Sentences with phrase «last congressional run»

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In the last congressional election in Brazil (where all candidates run state - wide rather than in electoral districts) the candidate who received the most votes in the state of Sao Paulo was a television clown.

The crowded field of declared candidates running for the Democratic nomination in the 21st congressional district shrank in the last two days after the formal entrance of former cable news Dylan Ratigan.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

Republican congressional candidate Christopher Cox — the grandson of Richard Nixon — and his family members have poured close to $ 80,000 since the middle of last year into local Republican committees and campaigns in the district where Cox is running, POLITICO has learned.

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advocate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

The comments are in response to the DCCC's apparent effort to get Perez Williams, who ran unsuccessfully for Syracuse mayor last year, on the Democratic congressional primary ballot.

As you'll recall, news of the Cox - Catsimatidis union broke last April — right as the groom - to - be was in the middle of what turned out to be a failed congressional run in NY - 1 (his family has a house in the Hamptons, but he had been living in Manhattan).

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advcoate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

Martins gave up his seat in the state Senate last year to run for an open congressional district being vacated by Democratic Rep. Steve Israel.

Balter, a visiting assistant teaching professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, hired a finance director last December to help coordinate her 24th Congressional District run.

Kaiman, who announced last Sunday he would leave his state posts as chairman of the Nassau Interim Finance Authority and special adviser to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on storm recovery to run for the congressional seat held by retiring Rep. Steve Israel (D - Huntington), said he was not familiar with the scope of Terry's financial problems.

, a visiting assistant teaching professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, hired a finance director last December to help coordinate her 24th Congressional District run.

The National Republican Congressional Committee sent a staffer out to the Golden State last week to search for and meet with potential candidates and convince them to run in competitive districts in San Diego, Palm Springs and Sacramento, according to a source with knowledge of the visit.

Former Rep. Vito Fossella has issued one of those infamous «not yes, not no» statements in response to his endorsement last night by the Staten Island GOP to run for his old congressional seat in NY - 13.

(CNN)- Ron Barber, an aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will run for the Arizona Congressional seat left empty when Giffords resigned from Congress last month.

As Florida Politics reported last week, Democrats believe they are on the precipice of retaking the Florida Senate for the first time in the 21st century — but JJR's congressional run, which since Rick Scott's signature put resign - to - run back into Florida law for federal offices, and which would require JJR to leave the Senate in April, could jeopardize their narrow path to do so.

While the last to announce, Collier says she's been «seriously thinking» about running for Congress in the 19th New York Congressional District «for a very long time.»

Taddeo last ran for office in 2016 in Florida's 26th Congressional District, when she faced former U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia in the Democratic primary.

In the email, DSCC Chairman Mike Gianaris notes that Chuck Fuschillo resigned at the end of last year to lead the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, while Sen. Lee Zeldin is running for the First Congressional District.

The race for the 21st congressional district opened up last year when Democratic Rep. Bill Owens announced he was retiring rather than running for a second term.

With Friday as the last day of qualifying for the federal ballot, three Democrats and five Republicans have qualified to run for the 15th Congressional District being vacated by Dennis Ross, a Lakeland Republican.

Rye Town Supervisor and Congressional candidate Joe Carvin (R - NY - 17), who is running for Congress on a platform of economic growth and to tame the Washington overspending, last week added a live U.S. Debt Clock to his campaign website, which can be seen at www.Carvin2012.com.

He ran against a popular, deft incumbent who then decided to retire from the House after 2016, so Democrats nursed renewed hopes in last year's congressional election.

Katko is running for reelection in a congressional district that has changed parties for the last five election cycles, and has expressed concern over Trump's tone and divisive rhetoric, saying Trump will have to earn his vote.

With the primary for Congress set for June and the Senate primary set for September, Mr. Espaillat can do what he's done the last two cycles if he loses the congressional race: quickly turn around and run for his old seat.

Weprin, a Queens Assemblyman, was picked by the Democrats last week to run in a September special election for the remainder of Weiner's Congressional term.

A last - minute cash infusion by a former congressional candidate is boosting the candidacy of Ben Walsh, who is running a neck - and - neck race for Syracuse mayor.

Republican state Sen. Joe Robach in an interview Thursday said he is weighing a run for the congressional seat that was held by Rep. Louise Slaughter, who died last week.

Ball at one point had been rumored as a possible candidate in the 18th congressional district, but took himself out of the running last year.

The National Republican Congressional Committee rolled out Nasty Cooking on Facebook last week to poke fun at Democrats running for Congress.

Last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began running ads in the district hitting Rouzer's Medicare stance, and the National Republican Congressional Committee responded in kind.

Sonju, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor last year, spent much of Thursday at the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is preparing for a potential Senate bid by freshman GOP Rep. Steve Daines.

(CNN)- Doug Hoffman - the conservative third party candidate running in upstate New York's closely watched special congressional election - raked in $ 116,000 in the last 24 hours, a campaign spokesman confirmed to CNN.

Bipartisanship was once again a key focus in the last debate between the two candidates running in the 24th Congressional District.

Espaillat's declaration — forecasted by Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez last week — comes as Rangel, whose territory has changed under New York's new Congressional redistricting plans, has tried to quash buzz that he planned to run again only to resign and anoint a successor of his choice.

The interviewers asked Perez about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's move last Thursday to publish opposition research on its website against Laura Moser, a progressive Democrat who is running to unseat incumbent Republican Rep. John Culberson in Texas» seventh district near Houston.

George Demos, 37, of Ronkonkoma, who has run Republican primaries in the last two congressional races, losing both times to Randy Altschuler, has once again vowed to run a Republican primary for the seat.

Walden, who has served as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee for nearly two years, traveled to New York last week to show his support for a few Republican candidates running in competitive races.

Carvin Adds U.S. Debt Clock to Campaign Website Rye Town Supervisor and Congressional candidate Joe Carvin (R - NY - 17), who is running for Congress on a platform of economic growth and to tame the Washington overspending, last week added a live U.S. Debt Clock to his campaign website, which can be seen at www.Carvin2012.com.

Weprin (D) and Ulrich (R) will not run because the last thing they'll want to do is vacate a seat for a congressional seat that could very well be gerrymandered into oblivion.

Democrats in the 24th Congressional District decide this week who should run against Rep. John Katko, the Republican who has represented the four - county district, centered in Syracuse, for the last two years.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel said last month that he had contacted former Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D - S.D.) about running for her old seat in 2012.

The only Democrat to hold the Island congressional seat in the last 30 years, McMahon recently told Roll Call that he's not ruling out a run.

Corning mayor Tom Reed has already been running since last July, and was one of the first candidates to be named to the National Republican Congressional Committee's «Young Guns» list of leading recruits.

Unlike Crist, a telegenic sitting governor and former attorney general who first ran for statewide office in 1986, Meek entered the race last year without much of a profile beyond of his Miami - area congressional district.

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