Sentences with phrase «council seat»

«We're independent, we're free to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done,» said Howie Hawkins, who is running for the 4th District Common Council seat held by Democrat Khalid Bey.

Chris Fowler, left, and incumbent Nader Maroun, right, are seeking the Democratic nomination for the 5th District Syracuse Common Council seat.

Inez Dickens is expected to resign her City Council seat around December 31st before taking office as a Member of the State Assembly.

The leader of the Erie County Democratic Party will be calling on Joseph Mascia to end his candidacy for the Fillmore District Common Council seat.

Today we continue our series of interviews with the candidates running for the District 1 City Council seat currently held by Alan Gerson.

Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., is surrounded by supporters after defeating several challengers for the City Council seat in District 18.

In November, Borelli won an uncontested race for the South Shore City Council seat recently held by Vincent Ignizio, who left that seat vacant to run Catholic Charities of Staten Island.

Assemblyman Joe Borelli was elected to the South Shore City Council seat in Tuesday's uncontested election and will leave behind his seat in the 62nd Assembly District later this month.

It's not immediatley clear what Menin will run for: possibly a Council seat or, with Stringer likely to run for mayor, the borough presidency.

All sources the Observer spoke with agreed Perkins would be the prohibitive favorite for the Council seat thanks to his name recognition.

Samuel Herbert is on the ballot in the Democratic primary for the Fillmore District Council seat held by David Franczyk.

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District 41 District 41 includes Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Bedford - Stuyvesant, East Flatbush, and Crown Heights, and is an «open» City Council seat, with current Council Member Darlene Mealy term - limited out of office.

This is the fourth installment of our series of interviews with the candidates running for the 1st District City Council seat.

NEW YORK — New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today encouraged parents across the city to make a direct impact on their child's education by running for an Education Council seat.

Harlem's political elite turned up at City Hall yesterday to endorse veteran district leader Inez Dickens for the City Council seat being vacated next year by Bill Perkins.

Stringer's announcement had already forced one comptroller contender from the field: Manhattan Councilman Dan Garodnick, who, unlike Recchia, is not term - limited out of his Council seat and is now considered a contender for the speakership (assuming he wins re-election).

Perkins held that Council seat from 1998 until 2005, and ascended to the State Senate in 2006.

The Working Families Party voted last week to endorse Rebecca Lynch, a former de Blasio staffer, for an open City Council seat — setting up another showdown between organized labor and the Queens Democratic establishment.

He's running for a City Council seat in Northern Queens and facing off against Assemblyman Francisco Moya, who is being backed by the powerful Democratic County machine.

At 6:30 p.m., the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Actin Network holds a forum with nine candidates vying in next week's special election for Assemblywoman Inez Dickens» old NYC Council seat, 106 W. 145th St., Manhattan.

TWU member Marvin Holland is one of 12 candidates vying in a Feb. 12 special election for the NYC Council seat vacated by Inez Dickens, who was elected last fall to fill the seat vacated by former Assemblyman Keith Wright.

The contentious battle over whether Mohamed T. Albanna should fill the Lackawanna City Council seat he won in the Nov. 7 election will continue.

Low turnout is expected in the special election scheduled to be held tomorrow to fill the NYC Council seat vacated by now - Assemblywoman Inez Dickens.

Down in NYC, there's a special election to fill the vacant Harlem Council seat vacated by now - Assemblywoman Inez Dickens.

Yet eight months later, according to the February 13, 2017 New York Post article «Low voter turnout expected for special election to fill Harlem city council seat» it stated that «Construction and development executive Brian Benjamin, chairman of Community Board 10 and finance chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party, has expressed interest in running» for State Senate.

Mohamed Albanna, who was barred from taking the Lackawanna City Council seat he won in the November election because of his prior felony conviction, told lawmakers he could be taking his case to the state's highest court.

The BNP's only member on the London assembly has been suspended from his local council seat for a month by the GLA.

I gave up a safe Labour council seat in Mitcham and resolved to win election in the vital Abbey ward.

Carpetbagger Mike Ricatta??? He moved into the district to take his stab at the Council seat and moved right back out.

Democratic State Senator Tony Avella is not ready to back his party's nominee for the City Council seat he once held.

This way, the candidate will receive one vote and the party will receive the number of votes corresponding to the number of National Council seat allotted to your canton.

His political journey from the right to left of his party was in large part attributed by observers to the influence of his wife, who it has now emerged will contest a council seat in Westminster.

Austin Shafran is campaigning full - time for the City Council seat currently held by Dan Halloran.

Health problems sidelined Taylor, and Sasson has decided to focus on philanthropy, leaving Lancman a virtually clear shot at the Council seat in central Queens.

Saffran ran for the northeast Queens City Council seat in 2001 and lost to Tony Avella, who is now a state senator, by less than 400 votes.

Francisco Moya — Assemblyman Francisco Moya, a Queens Democrat, ran unopposed in the general election, winning a New York City Council seat held by Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who declined to run for reelection.

What these newer residents tend not to do is run for a D.C. Council seat three times, and certainly not as Republicans in a town where Democrats enjoy a nearly 12 to 1 advantage on the voter rolls.

In February 2009, when Moya and Ferreras first battled for the 21st Council seat in a special election, Moya was backed by Crowley's County organization.

But Mara, a socially liberal fiscal conservative who has lived in D.C. for the past 16 years, is in the midst of his third GOP bid for a Council seat and is pretty confident that he's going to win this time around.

He attempted to run for the Council seat in 2009 but lost in the primary to -LSB-...]

The three were elected to the party positions in 2013, after Chairman Bob Scamardella left amid party rancor over the 2013 primary race for the Mid-Island City Council seat.

In 2013, Mr. Johnson successfully ran for a City Council seat representing Manhattan neighborhoods including Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Midtown West that had been occupied by Christine C. Quinn, then the speaker of the City Council.

After all, Linares became the first Dominican - born individual to hold elected office in the United States when he won a City Council seat in 1991 with the help of the Harlem machine.

The Conservatives were the only party to win a county council seat in every district.

In 2013, he installed Treyger in the vacant Council seat that formerly belonged to Domenic Recchia, a despised rival.

Councilman Antonio Reynoso won the Democratic nomination to allow him to keep his city council seat.

Mendez, Del Rio Battle For District 2 Council Seat; Anti-Gay Marriage Group Enters Fray The Lo - Down: News from the Lower East Side

Ex-con City Council candidate Hiram Monserrate failed to retake the Queens Council seat he once held before doing prison time for fraud, losing out to Assemblyman Francisco Moya...

On a budget of about $ 15,000, the Green candidate managed to secure a city council seat, narrowly beating out COPE councillor Ellen Woodsworth by 91 votes.