Sentences with phrase «many election lawyers»

An election lawyer informs me that is indeed the case because there are «in effect, two separate elections.»

Among the attorneys bringing the suit is Marc Elias, a veteran Democratic election lawyer who in March was named general counsel to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Helping to bring the case is Marc Elias, a veteran Democratic election lawyer who serves as chief counsel to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Represented by prominent election lawyer Martin Connor, two New York Democrats challenged the validity of Zephyr Teachout's petition to secure a place on the Democratic gubernatorial primary this week.

Mandelker also filed a petition in the Supreme Court in Albany County to validate Teachout's candidacy, but election lawyers said this is basically a defensive measure that gives the opportunity for a court review if the Board of Elections invalidates Teachout's petitions.

The two three - page packets were a follow - up to general objections that former senator Marty Connor, an election lawyer working for the Cuomo campaign, filed on behalf of two Hudson Valley voters.

In February, Data and Field Services settled a lawsuit brought by Randy M. Mastro, a former deputy mayor who is now an election lawyer, that alleged that the Working Families Party had unfairly helped Deborah Rose, the winning candidate in a Staten Island City Council race.

The Democrats who brought the petition are represented by Marty Connor, a longtime Democratic election lawyer and former Senate leader who filed general objections to Teachout's nominating petitions earlier this week.

(Some insiders now speculate that Blake deliberately made the rounds with key election lawyers citywide hoping to hobble the Bronx County Democrats, if Schlein had to recuse himself.)

Marty Connor, an election lawyer and the former leader of the State Senate Democrats, pulled Teachout's voting records and spent Friday and Saturday sharing them with journalists, noting that she claimed to be a permanently disabled voter (this lets her vote by absentee ballot), had no record of voting in New York in 2011 or 2013 and questioned whether she met the five - year residency requirement to be governor.

When allies of the mayor began to set up the Campaign for One New York, after de Blasio's election in 2013, they followed a model established by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — even hiring the same well - established election lawyer, Laurence Laufer, who had helped set up a similar nonprofit to support Cuomo's agenda three years earlier.

Our Holland & Knight election lawyers are well - placed to assist clients in forming political campaign committees and stand ready to answer and advise on Florida's campaign finance laws.

«The law requiring a contribution to be made from one's own money allows no exceptions,» said Jerry Goldfeder, a leading election lawyer.

The Club hopes to set parameters that will be more like guidelines for getting an A on a school paper, in the sense that they will inform a candidate on what they need (election lawyers, campaigners, polling, etc.), rather than insist on a specific course of action.

In July, the wife of Hanks» election lawyer, Richard Luthmann, filed an objection to Marius» petition claiming around 50 people lived outside the district and other had incomplete addresses, the Advance reported.

As Jerry Goldfeder, a prominent Democratic election lawyer (who once worked for Cuomo) pointed out in a column, the governor has until Monday to call special elections, with whoever is elected able to take office for the last scheduled weeks of the legislative session in June.

Jerry Goldfeder, a prominent election lawyer representing LaCorte, says the ruling favors form over substance.

If he declares one, then it must be held 70 to 80 days after that proclamation, said election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder.

«That's the conundrum here,» said Thomas J. Garry, a New York elections lawyer, who said a current congressional candidate who wants to run for attorney general would likely need to file a lawsuit.

Jerry H. Goldfeder, another New York election lawyer, said, «I don't think that would ever happen» but agreed the situation is legally complex.

«New York election law allows political parties some flexibility for their nominating process,» said Jerry Goldfeder, an election lawyer who usually works for Democrats.

There is also the question of cost, said election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder, special counsel for Stroock.

An emissary for the former mayor tried to enlist a top Texas election lawyer for a potential Bloomberg run for president, but the attorney declined because he doesn't believe Bloomberg can win.

Laurence Laufer, de Blasio's longtime election lawyer, lashed out over the leak of a damning government memo alleging criminality in the mayor's fund - raising efforts for a failed, Democratic bid to seize control of the state Senate in 2014.

In a statement, Blackmon's campaign said, «We have a team of the best election lawyers on our side and look forward to the hearing.

Cuomo's campaign also paid $ 11,821 during the most recent filing period to Martin Connor, the election lawyer who argued the campaign's challenge to the residency of his primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout.

«Political parties can spend as they see fit in their own primaries or any other party's primaries,» said election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder.

But a New York election lawyer, who declined to speak on the record, noted Laufer's line that if the contributor, either directly or through his agent, «places restrictions on how the intermediate recipient may use his contribution that may be seen as earmarking.»

«Not the neatest process in the world,» Marty Connor, then a state senator and Stringer's election lawyer, acknowledged to Collins.

«This is a sweeping decision, period,» said Marc Elias, a Democratic election lawyer.

Attorney Joseph LaTona, who represents Maziarz, told WBFO in October 2017 that Board of Elections lawyers were questioning whether the deeds his client was accused of committing were criminal in nature.

Stung by the ruling, Martins — in a rare maneuver that stunned many election lawyers — sought unsuccessfully to have a federal judge reschedule the congressional balloting from Nov. 8, the date of the general elections, to Dec. 6.

Election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder said the decision had potential to change the way special elections for Congressional seats are called in New York, where governors have long enjoyed almost unlimited latitude in declaring a vacancy.

The election lawyer - turned - lawmaker also vaguely outlined the legal case he and Malliotakis might make in seeking a judge's order against the city.

Arthur Greig, the election lawyer representing Clark and Campusano, told Gotham Gazette that it is highly unusual for a run - off - the - mill signature challenge to reach the state's highest court.

Marty Connor, the election lawyer and former state senator who brought the petition on behalf of the Cuomo campaign, pointed to numerous documents filed by Teachout with state governments and the federal government that gave out - of - state addresses.

A review of the Julio Pabon disclosure filing showed it spent $ 4,000 (and owes another $ 6K) on top gun election lawyer Martin Connor; $ 318 on MTA MetroCards; and $ 670 on food for his campaign staff and volunteers at local eateries (Court Deli, Giovanni's Grand Concourse, Little Caesar's Pizza, McDonald's, Mexicozina Taqueria, Parilla Latina Steakhouse, South of France, and Walton Food Service).

Mr. Heastie, who did not immediately return a request for comment, said of Mr. Schlein in a 2008 Village Voice story: «Stanley is a very good election lawyer... That's what's important to me.»

Regarded as a masterful election lawyer and maker of judges, Mr. Schlein has cultivated ties in every single mayoral administration from Abraham Beame in the tumultuous 1970s to Bill de Blasio today.

An emissary for Mike Bloomberg tried to enlist a top Texas election lawyer for a potential Bloomberg run for president, The Post has learned.

«Our election lawyer is currently collecting needed information at the Suffolk County Board of Elections.

From where I sat, I could see Stanley Kalmon Schlein, the longtime election lawyer representing the Bronx Democratic County organization, squirming in his seat.

Niou spent $ 26,000 during the 32 - day special pre-election filing period — including to pay for the services of longtime Democratic Party operative Chung Seto, a top aide to former city Comptroller John Liu, and to election lawyer Martin Connor, a former state senator who used to represent the same downtown neighborhoods that encompass the 65th Assembly District.

According to the State Board of Elections, the only person (other than this reporter) to review Teachout's petitions is Josh Ehrlich, a longtime Democratic election lawyer currently working for the State Senate and a smattering of private clients.

Dunn, now in his sophomore season as an election lawyer, represents the aggrieved voters.

Ciampoli had previously worked for years a top election lawyer for the Senate's Republican majority before he was hired to the county attorney post in 2010 by Nassau County executive Ed Mangano.

Jerry Goldfeder, a prominent election lawyer who has counseled Naomi Rivera, crossed paths with Bermudez when both did work for Lancman's campaign.

The young election lawyer served as president of the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, a club his grandfather co-founded and his father formerly helmed, from 2013 until 2015.

If the petitions are upheld, officials in both camps said, it appears that state election law allows Mr. Mahony's campaign to pick someone to take his place in the primary — a rule so obscure that even election lawyers were unaware of it until this morning.

In September, the IDC Initiative paid about $ 45,000 to Martin Connor, a former Senate Democratic minority leader who's now a prominent election lawyer, and nearly $ 20,000 since last March to the New York City firm Kantor Davidoff.