Sentences with phrase «gubernatorial votes on»

After a series of increasingly desperate pleas for gubernatorial votes on their line — including an email blast from Executive Director Dan Cantor titled «Imagine a state with no WFP» — the party had picked up more than 108,000 votes for Mr. Cuomo as of this writing, more than double the 50,000 needed to cling to the ballot for four years.

It made a name for itself that year by garnering 50,000 gubernatorial votes on its ballot line for Democratic candidate Peter Vallone — enough to ensure the party a place on future ballots.

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The speaker has in the past deemed the so - called «veto - proof majority» (having enough members to guarantee overrides of a gubernatorial veto) a «fiction», noting it's not easy to get every single member of his conference to vote «yes» on controversial issues and see absolutely zero support from the Republicans.

Here's GOP / Conservative Party gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio voting on Long Island today (yes, he voted for himself, and his wife did, too!)

Recall that Paladino won some 94 percent of the vote in Erie County in the GOP gubernatorial primary and is banking on strong numbers in WNY to fuel his longshot effort to defeat Cuomo in the Democrat - dominated state.

On the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula becomes official, Paychex founder erstwhile gubernatorial hopeful Tom Golisano is announcing his intention to try to do away with the Electoral College as part of the National Popular Vote campaign.

George Demos, one of three Republicans fighting to take on Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop in NY - 1, tried to make yesterday's gubernatorial vote at the GOP convention into an issue in his own race, in which he's facing off against state Chairman Ed Cox's son, Chris.

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But in exchange for getting the popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate on its line — thus ensuring it would well surpass the required 50,000 - vote mark to live another four years (the party ended up moving to Row D)-- the WFP had to agree to Cuomo's «New NY Agenda,» which included a slew of agenda items — the property tax cap, no new taxes to close the budget deficit etc. — that the left had opposed.

More than 20 staffers received at least $ 10,000 from Spitzer as a «thank - you» for working on his gubernatorial bid, which he won with an historic 69 percent of the vote.

The Broadway Democrats, a party club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, voted last night by a wide margin to endorse insurgent gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon against her primary target, incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The Rules Committee of the state GOP is scheduled to meet late this afternoon at the Sheraton with lots of thorny issues to work out on the eve of the party's nominating convention, including the order of Wednesday's gubernatorial vote.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo voted without incident on the new electronic voting machines in Mount Kisco earlier today.

Ventura was the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a low - budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to «vote for politics as usual».

November 14, 2017 Tony Evers, a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Wisconsin, was recently the University of Wisconsin Board of Regent's lone vote against a new policy on freedom of expression.

On November 7, Trump Jr. issued two tweets, urging voters in Virginia's gubernatorial election to vote «tomorrow», the day after the election.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo returned to his home turf of Queens for his last campaign rally, telling supporters one last time that he was depending on their votes.

President Trump endorsed GOP California gubernatorial candidate and businessman John Cox on Friday, days after Cox said he was remorseful he did not vote for Trump in the 2016 election because he wasn't sure if Trump was a conservative.

Casinos are designed to deprive you of your sense of time, so when the Connecticut Republicans started — for the first time since the 1960s, we were told — descending into multiple ballots for their gubernatorial nominee, with long, tedious roll calls followed by long, tedious, game - theory - driven vote switches, it seemed like their convention had dragged on late into the night.

It's not helpful to Rice that Meg Whitman, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in California, also had a roughly twenty - year gap of missed votes, which Dems on the West Coast are pounding her over on a weekly basis (this actually strikes me as one of the ways the story will be kept alive, and I will be surprised if someone doesn't do an attack on the DA yoking her to Whitman).

This morning I reached Mermel, who claims to have locked down close to 70 percent of the weighted GOP convention vote for his LG run, but he declined to comment on either Haberman's report or the announcement later today that GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio has tapped Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards as his preferred running mate.

The seven GOP county leaders in NY - 26 will be pick a candidate in a weighted vote that's based on the last congressional — not gubernatorial — election, which was, of course, 2010.

Former gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio joined me on CapTon last night and insisted he has «no regrets» about dropping out of the race to cede the Conservative line to Carl Paladino, although he refused to say whether he will be voting today for the Buffalo businessman who trounced him in the GOP primary on Sept. 14.

H / T to Maggie Haberman, who notes GOTV has taken on a whole new meaning for the Democrats since Carl Paladino won the GOP gubernatorial primary last week — particularly when it comes to upstate, where the Buffalo businessman dominated on Sept. 14, winning some 90 percent of the vote on his home turf, Erie County.

If the party fails to win at least 50,000 votes for its gubernatorial contenders on its ballot line, it will both its line and its official status — and basically all but cease to exist.

«I can tell you tenants would be much more likely to vote for governor on Row E if the candidate is Kenny Schaeffer,» Tenants PAC's Michael McKee told me this afternoon while trying to explain why his board decided to endorse the Working Families Party's placeholder candidate over the Democratic gubernatorial designee, Andrew Cuomo.

For a party to receive automatic ballot access in New York, a gubernatorial candidate must receive at least 50,000 votes on its line.

Committee members» convention votes are weighted based on the number of votes the party received in each election district in the last gubernatorial election.

Mario Cuomo had his eye on H. Carl McCall as Regan's successor, seeing the appointment of New York's first African - American comptroller as a path to help secure minority votes in the coming gubernatorial race.

Despite his past losses, Hawkins garnered more than 100,000 votes in the 2014 New York gubernatorial race and put the Green Party on the fourth line of the ballot, according to Hawkins» press release.

Empire State Democrats fared just fine in the top - of - the - ticket races: Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer coasted with more than 60 percent of the vote, and despite the national media attention lavished on upstart Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino, Democrat Andrew Cuomo sailed to victory by a margin of 27 points.

In 2014, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino won 250,634 votes on the Conservative Party line, amassing a total of about 1.5 million votes in his losing bid to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Coffey also had his ad man, Jimmy Siegel, and Miriam Hess, both of whom worked on Eliot Spitzer's 2006 gubernatorial campaign, whipping votes for him in Niagara Falls.

The stakes are higher for the two parties than for Cuomo: a political party appears automatically on the ballot only if its gubernatorial candidate gains 50,000 or more votes in the previous election.

The formula used by Republicans for allotting delegates is based on municipal vote totals in the last gubernatorial election for the GOP candidates.

The voting was weighted based on the number of gubernatorial votes cast in each town in the last state elections.

SAN ANTONIO — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lupe Valdez made a stop in San Antonio on Saturday, urging people to vote.

If the boundaries of such Election District have been created or changed since the last preceding gubernatorial election then the above formula shall apply based on the votes cast for member of Assembly under the party emblem at the last preceding General Election.

That's good news for Democratic gubernatorial front - runner Andrew Cuomo: It would force Lazio and Paladino to split votes on the right in a state where Democrats already enjoy a roughly 5 - to - 3 enrollment edge.

In many states where the following positions are elected offices, voters elected state executive branch offices (including Lieutenant Governors (though some will be voted for on the same ticket as the gubernatorial nominee), Secretary of state, state Treasurer, state Auditor, state Attorney General, state Superintendent of Education, Commissioners of Insurance, Agriculture or, Labor, etc.) and state judicial branch offices (seats on state Supreme Courts and, in some states, state appellate courts).

Turnout actually dipped below 2002's Democratic gubernatorial primary, when Cuomo took himself out of the race against then - state comptroller Carl McCall shortly before the vote to avoid an expected hiding, and remained on the ballot in name only.

If the boundaries of such Election District have been created or changed since the last preceding General Election at which members of Assembly were elected then the above formula shall apply based on that percentage of the number of persons enrolled in the Party in such Election District on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections which the total vote cast in the County for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election bore to the total Party enrollment in the County on the list of enrolled voters last published by the Board of Elections.

Assuming that a registered Democrat or independent who wants to vote in the Republican gubernatorial primary can do so merely by asking for a Republican ballot, the Republican Party's constitutional right «not to associate» is pretty feeble if the only cost it imposes on that Democrat or independent is a loss of his right to vote for non-Republican candidates for other offices.

While Astorino has not yet formally announced his candidacy, he has made a number of clear indications that he is highly likely to run — regardless of the fact that Paladino, the 2010 GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate, has threatened to challenge him on the Conservative Party, effectively splitting votes on the right and making a long - shot change of ousting the popular and well - funded incumbent governor all the more difficult.

«More than 54, 000 voters found a home in the last Gubernatorial election and chose to vote on the WEP line.

After the chairman's preferred gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Rick Lazio, lost to Carl Paladino in last September's GOP primary, the Conservatives got behind the Buffalo businessman, who went on to win enough votes on their line to boost them to Row C on the ballot.

To place an initiated constitutional amendment on the ballot, proponents must collect valid signatures signatures equal to 10 percent of votes cast for governor in the last gubernatorial general election.

will face former GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi (R) in November after they were the top two vote - getters in Washington's primary on Tuesday.

Though he's never been elected, he received more than 100,000 votes in the 2014 New York gubernatorial race and put the Green Party on the fourth line of the ballot.

The bomb - throwing Buffalo builder got enough votes on the Conservative line in his disastrous gubernatorial campaign against Democrat Andrew Cuomo to secure the No. 3 spot on the ballot for the right - leaning political party, which had once been written off by political observers.