Buffalo - area Republican for her old congressional seat.

Democrats had hoped last year Hillary Clinton's coattails were as long as Barack Obama's in 2008 and 2012.

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.

Schneiderman hoped to succeed Paterson when he left the Senate to serve as lieutenant governor under Eliot Spitzer, but he lacked support among his fellow members, and by the time Democrats actually won the majority in the Senate in 2008, he was more or less on his way out.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

I said that social democrats - maybe the Labour party in Britain especially - had gradually reduced their use of various tools for increasing equality - trade unionism, income redistribution, changes in ownership structures - and as a result looked increasingly to education to carry their egalitarian hopes.

«I hope that the State Senate will listen to the voices of Republicans and Democrats, listen to my two predessesors, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Guiliani who agree as I do that we need mayoral control of education, listen to over 100 prominent business leaders who yesterday signed onto a letter calling for renewal of mayoral control,» he said.

It is my hope and prayer that the following pages on the resource linked below will help you get to know the Liberal Democrats a bit better and see how the values of the Liberal Democrat Party resonate with Christianity, as well as find out about our vision and policies for the future.

Hoping to avoid what is known as a «big ugly,» where everything gets linked together and passes on the final day of the session, Democrats in the Assembly passed two of the three last week.

It sets out the Social Liberal Forum's proposals for the economy, which we hope to see adopted by the Liberal Democrats as a distinct policy from both...

Races to fill two vacant legislative seats began to solidify on Tuesday as candidates filed nomination papers with state election officials, setting the battle lines in contests that Democrats hope will bolster their momentum heading into November's mid-term elections.

Illinois Democrat Brad Schneider, a former congressman who served one term representing the state's 10th District, is claiming a big lead over his primary rival as he hopes for a rematch with Republican Rep. Robert J. Dold.

Mangano also has offered to brief the two candidates hoping to succeed him as county executive — Republican Jack Martins, a former state senator, and Democrat Laura Curran, a county legislator from Baldwin — on his budget proposal.

The two - year extender on rent would expire in 2017, when Democrats hope to be in control of not just the Assembly but the Senate as well.

Cuomo, a Democrat, blessed that version of the legislation, which Democrats in the state Senate — as well as abuse victims and their advocates — have been hoping would come up in the chamber.

But as he heads into his 2018 reelection year, he has been under increasing pressure from the progressive wing of the Democratic party that accused him of preferring the split to working to reunify the fractured Democrats in hopes of securing a majority.

Democrats are hoping to expand their 32 - 30 seat majority in the Senate, and have identified Savage as one of their top prospects.

Though Democrats far outnumber Republicans in both the city and state, the hope is to train at least 200 potential activists from the black, Hispanic and other non-traditional GOP communities over a six - week period that can be used throughout New York for upcoming congressional and state Senate races as well as be dispatched nationally, Weingartner said.

The governor hopes the deal would represent a compromise, appealing to Senate Republicans who have advocated for the tax credit as well as Assembly Democrats who have pushed the Dream Act.

Clearly, Republicans are hoping to keep the focus on the spectacle surrounding Mr. Weiner, just as Democrats were beginning to gain some traction politically by focusing their attacks on Republican efforts to overhaul Medicare.

She said she wasn't there representing the governor, but rather as a Suffolk Democrat hoping to bring attention to the issue.

The largely amicable town board race will feature former town building inspector Paul Andreassen, running on the Democratic, Conservative and Independence party lines; longtime Saugerties police officer Donald Tucker, running on the Republican and Conservative lines; Vincent Altieri, who serves as the Captain of the Sheriff's Police Services Department and holds Republican, Independence and Reform party lines; and Democrat John Schoonmaker, who majored in Biology at Siena College and currently works as a Gnotobiologist at Taconic Biosciences, is running on the Democratic line and hopes to bring the town's youth into the fold of local government.

ALBANY — Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul says she fully anticipates running again as Gov. Cuomo's running mate in 2018 — despite some Democrats hoping she would challenge an incumbent Buffalo - area Republican for her old congressional seat.

For the Liberal Democrats the picture was mixed, while Nick Clegg and others hoped to the party would be seen as a credible party of government, benefitting from the experience of office others have since warned that they faced electoral extinction.

Cuomo, hoping to preserve his spot as the state's alpha Democrat, responded by muddying his message.

ALBANY — In an election season so often described as «unprecedented,» Democrats in the New York State Senate better hope the description is accurate.

«And I am the only hope as an independent Democrat not beholden to anyone.»

Whichever Democratic candidate makes it through to the November election would be running in the hopes of being elected as the only Democrat on the five - member town board.

The Long Island Senate seat is one of a handful of races Democrats hope to wage a competitive contest in as they seek to flip control of the chamber in next months» general election.

Have hope that the Democrats will keep their promise as espoused in the 2008 platform:

«As a new Democrat, I hope to better use my immigration experience and business acumen to help shape and brighten a brighter future for this great city,» he declared.