Sentences with phrase «last ran in a primary»

He has won elections to the City Council and then to the State Assembly, but he last ran in a primary in 2009, when he bid for city comptroller and mustered only 10 percent of the vote.

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«I know what I'm doing in the future; I am running for re-election, there is no question about that in anybody's mind,» said the speaker, whose last significant challenges came in 2008 when he easily defeated two primary opponents — his first in some 20 years.

The lawmaker, though, has been eyeing the exit from the chamber for the last several years, having run unsuccessfully last year in a Democratic primary for mayor of Mount Vernon.

He has always been something of an outsider, conferencing with the Republicans during his last stint in the Senate and then running against an incumbent Democrat, former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., in the 2008 primary.

Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.

Hochul has said she will run in NY - 27 and won't primary Higgins (although there are some who believe she might reconsider this after Higgins failed to elect his top aide, Chris Fahey, to the 145th AD in last week's special election).

Carl Paladino skipped the Conservative Party convention in Manhattan last Friday at which Lorigo conspired with the Long Island chairs (supporters of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, also a no - show) to get himself and John Andrew Kay nominated to force a primary with Rick Lazio and his running mate, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards.

Vincent Morgan, a former Rangel aide (who also happens to be related to former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford), has already said he plans to run next fall after finishing dead last in the 2010 primary.

Democrats will have a competitive primary between state Rep. Steve Santarsiero and small - business owner Shaughnessy Naughton (who ran a competitive race in last year's primary).

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.

Former Rep. Paul Broun announced he's running for Congress in Georgia's 9th District, and he faces not just a primary against an incumbent fellow Republican but the haze of an ethics investigation dating back to his last term in the House.

Here's one of two TV ads Sen. Bill Stachowski is running as he battles a primary challenge from Erie County Legislator Tim Kennedy in a fight that every well could be the last the veteran Buffalo Democrat wages.

Community Board 6 member Lynn Schulman gave Queens Democratic Party - supported Karen Koslowitz a run for her money in the race for City Councilwoman Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) seat last month in the primary.

But political hopeful Philip Pidot is pressing for a new primary in federal court after a state court judge ruled he was eligible to run as a Republican ballot but there was not enough time to get Pidot's name on the primary ballot by last Tuesday.

Four Republicans crossed the aisle to help pass gay marriage in New York last year, and three of them are running for re-election this year, Senators Mark Grisanti, Steve Saland and Roy McDonald, are all facing primary challengers that have come out on the opposite side of the marriage issue.

Speculation arose last week that Democrat Paul Vallone, who came in third in the Sept. 15 primary with 22 percent of the vote, would run on the Republican line, replacing Auburndale attorney Dan Halloran after a story surfaced earlier this month about Halloran's leadership in a pre-Christian pagan religion.

He has been a rumored candidate to replace Mr. Ragusa, who angered some party insiders when he ran a primary opponent against Mr. Ulrich's State Senate bid last year — the latest in what has been an ongoing feud between the party's two factions.

Since last week, when actress Cynthia Nixon announced she would challenge Mr. Cuomo who is running for a third term in the Democratic primary, Mr. Greenberg has new ammo: Pass the «Child Victims Act,» or he's with her.

There was one surprise guest: Rep. Ed Towns, who last year endorsed Jeffries» opponent in the primary, Councilman Charles Barron, after Jeffries unceremoniosly ran the longtime congressman into retirement.

Democrat Ginny Fields, who lost her Assembly seat after losing a party primary last September, is looking to make a comeback by running for $ 76,800 a year post of Islip tax receiver in November.

Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl's effort at running in the Republican mayoral primary appears to be continuing, notwithstanding an adverse ruling last week by the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division.

Catsimatidis last ran for mayor, unsuccessfully, in 2013, losing the Republican primary race to Joe Lhota.

When Mr. de Blasio was a long - shot contender in last year's Democratic primary, NYCLASS ran an independent expenditure against his top rival, ex-Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

Michael Bistreich, who slapped Councilman Vincent Gentile with the suit last year, blasted Justin Brannan — a former Gentile aide running in next month's Democratic primary for the Bay Ridge seat.

Last week Dietl lost his appeal in his lawsuit seeking reinstatement to the Republican Party and the associated right to run in the Republican primary.

After all, he was running in a primary last year against the sitting lieutenant governor who had the endorsement of the outgoing two - term governor and the rest of the Democratic party establishment.

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.

Nunes had attempted a run for the late City Councilman Thomas White's seat last year, but lost to White in the primary.

Romney also poured a small fortune into South Carolina during his last presidential run, only to pull out at the last minute ahead of a disappointing fourth place finish in the 2008 primary.

Niou is running for the lower Manhattan Assembly district currently led by Alice Cancel, who she defeated in a Democratic primary last month.

There is no primary in this special election... FYI Denver did primary Libous last year and lost, and did not run.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

While Haber is unknown to half the voters in the 7th SD — despite the fact that he ran a failed campaign for Nassau County executive last year, losing to former County Executive Tom Suozzi in the Democratic primary — and is viewed unfavorably by nearly as many voters as view him favorably.

Democratic state lawmakers who ran in House primaries this past month missed a slew of votes over the last six months while running for federal office, according to today's NYPIRG analysis.

Last month, a law mandating microstamping passed the Democrat - controlled Assembly by a vote of 85 to 60 — a vote that, ironically, Meng missed because she was busy campaigning in the run - up to the primary.

Cuomo made a few last - minute endorsements in the hours before the primary, backing Rep. Charlie Rangel, who successfully held off multiple challengers, including Sen. Adriano Espaillat; and Assemblywoman Grace Meng, who's running in a newly - drawn district in Cuomo's native borough of Queens.

After Mr. Avella joined a group of breakaway Democrats that govern the State Senate with the Republican Party, Mr. Crowley pushed Mr. Liu to run against Mr. Avella: it was this primary, in part, that eventually drove the Independent Democratic Conference to agree last month to eventually govern with the mainline Democratic conference, potentially putting the GOP in the minority for 2015.

Luis Tejada, a local activist who also ran in the last Senate primary, rounds out the field.

Last year, one in four legislators ran unopposed in both the primary and general elections.

Last month, activist and actress Cynthia Nixon announced she would run in a Democratic primary.

The decision means that Perez Williams, a Syracuse lawyer who ran an unsuccessful campaign for Syracuse mayor last year, will face Balter, a visiting assistant teaching professor at Syracuse University, in a June 26 Democratic primary.

After losing to Republican Joe Miller in the GOP primary last Tuesday, Murkowski decided to run as a write - in candidate in November against Miller and Scott McAdams, the Democratic nominee.

But in the Democratic primary last year, Margulies spurned a male contender with unquestioned local ties in favor of Zephyr Teachout, a Manhattan law professor who'd just moved to the district to run.

He said the last in recollection was the 1989 race between Rudy Giuliani and the wealthy Ronald Lauder, who ran an «absolutely vicious» primary, Muzzio said.

Doheny doesn't yet have competition for the GOP nod, since the man he defeated in the primary last year, Doug Hoffman, (the Tea Party darling of the 2009 special election, who forced former Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava out of the race and then split the vote with her, costing the Republicans a seat they'd held for more than a century), hasn't yet decided whether to run.

Cuomo, who has been attempting to recruit a candidate to run against de Blasio in next year's Democratic primary for mayor, blindsided Hizzoner last week with a state budget plan the mayor said would cost the city some $ 800 million — prompting a furious de Blasio to vow to kill the plan «by any means necessary.»

Kamillah Hanks, a Staten Island native, launched a run against Debi Rose in the Democratic primary for her North Shore City Council seat last month.

How you can run in a democratic primary after giving $ 800 to the last republican in the same district that you're running in is just mind boggling.

The Alabama Senate primary last month, in which a far - right challenger defeated a more establishment Republican whom the president had endorsed, served as a warning flare for Trump's team, highlighting the risk he could run if he alienates the core supporters who helped lift him to electoral victory.

Anai, running as «Akile Cainion,» took seven percent of the vote in the District 6 primary last August, placing sixth out of the eight - person field.