Sentences with phrase «fill the seat last»

A special election will be held on April 19 to fill the seat last held by Councilman Joe Borelli before he left for the city position.

Not exact matches

RSVPs for the event filled to capacity with minimal publicity, but I managed to snag a last - minute seat.

Fearing a counterattack, Benchmark is suing to remove Kalanick from that perch and is also trying to forbid him from filling the open board seats that he was awarded — by, among others, Benchmark — last year.

This slave is the Father's eternal Word, whom God has vindicated, and so ten thousand immemorial certainties are unveiled as lies: the first become last, the mighty are put down from their seats and the lowly exalted, the hungry are filled with good things while the rich are sent empty away.

Last spring, after a lapse of some 15 years, a baccalaureate service was held at Cornell University, and almost all 2,000 seats in Bailey Hall were filled.

Last Friday night he playedtwo matches in a cozy, 2,500 - seat arena (filled to capacity) built on a golfcourse in rural northern Connecticut.

Taking into account the last few years, FI is the midfield team that I most respect, they go after talent to fill their seats, they overcome teams with bigger budgets and got a best ever 4th last year in the standings.

I like aisle seats at the back of the plane (close to the bathroom and often the last seats to fill up).

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

The state Commission on Judicial Nomination has begun the formal process of filling the seat on the state Court of Appeals left empty by the death of Judge Sheila Abdus - Salaam, whose body was retrieved from the Hudson River west of her home in Harlem last Wednesday.

The battle to reunify Democrats in the Senate was sparked in part by the addition of Brian Benjamin, who won a special election last month to fill a vacant seat and giving the party 32 enrolled members again the Senate.

Catherine Flanagan - Priore, who was appointed in September to fill the vacant Park District seat, gave a prepared letter of resignation to Board President Barbara Seals Nevergold after last night's meeting.

The Working Families Party has endorsed Yuh - Line Niou to fill the Assembly seat vacated by former Speaker Sheldon Silver who was convicted of federal corruption last year and forced to resign.

The measures were pushed by the Senate's newest member, Democrat Brian Kavanagh, elected last year to fill the seat vacated by former Sen. Daniel Squadron.

The winner will immediately fill the 26th Senate District seat for the unexpired term of Daniel Squadron who resigned last month.

Three other Republicans have already lined up to challenge Gillibrand, appointed last year to fill the seat Hillary Clinton vacated last year to become secretary of state.

Republican Christopher McGrath, who lost a special election last month to fill Dean Skelos» State Senate seat, will face off in a November rematch against Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach).

Gillibrand was a little - known second - term congresswoman from a rural Republican district when Gov. David Paterson tapped her last month to fill the Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer will resign the seat she has held since since 1987 to become the Queens County clerk, filling the post left vacant by the death of Gloria D'Amico late last year, according to a Democratic source who has spoken to the legislator about her plans.

(CNN)-- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said Monday that a special election will be held to fill the congressional seat vacated by former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who stepped down last week amid an ethics probe and ongoing health problems.

The city Campaign Finance Board determined last week that the 2009 campaign of Debra Markell to fill the District 19 City Council seat left vacant by state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) had committed two violations.

«Rikers doesn't work,» said Benjamin, a Manhattan Democrat, who was elected last month to fill the seat left vacant after Bill Perkins joined the City Council.

The Republicans will have an opportunity to field such an alternative in November, when David Lys, who was appointed to the town board last month to fill the seat vacated by Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc, who was elected supervisor, will stand for election.

Last week, we learned that January 15 will be the date of the special election to fill the vacant 1st District seat for Suffolk County Legislature.

More recently, he helped Mr. McMahon handily dispatch Republican Joan Illuzzi to fill the Staten Island district attorney's seat that Mr. Donovan left empty last year.

Legislator Simon Conroy was reelected to serve Area 4 after winning a special election last year to fill the seat vacated by City of Plattsburgh Mayor Colin Read.

The Board of Elections last week knocked Democrat Justin Wagner, running to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Greg Ball (R - Putnam), off the WEP line after invalidating 60 percent of the 4,602 petition signatures filed on his behalf.

Then - President Barack Obama nominated Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat last year, but McConnell refused to hold hearings on the appointment, and the nomination expired earlier this year.

Only a small percentage of registered voters are expected for the race, which would fill the seat once held by Inez Dickens, who was elected to the state Assembly last fall.

Candidates, state and county campaign committees and independent groups spent more than $ 7.1 million on last month's special election to fill the State Senate seat of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, according to state Board of Elections records.

Nevertheless, the Senate Republicans are also feeling bullish about Republican Greg Bernard, who won a special election to fill the remainder of former Yorktown Town Board Member Terrence Murphy's term after Murphy departed at the end of last year to take a seat in the state Senate.

Last February, he floated his name as a potential candidate in the 44th NYC Council race to fill the Brooklyn seat vacated by Simcha Felder (now a deputy comptroller in NYC Comptroller John Liu's office), but decided against a run for family reasons.

If the governor calls a special session on April 19 to fill former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, the Staten Island Advance would like to see a similar contest held for the vacant South Shore seat most recently held by Joe Borelli, who was sworn into his new position in the NYC Council last week.

Facing a misdemeanor assault charge after an incident with a reporter, Republican Greg Ginaforte won a special election last night to fill the at - large Montana House seat.

TWU member Marvin Holland is one of 12 candidates vying in a Feb. 12 special election for the NYC Council seat vacated by Inez Dickens, who was elected last fall to fill the seat vacated by former Assemblyman Keith Wright.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While there's no election date set to fill the South Shore's vacant Assembly seat, Republican Ronald Castorina Jr. is preparing for a run, and resigned his position as Staten Island's GOP commissioner for the Board of Elections effective last Friday.

Assuming this takes effect immediately after Cuomo signs it into law, it will be in place for the NY - 26 special election — yet uncalled by the governor — to fill the seat abruptly vacated last month by former Rep. Chris Lee in the wake of his Craigslist scandal.

The Southold Town Planning Board is looking for someone to fill the seat left vacant by longtime member William Cremers, who decided to resign last year for health reasons.

The effort to rename the center after Buckley dates back to 2005, a project supported by former Buckley staffers and then taken up after Turner won the special election to fill Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat last year.

Sen. Roxanne Persaud was elevated from the Assembly last year to fill the Canarsie and East New York seat vacated by the conviction of John Sampson.

Drucker won a special election last year to fill the seat of the late Legis.

Former Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who was elected to the Senate in November to fill the seat vacated by Dan Squadron last fall, was sworn in shortly before the session began.

In April, Kaminsky won the most expensive special election in state history to fill the seat vacated last year by Dean Skelos (the charges against whom partially involved his dealings with a REBNY executive committeeman).

Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, a Republican - turned - Democrat former assemblyman, is contemplating seeking the Democratic nomination if Cuomo calls a special election to fill the Senate seat being vacated by fellow Democrat George Latimer, who won his race for Westchester county executive last week.

The election will fill nine empty seats in the Assembly and two in the Senate, created largely due to lawmakers winning off - cycle local level races last year.

Brian Benjamin «s victory last week in the special election to fill Harlem's vacant State Senate seat will once again leave registered Democrats with a one - member numerical majority in the upper chamber of the State Legislature.

Skelos was immediately ousted from the Senate upon conviction, and Cuomo is expected to set April 19, the presidential primary day, as the date for a special election to fill the seat, the same date he said he'll likely call an election to replace former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan), who was bounced last month, also as a result of multiple corruption convictions.

President Barack Obama nominated Court of Appeals Judge Merrick Garland to fill Scalia's seat last year, but McConnell refused to hold hearings on the appointment, and the nomination expired earlier this year.

Last year, however, Mr. Cuomo declined to call special elections to fill two vacant assembly seats — one in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx — but there was little outcry.

Judge Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's choice to fill the seat that has been open since Justice Antonin Scalia's death a year ago, will begin confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 20, the panel's chairman said last week.