Sentences with phrase «ballot line called»

Astorino has made opposition to the Common Core part of his campaign, even starting a new ballot line called the Stop Common Core party.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Republicans who plan to run for statewide office on a ballot line called «Stop Common Core» are spreading «mythology» that the academic standards represent a power - grab by the federal government.

Astorino says he wants to create a ballot line called Stop Common Core.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino said Tuesday that he'll also run on a ballot line called «Stop Common Core,» as he seeks to use unrest over the controversial academic standards in his bid to upset Democrat Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

Not exact matches

The call for repeal comes after Sen. Malcolm Smith allegedly sought to bribe his way onto the GOP ballot line for New York City mayor through the Wilson - Pakula waiver.

Not surprisingly, state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long is not at all pleased with the talk in Albany these days of going away with so - called fusion voting by repealing or amending the Wilson - Pakula statute that requires candidates who aren't enrolled in a particular party to get permission from that party's leaders to run on their ballot line.

Her campaign initially told The Politicker that the filed the necessary item — called a Wilson Pakula — to run on the ballot under a party line that a candidate is not registered under, but a very confident source familiar with the matter said that a Wilson Pakula was only filed under the Conservative line.

They are accused of trying to fix this year's mayoral ballot, allegedly exchanging thousands of dollars in cash, so - called payoffs for Republican party officials to agree to put Smith, a Democrat, on the GOP line.

A flurry of phone calls was placed over the weekend in hopes of pushing former Rep. Joe DioGuardi off the Conservative line to make way for the winner of the primary between the two Republicans placed on the ballot at the convention last week in the race against Democratic US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Teachout called the endorsement a «surprising rebuke» of the sitting governor, whose campaign hopes to appeal to women with a new «Women's Equality Party» line on the November ballot.

But other lines seem to be preparing for a loss such as «We gave them a real run for their money» while others imply the race will be «too close to call» and asking about how many absentee ballots there are.

There has been a lot of criticism recently of Governor Cuomo's calls for the elimination of the Wilson Pakula Act — the law that gives party bosses the power to let candidates from other parties run on their ballot lines.

Astorino is running on a ballot line created by Republicans called «Stop Common Core» and has pledged to withdraw the state from the controversial standards.

Now, the WFP is calling on supporters to — ironically — back the governor on their ballot line as a way to rebuke him.

His campaign is hammering Corwin by name and the ballot line he paid for is called «The Tea Party».

Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti is now assured of a line on the November general election ballot after the Erie County Board of Elections dismissed nominations of an entity calling itself the Erie County Independence Party.

The package of measures is a cornerstone of Cuomo's re-election effort and he's gone as far as creating a new ballot line to promote the issue and calling on state lawmakers to sign a pledge backing the package, which has stalled in the Legislature.

The call for the hearings, of course, comes in the wake of the arrest of erstwhile IDC member Sen. Malcolm Smith, D - Queens, in an alleged scheme to bribe his way onto the New York City mayoral ballot on the GOP line.

Grisanti retains the Independence Party ballot line, and Cuomo, along with running mate Kathy Hochul, are not ruling out endorsing him (Cuomo calls the decision a personally difficult one).

Nicoletti previously said he would stay in the race on the Working Families ballot line if he lost the Democratic Primary, but in a show of what he called «party unity,» Nicoletti bowed out.

Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl, running on a self - created ballot line, called on Republican / Conservative mayoral nominee Nicole Malliotakis to withdraw from the race.

By calling the elections now, the party leaders can control who gets on the major lines of the ballot.

Moss, the first African - American Republican to run statewide on the GOP ballot line, called the comment «eyebrow - raising in the extreme.»

The Republican challenger has created a new ballot line, called the Stop Common Core Party, to attract New Yorkers who are opposed to the controversial implementation of the new federal learning standards.

(New York's mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, has appropriated the Republican ballot line for his campaigns, but calls himself an independent and endorsed President Barack Obama for reelection last year.)

With 6,500 signatures, the group's petition called for three bills that would not only introduce a two - week voting period «to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations,» but modify ballots to make them more comprehensible and streamline the voter registration process.

During a press conference on Tuesday, when Astorino announced his campaign for the «Stop Common Core» ballot line, he also pointed to what has been called New York's «lost standards» as a possible replacement for the Common Core.

We reject the fusion policies of the other so - called third parties with ballot lines in New York State.

Lipton calls this putting «the interests of working families first» — but it's plainly putting his party's interests first: The WFP's overriding priority is winning at least 50,000 votes for its gov candidate this November, to ensure it keeps its ballot line for the next four years.

Ballard testified that over one quarter of his Highway Department staff were involved in gathering absentee ballots for the ultra-left Democratic Working Families party, assisted by Republican Legislator, Frank Sparaco, and assisted by John Perrotta, the putative «Chairman» of what has been called the «legal racket» and «corrupt» Independence Party, to have Republican Ballard run on the Democratic Working Families line.