Sentences with phrase «electing fellow democrats»

As a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's leadership team, Frankel is charged with electing fellow Democrats to the House.

Not exact matches

It might not be so bad if the conference — and especially Avella's fellow Queens Democrat, DSCC Chairman Mike Gianaris — hadn't worked hard to get Avella elected in a tough race against former GOP Sen. Frank Padavan back in 2010.

Gov. David Paterson today lambasted GOP / Conservative gubernatorial Carl Paladino, accusing him of showing a lack of «leadership» for failing to join fellow elected officials — both Republicans and Democrats — in denouncing a recent rash of anti-gay crimes and instead making statements designed to whip up the right.

But he said what needed to be said when it came time to protect his interests or those of fellow Democrats he was elected to represent.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Stepping up the effort to press the Cuomo administration to provide more funding to shelter homeless youth, State Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay Manhattan Democrat, appeared with fellow elected officials and advocates outside of City Hall on February 12 to make the case.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».

Getting kicked out of New Visions is just the latest repercussion since he joined the IDC — a group that, according to spokeswoman Candace Giove, «conferences with fellow Democrats, but works in majority coalition with 32 senators who elected a Republican leader.»

«The governor is intent on electing Democrats to the state senate to pass his agenda and shore up the blue wall at home, while also electing Democratic Congress members to fight Trump and his fellow Republicans» anti-New York agenda,» said a Democratic source.

Nana Akufo - Addo, cleverly tried to bask in the victory of the controversial American President - elect by commending the Republican Party, the sister party of the NPP, and a fellow member of the International Democrat Union (IDU), for maintaining control of the Senate, thereby presenting Mr. Trump a minimum of two years of a «unified» government.

Democrats candidate in the just concluded US Presidential election, Hillary Clinton has vowed to work with American President - elect Donald Trump, and urged fellow Democrats to allow him the chance to lead the deeply divided country.

An attack on a fellow democrat just so she can get elected is right out of the George Bush playbook.

-- Annette Taddeo, Democratic nominee for SD 40: «I am truly grateful to my fellow Democrats in District 40 who elected me today to be our nominee in September.

: «I am truly grateful to my fellow Democrats in District 40 who elected me today to be our nominee in September.

«He told attendees that we have to work hard through November to get our fellow Democrats elected, take a break in December and then come right back in January ready to fight for Democrats in 2014.»

But few, if any, of his fellow Democrats believe that he could retake the position he ceded to Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat who was elected speaker in February.

Fellow Hudson Valley Democrat James Skoufis, who was elected to the Assembly in November 2012, says he sought out Skartados for advice before taking office.

But Cuomo has not directly attacked Trump like many of his fellow Democrats, and said his discussion with the president - elect was «not adversarial.»

He was credited with helping shape the mayor's public image and assisting the newly - elected mayor's affairs with Cuomo, a hard - charging fellow Democrat who formerly employed both Ragone and de Blasio.

An IDC spokeswoman denied the group conferences with Republicans, saying they conference with fellow Democrats and work «in Majority Coalition with 32 senators who elected a Republican leader, enabling IDC members to move and pass progressive legislation.»

The governor hasn't always had a strong working relationship with his fellow statewide elected Democrats, particularly during his first term.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is breaking with fellow Democrats like Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who have indicated a willingness to work with President - elect Donald Trump — and insisting she isn't ready to call him her president so long as hateful rhetoric is «still welcome under Trump's tent.»

«I am not suspending my campaign, but I am talking to a number of elected officials around the state, as I would, fellow Democrats, to hear their opinions,» he said at a press conference in New York City.

ICYMI: Newly - elected Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins was in Albany yesterday to meet with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and assure him that her conference plans to work together «as partners» with their fellow Democrat in the coming legislative session.

A powerful coalition of elected Democrats on Wednesday pushed for the city to fund half - price MetroCards for low - income New Yorkers — isolating fellow Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio for opposing...

[5] Darch had been elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2003, but together with her fellow councillor for Portfied Lillian Jefferis, she subsequently defected to the Conservatives.

Hernandez, 25, a Trinity College graduate from Chicago who already serves on Hartford's superintendent search committee, occupies the seat that fellow Democrat Beth Taylor vacated last fall with just over a year left on her four - year elected term.

The prospect has an obvious, novelistic allure: A run for mayor of New York this year would pit Mrs. Clinton against Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat who managed her Senate campaign in 2000, and, should she win, would put her in charge of President - elect Donald J. Trump's hometown, ensuring years of potential clashes between bitter rivals.

Her ease in the legal arena has had an unexpected effect: It has put her at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat, normally a reliable ally who was elected the same year as Ms. James.

The third - ranking House Democrat, who in 2016 was in charge of getting fellow Democrats elected, admitted in a recent interview that he was completely unaware of an ongoing House race.

Clinton said Slaughter, a fellow Democrat, took her under her wing when the former first lady was elected to represent New York in the Senate in 2000.

Meanwhile, the Journal reports this morning that Cuomo, the presumptive gubernatorial nominee, has been making it clear to fellow Democrats that «if he's elected lawmakers who resist his agenda will be punished.»

Mr. Thompson was elected district attorney in 2013 after campaigning on a platform of reform and racial justice, and unseating Charles J. Hynes, a fellow Democrat and a troubled incumbent who had served more than 20 years.

The Republicans backed Klein's fellow Assembly Democrat, Stephen Kaufman, who pledged to caucus with them if he was elected.

to my fellow New Yorker - why would a district thoroughly dominated by Republicans for generations suddenly rig the voting machines to elect a Democrat?

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Common Councilor Pat Hogan supported fellow Democrat Stephanie Miner's first run for mayor, but he has crossed swords with her repeatedly since she was elected four years ago.

This would be an hilarious thing for any elected official in Washington to say, but is particularly so when Grijalva's fellow Democrats and the US media are doing their best not to notice that designated President - in - Waiting Hillary Rodham Clinton has, via her husband and her foundation, taken tens of millions of dollars from some of the most disgusting governments on earth.