Sentences with phrase «in upstate districts»

One question... why is it a problem when DeBlasio raises money to help elect Democrats in upstate districts while the extremely wealthy NYC real estate interests ship boatloads of money upstate for the same purpose?

As for NYC, well those races will be competitive when there are GOP candidates willing to run «outside the box» and the same for the Democrats in upstate districts.

«The ploy is obvious — he is offering $ 100 million for urban schools in upstate districts represented by Assembly Democrats,» Easton said in a statement.

The problem, of course, is that the Senate Republicans are suing over the 2009 law, arguing it was illegally enacted (as part of an emergency extender bill) and also that it disenfranchises voters who live in upstate districts that are home to prisons.

Jeffrey M. Stonecash, a professor of political science at Syracuse University, said some Democrats in upstate districts that have a history of electing Republicans «don't want anything to do with Obama» as November approaches.

Part of the problem for some of the races is Cuomo's unpopularity in upstate districts, especially in the areas where Democrats Terry Gipson and Cecilia Tkaczyk are running for re-election against Sue Serino and George Amedore respectively.

«Voters in this upstate district would also be most susceptible to the argument that Democrat reunification and a Democrat Majority in the Senate (and therefore give downstate control of the entire state government) would lead to NYC getting everything at the expense of upstate and Central New York,» the source said.

New York's 21st District Former White House aide Elise Stefanik defeated repeat candidate Matt Doheny for the Republican nomination in this upstate district.

New York election law doesn't require Paterson to call for a special election to fill Massa's seat, even though voters in the upstate district would be without a representative for 10 months.

The two essentially split the Republican vote in the upstate district, leading to a surprise Owens win.

Her GOP opponent is former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, a Long Island native with long roots in the upstate district, parts of which he represented for 15 years.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Anyone who wonders whether Congressmember Sean Patrick Maloney regrets having given up his days and evenings as a Manhattan attorney in exchange for the life of a minority party House member sitting through long DC committee hearings and weekending in his upstate district to attend pancake breakfasts and ribbon - cuttings should consider just -LSB-...]

This week, the Fordham Law prof jumped into the race to succeed retiring Rep. Chris Gibson (R - Kinderhook) in an upstate district that covers parts of 11 counties.

Not exact matches

The most important case mentioned in the article was an upstate New York Republican - leaning district where a Democrat won by attacking the Medicare cuts in the....

Despite Astorino's loss to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, Senate Republicans swept three upstate districts in the Hudson Valley and in the Rochester area.

In taking on Hayworth, Maloney becomes the Democrats best hope for taking back a seat the party lost in the GOP take back of several suburban and upstate districts in 201In taking on Hayworth, Maloney becomes the Democrats best hope for taking back a seat the party lost in the GOP take back of several suburban and upstate districts in 201in the GOP take back of several suburban and upstate districts in 201in 2010.

Senate Republicans hold a narrow majority in the chamber, while Democrats expect to do well in suburban and upstate swing districts with Hillary Clinton atop the party's ticket this year.

The Senate Republicans, who have steadfastly refused to approve the DREAM Act in their chamber, employed that same approach in the last election cycle with considerable success — especially in upstate and Long Island districts.

The hope for Senate Republicans in part is that a unified Senate Democratic conference could help pull the chamber toward the New York City center of power, diluting upstate lawmakers» influence (it's worth noting that Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic leader, is from a suburban district, not New York City.

GOP lawmakers have run hard against the passage of the bill, especially in upstate and suburban battleground districts where support among voters for the proposal is thin.

A version of the Senate's anti-sanctuary city bill has already been approved last year, with votes from moderate mainline Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Todd Kaminsky, George Latimer, Kevin Parker and Tim Kennedy (Democrats from upstate and suburban districts in the Assembly opposed the sanctuary state bill).

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Thursday sought to exert pressure on Republicans in swing districts in upstate New York after it was revealed Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice last with the Russian ambassador.

«She has long served her constituents with strength and passion and as a senior member in Congress is responsible for many initiatives and has secured both funding and support for many critical issues,» said Reed, who represents a neighboring upstate district.

Albany observers are now betting against that scenario, suggesting it's more likely, given the population loss in Western New York, that two of three upstate Democrats — Reps. Brian Higgins, Kathy Hochul and Louise Slaughter — could end up in some kind of head - to - head contest, while retiring Rep. Maurice Hinchey's district (NY - 22) is obliterated to meet one half of New York's two - seat loss requirement.

He explored a run for governor in 2010, but has attracted a legion of new critics and drawn a crowd of challengers in his upstate New York district — after twice winning reelection by landslide margins.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

The same goes for universal pre-K, a wasteful babysitting program, mandated by the NYC majorities in the legislature and universally detested by upstate school districts.

Niagara Falls Republican Angelo J. Morinello ousted him from his 145th District Assembly seat in the most expensive Assembly race in upstate history, with more than $ 2 million spent by the candidates, the parties and outside groups.

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

The campaign releases themselves (a typical headline: «Amedore Voted For 96 Tax Increases In Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voterIn Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voterin suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voterin which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voters.

The National Republican Congressional Committee on Monday released a series of robocalls in battleground districts throughout the country, including the upstate House races for the 21st and 22nd districts.

The last thing he or anyone wanted to do was to turn this upstate seat over to the New York City - dominated Senate Democrats, who raised taxes by $ 14 billion and shifted resources out of the Capital District when they were in the majority.»

Also upstate, Democrats expect a competitive race in the district held by Republican George Amedore, who narrowly lost his first run for Senate in 2012 against Democrat Cecilia Tkaczyk.

New York Rep. Tom Reed raised more than $ 660,000 in the second quarter, according to numbers provided first to CQ Roll Call, a strong sum as the top Democratic target defends his upstate district.

Her strategy of logging hundreds of miles in her Ford pickup through the largely rural district in upstate New York has also won over many who viewed her as an outsider during her first campaign — even some of her biggest detractors.

Teachout, 45, is a Fordham University associate law professor and the Democratic nominee in upstate New York's open 19th District.

Primaries in Competitive General Elections New York's 21st District The GOP brawl between attorney Matt Doheny and former Bush White House staffer Elise Stefanik for retiring Rep. Bill Owens» upstate New York seat could go down to the wire.

Part of the tricky situation is that Cuomo is not popular in some of these upstate and rural Senate districts Democrats won two years ago and are now defending.

The Assembly last month approved a bill that extended mayoral control for two years packaged with the extension of sales and other local taxes — many of which impact districts in upstate and suburban counties that are represented by Republicans in the Senate.

The SAFE Act's passage angered gun owners in New York and several Republicans from upstate districts elected in recent years have vowed to repeal the measure.

While predominantly Republican, the GOP conference isn't leaving anything to chance in the Southern Tier district, where its largest county, Broome, voted to re-elect Cuomo last year (one of only a handful of upstate counties that backed the incumbent Democrat over Republican Rob Astorino).

Rallies or demonstrations were held in a half - dozen swing state Senate districts on Long Island and in the upstate region.

Historically, the Republican Party has been strongest in upstate New York where, until the 1970s, the state constitution apportioned voting districts «in such a manner that allowed more votes to be cast per voting district.»

The notable exception was quite frankly in the Capital district and Nanoscale where the state made a significant contribution and with some real talent from Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, literally generated an entire industry, but it shows what the state could do when the state invested but the state, besides the Capital district in many ways forgot the rest of upstate New York and we said we were going to change that and reverse it and we did and it is already paying dividends and we want to do it again and we want to start it with taxes.

In upstate New York, Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne (aka Mr. Machine) gets a nasty surprise from reform candidate David Soares.

The 29th District seat of former Rep. Eric Massa (D) had been held by two Republicans before Massa and was considered by both parties to be a shoo - in for the GOP, but other Democratic - held upstate seats such as the 20th District (Rep. Scott Murphy), the 24th District (Arcuri) and the 25th District (Rep. Dan Maffei's race, which remains too close to call) had only recently shifted toward the Democrats.

Two polls released yesterday in upstate conservative districts (19th and 21) showed Hawkins at 12 %.

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Squadron expressed his frustration with upstate Republicans creating legislation to regulate rent - regulated apartments when there aren't any in their districts.

Chris Edes is the nominee of both parties for Monroe County legislator, district 24, in upstate New York.