Sentences with phrase «created ballot lines»

It's also expensive to create a ballot line, because 15,000 signatures are required at minimum, and usually people get at least double that to avoid being knocked off.
(The petitions are for an additional, self - created ballot line, «Fix Transit Now.»)
Dietl now plans to run on a self - created ballot line, «NYC Cares» while also seeking the Reform Party and Conservative Party lines.
In that email, Cuomo said he wanted the newly created ballot line to achieve the 50,000 - vote threshold next week in order to remain on the ballot next year.
Dietl will be on his own self - created ballot line, «Dump the Mayor,» for November's election.
O'Brien, a Rochester - area Democrat, meanwhile, is creating a ballot line centered around upstate taxpayers in order to highlight his support for the state's cap on property tax increases.
A New York state senator has submitted petitions to create a ballot line, adding to the two on which he will already appear.
Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl, running on a self - created ballot line, called on Republican / Conservative mayoral nominee Nicole Malliotakis to withdraw from the race.
It's worth noting Cuomo's numbers among women: His campaign is making a concerted effort to draw out those voters on his newly created ballot line, the Women's Equality Party, which is meant to highlight the 10 - point women's agenda.
He continues his effort at running on a self - created ballot line in the November general election, however.
But had Howie Hawkins run for governor as an independent in 2010 with a Green Party of New York endorsement, he would not be on the 2014 ballot now as a Green — because an endorsement legally does not create a ballot line for the party.
Astorino says he wants to create a ballot line called Stop Common Core.
«There's nothing very tricky about this: Thousands of New Yorkers busted their backsides to create a ballot line in 2014, and a few individuals are now trying to steal it — it's a tale as old as prostitution,» Astorino spokesman William O'Reilly said.
By creating ballot lines in these states, the Reform Party will expand its influence and begin registering new members.

Not exact matches

Lazio on the Conservative ballot creates the awful choice for Conservatives of voting for Paladino to defeat Cuomo versus voting the Conservative line to give the party its needed 50,000 votes thereby helping Cuomo by taking away a vote from Paladino, the only candidate who can beat Cuomo.
But Catsimatidis has two other ballot lines — one he created; the other is the dormant Liberal Party.
WFP leaders had accused Cuomo of creating the Women's Equality Party ballot line last year as a way to potentially undermine the left - leaning, union - backed party.
If all else fails, Paladino is planning to petition his way onto the ballot as an independent candidate, although he will not be naming his self - created line the «Tea Party,» because that would be seen as «an anathema» to activsits, Caputo said.
The Reform Party was created by Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's allies during the 2014 election year as a ballot line aimed at capturing voters who disapproved of the Common Core educations standards.
Cuomo, and running mate Kathy Hochul have created a «Women's Equality Party» ballot line for November, and they're now pushing for all candidates for state office to sign a pledge in support of their «women's equality agenda.»
The Reform Party was created in 2014 by Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino as the «Stop Common Core» ballot line.
Astorino joined with three other Republican candidates for statewide office to create a Stop Common Core ballot line for the general election.
Democrat Andrew Cuomo's reelection campaign has so far focused on the self - created «Women's Equality Party» ballot line and it's «Women's Equality Agenda.»
His reelection campaign has mostly been conducted through the Women's Equality Party ballot line he's created for November, with his focus on codifying, and thereby protecting, the right to an abortion.
Rob Astorino's push to launch the Reform Party — a re-naming of a ballot line created last year set up to oppose the Common Core education standards — is part of a larger struggle for the 2014 Republican gubernatorial nominee to gain some leverage over the state's Republican apparatus.
Ben Walsh secured a second line on the Syracuse mayoral ballot, submitting 2,439 petition signatures to the Onondaga County Board of Elections to create an Upstate Jobs Party slot.
Astorino is running on a ballot line created by Republicans called «Stop Common Core» and has pledged to withdraw the state from the controversial standards.
Gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino and his fellow members of the GOP statewide slate will be announcing the results of their very successful petition drive to create the independent «Stop Common Core» ballot line for the November general election.
They should be forced to start from scratch and get 50,000 signatures to create a new ballot line.
The new primary rules create an open congressional primary (voters can cross party lines and vote for whomever they choose) however, only the top two vote getters advance to the November ballot.
Union leaders closely allied with Gov. Cuomo are considering creating their own ballot line to back him as the left - leaning Working Families Party is moving toward nominating Nixon for governor, sources told The Post.
Jones said he especially wanted to debate Hochul and Moss about the two fake ballot lines they created for the fall election.
The Republicans have selected Laura Lavine as their nominee and Ben Walsh will seek to create his own party line on the ballot.
Astorino, the current Westchester County executive, would have to gather at least 15,000 petition signatures over the next five weeks to create a Stop Common Core line on the statewide ballot.
Diane Richardson, a former candidate for Democratic district leader, is a front - runner to receive the Working Families Party nod and is also looking to create her own ballot line.
Cuomo also created a third - party ballot line, the Women's Equality Party — one letter different from the WFP — which ended up siphoning enough votes from the WFP to push the party down below the Green Party to Row E on the ballot line.
Democrats said Thursday they will create a new ballot line to support Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and other candidates, dubbed the «Women's Equality Party.»
Also, a petition was filed at the Suffolk County Board of Elections to create an opportunity to ballot for the Women's Equality party line in the 1st Congressional District on the East End, where Democrat Anna Throne - Holst has gotten the minor party's nod.
Cuomo allies would have to gather at least 15,000 petition signatures by mid-August to create a «Women's Equality Party» line on the statewide ballot.
As a person who is not registered in any party, and who has not received any of the «minor» party nominations, Dietl's only prospect for running is on a self - created independent ballot line.
Cuomo has energetically pushed the «Women's Equality Party», a ballot line he created this year.
Liberals accused Cuomo of creating a separate ballot line, the Women's Equality Party, in part to weaken the WFP.
Sens. Ted O'Brien and Cecilia Tkaczyk unsuccessfully sought the Women's Equality Party ballot line, which was created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Democrats in effort to highlight the 10 - point women's agenda, which has stalled in Albany.
It's a move that comes after the Conservative Party's executive committee formally voted to oppose the formation of the new ballot line, which was formed out of the Stop Common Core ballot line created last year.
Democratic Senate candidate Adam Haber has qualified for the ballot line created to promote the Women's Equality Agenda, his campaign on Wednesday announced.
The package of measures is a cornerstone of Cuomo's re-election effort and he's gone as far as creating a new ballot line to promote the issue and calling on state lawmakers to sign a pledge backing the package, which has stalled in the Legislature.
The ads come as Democrats are creating the Women's Equality Party, a new ballot line that is aimed at highlighting support for the women's agenda package, which was first proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013 and includes anti-housing and workplace discrimination measures and a provision aimed at curtailing human trafficking.
Wagner is among the Democratic Senate candidates and incumbents running in battleground districts who have failed to file the proper petition signatures to gain the newly formed ballot line created to promote the women's agenda, which has stalled in Albany.
The ballot line was created this year by state Democrats and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election campaign as a way of promoting the stalled 10 - point women's agenda and drive up turn out among women voters.
Americans Elect is a «nonpartisan presidential draft» organization that has obtained ballot lines and created a way for ANY VOTER to vote for their desired candidate.
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