Sentences with phrase «by running a primary»

Three years ago, she defied the party by running a primary against the chosen candidate for county executive, Dale Sweetland, and she scraped by with a victory.

Not exact matches

MF Global was admitted to an exclusive club in February, when the brokerage firm run by former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine was handed primary dealer status.

In a tweet on Monday, NBC said the tweet was shared by a third - party agency running the account for the awards show and not from someone at the network or the network's primary news arms, NBC News and MSNBC.

Always have, always will.There seems to be an assumption, mostly by people who have never run a business, that corporate America can and should do more than achieve its primary mandate of maximizing its return.

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That means the progressive denizens of This Town can't get distracted by the shiny object that is our ideological champion (who, it should be mentioned, hasn't visited Iowa once this campaign cycle, has repeatedly stated she will not run for President in 2016, and signed a letter encouraging Clinton to run) primarying the presumptive nominee.

Excepting being so out of touch with the average American which is terminal for a presidential candidate, Romney could have been a formidable candidate if the RNC had let him run on his record as a moderate Governor of Massachusetts instead of being pushed to the far right by the primary process.

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

This shifting of primary subjectivity from ourselves to the earth and the cosmos may run against the grain of our habit of turning nature into a mere object to be manipulated by our subjective control, but it would be both scientifically responsible and environmentally beneficial.

He's joined by 6 - 1, 208 - pound fellow All - MCAL First Team selection Leo Le Merle and 6 - 2, 215 - pound Second Team selection Cole Truex who will also become the primary running back.

The «star» linebacker Darien Harris, a space - backer backed up in coverage by free safety Montae Nicholson, and the strong safety opposite him (Demetrious Cox), are the primary run supporters.

Ward's team was in the middle of an astounding 16 - year Big 8 title run, and his primary positions, shortstop and third base, were filled by studs: Robin Ventura and Monty Fariss.

The Kaduna born forward who was discovered by former Nigeria League veteran midfielder Chuba Shedrack told Owngoalnigeria.com, that his primary aim is to ens ure that Kwara United maintain a consistent run of good form to improve their position on the log standings.

The winning messages from children are displayed on www.fatherhoodinstitute.org by Fathers Direct, the national information centre on fatherhood, which, along with the Department for Education and Skills, ran the competition in May 2004 in Britain's primary schools.

-- Nily Rozic, chief of staff to Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who is running for the seat being vacated by Assemblyman Rory Lancman, who lost to Meng in the June 26 NY - 6 primary and is declining to take advantage of a political calendar loophole that would enable him to seek re-election.

Unlike with Castro, whom the feds allowed to stand for election three times, knowing all the while he was 1) a crook, and 2) splitting his time between representing his constituents and trying to catch fellow crooked colleagues in the act; Huntley only ran for re-election once, and was defeated in a primary by former NYC Councilman - turned - Sen.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

He was briefly almost challenged by Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci, but he has since decided to run for AG, which sets him up for a primary battle with Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is announcing his candidacy this Sunday.

Schumer, as reported yesterday by City & State, is lending his support to Queens Democratic Sen. Toby Stavisky, who was drawn by the Democrats into a primary with her colleague, Sen. Tony Avella, and so has opted to run in the new Asian - majority district instead.

His role in the so - called Troopergate scandal (he acted as the former governor's in - house attorney during the investigation, conducted by none other than then - AG Andrew Cuomo, against whom Maloney ran in the 2006 Democratic AG primary), cost him the New York Times endorsement.

He defeated the SRCC's preferred candidate, Somers Town Supervisor Mary Beth Murphy, in the Sept. 14 primary, and is running against Democratic Westchester County Legislator Mike Kaplowitz for the seat being vacated by Sen. Vincent Leibell.

Ognibene, Paladino's hand - picked LG running mate (before he was defeated by Rick Lazio's running mate, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards in the GOP primary), participated in the «Wise Guys» segment and expressed confidence in Paladino.

The issue is being raised in part by Liuba Grechen Shirley, who is running in the Democratic primary for the state's second congressional district on Long Island.

UPDATE: Another reaction to Spitzer's news — and reiteration of support for Stringer — was sent out by Sen. Daniel Squadron, a Brooklyn Democrat who is running in a primary for the public advocate post that de Blasio is vacating.

I'm not entirely certain where this ad and the last one, which portrayed supporters of Espada's primary opponent, Gustavo Rivera, as puppet masters, are running, since they're not being formally released by his campaign — to the extent that he has one.

A run by Fossella, which the former congressman refused to rule either out or in on Saturday, would complicate things considerably for both Grimm and his GOP primary opponent, Michael Allegretti.

Long's small business focus is interesting, considering the fact that Ulrich is one of just two GOP Senate candidates (the other being Bob Cohen, who is running for retiring Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's seat, is also facing a primary challenge and, like Ulrich, is repped by Bill O'Reilly) to proclaim support for raising the state's hourly minimum wage.

The Democrats are predicting a big victory, assisted by a significant GOTV effort that, ironically, is being run with the assistance of the Working Families Party, putting it temporarily on the same side as Cuomo, whom it snubbed to endorse his Democratic primary opponent, actress Cynthia Nixon.

But a number of those chairs have already said they won't support him in a primary if he's not selected as a running mate by the party's gubernatorial nominee — whoever that might be.

Insiders say County does not like Ferreras, and they want to either weaken her by running a formidable primary opponent, or knock her out of the Council altogether.

The first started running about a week after the Sept. 14 primary, following by a trio of spots released last week.

Former Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, running for his old seat in Michigan's 11th District, is suing one of his fellow GOP primary challengers for $ 10 million for allegedly defaming his military record by questioning its authenticity.

She is running in a Democratic primary in the Long Island district currently represented by Republican Rep. Peter King.

John Gromada of the Rockland Citizens Action Network says, «We've been burned by Senator Carlucci before when he promised to return to the Democratic Caucus in 2014 if we didn't run a primary.

At the same meeting the club endorsed by unanimous voice vote Council member Mary Cheh (D - Ward 3), who's running unopposed in the primary.

But first, he has to win a Democratic primary to run for the 21st Congressional District seat held by Republican Elise Stefanik.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

He generated bad press for the administration by offering a job to Colorado Democratic Senate primary candidate Andrew Romanoff when the administration was trying to get him not to run against incumbent Michael Bennet in 2010.

Oliver Rosenberg's campaign says that days after he filed papers to run in the June 28 primary, he was contacted by a Nadler ally who offered to raise thousands of dollars in campaign funds if Rosenberg instead ran for a City Council seat.

says, «We've been burned by Senator Carlucci before when he promised to return to the Democratic Caucus in 2014 if we didn't run a primary.

Sanders» top consultants have also signed on to two Senate contenders who are running in primaries against candidates endorsed by national Democrats.

In theory anyone could attempt to run by collecting enough signatures to get on the primary ballot but the reality of election politics today is that only those people who are connected to the party already and have the ability to raise money for themselves and the party have a real chance of success of being nominated to a high profile position.

Western New York political operative Michael Caputo ran Carl Paladino's campaign for governor back in 2010 when the mad - as - hell man from Buffalo upended the state GOP by winning a primary for the nomination to take on then - Democratic state AG Andrew Cuomo.

Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield has tapped his ally Kalman Yeger to run for his City Council seat, in a deal criticized by good government groups who say it deprives Democrats of the chance to choose a candidate in an open primary.

Six Democrats are battling for the party's nomination to run for the lower Manhattan Assembly seat once held by Silver, making it one of the most closely watched and unpredictable contests in Tuesday's slate of state legislative primaries.

Kinderhook, NY... October 13, 2016 — Zephyr Teachout, the liberal New York City professor who moved Upstate this year to run for Congress, muted her support for fellow Vermonter and socialist Bernie Sanders ahead of New York's presidential primary in a quid pro quo orchestrated by the Clinton campaign team, leaked emails show.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who's running in the GOP primary against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has recently given his campaign a big boost in the form of a million dollars, he announced at a Sunday event hosted by the Brooklyn Tea Party.

❯ Analysis: In 2010, Griebel ran as a Republican but was defeated in a primary by the party - backed candidate, Tom Foley.

But political hopeful Philip Pidot is pressing for a new primary in federal court after a state court judge ruled he was eligible to run as a Republican ballot but there was not enough time to get Pidot's name on the primary ballot by last Tuesday.