Sentences with phrase «ballot line last»

Turns out Gov. Cuomo's Women's Equality Party — which won a permanent ballot line last November by attracting 50,000 votes for governor — may not be legal.

Cuomo wasn't the only gubernatorial candidate to succeed in creating a new ballot line last year.

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.

A ruling issued on Wednesday by the Appellate Division «found no statutory support» for the competing claims for control of the party that a package of rules be approved by a majority of the candidates who ran on the ballot line last year.

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.

In a gaggle with reporters in New York City Friday evening, Cuomo noted he received more than 50,000 votes on the ballot line last year — a testament, he said, to the desire for a party that promotes women's issues.

Teachout challenged Cuomo for the Working Families Party ballot line last month.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo established his own ballot line last year, the Women's Equality Party, which will also continue through this current election cycle.

WFP leaders had accused Cuomo of creating the Women's Equality Party ballot line last year as a way to potentially undermine the left - leaning, union - backed party.

Not exact matches

Andrew Cuomo, then running for governor in 2010, at the last minute agreed to run on the WFP's ballot line, thus saving them from spiraling into the political black hole that swallowed up the now - defunct Liberal Party.

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 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.

You'll see in some cases last year we had more than 50 squares on the ballot but really only nine candidates and they're all running on the same lines,» Zellner said.

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.

McDonald, one of four GOP senators last year to approve same - sex marriage, is most likely at this point going to lose the Republican line to Saratoga County Clerk Kathy Marchione as the absentee ballot count in the primary race shows him falling irrevocably behind.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his last shots at a minor party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials said.

As the Sunshine State headed to the polls yesterday, down - ballot candidates bought Google online ads on mobile geo - targeted to specific districts, hoping to capture people who are doing last - minute research while waiting in line at the polls.

Last month, Michael Grimm's campaign aides tried to take away one of Rep. Dan Donovan's ballot lines.

Grisanti retains the Independent Party ballot line and is the last sitting Republican in the Senate to have supported same - sex marriage.

Rob Astorino's push to launch the Reform Party — a re-naming of a ballot line created last year set up to oppose the Common Core education standards — is part of a larger struggle for the 2014 Republican gubernatorial nominee to gain some leverage over the state's Republican apparatus.

But Conservative Party leaders, who huddled at their annual meeting in Albany over the last two days, are concerned with both the name of the line and the party's place on the ballot.

The Conservative Party's executive committee voted last month to formally oppose the new ballot line, and its county chairs are being urged to dissuade candidates from the taking the Reform Party line.

The labor - backed WFP in 2014 declined to give Teachout its ballot line in her insurgent campaign for governor against Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo last year.

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.

Facing pressure over a possible challenge from the labor - backed WFP, Cuomo last month pledged to help Democrats retake the Senate and work to help pass a package of liberal - friendly legislation when he received its ballot line.

The new ballot line grew out of the Stop Common Core line that Astorino and statewide GOP candidates ran on last year.

LaVenia's fellow co-chair, Howie Hawkins, whose gubernatorial candidacy last fall brought the Greens official party status and a ballot line for the next four years, concurred, saying:

The last time a minor party candidate achieved ballot access was in 2000, when Pat Buchanan ran on the Reform Party line.

-- Scuttles scuba dreams — Halloran given 10 years: Prosecutors in the Southern District won a lengthy 10 - year sentence for Dan Halloran on Wednesday, after the former Republican city councilman was convicted last year in a scheme to place former Democratic state senator Malcolm Smith on the G.O.P.'s ballot line in the 2013 mayoral race.

Ms. Patterson, Mr. Davis, the brother of former Councilman James Davis, and Diane Richardson, a candidate for district leader last year, are expected to run in the race on alternate ballot lines.

The jostling over the minor party's ballot line is just one twist in the scramble for attorney general, following Mr. Schneiderman's abrupt resignation last Monday after The New Yorker detailed four women's accusations of being physically assaulted by him.

In an embarrassment for the political establishment, Guillermo Philpotts, a perennial candidate for local office, secured the Democratic nomination for a Crown Heights Assembly race this afternoon, beating back a last - ditch effort from ex-Democratic boss Clarence Norman to keep him off the ballot line, sources say.

The spot also reminds voters that Grisanti is on the Independence Party ballot line after losing the Republican primary last month to Kevin Stocker.

After Rockland County Democrats scored a victory late last week by re-affirming ballot status for the county's Women's Equality Party candidates, Onondaga County Republicans on Monday scored a win in court, knocking some 20 candidates from the ballot line.

The Cuomo - Hochul ticket received 50,000 votes on the line last year, giving the party ballot status in the current election cycle.

Grisanti, who voted for the SAFE Act in 2013, lost his Republican primary last month to Kevin Stocker, but retains the Independence Party ballot line next month.

No money was allocated to Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti, who lost his GOP primary last month to Kevin Stocker, but retains the Independence Party 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.

Democrats in Rockland County late last week scored a victory for candidates running on the Women's Equality Party line after the Republican elections commissioner sought to toss them from the ballot.

Meanwhile, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, of Queens, was convicted last week on charges that he sought to bribe his way onto into the 2013 NYC mayor's race on the GOP ballot line.

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.

In Buffalo's 60th Senate district, NYSUT is spending $ 50,000 on radio ads supporting Democrat Marc Panepinto, who hopes to unseat Republican Sen. Mark Grisanti, who lost his GOP primary to Kevin Stocker last month, but retains the Independence Party ballot line.

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.

Grisanti, who retains the Independence Party ballot line, was endorsed by Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos last week.

The new ballot line was unveiled last month by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's running mate, former Rep. Kathy Hochul.

After the chairman's preferred gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Rick Lazio, lost to Carl Paladino in last September's GOP primary, the Conservatives got behind the Buffalo businessman, who went on to win enough votes on their line to boost them to Row C on the ballot.

Yuh - Line Niou, the Working Families Party candidate for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, claimed to have voted for President Barack Obama in Harlem during a NY1 debate last night — but Board of Elections documents indicate she didn't cast a ballot in the election.

Long has led the party for the last 26 years, which has become a must - have ballot line for any Republican running statewide.

He has pledged to withdraw his party's endorsement and ballot line from all four GOP senators who voted «yes» and enabled the bill to pass, 33 - 29, last month.