Sentences with phrase «handpicked successor as»
Not exact matches
For example, former Congressman Thomas Manton used it to handpick Joe Crowley as his successor.
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Jackson is now running again for the seat against Espaillat's handpicked successor, Marisol Alcantara, as well as Luis Tejada and the button's favorite candidate, Micah Lasher.
There's loads of buzz about reconfiguring Rep. Charles Rangel's Harlem congressional district — not so much to help him get re-elected next year, but to save his seat for the man seen as his handpicked successor, Manhattan Democratic Chairman and longtime Assemblyman Keith Wright.
EISENSTEIN»S TREASURER — Daily News's Reuven Blau: «The president of the Shomrim neighborhood patrol accused of raping a teenager also serves as the campaign treasurer for state Assemblyman Dov Hikind's handpicked successor, the Daily News has learned.
INWOOD — With his handpicked successor officially in place to run for State Senate, State Sen. Adriano Espaillat is declaring this year's elections as «the year of the woman.»
A snap election was called for April 14th and the late Venezuelan president's handpicked successor, former foreign minister Nicolas Máduro, ran as the ruling party Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) candidate.
Roosevelt had handpicked Taft as his political successor, but when Taft compromised many of Roosevelt's most cherished beliefs, Roosevelt ran against him for the presidency — a decision with consequences that still echo in our own time.