Sentences with phrase «nominate gubernatorial»

The Democratic party will continue to nominate gubernatorial candidates by taxpayer - funded primary election.

State Democrats will nominate their gubernatorial candidate at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford this weekend.

The hour - long meeting at Trump Tower in Manhattan included 26 county chairs who hold 60 percent of the votes needed to nominate a gubernatorial candidate at the state GOP convention in May, said Tom Dadey, the Onondaga County Republican Party chairman who is also the state party's No. 2 officer.

State Republicans will formally nominate a gubernatorial candidate in May.

Not exact matches

He said he is attending at the invitation of state GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who will be officially nominated here tomorrow.

The Rules Committee of the state GOP is scheduled to meet late this afternoon at the Sheraton with lots of thorny issues to work out on the eve of the party's nominating convention, including the order of Wednesday's gubernatorial vote.

Four days after coming up short at the Republican Party's nominating convention, Peter Lumaj is giving up his gubernatorial aspirations.

«The Working Families Party is proud to announce it will be nominating Andrew Cuomo as our gubernatorial candidate,» Cantor said in a statement.

Working Families Party Nominates Cuomo for Governor At the Working Families Party's convention this weekend, the progressive third party nominated Governor Andrew Cuomo, giving him its ballot line in the upcoming gubernatorial election.

Her decision to run follows a contentious Working Families Party convention, where the third party nominated Cuomo for their ballot line in this year's gubernatorial election.

At the Working Families Party's convention this weekend, the progressive third party nominated Governor Andrew Cuomo, giving him its ballot line in the upcoming gubernatorial election.

The revelation comes just before Cuomo, who is ending one term as attorney general, is expected to be nominated as the Democratic gubernatorial candidate at the party convention next week in Westchester County.

(CNN)-- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will deliver biting criticism to President Barack Obama for recent controversies surrounding his administration in a speech Saturday to Virginia Republicans as they nominate GOP candidate Ken Cuccinelli in the state's gubernatorial race.

The Republican gubernatorial hopeful, citing six recent state Board of Elections decisions tossing Democratic Senate candidates off the WEP ballot line because of unlawful nominating petitions, said that both the US Attorney's Office and district attorneys where the Senate races are being held should seek to hold those responsible criminally liable.

State law bars any person from running for more than one office at a time, so if the party's nominee is nominated for and accepts a candidacy for a judgeship, they will be struck from the gubernatorial ticket.

ALBANY — With the Working Families Party convention starting this weekend and no clear consensus on a nominee among committee members, it's possible the party will nominate a «placeholder» candidate for the gubernatorial race.

Taking no chances, Paladino took the opportunity to nominate himself, outline his platform and take some shots at Albany and Democratic gubernatorial nominee, AG Andrew Cuomo.

«We are horrified that the Republican Party in New York has nominated both a gubernatorial candidate and an attorney general candidate who are hostile to a woman's fundamental right to choose.

Author Stephen King with regard to the 2018 Maine gubernatorial election stated that «if nominated I will not run, and if elected, I will not serve.

In 2010, for example, former Rep. Rick Lazio was nominated for a state Supreme Court judgeship in the Bronx after losing the GOP gubernatorial primary to Buffalo businessman Carl Paldino.

Republicans John DeFrancisco, Harry Wilson and Marc Molinaro now have a somewhat clearer path in the gubernatorial nominating race.

Romano also said Mark Lauretti and Prasad Srinivasan will be allowed to have nominating speeches on their behalf, clearing up a flap over whether the two gubernatorial candidates turned in their paperwork on time.

Meanwhile, backers of maverick Republican gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino have bigger plans than simply hoping to get the megamillionaire Buffalo - area builder onto the Republican primary ballot by circulating nominating petitions.

Republicans, by contrast, seem set to nominate state Attorney General Tom Corbett and former Rep. Pat Toomey in the gubernatorial and Senate races, respectively, without much fanfare.

Former Democratic National Committee Chair and current gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was nominated by default, having drawn no primary challengers.

Under weighted voting adopted a few years ago, delegates at nominating conventions are awarded to those districts with the greater turnout of party voters in the previous gubernatorial election.

One such trend that was popular several years ago was an effort to expand gubernatorial authority over the process, by allowing the governor to choose more members of the judicial nominating commission and giving the governor more nominees from which to make appointments.

There has been no attempt to change this from nonpartisan to partisan, although several bills were introduced to change the nonpartisan races to gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.

A third proposal (HB 2150 of 2007) would have replaced nonpartisan elections with gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.