Sentences with phrase «got onto the ballot with»

Steele pointedly didn't single out the state's GOP chairman, Ed Cox, for any praise — perhaps because none of the candidates who won got onto the ballot with his assistance.

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Meanwhile, Cox has repeatedly said he has no intention of stepping down — even when anger with his leadership peaked following his failed effort to get Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy onto the gubernatorial ballot at last summer's state GOP convention.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy held a conference call with reporters to push back against a growing feeling he won't get onto the GOP ballot.

It appears she has calculated that was an impossibility, although it's also unclear whether she would have managed to get onto the ballot here at the convention this late in the game — even with state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs» change of heart about the ballot.

Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo, who managed to get himself onto the ballot to force a gubernatorial primary with former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio, is having a fundraiser today at the home of Paladino's brother, Joseph, and is also being assisted by the father of Carl Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo.

Paladino admits he's unlikely to get onto the ballot at the GOP convention this week, saying he intends to take his case «directly to the Republican primary voters» with a petition drive.

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.

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.

I asked what he will do if he doesn't manage to get onto the ballot and he replied with a laugh: «I'll go back to being county executive.»

That's a claim with which I'm sure Lazio's supporters would quibble — particularly if the party indeed is moving forward with a vote that appears structured to benefit Levy, who needs just over twice the 25 percent weighted convention vote Lazio requires to get onto the ballot.

Ganim vowed to forge ahead with a petition drive to get onto the primary ballot.

During the GOP convention, DioGuardi was the only candidate that didn't make it onto the ballot for US Senate, after he failed to get 25 percent in a three - way battle with David Malpass and Bruce Blakeman.

I spoke briefly with Antonacci, and while he declined to disparage Wilson, he also questioned whether the political neophyte would be able to garner sufficient rank - and - file GOP support to get onto the ballot at the convention.

He petitioned his way onto the 2006 AG ballot after being blocked (along with all his fellow Democratic opponents) from getting on at the convention by now - AG Andrew Cuomo.