Sentences with phrase «ballot lines»

A win in the primary Tuesday will give Russo two ballot lines.
Jones said he especially wanted to debate Hochul and Moss about the two fake ballot lines they created for the fall election.
The Conservative designation would give Antonacci two third - party ballot lines.
In lieu of committed party members with ample free time, many Senate Republican candidates rely on their government staffs to assemble the petitions that allow them on the Independence and Conservative ballot lines.
In the 2016 general election, Kennedy ran unopposed, on the Democratic, Working Families, Independence, and Women's Equality ballot lines and received 89,650 votes.
There has been talk that Cuomo would revive the old Liberal Party — ironic, considering his role in its demise back in 2002 — in order to shore up his ballot lines this fall should the WFP not grant him the spot.
But now the party has gone with the assemblywoman, giving her two ballot lines in the May 24 special election.
Our opposition to New York's minor parties — six of which currently have permanent ballot lines — is well - known.
The papers Sliwa tried serving on de Blasio stem from an apparent violation in city election rules governing how political parties can give their ballot lines to candidates who are not enrolled in the party.
Hayworth also has the Conservative Party endorsement, giving her the potential for three ballot lines.
Five minor ballot lines.
He filed signatures for four ballot lines: the Republican, Conservative, Independence and the Reform party.
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.
The WFP could prove crucial to Maffei in his battle against Republican John Katko, since Katko has three ballot lines — GOP, Independence and Conservative — to Maffei's two — Democrat and, thanks to this decision, WFP.
Last month, Michael Grimm's campaign aides tried to take away one of Rep. Dan Donovan's ballot lines.
Education / Career: Gargiulo, who also is running on the Republican and Independence ballot lines, is a retired Eastern Suffolk BOCES teacher.
Andrew Cuomo and his running mate, Kathy Hochul, appeared on four ballot lines.
The team of Rob Astorino and Chris Moss had three ballot lines.
The PC, which has no teeth in the way of jobs or ballot lines in the way that the county chairs do, must promote itself as moving inexorably forward: get on board or be on the losing side of history.
Cuomo and Rob Astorino (R) spent time this summer seeking petitions for additional ballot lines in the November 4 general election.
Because he is a Democrat, both parties would need to authorize him to run on their ballot lines.
Because of the performance of our Presidential candidates in 2016, state Green Parties have maintained ballot access in 21 states, more post election ballot lines than we have had in over a decade!
Lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Kathy Hochul (D) and supporters of Gov. Cuomo gathered signatures for a Women's Equality Party line, thereby increasing the Democratic ticket's haul of ballot lines to four.
Another trouble spot for Cuomo will be repealing the Wilson Pakula law of 1947, a measure that allows party bosses to allow non-party members to run on their ballot lines.
It is also plans to reorganize and improve state affiliates until it has ballot lines in all fifty states and the District of Columbia — plus active parties in all American territories.
Incumbent Antonio Leo received the least votes with 545 on the Republican and Conservative ballot lines.
Tedisco also will be on the Conservative, Independence and Reform Party ballot lines.
In states that do not currently have ballot lines, we will need to petition and run candidates in 2018.
Balter, a Syracuse Democrat, submitted more than 8,000 signatures this week to appear on the Democratic, Women's Equality and Working Families ballot lines.
Both Cuomo and Astorino received more than 50,000 votes on the ballot lines, giving them automatic status in the current election cycle.
The remaining ballots are scattered through Conservative Party voters (36 sent out, 19 returned) and Independence Party voters (74 sent out, 37 returned) as well as other minor - party ballot lines.
But Catsimatidis has two other ballot lines — one he created; the other is the dormant Liberal Party.
Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Utica Democrat, will appear on four ballot lines this November in his run for Congress against Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney.
«In preparation for the upcoming September primaries for the Republican and Conservative Party ballot lines, our Congressional campaign team is shifting some personnel,» Cox stated.
Cuomo does not support an end to the fusion ballot system of allowing a candidate to run on multiple ballot lines, but the Wilson - Pakula repeal would greatly reduce the clout of the state's minor parties that can influence the platforms and policies of the Democratic and Republican parties.
He also promised «an awful lot of people are going to get hurt in the process» if legislative leaders go along with the governor's idea of scrapping third party officials» power to hand - pick who runs on their ballot lines — a pledge that no doubt sent shivers up the spines of not a few Senate Republicans.
The party was formed after the 2014 election by Republican nominee Rob Astorino out of the Stop Common Core ballot line.
Often, a third party ballot line provides the margin of victory for candidates in close elections.
Paladino, an enrolled Republican, would have to seek the approval from the Conservative Party in order to gain the ballot line.
Why would he run for and potentially lose this minor ballot line?
«This November, we'll need a bigger than ever vote on our ballot line than ever — voting on the WFP line for Governor Cuomo means voting for that progressive vision,» Lipton continued.
But they didn't love the idea of losing control over who gets to run on their ballot line, which they — through gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins — worked so hard to secure in the 2010 campaign.
The state Conservative Party has given its nod to Elise Stefanik, one of two Republicans contenders (as of today) vying for the North Country House seat of retiring Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, ensuring her a ballot line in the November general election regardless of the outcome of the June GOP primary.
Several labor leaders whose unions have departed the WFP are considering the formation of their own ballot line.
Unlike two his fellow same - sex marriage «yes» voters, who struggled — and in one case, failed — to keep the GOP ballot line on primary day, Sen. Mark Grisanti easily defeated his challenger, attorney Kevin Stocker, on Sept. 13 and retained Row B.
Petitioning for ballot line parties begins June 8.
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 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.
He won't appear on our ballot line, but that just means we'll be working twice as hard to make sure that that every voter knows that Amodeo is the candidate who will stand up for hard working families in Albany, from raising the minimum wage to ending the influence of big money on politics.»
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