Sentences with phrase «get onto the ballot as»

(The rumor was being pushed by the Turner camp, and would be very helpful to the congressman's quest to get 25 percent of the weighted convention vote to get onto the ballot as it would free up two vote - heavy counties now backing Maragos: Nassau and Suffolk).

It's looking increasingly likely that at least two of the three would - be Gillibrand challengers will get onto the ballot as 2012 shapes quickly up into a re-do of 2010 when the GOP finally settled on former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who lost big in the general election.

Ellis says Davis has collected more than 11,000 signatures, which is far more than the 3,500 necessary to get onto the ballot as an independent candidate.

Not exact matches

Teachout, as you'll recall, failed to receive sufficient support at the WFP's May 31 convention to get onto the ballot, but she did get 41.3 percent of the weighted convention vote to Cuomo's 58.7 percent.

The truncated political calendar necessary as a result of the court's decision to move up the federal primaries has reduced the number of signatures necessary to get onto the ballot, but also shortened the amount of time in which candidates have to circulate petitions.

(As you'll recall, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox wooed Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy into the race, but he didn't get onto the ballot at the convention.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy has hired yet another veteran of John Faso's 2006 campaign as he continues his uphill battle to land sufficient support to get onto the ballot at the GOP state convention.

The Wilson Pakula threshold for anyone not enrolled in the party who wants to run on the line, as you'll recall, is just over 50 percent of the weighted convention vote — more than twice the 25 percent necessary for party members to get onto the ballot.

If the WP vote is held first, it will be what one strategist decribed as a «test vote» for Levy — and his biggest champion, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox — both of whom have confidently predicted the party - switching county executive will receive sufficient support at the convention to get onto the ballot.

Steele and Cox have been at odds for some time, starting with a fallout over the state chairman's push to get party - flipping Suffolk Executive Steve Levy onto the ballot as a gubernatorial candidate.

As you'll recall, after failing to get onto the ballot at the GOP convention in early June, Levy insisted (contrary to statements made by his chief champion, state Republican Chairman Ed Cox), that he was still contemplating a run on an independent line.

But, as you'll recall, Levy dropped his gubernatorial bid early this summer after he was was out - maneuvered by former Rep. Rick Lazio and failed to get onto the ballot at the state GOP convention.

Hartford, CT 05/01/18 Joe Ganim opened up a Hartford campaign office as part of his statewide petition drive to get onto the August primary ballot for governor.

If Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy manages to get onto the GOP ballot at the convention and force a primary, then perhaps he will select someone as his running mate.

DuHaime, who also worked on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's successfull campaign last fall and is now with Mercury Public Affairs, joined the Malpass campaign back in March as the would - be candidate was gearing up to make a push to get onto the ballot at the state convention.

Joe Ganim opened a Hartford campaign office as part of his statewide petition drive to get onto the August primary ballot for governor.

If Rice lands the unanimous support of the Brooklyn Dems, as chairman Vito Lopez suggested at a reception he held for her last week, she'll be at 24.13 percent — just shy of the 25 percent mark she'll need to get onto the ballot.

«The defendant tried to bribe his way onto the ballot for New York City mayor,» said Douglas B. Bloom, an assistant United States attorney, as the bribery and wire fraud trial of Mr. Smith and two other defendants got underway before a 12 - person jury in a federal courthouse in White Plains.

As pointed out here, this was the epitome of the environmental movement's failure to actually be movement: it could get people to upload their anxiety onto the web, but it couldn't get them out into the streets, or even to the ballot box, under one cohesive idea.