Sentences with phrase «congressional seat last»

After a secret from his past surfaced, Jeff Gottlieb dropped out of the race for a Queens congressional seat last Thursday, and the man who replaced him bowed out a day later.

Congressman Adriano Espaillat, who beat Wright for the Congressional seat last year, is said to be considering his own bid for Manhattan County Chairman.

Not exact matches

-LRB-...) The party in power has lost House seats in 9 of the last 10 congressional elections held at the midpoint of a president's first term.

After a failing congressional bid last year cost him his state Senate seat, Republican Jack Martins launched his campaign for Nassau County executive, promising to «rewrite the county's history» and restore its ingenuity and financial prosperity.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

Pennsylvania's congressional delegation already had a 12 - 7 Republican advantage over Democrats heading into the last round of redistricting, when the state lost a congressional seat because of lagging population growth.

The last straw for the activist was a Sanders campaign ad released Friday that opens with a biographical look at Lucy Flores, a surrogate who recently endorsed Sanders and is locked in a primary battle with Ruben Kihuen for Nevada's 4th congressional district seat.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee placed field organizers in Issa's district nearly a near ago, and opened an Orange County office last year aimed at flipping the Issa and Royce seats to Democrats.

Martins gave up his seat in the state Senate last year to run for an open congressional district being vacated by Democratic Rep. Steve Israel.

Kaiman, who announced last Sunday he would leave his state posts as chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority and special adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on storm recovery to run for the congressional seat held by retiring Rep. Steve Israel (D - Huntington), said he was not familiar with the scope of Terry's financial problems.

Last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced nine more of their candidates had joined a similar program, Red to Blue, for the party's top candidates in open and GOP - held seats.

«I am surprised and deeply humbled by the efforts last night to advance me as a candidate for the 13th Congressional District, a seat I was honored to hold for almost twelve years.»

Former Rep. Vito Fossella has issued one of those infamous «not yes, not no» statements in response to his endorsement last night by the Staten Island GOP to run for his old congressional seat in NY - 13.

Freeman is the city's former equal opportunity officer, who — notably — accused his former boss of harassment after he declared his candidacy for the 21st Congressional District seat last year, opposing Tracey Brooks, who was backed by Mayor Jerry Jennings.

(CNN)- Ron Barber, an aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will run for the Arizona Congressional seat left empty when Giffords resigned from Congress last month.

(CNN)-- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said Monday that a special election will be held to fill the congressional seat vacated by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who stepped down last week amid an ethics probe and ongoing health problems.

A year and a disastrous election later, it appears from public statements by Democratic candidates for Faso's congressional seat that not much was learned from last year's results.

Former Rep. Michael McMahon: A shot at redemption could appeal to the only Democrat to hold the Island congressional seat in the last three decades.

Jack Trammell unanimously won the Democratic nomination for Virginia's 7th Congressional District seat at the party convention last weekend.

The race for the Maryland congressional seat currently held by Van Hollen got a last - minute candidate.

The atmosphere in Hasbrouck Park last Friday morning was festive, even electric as a crowd of approximately 1,300 people congregated to hear Socialist Vermont senator and former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders deliver a ringing endorsement of Zephyr Teachout's bid to reclaim New York's 19th Congressional District seat for the Democrats, after it was held for three terms by retiring Republican Chris Gibson.

But none chose to compete for the congressional seat either this year or last.

Both Republicans eyed the congressional seat vacated by Anthony Weiner last year.

But others confirmed meetings with Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, Onondaga County Comptroller Robert Antonacci and former Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, who lost the 24th Congressional District seat last year.

After a final day of intense campaigning, Republican incumbent Richard Hanna won his second term as a New York state congressman last night, beating Democrat challenger Dan Lamb for the seat in the newly redrawn 22nd congressional district.

Deacon, 40, of Syracuse, won a three - way Democratic primary for Congress last year but lost to U.S. Rep. John Katko, R - Camillus, in the November election for the 24th Congressional District seat.

UPPER MANHATTAN — On their last full day of campaigning, the leading candidates for the 13th Congressional District seat tried to convince voters in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx that experience was the factor they should use to decide who they want to be their representative.

«And he's in a strong position despite being both an incumbent — incumbents have lost the last three elections — and a Republican, when Democrats have won the congressional seat in the last two presidential elections.

GOP insiders are touting Turner, who won Anthony Weiner's old congressional seat on Democratic turf last year, as the man with the credibility and integrity to fuse the party's warring factions.

Beals is a member of the Woodstock Democratic Committee, and has been working on the grassroots level since last November's election, when he joined with Swing Left, a new national activist movement, to throw a gathering in Woodstock in March, with the aim of winning back the 19th district congressional seat in the 2018 elections.

Wealthy hotel chain owner Jim Graves, who came within 4,300 votes of unseating U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann last year and planned to challenge her again in 2014, unexpectedly announced on Friday that he was ending his bid for Minnesota's 6th congressional district seat.

With the primary for Congress set for June and the Senate primary set for September, Mr. Espaillat can do what he's done the last two cycles if he loses the congressional race: quickly turn around and run for his old seat.

Nassau Republicans last night formally endorsed Bruce Blakeman as their candidate to succeed retiring Rep. Carolyn McCarthy in the 4th Congressional District — a seat the party has not held in 18 years.

Faso was elected last year to the 19th congressional district, which has been a closely watched House seat for New York and the site of several battleground races since the 2012 round of redistricting.

The super PAC's spending in the battleground 19th congressional district stands at $ 2 million as a Time Warner Cable News / Siena College poll last week showed the race was a dead heat for the seat being vacated by Republican Rep. Chris Gibson.

Republican state Sen. Joe Robach in an interview Thursday said he is weighing a run for the congressional seat that was held by Rep. Louise Slaughter, who died last week.

The 1st Congressional District was the last undecided House seat in the nation.

As part of our ongoing «Congressional Battleground» series here at CapTon, I sat down earlier today with Rep. Scott Murphy, the incumbent Democrat in NY - 20 who is trying to hold onto the seat he won in a special election following the elevation of Kirsten Gillibrand to the US Senate by Gov. David Paterson last January.

Neither, at least in the Hudson Valley, can it buy a Congressional seat, as was demonstrated last year.

(CNN)- Republican Doug Hoffman, who split the conservative vote in last year's special election for New York's 23rd congressional district handing the seat to a Democrat, has dropped out of this November's general election for the same seat.

Last year, Faso resurrected his political career by capturing the upstate 19th Congressional District seat — representing all or portions of 10 counties from the Catskills north and east toward Albany — being vacated by Chris Gibson.

State Assemblywoman Grace Meng (D - Flushing) hopes to bring jobs back to America from abroad if she is elected to the new Queens congressional seat in September, she told TimesLedger Newspapers in a sit - down interview last week.

He was elected to the 1st District congressional seat in 2004 and has spent much of the last several years preparing for a rematch.

The candidate also received an accelerant last week from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who moved his campaign into their Red to Blue Program, which means his attempt at the seat has been selected as one determined to be critical in flipping the House back to Democratic control this fall.

Turner, the representative of the 9th Congressional District, was a relatively unknown businessman before winning a special election for the seat last year after U.S. Anthony Weiner resigned in the midst of a sexting scandal.

The four Democratic candidates competing for the newly created Queens congressional seat faced off last week during a debate at the Our Lady of Hope School Auditorium in Middle Village.

I had such a moment last week when my name was mentioned for consideration for the vacant 26th Congressional District seat.

George Demos, 37, of Ronkonkoma, who has run Republican primaries in the last two congressional races, losing both times to Randy Altschuler, has once again vowed to run a Republican primary for the seat.

Weprin (D) and Ulrich (R) will not run because the last thing they'll want to do is vacate a seat for a congressional seat that could very well be gerrymandered into oblivion.

Former Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, who battled Maffei in two elections for the Syracuse - area congressional seat, was paid $ 155,500 last year as a commissioner on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.