Sentences with phrase «primary ballot running»

«I want to lean heavily on the LDS Church,» he said, adding that the «stars have aligned» in that he is on the state's primary ballot running against Romney, a member of the LDS Church.

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But with the first Democratic debate approaching on Oct. 13, and a series of deadlines to qualify for primary ballots piling up after that, time appears to be running short.

Yepsen lost out on the chance to run in the 2008 Senate election when she came up 32 signatures short of the required 1,000 to make it on the primary ballot.

Democratic LG hopeful Bill Samuels said today he won't seek to be nominated at the convention, but will petition his way onto the ballot to primary whomever AG Andrew Cuomo picks as his preferred running mate.

Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.

Lazio was the only candidate to get onto the ballot at the convention, but Carl Paladino went on to cream him in the GOP primary and he «ran» for a Bronx judgeship to get off the Conservative line and cede it to the businessman from Buffalo.

In a tweet, Sikora explained that he «wasn't going to run in general, but there's no way to swap names on ballot line» after the primary.

Other possible strong candidates for attorney general include former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (who reportedly may run as an independent), Queens state Sen. Mike Gianaris, and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who reportedly believes he could run in the Democratic primary, despite legal questions about whether he could also be on the ballot for Congress.

To get the nomination, you need 25 percent of the vote to get on the ballot, I think 40 percent to get the official designee or nominee of the party, so you want someone that would have the intention to continue to run and then that person would be on the ballot in September in the primary formally, and then in November in the general election,» Smikle explained.

The comments are in response to the DCCC's apparent effort to get Perez Williams, who ran unsuccessfully for Syracuse mayor last year, on the Democratic congressional primary ballot.

In theory anyone could attempt to run by collecting enough signatures to get on the primary ballot but the reality of election politics today is that only those people who are connected to the party already and have the ability to raise money for themselves and the party have a real chance of success of being nominated to a high profile position.

But political hopeful Philip Pidot is pressing for a new primary in federal court after a state court judge ruled he was eligible to run as a Republican ballot but there was not enough time to get Pidot's name on the primary ballot by last Tuesday.

In 2012, he announced plans to run for President as a Republican but failed to qualify for any primary ballots.

But Fetterman is back on the ballot again, having prevailed in Tuesday's Democratic primary to be his party's nominee for lieutenant governor, where he'll share a ticket with incumbent Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who is running for a second term.

Marc Fliedner, a left - wing former prosecutor who was knocked out of the running in the Brooklyn Democratic primary in September, announced Wednesday that he hopes to unseat Vance, who will appear on the ballot unopposed on Nov. 7.

The June 5, 2012 California primary ballot will list all 24 candidates running for U.S. Senate.

* Crossover voters: Utah voters can choose whichever primary in which they want to cast a ballot and Republicans could run an Operation Chaos - like sabotage of the Democratic primary.

Grinnell lost the Republican primary to incumbent supervisor Joseph Giordano, and isn't running independent, so won't be on the ballot.

Under New York election law, candidates who run unopposed in a primary win the nomination automatically, and their names do not appear on the ballot.

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's White House run in South Carolina is official after his wife submitted the paperwork and the $ 35,000 required to get his name on the primary ballot.

Republican incumbent Janet Duprey, repeat challenger David Kimmel, and Karen Bisso, who has never before run for office, are on the ballot in Republican primary for the 115th Assembly District.

She's never run for office — her background is in law — but in September she defeated Democratic designee Joe Nicoletti in the party's primary, claiming the only spot on the Democratic ballot in November's general election.

The Republican Party is running a 62 - year - old widow with zero political experience and no campaign cash against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — and Silver, the Democratic Goliath of New York politics, is suing his novice challenger to get her knocked off the ballot ahead of the September primary.

Fred Stevens fills out his ballot while voting at the Sportsmen's Club of Clifton Park on Tuesday in N.Y.. Two Republican primaries were held in the district for candidates running for seats in the state Senate and Assembly.

McCarthy filed a «Statement of Intention» with the secretary of state to run for Lieutenant Governor of California in 2014, but never filed to appear on the June 3 primary ballot.

Due to a paperwork error, the Libertarian running for Lieutenant Governor was kept off the Libertarian primary ballot, so the party has no Lieutenant Governor nominee.

Teachout decided to run on the Democratic primary ballot anyway, and she even survived attempts by Cuomo's campaign to throw her off the ballot.

He also ran into more controversy recently when the State Elections Enforcement Commission opened an investigation into a complaint by a Bridgeport resident who said he never signed a petition that allowed Ganim to get on the primary ballot.

Stout, who met the signature requirement to appear on the Conservative line, said he will run on that ballot line alone in the general election if he does not win the Democratic primary.

Because California is using a top - two primary on June 5, all candidates from all parties run on a single primary ballot.

Although he has not officially run for office, he attempted to get on the ballot for the 2005 Democratic primary but could not gather enough signatures.

Now that the WFP has endorsed Cynthia Nixon, she has a potential ballot line to run against Cuomo in November in the likely event that she loses the Democratic primary.

Under a blanket primary, all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, run on the same primary ballot.

If Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy manages to get onto the GOP ballot at the convention and force a primary, then perhaps he will select someone as his running mate.

Democrat Gail Goode, a Brooklyn lawyer who wants to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand failed to convince party leaders to make similar accommodations that would place her on the September primary ballot.

According to Ballot Access News, the «AFL - CIO is mostly interested in fighting SB 69 because it has a disproportionate effect on Democrats who want to run in the Democratic primary.

Liberals would no doubt once again seek to oust Klein and his members in party primaries — especially given the stakes of the coalition potentially continuing through the next election cycle — even as Democrats eye Hillary Clinton's likely run for president delivering down - ballot gains for them.

«It is shameful that David Weprin seeks to bring the North Korean example of elections to our Assembly district by robbing voters of choice in his attempt to knock his only opponent off the ballot so that he can run unopposed as he has done in every primary election,» Friedrich said in a statement.

But Hochul is not well - known statewide — she's running to replace Cuomo's current lieutenant governor, Robert Duffy — and will appear on a separate ballot line from Cuomo in next month's primary, making her uniquely vulnerable to the protest ticket being led by Zephyr Teachout.

All of the dollars are aimed at Democratic state Sen. Charlie Wilson, who was forced to run a write - in candidacy for his party's nomination after failing to collect enough signatures to qualify for the primary ballot.

It is especially egregious for the Republican Party of Alabama to oppose letting independent and minor party candidates on the general election ballot, because the Alabama major parties have the statutory right to block anyone from running in their primaries if the party feels that the candidate is not «loyal» to that major party.

David Rosasco, the Woodside - based translator running for City Councilman Eric Gioia's (D - Sunnyside) seat, was ousted from the Democratic primary ballot in Queens Civil Court on Friday.

Teachout survived another attempt by supporters of Gov. Andrew Cuomo to knock her off next month's Democratic Primary ballot after a judicial panel ruled Wednesday that she is eligible to run.

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.

In these elections, all those running for office are on the primary ballot, and every registered voter is eligible to vote.

In Virginia, all candidates running in either a primary, or petitioning directly onto the November ballot, must submit a petition.

Two retired businessmen running for governor are infusing their campaigns with hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money as they seek to petition their way onto the Republican and Democratic primary ballots, according to new campaign finance...

ALBANY — In a move that virtually guarantees Cynthia Nixon a spot on the November ballot, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced late Friday that he would not seek the Working Families Party's nomination — ceding it to the «Sex and the City» actor who is running against him in a Democratic primary.

Had Mr. Schneiderman not received the Democrats» endorsement for supervisor, he would have run on the Independence line alone, without a chance of challenging for the additional ballot spot, because a candidate can only force a primary if he or she is a registered member of that party.

Almost 200 absentee ballots remain to be counted in the Conservative Party primary, many of them from areas Sullivan ran strong in.