Sentences with phrase «legislative seats after»

Both Silver and Skelos lost their powerful posts earlier this year, and more recently their legislative seats after convictions in separate corruption trials.

After the 2016 elections, Republicans controlled «4,170 state legislative seats after last week's elections, while Democrats will control 3,129 seats in the nation's 98 partisan legislative chambers,» according to the Hill.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, after passing a tax cut and losing the Alabama Senate seat, his party's legislative agenda is going nowhere.

Three weeks after being selected as leader of the governing Progressive Conservative Party, Premier Jim Prentice still does not have a seat in the Alberta Legislative Assembly.

Ultimately, startups and tech can take a short victory lap after TC Heartland, but should not see the decision as a license for patent reformers to take a back seat in the legislative process.

Flanagan's relationship with Gov. Andrew Cuomo has cooled in recent months, after Cuomo backed Democrats for some Senate seats in the 2016 elections and the governor and legislative leaders had a falling - out over a failed special session in December.

The Nassau County Charter stipulates that if a legislative vacancy occurs after May 1, a special election must be held to fill the seat on the day of the November general election.

Both sides will benefit, Democrats would get Downstate (which in my humble opinion should be called the Commonwealth of New Amsterdam after the most progressive city in Europe and in reference to the city's history), a guaranteed two seats in the US Senate (+1 because Gillibrand did well Upstate in the last election, so 3 seats for the Democrats), guaranteed control of the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches, and the once in a lifetime opportunity to write a state constitution to their own liking (firearms rights applies only to military and police, right to choose for women, protections for LGBT New Yorkers, etc)

The special elections on Tuesday for the seats formerly held by Dean G. Skelos and Sheldon Silver, the two state legislative leaders who were forced to depart Albany after being convicted on corruption charges last year, were supposed to be a test of how long a shadow corruption could cast on a race.

The winner would be sworn in right after Election Day, with a vote for the legislative seat taking place 60 to 90 days later.

After two weeks of anticipation, Catherine Parker was declared victorious in her race for Westchester's District 7 legislative seat.

The Senate seat was vacated five months ago by former Sen. Frank Artiles, a Cuban - American Republican who resigned in the midst of this spring's Legislative Session after a profanity - laced and racially charged outburst at a private club near the Capitol.

Dadey and Fitzpatrick deny they are going after Mahoney because she did not appoint their relatives to the open legislative seat.

«After our historic victories across the country last year, we're confident Democrats can flip this district and oust John Faso once and for all, the same way we've flipped 34 state legislative seats from red to blue since Trump took office.»

The election tribunals and Court of Appeal ordered the re-runs, after voiding the returns for most of the Rivers legislative seats, federal and state; before the Supreme Court, in a bizarre verdict, endorsed the governorship poll, held the same day, and under the same bloody conditions, as the state legislative elections.

Liberal advocates remained frustrated with Cuomo since last year after Democrats came up short in the legislative elections against Republicans, who gained a firm, 33 - seat majority in the Senate chamber.

Seeking to capitalize on the excitement among Republican potential donors after Scott Brown's stunning capture of a Senate seat in Massachusetts last week, two independent groups focused on helping the party regain state legislative majorities before next year's nationwide redistricting are significantly ramping up their efforts.

After Libous» conviction of a single felony count of lying to the FBI about using his public post to get his son, Matthew, a job at a politically connected law firm — a decision that automatically ejected him from his Senate seat — six good government groups renewed their call for a special legislative session to address ethics reform.

Whether it is Clinton or Trump in the presidency, the left will be stronger after the election — including the very practical strength of ballot access in more states — to advance its political alternative in social movements and local elections for municipal, state legislative, and congressional seats.

The digital ad linking Astorino to the Mercers is set to debut Thursday and comes months after the Daily News reported that state Dems were «salivating» at the chance to link Republican candidates to the conservative donors, especially in 2018, when Gov. Cuomo is expected to head a Democratic ticket that will include all statewide elected officials and every House and state legislative seat.

This past April, Castro, now 41, had to resign his Assembly seat when it was revealed that he'd been indicted for perjury, after which he was a government informant for almost his entire tenure in the State Assembly — and helped make a bribery case against a legislative colleague.

After November 8, when all 120 legislative seats in the Garden State are up for election, the legislature will reconvene for a Jersey tradition known as the «lame duck session».

The plea comes after many of Brownback's conservative legislative allies were ousted in the August primaries, and it appears more conservatives may lose their seats in November.