Sentences with phrase «as a state senator until»
Martins served three terms as a state senator until last year, when instead of seeking re-election, he ran for the House seat vacated by former Democratic Rep. Steve Israel.
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Marty Connor, an ex-Brooklyn state senator who was defeated nine years ago, is now considering running for the seat he once held, pitching himself as a «placeholder» until the 2018 election.
He won the seat again in 1986 for a full term representing the 29th District in the New York State Senate, and served as senator until assuming the office of Lieutenant Governor on January 1, 2007.
Former Councilman Robert Jackson beat out State Senator Adriano Espaillat in fund - raising by $ 22,000 in the first filing period — but spent more than five times as much as the incumbent, leaving the two neck - and - neck in cash on hand with two months until Election Day.
Clinton served as the state's junior senator from 2001 until 2009, when she became President Obama's secretary of state.
On April 17, 2006, Senator West was sworn in by his fellow state senators to serve as President Pro Tempore of the Texas Senate until January 2007.
But as State Senator of the 52nd Senate District, my priority is to help meet those needs in the community I serve, and I'll continue working hard until this project comes to fruition for the people I represent in the Southern Tier.»
But Duckworth is pregnant and currently unable to travel, raising questions as to whether she will want to spend the next two years campaigning — or may just wait until the state's senior senator, Democrat Richard J. Durbin, retires.
De Blasio, who incurred the wrath of Clinton's campaign by flirting with his own possible campaign for president and then waiting until almost the last minute to endorse the former secretary of state and New York senator, has also been targeted for ouster by Gov. Cuomo, who has privately sought to enlist Jeffries as a candidate for mayor next year.
Officials have until Oct. 10 to agree on the terms of the deal, or else «the whole thing disappears as a fascinating community process exercise that never came to agreement,» said State Senator Liz Krueger, who attended the event along with Councilman Daniel Garodnick and Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh.
«Wirth served as a U.S. Senator from Colorado until 1993, when he left the Senate to serve under President Clinton in the State Department.