Sentences with phrase «first ran for election»

He did so when he first ran for election in 2010 and he used one to promote his women's agenda during his reelection campaign in 2014.

President Obama has seen people who politicize faith attack him since he first ran for election.

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It's another busy week in the run up to the first presidential caucus for the 2016 election, as two more candidates joined the race.

By Dec. 31, 2017, more than 2,100 people had taken at least the first step toward running for the House or Senate by filing the necessary paperwork, according to records kept by the Federal Election Commission.

There was a brief lull in Europe's crowded election calendar, but polls in the run - up to the first round of voting in France's presidential contest in late April suggested the centrist - candidate Emmanuel Macron was gaining support, which continued to soothe market concerns about a possible victory for the populist Marine Le Pen.

After two unsuccessful runs as a Liberal Party candidate in the 1986 and 1989 provincial elections, Leibovici was first elected as the MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in the 1993 provincial election.

He first ran for the PC Party in 1993, first in an unsuccessfully bid for the party nomination in Edmonton - Glenora and then as the PC candidate in Edmonton - Highlands - Beverly (in the election he was defeated by his Liberal opponent, Alice Hanson).

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Governor.

The election is historic for many reasons: the first African - American candidate (Barack Obama), the oldest man to run for a first term in the White House (John McCain), the first female Republican Vice-Presidential candidate (Sarah Palin) and the most boring Democrat Barack Obama could find for a running mate (Joe Biden).

While failing to enter parliament, this has been the best performance of a party running for the first time in a German federal election since 1957.

The special election would be Drucker's first run for office, although Jacobs said he has worked for the party and Democratic candidates in the past.

Election Day is usually a tense affair for candidates, but one man running his first - ever campaign decided to enjoy himself.

The 2014 European elections are also the first such occasion when Turkish Cypriots are running for office either as independents or as part of a (bi-communal or Turkish / Cypriot) platform.

Cuomo did not release his tax filings in 2010, the year he first ran for governor, until a month after elections.

At the European election in June the Conservatives beat Labour in the popular vote in Wales for the first time in living memory, and if the findings of this poll were replicated at the general election, it looks like being a close run thing again at the general election.

The winner of the Nov. 3 general election will replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who was first elected in 2001 and opted to run in the Democratic primary for mayor against city Comptroller William Thompson, who defeated him.

The UKIP, which for the first time came in first in a nation - wide election, has been traditionally strong in EU elections, only to fizzle out in the run up to national general election.

That flier is seriously dirty pool — especially for what at first blush seems to be a run - of - the - mill Assembly special election.

«This is the first step in a run for Congress... This allows Jack Martins to take all appropriate steps to organize to win the election in November,» said E. O'Brien Murray, Martins» campaign strategist.

The first, under the Jubilee Alliance, is an alliance between presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running - mate William Ruto, two experienced political leaders who are also suspects to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity conducted in Kenya's previous election period.

No Democrats have indicated any plans to run this year against DeFrancisco, a Republican who has not had a close election for Senate since he was first elected in 1992.

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has decided not to seek the Democratic nomination to run for election to New York's First Congressional District, a move he had considered for several months.

Kinderhook, NY — August 23, 2016... The campaign for John Faso, the Republican, Conservative, Independence and Reform candidate running for Congress in the 19th Congressional District, has released its first television advertisement for the general election.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> Republicans on Friday chose Chele Farley, a New York City private equity executive, as the first designated candidate to run for a statewide position in November's elections.

In the US, for example, Republicans in Burlington, Vermont would have been better off had some of them stayed home during the last mayoral election that they ran under AV (of course, they've since ditched it and returned to First Past the Post).

Geraldine Ferraro gathers with her family at a hotel in New York as they await returns of the presidential election in 1984, when she became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.

As more than one candidate ran for the party leadership, it was the first contested UKIP leadership election since 2010; Farage won the 2014 leadership election unopposed.

«(A) lifelong academic professional, serving Southampton College for 29 years and leaving the position of provost in 2002 to make his first - ever run for office, when he was elected to represent New York's 1st Congressional District in one of the closest elections in the nation.»

Moya was not the preferred candidate back when he ran in a special election for the NYC Council seat being vacated by Monserrate when he was first elected to the Senate.

The Green party is holding leadership elections for the first time in its history, with Euro MEP Caroline Lucas running against former star of The Bill, Ashley Gunstock.

Cuomo also, for the first time in the 2016 election cycle, actively backed Democratic candidates to, in some cases, run against sitting incumbent Republicans for the Senate.

«In 2015, he ran for a second term but the election went into second balloting and he almost lost because of his abysmal performance in his first term.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has been hammering possible election rival Harold Ford Jr. daily to «come clean» about his taxes, wasn't interested in releasing her own tax information when she first ran for Congress in 2006.

With the 2014 elections at hand, and a tentative deal in place for the IDC to reunite with the larger Democratic conference, Ms. Stewart - Cousins today stands on the brink of becoming the first woman — and black woman, to boot — to enter the famous «three (and sometimes four) men in a room» equation that runs New York State politics.

But there was a different, more personal source of anxiety this time: watching his son, Nick, run in his first - ever election as a candidate for the Southold Town Board of Trustees.

For the first time in at least eight years, Harrison's Democratic Committee will not run a full slate of Town Council candidates in the upcoming November election.

Historically, it has been hard to convince people to run in other elections against Republican incumbents, but anger over Trump ignited a spark in some to seek local office for the first time.

It's the first time Obama has served as the main attraction at a fundraiser for the organization, which is the major outside group assisting Democratic Senate incumbents and candidates running in this year's midterm elections.

Prior to his election to the Assembly in 2006 Mr. Brook - Krasny, who was the first New York elected official born in the former Soviet Union, owned a party venue for children and ran a service organization for Jewish émigrés.

In 2010, when he first ran for governor, Cuomo did not release his tax returns until after election day.

Maurice Hinchey's passing brought back memories of what he meant to Democrats in a county that rarely saw Democrats victorious in elections when he first ran for office.

President Barack Obama will appear for the first time at a fundraiser on Long Island on Oct. 16 to help raise money for the midterm elections, but two top Democrats running for Congress said they won't be able to make the event.

Erin Grall first thought about making a run for legislative leadership during the 2016 election cycle.

Greenfield opened the account in 2013 when he was considering running for a state seat, his office said — one year before getting named chairman of the Land Use Committee, and the same year he was re-elected to his first full term after winning a special election in 2010.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Four - term city Councilor Pat Hogan said today he is thinking about running for election next November against Mayor Stephanie Miner and will make his decision after the first of the year.

Lavine is the first Republican to have announced a mayoral run for the November election.

There are 32 African - American Republicans running for Congress in the first midterm elections of the Obama administration.

a run - off election for the Presidency, as no candidate had obtained more than 50 percent of the first - round vote.

Giordano said that he had first considered running for receiver of taxes last time the seat was up for election in 2013.

One thing is certain: Cuomo is doing no favors for DiNapoli by negotiating this deal with Hevesi so close to the general election, which is the first time the former assemblyman has run statewide since being placed in the comptroller's office by his legislative colleagues in February 2007 after Hevesi's first guilty felony plea in Chauffeurgate.