Sentences with phrase «contentious campaign»

Let's see, Doc: Lew Lehrman, Pierre Rinfret, Perry Duryea (a Long Island darling and previous fixture in the Legislature) and then there was a hitherto obscure Peekskill Assemblyman and protege of D'Amato's named George Elmer Pataki who rid the State of Cuomo fatigue...... like you, I find it laughable that this gang is counting its chickens already in the middle of a rather contentious campaign for the White House right in the here and now.

In a very contentious campaign, Brooks gave the now 84 - year - old Slaughter her toughest challenge since voters first sent her to Washington in 1986.

The expensive and contentious campaigning over Prop 61, which has drawn enthusiastic support from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, got personal on Sunday.

The candidates in an often contentious campaign for the Democratic primary in New York's 44th State Senate District met in a debate last evening at Russell Sage College in Troy.

In 2001, the longtime Republican ran as a Democrat against District Attorney James Catterson Jr., who had lost the favor of police unions, and defeated him after a particularly contentious campaign.

With its narrative focus on outward threats and their actual contentious campaigning tactics, Suffragette sacrifices a potentially thought - provoking look at the lives and emotions of the suffragettes themselves.

Wagner, an attorney from Croton on the Hudson in Westchester, narrowly missed defeating Ball in 2012 after a very contentious campaign.

That year, Republican challenger Bob Cohen, who ran a contentious campaign against Latimer, then a state Assemblyman, spent more than $ 4 million alone, with the Senate race totaling nearly $ 5 million, a record in state politics at the time, by its close in November.

He is currently locked in a contentious campaign battle with incumbent Dan Donovan in the Republican primary scheduled for June.

Teachout, who authored a book on corruption and ran against Governor Andrew Cuomo in the 2014 Democratic primary, attributes the contentious campaign to Citizens United, which she wants overturned and which allows for unlimited corporate spending in political campaigns.

The contentious campaign included strident criticism of Strough for failing to inform the public and other board members of a state audit citing inadequate financial oversight on town contracts.

A day after City Council member Margaret Chin emerged victorious from a tough re-election battle, downtown political observers are mulling over the lessons learned from the contentious campaign.

«Rather than distract from those issues with a contentious campaign for comptroller, I am resolved now to work with Scott... to address them.»

Between the contentious campaigning, the relentless scrutiny of candidates, the circus of media coverage, and the debates over hacking and emails, the process of voting for a new leader to represent our nation left many of us reeling.

Charter school advocates like Wallace and Melvoin may be trying to lower the heat after the contentious campaign, but other education experts also predicted there won't be a major rush to approve new charter schools in the district.

Energy has turned into a contentious campaign issue in 2012, pitting «drill, baby, drill» against «clean energy now.»