Sentences with phrase «congressional seat representing»

The 31 - year - old war veteran was one of seven candidates hoping to win the party's backing for the Congressional seat representing Staten Island and a slice of Southern Brooklyn.

Former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, one of five Democrats in Tuesday's primary for a congressional seat representing much of Long Island's North Shore, is seeking a comeback after three failed campaigns.

Not exact matches

It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

«A Brooklyn native who represented Staten Island for six years, his strong legislative record and unparalleled constituent services operation make him the a strong contender for the congressional seat and he plans to speak with the County Chairman and the County Committee in short order.

The program highlighted challengers who represented the GOP's best chances to pick up congressional seats in the general election.

They will represent districts Democrats carried with big margins in presidential election years — seats the newly minted Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján will probably want back.

McMahon, who represents the North Shore on the City Council, and Straniere are running for the 13th District Congressional seat left open by Rep. Vito Fossella, a Republican who opted not to seek re-election after it was discovered he fathered a child outside of his marriage.

Doug Enyart, owner of Clearwater Forest Consultants and a former U.S. Marine, was recently elected from a pool of candidates to represent the Constitution Party for the 8th Congressional District seat vacated by JoAnn Emerson.

Mr. Rangel, 85 and the dean of the city's congressional delegation, is set to step down in 2016 after representing Harlem since 1971, and the vacant seat has attracted the attention of State Senator Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Keith Wright, and Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of Mr. Rangel's legendary predecessor in Congress Adam Clayton Powell Jr., as well as several lesser - known candidates.

He also reached out those who did not support him, saying: «A lot of people who may have been on the sidelines, or even worked against us, to every single one, I say join us... help us keep a Republican congressional seat... that has been represented by Guy Molinari, Susan Molinari, Vito Fossella and, come November, Bob Straniere!»

He is running against Grimm, a two - term Republican congressman representing the 11th Congressional District, a seat that covers the entire borough of Staten Island and takes in parts of Brooklyn, including Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst.

Unions representing law enforcement officers in central New York are throwing their support behind former federal prosecutor John Katko in his race against Democratic incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei for the 24th Congressional District seat.

Mr. Perkins, who was a councilman before becoming a state senator, pointed out that both districts he had represented heavily overlapped with the congressional seat.

The Senate district was formerly represented by Republican Lee Zeldino, who was elected to a congressional seat in 2014.

Perhaps the hottest congressional race this year is the seat held by Rep. Dan Donovan (R - Staten Island), the only Republican representing New York City in Congress.

New York State Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney will represent Republicans in the race for Richard Hanna's 22nd Congressional seat in November.

-- especially for Linares — to see that many of those very same Dominican leaders who today are calling for a Congressional seat to represent the Dominican community were the first ones to abandon Guillermo and went to campaign for Eric Schneiderman — a non-Dominican.

Currently, the Bronx has one congressional seat wholly within its borders, represented by Jose Serrano.

Rep. Chris Gibson's seat in the 19th congressional district, which covers the Hudson Valley and Catskills, will be represented by another moderate Republican in Faso.

After the 2002 election, Democrats had a 17 — 15 edge in House seats representing Texas, although the state's voters voted for Republicans in congressional races by a 55 — 45 margin.

Greg Pence, one of Mike Pence's older brothers, has filed a tax document indicating he will seek the eastern Indiana congressional seat that the vice president and former governor represented for 12 years.

She was even reported to have her eye on a congressional seat: Democrat Nita Lowey's, who represents New York's 17th District in Westchester County.

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.

If there's any name that's as well known as Charlie Rangel's in the congressional district he's represented for forty years, it's that of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the guy who occupied the seat for the 20 years before Rangel.

Registered Democrats in seven New York City congressional districts will be voting Tuesday to select a candidate to represent their party in the Nov. 8 general election for seats — one per district — in the U.S. House of Representatives.

National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Pete Sessions (R - Texas) argued that the closeness of the race in a Democratic - held seat — it previously was represented by newly appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - N.Y.)-- is an encouraging sign for the GOP.

Republican John Katko, left, and U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, D - Syracuse, are campaigning for the 24th Congressional District seat representing most of Central New York.

The contributions represent a strong start for Brindisi, a state Assembly member from Utica, as he campaigns for a congressional seat targeted by both national political parties as one of their top priorities in 2018.

So read the brief, vague, but welcome resolution on «environmental stewardship» introduced today by Representative Chris Gibson, a Republican representing New York's 19th Congressional District who has long had to woo Democrats to keep his seat, and has said human - driven climate change is real and needs to be addressed.