Sentences with phrase «issue in the race»

Once again, here's another installment of our presidential election roundup, with the latest tidbits on the candidates and the law - related issues in the race.

Preschool education is a big issue in the race for governor and Wednesday a committee of state lawmakers heard a sales pitch for more pre-K funding.

Whether Booker should take credit for Newark's progress or some responsibility for continued problems has been a big issue in the race against Republican candidate Steve Lonegan.

The Republican - primary contenders — one - time gubernatorial candidate John Faso of upstate Kinderhook and Dutchess County businessman Andrew Heaney — have also said they are prepared to make BDS a major issue in a race against Teachout.

I read this and say, this is the longest marathon of issues in race relations that affect minorities:

They would have seen the single most important issue in the race between Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota.

A clear understanding of the genetic history of mankind is important in coming to terms with the ultimate issue in race relations — namely, miscegenation.

Amedore, who is trying for the second time to unseat Democratic Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, who beat him by just 18 votes in 2012, has been steadfast in his anti-abortion stance, despite the fact that women's issues — specifically, the governor's 10 - point Women's Equality Act — has been a key wedge issue in this race.

And, though Ayala has the endorsement of the City Council Progressive Caucus and other progressive groups, the two candidates have few disagreements on the key policy issues in the race — the two top contenders posit themselves similarly on charter schools and the East Harlem rezoning, along with affordable housing, generally.

We asked the two aspiring Democratic comptroller candidates, Eliot Spitzer and Scott Stringer, the same question: What do you think is the biggest substantive issue in the race?

Mr. Pataki resists the idea that abortion has become a decisive issue in the race, saying it is «absurd to make it a referendum on abortion.»

The top issues in the race have been second amendment rights, and whether Cuomo's gun control laws go too far, the heroin epidemic, and the economy of a region that is among the poorest in the state.

Also at 10 a.m., Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins and Curtis Sliwa will hold a press conference discussing issues in the race, Mineola Village Hall, 55 Washington Ave., Mineola, Long Island.

City Council contenders Kevin Kim and Dan Halloran answered tough questions about issues in the race to replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) at an East Bayside Homeowners Association candidates forum last week.

In the e-mail, Obama calls Murphy an «ally for change» and cites his support for the economic stimulus bill that the president signed in February, a piece of legislation that has become a hot - button issue in the race.

Lancaster village trustee: One of the most contentious issues in this race has been whether a candidate will marry an incumbent trustee.

Rep. Bill Owens (D - Plattsburgh) is making Medicare a big issue in his race with Republican Matt Doheny.

In the First District's Democratic primary on the East End, venture capitalist David Calone's repeated mailings that attempt to tie former Southampton Supervisor Anna Throne - Holst to Trump because she made contributions to the Conservative Party, which endorsed him, have fueled one of the most heated issues in the race.

The performance of the department charged with investigating claims of child abuse has become an election issue in the race for Erie County executive — and for good reason — Jim Heaney says in the latest video edition of Outrages & Insights.

«The real issue in this race is who's going to stand up for middle class Arkansas families,» Halter said on CNN's State of the Union.

Northern York Congressional candidate Aaron Woolf, a Democrat, today called on his Republican challenger, Elise Stefanik, to fully support raising the minimum wage and to raise taxes on the wealthy — defining issues in the race for the open seat.

Those opposed to the majority and its agenda are making the politics and controversy surrounding Paladino a central issue in the race.

But with the election inside of three weeks away, the town hall - style debate at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island firmly established climate change as an outcast issue in the race.

In one of his largest installations, REWIND, Rucker addresses social and cultural issues in race, class, and power by re-envisioning historical events and connecting them to current issues of power and injustice in America.

Smyth identified infrastructure improvements, particularly to water systems and quality, providing shovel ready sites for economic development and expanding economic opportunities as important issues in the race to become the county government chief executive.

This proved to be a wedge issue in the race — one that Hochul and her Democratic allies exploited to the hilt.

Without a driving policy issue in the race, who votes, and therefor who wins, will be a combination of voter awareness and motivation.

Two minutes deep into the five - candidate showdown, Weiner was already acknowledging and apologizing for his sexting scandal, but he urged voters to move beyond his «personal failings» and focus on the more substantive issues in the race.

In Hoboken, opposition to charter schools was a decisive issue in a race that swept into office a new slate of the school board candidates.

The strategy paid off: Polls showed that voters, after watching public schools sustain deep cuts, considered education the top issue in the race.

Latimer cited controlling property taxes, health care, the environment, economic fairness and delivery of government services as key issues in the race.

«A big issue in our race is the medical device excise tax in Obamacare,» Tisei said, noting that Massachusetts is home to more than 400 medical device companies and that even Elizabeth Warren has opposed the tax.

Now he has to catch up on the issues in his race against a rabid Eagles backer

Hydrofracking has become an issue in that race, and considering how passionately people feel about that, it could drive up turnout.

«Louise Slaughter's age isn't the issue in this race.

[10] Hall's age was an issue in the race, and Ratcliffe portrayed himself as part of the next generation of conservative leaders.

It has become an issue in the race for New York governor, with incumbent Cuomo pushing challengers Cynthia Nixon and Marc Molinaro to release tax returns for the last 10 years.

Candidates in contested Congressional primaries have appeared on recent episodes of Kentucky Tonight to discuss key issues in their races.

So far, it has been Cohen coming out of his corner throwing haymakers with New Rochelle Judge Susan Kettner now becoming an issue in the race.

Do you see the likeability factor being much of an issue in that race?

(This hasn't been an issue in the race, but Schneiderman is the sponsor of the controversial measure that calls for counting prisoners at their home addresses and not where they're incarcerated).

The president's decision to break his silence last Friday on the mosque proposed for construction near Ground Zero raised the volume on an already controversial issue, catapulting it into the political stratosphere and becoming an issue in races all over New York and the nation — even after (or maybe because?)

«We worked hard not to make it an issue in the race,» the spokesman, William O'Reilly, said.

It's become an issue in the race for New York governor, with Gov. Cuomo pushing challengers Cynthia Nixon and Marc Molinaro to release tax returns for the last ten years.

... He claims he's going to put in a lot of his own money, and money seems to be an issue in every race,» DeFrancisco said.

Gennaro in his statement says he's more concerned about the chances of Weiner's baggage distracting from the issues in the race.

Ratcliff, 48, has made Hall's age an issue in the race.

The Albany Times Union has a useful rundown of how the stimulus bill is playing out as an issue in the race.)