Sentences with phrase «other challenger who»

The only other challenger who has come forward so far is Angela Eagle - who served on the government front benches under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as well as holding shadow cabinet positions under Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.

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Also, a number of unions continue to support IDC Leader Jeff Klein in his primary battle with former NYC Councilman Oliver Koppell, though they are supporting — or at least promising to support — primary challengers to other IDC members, including former NYC Comptroller John Liu, who is running against the IDC's newest member, Queens Sen. Tony Avella.

Some party leaders — other than former Erie County Executive Chris Collins, who is decidedly not a fan — have been interested in Cenedella, particularly since the only declared challenger to Gillibrand, Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, has so far failed to catch fire.

In the attorney general's race, GOP leaders have floated no names as challengers to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who on his own or in concert with others has sued the Trump administration over its travel ban, the end of the DACA program and the rollback of various environmental regulations.

Matheson's plight is similar to other moderate - to - conservative Democrats who voted against the party's health care bill in March and, as a result, have drawn primary challengers.

The special election is on Tuesday, February 23 and Mr. Salamanca, who has support from the Working Families Party and the City Council's Progressive Caucus, faces five other challengers.

Other names mentioned as possible challengers include Comptroller Scott Stringer who has ramped up his public criticisms of the mayor and Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich.

[110] The ruling meant the end of similar matching - fund programs in Connecticut, Maine and a few other places according to David Primo, a political science professor at University of Rochester who was an expert witness for the law's challengers.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a longtime Cuomo nemesis who appears to have recently made peace with the governor, and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, with whom Cuomo has battled for months, are those most often mentioned, but other challengers are possible, insiders say.

Mr Balls returned the favour yesterday by criticising Mr Miliband's brother, Ed, who is the other main challenger in the race to succeed Gordon Brown.

But that wouldn't explain other races in which Republican challengers who support marriage equality were able to unseat Democratic opponents in close contests.

BOE leaders have blamed an overzealous effort to remove dead and otherwise ineligible names from the registry for the incident, but Velazquez — who faced two non-Latino challengers — and others publicly wondered if there was a racial motive.

Until recently Felder was joined by eight other members of the Independent Democratic Conference who caucused with Republicans, but on April 3 Governor Andrew Cuomo (allegedly spurred by attacks from primary challenger Cynthia Nixon) brokered a deal to reunite his party's caucus.

In a lopsided victory, the incumbent Sampson — who is accused of with stealing more than $ 400,000 in home foreclosure sales and tampering with an FBI investigation, among other charges — garnered 3,000 votes more than his closest challenger to take 54.2 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for the 19th Senate district.

Other names being mentioned as possible Gillibrand challengers are former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, who sought the GOP nomination for New York governor in 2006; little - known Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has already «announced» his candidacy; state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, President Richard Nixon's son - in - law; and former US Rep. Rick Lazio, who suffered an embarrassing loss to Carl Paladino in the gubernatorial primary last year and was defeated by Mrs. Clinton in 2000.

I asked Morgan if he feared he, Rangel and two other African - American challengers would split the African - American vote and better position new entrant Adriano Espaillat, a state senator who is Dominican - American, to win with support from district's Hispanic majority.

Potential GOP challengers include Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler, businessman Robert Blaha (who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Doug Lamborn in a GOP primary), state Sen. Owen Hill and others.

The other challenger in the 16th Senate District Democratic primary is John Messer, a lawyer who recently became involved in politics.

In other words, Reed is drawing something that Rep. Chris Collins, R - Clarence, is not: a plethora of potential challengers who have already thrown their hat, or Klingon battle helmet, into the ring.

Two other candidates at the forum — state Rep. Douglas McCrory and his challenger, Donna Thompson - Daniel, who are running for the 7th House District seat — steered clear of the stadium project, and spoke more broadly about economic development.

Wu has waged a surprisingly strong challenge, winning endorsements from the New York Times and others, and the Sunday rally was as much to lift Hochul's prospects of becoming the next lieutenant governor as it was to re-elect Klein, who led a group of breakaway Democrats that allied with Republicans, and is facing his own liberal primary challenger.

Elections for president and six other leadership positions are five months away, giving challengers plenty of time to generate opposition to Warren Fletcher, the current UTLA president, who is expected to seek reelection.

Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment reveal the fifth week of challengers in this week's Injustice Battle Arena, kicking off the quarterfinal round of matches that will pit previous weeks» preliminary tournament victors against each other to determine who will advance to the semifinals.

It is not legitimate and certainly of no scientific value (although there may be political value) to attack a prediction because you don't like the consequences, or you don't like the sort of people who are happy with the prediction, or you don't like the people who made the prediction, or you don't like the sort of policy responses that prediction might suggest or encourage, or even if you simply see yourself as a challenger of consensus views in the name of some ideal or other.