Sentences with phrase «did get on the ballot»

«But the fact is, I did get on the ballot against significant odds and opposition within the party,» the comptroller concluded.

«All I know is the governor is in trouble, if I do get on the ballot.

Not exact matches

Buffett on Monday vowed to do «whatever it takes» to get out the vote in his congressional district in Nebraska, including driving voters himself to the polls to cast ballots.

It's hard not to in the current climate; many candidates wouldn't get on the ballot if they didn't claim adherence to the superstition.

I don't know what church you've been going to, but my minister goes to great pains before an election to not mention ANY candidate or particular ballot issue, but instead call on the congregation to read their scriptures (suggesting some references) and pray, pray, pray for God's guidance, as they get ready to cast their vote.

While I could care less if Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, or Lee Smith eventually gets in, I'm sad Craig Biggio, Tim Raines, Alan Trammell, and especially Kenny Lofton (who fell off the ballot) aren't getting the recognition they deserve for what they did on the field, and royally pissed at how Jeff Bagwell and Mike Piazza's accomplishments are diminished when they're lumped in with PEDs users despite the fact that there's no evidence implicating either of them.

I don't want to get too irate about a ballot that has Raines and Trammell on it, mind you, but it's the first name that gets me.

But they didn't love the idea of losing control over who gets to run on their ballot line, which they — through gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins — worked so hard to secure in the 2010 campaign.

Paladino also did not receive sufficient support at the convention to get onto the ballot, but petitioned his way on instead.

The issue of potential rules changes to help Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy get on the ballot at the state GOP convention next month reportedly did not come up at last week's Ft. Orange Club meeting, but the topic of the order in which candidates will be nominated was broached.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been running for about a year now and has sufficient county support to get onto the ballot on Friday (assuming all the committee pledges he has received hold), did not attend, either.

Paladino is hoping to get onto the GOP ballot, which he can do without a Wilson Pakula, and also would like to run on the Conservative line, although that seems far - fetched since the party's executive committee has already endorsed Rick Lazio.

In 2005, when Freddy Ferrer mounted a long - shot challenge against billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the WFP dithered so long on whether to support Ferrer that when it finally did, it was too late to actually get him onto the ballot.

But most places don't require signatures for the mundane process of filing to run for any office the way New York does — or, rather, they offer the choice between paying a filing fee and collecting signatures to get on the ballot.

The best way to do that was to have the party endorse Cuomo, who would be sure to get the WFP the 50,000 votes needed to stay on the ballot for another four years.

In other words, if Candidate X gets on the ballot, but gets sick or says I don't want this to happen, their committee will pick someone to replace Candidate X and they won't have to recollect the signatures.

Former Rep. Joe DioGuardi did not hit the 25 percent ballot threshold, getting just 17.82 percent, and so it appears — for the moment — he will have to petition his way on if he chooses to continue his quest to compete in the GOP contest to take on Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in November.

Also of the many people on the ballot paper how many of them get elected and does my choice get spread or just land with one?

McGuire said the NYCF PAC did not get involved in the Grisanti race during the primary, but will now engage on behalf of «pro-family candidate» Chuck Swanick, the former Erie County legislator who lost his primary bid for the Democratic line to attorney Mike Amodeo, but remains on the November ballot on the Conservative Party line.

Although the Working Families Party has endorsed acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, the paperwork was not filled out to get his name listed on their ballot, and Gonzalez's campaign team failed to appeal after missing the deadline to do so.

«[Paladino] didn't get on the ballot during the convention, but he went and clawed his way back on through the petitioning process,» Cox told NY1's Erin Billups.

The PC, which has no teeth in the way of jobs or ballot lines in the way that the county chairs do, must promote itself as moving inexorably forward: get on board or be on the losing side of history.

But one difference between then and now is that in 2000, the Labour establishment saw Livingstone coming very early on and did everything they could to stop him getting on the ballot.

But Steve Levy did get over the 25 percent threshold, so assuming he gets more than 50 percent in an upcoming Wilson Pakula act vote, he will be on the ballot.

Sen. Carl Kruger's would - be primary challenger didn't collect enough signatures to get on the ballot, but says he'll be back.

But if Labour does lose heavily in June, the actual number of nominations the Corbynites would need to get a candidate on the ballot would drop - from 15 % of Labour's current 229 MPs and 20 MEPs to 15 % of fewer MPs and MEPs.

John The nam e was tax cut now and it did get 50,000 votes became a party and in 1998 it did not run anybody State - Wide lost it spot on the ballot.

But he said, «I will do whatever it takes to get on the ballot... I intend to win.»

And as for the results — while the numbers on turnout of voters are generally tallied three times during the day, the figures on who voters cast their ballots for don't get looked at until the polls close.

The Committee - endorsed candidates do not automatically get on the ballot.

However, the Sixth Circuit did grant the state's request for a stay of the U.S. District Court order that said there must be a random procedure to give each party an equal chance to get the top line on the ballot.

Candidates who don't get the party designation will have to find 1,000 signatures from party members to appear on the ballot.

Asked why the Brown did not accept the need for a secret ballot to take on his critics once and for all, Balls said the prime minister has «got more important things to do than be diverted by a very small minority of people who have been making difficulty time and time again over the last few days».

Come general election time, the Green Party's Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones got more votes than Cuomo did on the Working Families Party line, pushing the WFP down a spot on the ballot.

I had planed on voting for Howie Hawkins to give a line to the Green party (although admittadly so they would be a thorn in the Dem side to balance out the Conservative thorn on the Republican side) but just to show how this kind of crap can backfire, I'll be doing all I can to help the Lerertarians get a permanent line on the ballot.

NYS does not have an INITIATIVE process whereby people petition to get laws on the ballot.

Despite the letdown, Santana says, «I'm at peace that our campaign did the best to try to get on the ballot.»

And one top prosecutor, Chief Assistant District Attorney Cheryl Fowler, just ran against Carter for the Democratic nod to replace Herrick (she ultimately did not have enough petition signatures to get on the ballot).

The story says 22 states do not permit a new political party to start petitioning, registration drives, or other tasks involving getting on the ballot until January 1 of the election year.

Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a formal nominating convention.

Did we mention this is all part of an elaborate move to get Fosella back on the ballot?

At this point she doesn't have enough support to get on the ballot at the convention either

Special elections, like the one scheduled to replace the convicted lawmaker on April 19, do not have open primaries: instead, the county committee, consisting of operatives elected within the party, chooses who gets the ballot line.

«We're doing it so the people of New York are empowered to be able to get on the ballot and start winning elections and I think it's going to be a game changer.

«I know Katko will definitely be trying to scrub those petitions hard to make sure she doesn't get on the ballot.»

«If he got on the ballot paper and won we would just have to go at him again and just keep doing it until he loses.»

Parties put women on the ballot in districts they could never win or didn't get fully behind their campaigns.

As for Samuels, he said during his campaign he'd give it a go in another two years when Town Council seats will be up again, but he'll do a better job getting on the ballot.

For his part, Levy said Thursday he was close to reaching 51 percent support and that he didn't believe a rules change would be necessary to allow him to get on the ballot.

Losing two rungs on the ballot ladder doesn't seem to be enough for them... instead, McKay gets to singlehandedly sell out the party line to a partisan crony.