Sentences with phrase «field of candidates running»

Ebong something else happened last week, House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, who's a Derby Republican, told her caucus she won't be joining the crowded field of candidates running for governor.

Stern and Suozzi are among the crowded Democratic field of candidates running to replace outgoing Rep. Steve Israel (D - Huntington) that include North Hempstead board member Anna Kaplan and former North Hempstead Supervisor Jon Kaiman.

He dismissed allegations that matching funds would allow corrupt incumbents to gain access to public money, arguing that it would instead expand the field of candidates running.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

Not exact matches

Hein had been one of the more prominent Democrats considering a run for the seat, while the Republican field has been a crowded one: At least five GOP candidates are in the mix, including former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, Assemblyman Peter Lopez and businessman Andrew Heaney.

A candidate drops out of a crowded field to run for another position and Fact Free Phil equates that to the Blue Wave cresting... man is clearly delusional.

Note that if you're running for elected office in the U.S., the national parties are developing and fielding systems to put voter information in the hands of their candidates at all levels.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins will make his third run for mayor of Syracuse this fall, bringing the field of candidates ting to replace incumbent Stephanie Miner, who is term limited out of office, to 10.

The crowded field of declared candidates running for the Democratic nomination in the 21st congressional district shrank in the last two days after the formal entrance of former cable news Dylan Ratigan.

Ydanis Rodriguez, who has run for the Council seat before, is the likely front - runner as the dust settles among the field of previously - announced candidates.

Talking to politics.co.uk, the Labour leadership candidate insisted he was running «the largest field operation that any political campaign has had in a leadership election in the history of British politics».

Geoff Berman, executive director of the state Democratic Party, which Cuomo controls, said Cox «and this anemic field of Albany insiders and lobbyists» are trying to divert attention from the «weak candidates» the party is considering to run against Cuomo this fall.

Torres» decision to run adds a new dynamic to the already crowded field of candidates.

The strongest candidate in an admittedly weak field who even has a prayer of running a legitimate, intelligent, honest, mature, moderate, winnable campaign against a strong Democratic nominee is John Kasich.

Former Glen Cove City Council candidate Philip Pidot has joined a crowded field of Republicans running for retiring Rep. Steve Israel's seat.

The «30 Rock» star, who has long talked about running for political office, believes Weinergate has shaken up the field of candidates enough that he might have a chance to win, a friend of the actor told The Daily.

But since he received less than 50 percent of the vote in the nine candidate field, there is a fair chance at least one of his opponents from today's special will run against him in the Democratic primary this September.

The potential field of candidates considering a run for Congress in the late Louise Slaughter's 25th district is becoming more clear.

At a recent forum for candidates running for speaker, who will be elected by the 51 - member Council in January, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D - Manhattan) broached the idea of a third term and the rest of the field said they'd support it.

Molinaro's departure significantly narrows the field of potential GOP candidates and means there is nobody publicly considering a run from east of Syracuse, the state's fifth - largest city.

In contrast to his 2010 gubernatorial run when he placed third in a field of seven, but couldn't get in the door, the Teamster turned candidate says that many labor unions are now at least «listening and interested» in his Green Party campaign.

The most recent to toss his hat in the ring is former Councilman Sal Albanese, who ran unsuccessful bids for state Assembly in a Brooklyn district in 1978, for Congress against Susan Molinari in 1992 and for mayor twice — first in 1997, then a second time in 2013, coming in eighth place in the crowded field of nine candidates in the Democratic primary.

The Green Party of Texas this year is running an impressive field of 43 candidates this fall, from US Senate all the way down to County Tax Assessor.

Faulconer, the front - runner in a field of 11 candidates who ran in November, holds a scant 1 percentage point lead over Alvarez, according to a Survey USA poll commissioned by local news outlets UTSanDiego.com and 10News.com.»

That would set up a crowded race with Gallo and Clement running, and dividing the Democratic field, and the eventual winner of the Republican primary competing with Conservative Party candidate Richard Cahill Jr. for GOP votes.

But a CNN / WMUR survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire also indicates that the race is far from settled, with nearly nine in ten potential Republican primary voters saying they haven't come close to making up their minds and more than four in ten saying they're not satisfied with the field of GOP candidates running for president.

The field of candidates mulling a primary run against Kirsten Gillibrand has thinned out in the past week, with representative Steve Israel and Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer pulling their names from contention.

Today's lead editorial in the Times Union lambasted Cuomo & Astorino for failing to run serious campaigns and praised Howie Hawkins, writing «The real voice of reason in this race comes instead from left field, from Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, who has waged a consistently serious race and who on Wednesday issued a call for his fellow candidates to stop arguing about sports teams and debate issues like jobs, health care and climate change.»

In District 13 in the Bronx, a crowded field of candidates has declared a run for Council Member James Vacca's seat.

The field of candidates for local office in the fall election gained two entrants in the past week, as former Woodstock councilwoman Terrie Rosenblum announced that she would run for town supervisor and current Town Board member Bill McKenna declared that he would seek another term on the board.

The Labour Party initially considered not fielding candidates under party colours in favour of [clarification needed] independent candidates, claiming that running candidates would politicise police forces.

[99] Before his announcement not to run, an August 2016 poll of Florida Republicans conducted by StPetePolls.org showed Huckabee leading a field of potential Republican gubernatorial candidates with 37 %.

«We must replace the public embarrassment of existing campaign financing laws, which allow enormous contributions and unlimited expenditures, with a system of reasonable limits that levels the playing field and ensures that meritorious candidates are not discouraged by the costs of running for public office.»

There is a large field of Republican candidates considering a run for governor in 2018.

In the run up to the 2007 Scottish election, the Labour party had considered not fielding list candidates in the Glasgow, West of Scotland, and Central Scotland regions, [citation needed] as their constituency strength in the previous two elections had resulted in no list MSPs; instead they proposed to support a list composed of Co-operative Party candidates; [citation needed] before this the Co-operative party had chosen not to field candidates of its own but merely to endorse particular Labour candidates.

Although targeting your search does narrow the field, it runs the risk of eliminating good candidates due to your own lack of imagination.