Sentences with phrase «many upstate districts»

Despite Astorino's loss to Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, Senate Republicans swept three upstate districts in the Hudson Valley and in the Rochester area.

In taking on Hayworth, Maloney becomes the Democrats best hope for taking back a seat the party lost in the GOP take back of several suburban and upstate districts in 2010.

«Voters in this upstate district would also be most susceptible to the argument that Democrat reunification and a Democrat Majority in the Senate (and therefore give downstate control of the entire state government) would lead to NYC getting everything at the expense of upstate and Central New York,» the source said.

«She has long served her constituents with strength and passion and as a senior member in Congress is responsible for many initiatives and has secured both funding and support for many critical issues,» said Reed, who represents a neighboring upstate district.

However, one state Senate Republican from an upstate district quickly shot down the proposal.

The campaign releases themselves (a typical headline: «Amedore Voted For 96 Tax Increases In Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voters.

New York Rep. Tom Reed raised more than $ 660,000 in the second quarter, according to numbers provided first to CQ Roll Call, a strong sum as the top Democratic target defends his upstate district.

New York's 21st District Former White House aide Elise Stefanik defeated repeat candidate Matt Doheny for the Republican nomination in this upstate district.

The SAFE Act's passage angered gun owners in New York and several Republicans from upstate districts elected in recent years have vowed to repeal the measure.

Part of the problem for some of the races is Cuomo's unpopularity in upstate districts, especially in the areas where Democrats Terry Gipson and Cecilia Tkaczyk are running for re-election against Sue Serino and George Amedore respectively.

Among Republicans, they are looking at about a dozen senators, including Gregory R. Ball of Putnam County, Andrew J. Lanza of Staten Island, and Mark Grisanti, James S. Alesi and Roy J. McDonald, who represent upstate districts.

A Siena College poll released last night for two conservative upstate districts (19 and 21) showed Hawkins and Jones had climbed to 12 %.

Larry Spring, superintendent of the Schenectady School District, said existing state funding formulas were already unequal — a long - held belief of many upstate districts.

New York election law doesn't require Paterson to call for a special election to fill Massa's seat, even though voters in the upstate district would be without a representative for 10 months.

Jeffrey M. Stonecash, a professor of political science at Syracuse University, said some Democrats in upstate districts that have a history of electing Republicans «don't want anything to do with Obama» as November approaches.

The two essentially split the Republican vote in the upstate district, leading to a surprise Owens win.

Libous privately argued to members of his conference that Bloomberg, who has contributed $ 1.2 million to the Senate GOP since 2003, is unlikely to continue his support given the close split in the chamber and should therefore not be put ahead of the gun lobby, which not only has deep pockets, but also passionate grassroots advocates in crucial upstate districts.

The problem, of course, is that the Senate Republicans are suing over the 2009 law, arguing it was illegally enacted (as part of an emergency extender bill) and also that it disenfranchises voters who live in upstate districts that are home to prisons.

Why couldn't someone like Dave Valesky — who ran unopposed as a Dem in a fairly conservative upstate district — cast the deciding 32nd vote for the GOP, while the rest of the IDC sits out?

The only legislative leader from an upstate district is Brian Kolb, the Assembly minority leader.

The measure voted on today in the chamber was sponsored by Sen. James Seward, an Oneonta - area Republican whose upstate district includes the headquarters firearms manufacturer Remington Arms, which had threatened to displace workers following the passage of the SAFE Act.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Bronx Democrat who was elected speaker at the beginning of the year, is traveling to upstate districts of his members.

Rank - and - file lawmakers and members of the conference leadership are blaming a Republican «wave» that contributed to their losses on Election Day, including the unseating of three freshman Democrats from upstate districts.

Some note the Senate Dems have never enlisted de Blasio to campaign for candidates in their suburban or upstate districts.

There was little political rationale for legalizing it, the numbers suggested: statewide support did not extend deeply into the rural, upstate districts that are crucial to the state's Republican Party.

«The ploy is obvious — he is offering $ 100 million for urban schools in upstate districts represented by Assembly Democrats,» Easton said in a statement.

In New York City and some upstate districts, young children are taking bubble tests or online exams, even though some of the children can't yet hold a pencil or use a computer, union leaders said during a conference call Thursday.

As for NYC, well those races will be competitive when there are GOP candidates willing to run «outside the box» and the same for the Democrats in upstate districts.

And Republican state Sen. Thomas Libous took home a majority of his upstate district's support with 62 percent of the vote defeating his Democratic opponent, the AP reported.

She made the transition from representing an upstate district and their values to better representing the values of the entire state pretty quickly and seamlessly.

The issue was used with devastating effect against Democratic candidates in several upstate districts, but it is relatively inoffensive to major G.O.P. donors and business groups.

One reason was that he played such an instrumental role in anointing Ms. Clinton's successor, an unknown congresswoman from a rural upstate district named Kirsten Gillibrand.

He engineered the drawing of new lines around Burling's upstate district in 2012, said well - placed sources on both sides of the aisle in Albany.

As a moderate Democrat in the House representing an upstate district, Gillibrand was more centrist on gun control and at one point had an «A» rating from the NRA.

The measure was approved in the Assembly by a thin margin with Democrats from suburban and upstate districts voting against the bill.

One question... why is it a problem when DeBlasio raises money to help elect Democrats in upstate districts while the extremely wealthy NYC real estate interests ship boatloads of money upstate for the same purpose?

With the Republican Party split between party - backed Dede Scozzafava and Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, recent surveys suggests Owens is in the lead — giving Democrats a rare shot at a pickup in this solidly - Republican upstate district.

The two upstate districts that lost the most people are in western New York: the 27th, which is held by Brian Higgins, a three - term Democrat, and the 28th, which is held by Louise M. Slaughter, a 12 - term Democrat.

Republican senators, however, are doing extensive polling within their districts and some said several upstate districts still strongly oppose same - sex marriage.

I reported back in the beginning of the month (second item) that the RSLC would be dropping close to $ 1 million to help the GOP in three upstate districts and in one Long Island district.

Because NY will lose two congressional districts to faster - growing states, it was widely believed that Anthony Weiner's former district would be eliminated along with an upstate district.

The current state budget includes $ 300 million for full - day pre-K programs in New York City and $ 40 million for those in the rest of the state, but Capital reported this week that few upstate districts plan to participate.

While representing an upstate district in the House, Gillibrand achieved the lowest «party unity» score of any New York Democrat, earning a score of 91 out of 100 in 2008 rankings compiled by Congressional Quarterly which track party - line votes.

Her GOP opponent is former Assembly Minority Leader John Faso, a Long Island native with long roots in the upstate district, parts of which he represented for 15 years.

Some of the donors who have urged Mr. Ford to consider a run expressed alarm as Ms. Gillibrand, who as a congresswoman represented a conservative upstate district, has abandoned some of her previous positions on issues like gun control and immigration as she prepares to run statewide.

The legislature, a body with many representatives from upstate districts that have few renters, has weakened rent regulation laws year after year.

In New York, Ms. Gillibrand, a former House member from a conservative upstate district who had just been appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, was moving to the left on several issues in anticipation of a primary this year.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Anyone who wonders whether Congressmember Sean Patrick Maloney regrets having given up his days and evenings as a Manhattan attorney in exchange for the life of a minority party House member sitting through long DC committee hearings and weekending in his upstate district to attend pancake breakfasts and ribbon - cuttings should consider just -LSB-...]

A new law counts them in their home districts, and not in the communities where they're incarcerated — a change that the GOP says benefits Democrat - leaning downstate regions at the expense of more rural Republican - held upstate districts.

This week, the Fordham Law prof jumped into the race to succeed retiring Rep. Chris Gibson (R - Kinderhook) in an upstate district that covers parts of 11 counties.