Sentences with phrase «not run in the special election»

The real reason is that Queens County Democratic Leader Joe Crowley has settled on Francisco Moya as his candidate, and Moya can't run in a special election because he only moved into the district last September.

The former Republican senator announced Friday he will not run in the special election to fill the vacancy left by John Kerry's departure.

Pawlenty previously said that he would not run in the special election to replace resigning Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.), who stepped down after allegations of sexual misconduct.

Not exact matches

Killian, who is running in a pivotal special election on April 24 to fill the district vacated by Westchester County Executive George Latimer, said the tax amounted to a «bait and switch» if the revenue isn't sent to a dedicated and protected fund.

All around, JaneCorwin.org is political critique with a graffiti artist's sensibility, and whether or not it makes a difference in the special election in which Corwin is running, it's a hell of a lot of fun.

The Working Families Party, meanwhile, celebrated the brokered deal to end the IDC, but also released a fundraising appeal urging support not just for Democrats Shelley Mayer and Luis Sepulveda running in special elections this month for vacant seats, but also the challengers to IDC lawmakers.

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).

Democrats, too, may be wary of turning to a candidate without local ties to a district after the special election in Georgia's sixth district, in which Jon Ossoff struggled to combat the criticism he didn't live in the House seat he was running to represent.

But unlike in 2008 — or in any election for the congressional seat since then — Mr. Cusick would not have to put his Assembly seat on the line to run for Congress in a special election.

The Queens Democrats have not yet made a decision about who will run for Weiner's seat in the Sept. 13 special election.

Moya was not the preferred candidate back when he ran in a special election for the NYC Council seat being vacated by Monserrate when he was first elected to the Senate.

Democratic power brokers, past and present, couldn't keep a political gadfly from running as a Democrat in a Brooklyn special election.

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But Mr. McGreevy couldn't have imagined having to gear up the party in an effort to defeat the councilman, who is running against Riverhead Republican Supervisor Sean Walter in the Jan. 15 special election.

«These are all core, essential progressive principles that were not passed in the budget and which we will not pass until we have a Democratic Senate,» Cuomo said, echoing comments from the night before, made at a fundraiser for a Democratic Senate candidate running in a special election for a key empty seat in Westchester.

When I mentioned Scozzafava's ties to the ACORN - run WFP, Boehner political operative Don Seymour insisted this did not change his boss's support for her or his desire to have a Republican succeed Rep. (and incoming Secretary of the Army) John McHugh in the special election likely to be held November 3rd.

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

Staten Island Democrats still do not have a candidate to run in the yet - to - be-called special election for ex-Rep.

The same political reporters who last week were telling you that Tom Lee would run for Congress and that a Republican would win the special election in House District 114 will now attempt to tell you Corcoran's decision to back Putnam doesn't matter.

Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a formal nominating convention.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island Democrats still do not have a candidate to run in the special election for Congress against Republican District Attorney Daniel Donovan, even after the Democratic executive committee interviewed three prospective candidates Wednesday night.

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.

He said Wednesday that he's interested, but he can't commit to running in a special election just yet.

Since a primary will not be held for the vacated seat, county Democratic leaders will be tasked with choosing a candidate to run in a special election.

It's not clear yet how, exactly, the respective nominees will be picked, but since the race for the First Legislative District seat will come in the form of a special election to fill the remaining year on Mr. Romaine's term, there are no options to run a primary.

«For the governor to run around here, speaking at his mansion, speaking at church services, talking about the black community and then not call a special election... you're leaving these communities without any representation in the budget process,» he said.

Former Assemblyman Tim Donnelly announced Tuesday that he won't run in the 2015 special election to replace State Senator and Congressman - elect Steve Knight.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Democratic Assemblyman Michael Cusick, the party's assumed front - runner in the special election for Congress, said he is not running.

Former Hawaii Rep. Ed Case (D) announced Sunday night that he will not be a candidate for the 1st district seat he had run for in a special election earlier this month.

Lanza said he's not interested in running in a special election for Rep. Michael Grimm's seat in Congress should Grimm resign.

It is not clear whether City Council will elect an interim mayor or call a special election, or whether Rob Ford could run in it.