Sentences with phrase «ballot line formed»

The party wasn't the only issue - based ballot line formed last year.

Overall, the ballot line formed last year by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election campaign has $ 3,131 in cash on hand, down from the $ 6,656 it reported this summer.

The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen candidates for state Senate failed to qualify for the Women's Equality Party, the new ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.

Cuomo is urging voters to back him and his running mate, former Rep. Kathy Hochul, on the ballot line formed to promote the 10 - point Women's Equality Act, which has stalled in Albany over a provision designed to codify Roe v. Wade.

The Reform Party, a ballot line formed last year by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, filed its first campaign finance report since it was rechristened this election season, showing a single, massive donation from a limited liability company.

Not exact matches

The party was formed after the 2014 election by Republican nominee Rob Astorino out of the Stop Common Core ballot line.

Sliwa, a radio personality and founder of the Guardian Angels, is weighing a bid for governor on the ballot line that had first been formed in 2014 as an effort to oppose the Common Core education standards.

The women's coalition was formed last year as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the Women's Equality Agenda, which has stalled in the Legislature and is now becoming a key campaign issue with the formation of a new ballot line with the focus of passing the package of bills.

The party was initially formed as a «Stop Common Core» ballot line — an issue - based ballot line that was added to the ballot last year as Cuomo's re-election campaign installed the Women's Equality Party ballot line.

The ballot line was formed in 2014 as Cuomo sought to highlight a 10 - point package of measures impacting women in the workplace, housing and criminal justice system.

The party has been helping a town supervisor candidate in Clarkstown, a Republican running on the Reform Party ballot line, in the form of a TV ad.

As a result, Hochul said, she and Cuomo are forming the new ballot line to «mobilize women and supporters all across the state.»

Labor unions allied with Cuomo, meanwhile, are considering forming their own ballot line this fall that would rival the Working Families Party, which endorsed Nixon and Jumaane Williams, a candidate for lieutenant governor, on Saturday.

The potential endorsement of Cynthia Nixon in the race for governor by the Working Families Party is leading some labor leaders to consider forming their own ballot line this fall, sources with direct knowledge of the talks on Thursday said.

The eyebrow - raising push came this afternoon in the form of an email from the Working Families Party, which spurned Teachout in May in favor of giving Cuomo the labor - backed party's ballot line this fall.

But the speculation has been Cuomo formed the Women's Equality Party in part to challenge the supremacy of the WFP as the left - leaning third party ballot line in the state, or at the very least to make party leaders nervous heading in to Election Day.

Nevertheless, Cuomo is pushing for the Women's Equality Party in the final days of the campaign, with emails, mailers and a TV ad campaign promoting the newly formed ballot line.

The move is a renaming of the Stop Common Core ballot line, which Astorino and Republicans last year formed to highlight their opposition to the controversial education standards.

At a rally in New York City Thursday, Ms. Hochul, a former Democratic Congresswoman from Western New York, said she and the governor are forming the new ballot line to «mobilize women and supporters all across the state» following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on contraceptives and the failure of the New York State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New York.

Common Core in New York remains a controversial issue, with state Republicans forming the «Anti-Common Core» ballot line.

It's a move that comes after the Conservative Party's executive committee formally voted to oppose the formation of the new ballot line, which was formed out of the Stop Common Core ballot line created last year.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino formed the new ballot line this year, stocked with his supporters, along with allies of his running mate, Chris Moss and former comptroller candidate Bob Antonacci.

Wagner is among the Democratic Senate candidates and incumbents running in battleground districts who have failed to file the proper petition signatures to gain the newly formed ballot line created to promote the women's agenda, which has stalled in Albany.

A majority of the candidates who ran on the newly formed ballot line last year have not signed off on a set of rules for the party and a judge's ruling this month threw the party's status into legal limbo.

The anti-Common Core ballot line was formed by Republicans earlier this year to highlight their opposition to the new education standards, whose roll out in New York has been altered after complaints from parents and teachers.

The ballot line was formed during last year's gubernatorial elections by Cuomo's re-election campaign as a way to boost women's issues.

Liberals had accused the governor of forming the ballot line as a way of undermining the union - backed Working Families Party.

More broadly, the push for the women's agenda has trickled up to the governor's race, where Democrats have formed a ballot line to focus on women's issues.

Cuomo formed the ballot line last year as a way of gaining support from women voters and drawing attention to a 10 - point package of measures aimed at pay equity, human trafficking and strengthening abortion rights.

Labor leaders formally affiliated with the WFP have also mulled forming their own ballot line that would likely endorse their ally, the governor.

He'll either have to fight an uphill battle for a Republican nomination, seek a third party nod, or form his own ballot line to get on next November's ticket.

Meanwhile, he formed a new ballot line, the Women's Equality Party — and appeared in an ad touting it along with his girlfriend and his daughters.

The package of measures, known as the Women's Equality Agenda, was put to the forefront this election season when state Democrats formed the Women's Equality Party, a new ballot line meant to promote the omnibus legislation.

The governor is also pushing for votes for himself on the newly formed Women's Equality Party, with an eye toward making the party a permanent ballot line.

Ben Walsh, a registered Independent, was the first person to declare intent to run, but he will need to receive the support of a party with a line on the ballot or form his own through petition.

The mayor needed 308 signatures of registered voters who hadn't signed another mayoral candidate's petition to form the party and get the line on the Nov. 3 ballot.

Bill Bass will end his pursuit of the Democratic nomination in the 24th Congressional District race and form his own ballot line to challenge U.S. Rep. John Katko in the general election.

Instead of vying for the Democratic nomination, Bass plans to run an independent campaign and will form his own ballot line.

Ms. Quinn, despite openly acknowledging that Mr. Cuomo created the WEP, touted the new ballot line as «the first time in history women have come together to form their own party.»