Sentences with phrase «disgraced republican»

The fact is that no Connecticut governor in the last forty years has done as much damage to Connecticut's public education system than Governor Malloy and that includes a realistic assessment of disgraced Republican Governor John Rowland.

13th Congressional District (Staten Island / Brooklyn): The disgraced Republican incumbent will not stand for re-election.

The event dovetails with a fundraiser Cuomo will hold for freshman Sen. Todd Kaminsky, the lawmaker elected in April to serve out the remainder of disgraced Republican former Sen. Dean Skelos, who was ousted in a corruption scandal.

To bring his vision to Borough Hall, Shcherbenko faces an uphill battle against Oddo, who polls as one of the most popular elected officials in the borough, as well as possible competition from disgraced Republican congressman Michael Grimm.

As disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said about the IDC: «[Jeff Klein] is going to be co-coalition leader, which means nothing.

Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs in a radio interview on Sunday acknowledged the race to replace disgraced Republican former Sen. Dean Skelos will be a close one.

McGrath, an attorney and first - time candidate for public office, faces Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky in a special election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by disgraced Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Not exact matches

This all seems rather silly but I could see the Student Republicans flooding the Student Democrats (or vice-versa of course) with fake members then electing people who would do outrageous things in the name of the group to disgrace them.

Let's say that the Young Republicans decide that they are a disgrace.

(CNN)- Republicans jumped on the Democrats» Tuesday loss of the congressional seat given up by disgraced U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner as a sign of eroding Jewish support for President Barack Obama and his party.

a foreigners (Dutch) view; it would be seen as a big laugh but also a disgrace for America if Romney was elected; the Republicans never brought anything good for the USA and the rest of the world; look what Bush did; a huge deficit; a war with the wrong enemy and the Democrats had to clean up the mess again;

We're confident that when voters are reminded Democrats raised taxes and spending by $ 14 billion, and brought dysfunction and disgrace to the New York State Senate in their two disastrous years in the majority, they'll vote overwhelmingly to keep Republicans in charge.»

Republican Senate candidate Bob Turner is out with his first television ad this morning, calling attention to his upset victory over David Weprin in the special election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Turner, the Brooklyn Republican who defeated Democrat David Weprin in last year's upset special election to replace the disgraced Democratic former Rep. Anthony Weiner, may lose his seat in redistricting.

A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A Siena College poll released on Saturday showed Kaminsky, a freshman assemblyman, trailing Republican Chris McGrath by 8 percentage points in the 9th Senate district special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in a Nassau County seat.

Republican former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on Tuesday became the latest disgraced ex-lawmaker to have their conviction tossed by a federal appeals panel.

Democratic hopeful Todd Kaminsky, meanwhile, opened up his sharpest criticism yet of McGrath, linking him to disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, the Republican who both men want to replace in the Nassau County district in an April 19 special election.

The powerful labor union 1199 SEIU endorsed Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath on Friday in the crucial special election to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in Nassau County.

Disgraced former Republican Rep. Tim Murphy is throwing money behind a Republican to represent parts of his old district.

Disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son were caught on wiretaps bad - mouthing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's family, plotting to use his gal pal, Sandra Lee, against him and even musing how Skelos and other Republican lawmakers were «smarter» than the governor, new court papers state.

What was perhaps most interesting, though, was Cox's repeated name - dropping of Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Turner, who won the disgraced Anthony Weiner's Brooklyn congressional seat.

Republicans in NY - 29 have lost their lawsuit that sought to force Gov. David Paterson to immediately call a special election to fill the seat vacated by disgraced former Rep. Eric Massa instead of his (extremely confusing) plan to hold one concurrent with the general election.

Republican Chris McGrath, who lost his bid in April for the Senate seat held by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, is calling for first passage of the amendment, which is mired in legislative gridlock in the Assembly and Senate.

«What happened in New York is no less than a disgrace, a crime,» Astorino said in a speech at the state Republican convention here.

Disgraced former Rep. Michael Grimm said he hopes that the Republican probe into the FBI over the Russian investigation will exonerate the charges that led to him leaving Congress.

Community Board 5 member Mike Miller will fill the shoes of disgraced former state Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio after handily beating Republican opponent Donna Marie Caltabiano in a special election Tuesday.

The symposium's timeliness wasn't lost on Ravitch or other participants: Two former legislative leaders, Democrat Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and Republican Sen. Dean Skelos, are awaiting sentencing following federal corruption convictions — just the latest in a jailhouse parade of disgraced lawmakers.

UPDATE: I see Politics on the Hudson is reporting that Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz, who compared Silver to disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, easily won re-election yesterday and doubled down on his negative comments about Silver in his victory statement.

Despite the media maelstrom over the Garner case, Staten Island's Republican elite only had one replacement in mind for disgraced former Congressman Michael Grimm, who once threatened to throw a television reporter off a balcony (with the cameras rolling) and who resigned after pleading guilty to tax evasion.

For years, he has also refused to give to some prominent Republicans like disgraced State Senate leaders Dean Skelos and Thomas Libous.

Democrats are looking to capture seats they previously held in the Hudson Valley and retain the seat of State Senator Todd Kaminsky — who defeated a Republican in a special election in April to replace disgraced former State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — and to possibly capitalize on other GOP scandals in Nassau County.

A prominent Orthodox Jewish Democratic lawmaker says he won't back fellow Dem David Weprin's candidacy — and hinted he'll even cross party lines to endorse Republican Bob Turner in the Sept. 13 special election to replace disgraced ex-Rep.

After losing the endorsement, Tenney called the ACU «a disgrace» and «part of the failed Republican establishment.»

Despite the literature's emphasis on the importance of turning the Republican State Senate blue, StudentsFirst recently spent in excess of $ 1.5 million trying to stop Long Island Democrat Todd Kaminsky from winning the vacant seat of disgraced GOP ex-State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

The Democrat - turned - Republican businessman's first spot of the special election campaign to fill the seat vacated by disgraced former Rep. Chris Lee will start airing on cable and broadcast stations in the Buffalo and Rochester media markets tomorrow, accorsing to Davis» campaign.

Kaminsky in April won a special election to replace the disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos in the chamber, flipping a Long Island Senate seat that had long been in GOP hands and breaking up the Long Island 9 voting bloc of Republican lawmakers.

How confident is Republican Tom Reed of a victory next Tuesday in his bid for the NY - 29 seat vacated by disgraced former Democratic Rep. Eric Massa?

Chris McGrath, the Republican looking to fill the seat vacated by former Senate GOP Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once did legal work for the disgraced ex-lawmaker's political club and a close ally.

Senate Republicans pushed back against Democratic criticism of disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos filing for his pension.

The Manhattan Republican Party last night tapped businessman and naval reservist Lester Chang as its candidate to run for disgraced ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown Assembly seat.

Sen. Lindsey Grahamm, a South Carolina Republican, said the GOP lawmakers should return Wynn's money, much like Republicans demanded Democrats return donations from disgraced moviemaker Harvey Weinstein after sexual harassment allegations were exposed.

The disgraced former boss of the Bronx Republican Party copped a plea to federal corruption charges on Tuesday, saying he accepted a $ 15,000 bribe to let a Democratic state senator...

An alternate juror in the corruption trial of former state Sen. Malcolm Smith says she believes the disgraced Queens Democrat spearheaded a failed $ 200,000 bribery scheme to get the Republican...

«It's a disgrace, that's not what America wants,» he said, noting Republicans control the Senate and House.

«Instead of distancing themselves from Bob Menendez after his indictment on bribery charges, his Democrat colleagues have stood behind him, even accepting tainted campaign cash from the disgraced Senator,» Bob Salera, the deputy communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told the Washington Free Beacon.

Since 2007, Spitzer and then - Comptroller Alan Hevesi resigned in disgrace, former Gov. David Paterson paid a fine to settle an ethics charge, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was convicted of federal corruption charges, former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. was accused in corruption charges and several other lawmakers have been charged and investigated in state and federal investigations in an unprecedented string of cases.

«We wonder if Bill Nojay understands that by working against Republicans he will only serve to help the Democratic Party and its candidates, including sex trafficker Eliot Spitzer, serial molester Vito Lopez and disgraced former exhibitionist Congressman Anthony Weiner,» said spokesman Scott Reif, in a statement.

LOWER MANHATTAN — Lester Chang has never held a political office, but the Republican candidate for disgraced Assemblyman Sheldon Silver's seat said he thinks that works to his advantage.

After a decisive Republican primary victory, Illinois state Sen. Darin LaHood, the son of a former area congressman and Obama administration Cabinet member, is likely headed to Washington as the replacement for disgraced former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock.