Sentences with phrase «race for attorney general after»

Republicans are more optimistic about this fall's race for attorney general after the resignation last week of Eric T. Schneiderman, seen Jan. 25.

Not exact matches

Just hours after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan took herself out of the running for the seat held by Sen. Roland Burris (D), Rep. Mark Kirk (R) has begun telling influential folks in Washington that he will make the race.

She unsuccessfully ran for state attorney general in 2006 after dropping out of a U.S. Senate race against Hillary Clinton.

After being prodded by the state Board of Elections» new enforcement counsel, Republican John Cahill's campaign has made public a poll it commissioned on the race for state attorney general.

In 2006, DiNapoli was a candidate for lieutenant governor, but dropped out of the race after Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the party's frontrunner for governor, chose Senate Minority Leader David Paterson as his running mate.

The day after state Sen. Eric Schneiderman challenged his Republican opponent for the race for state attorney general to debate him on the need to oversee Wall Street, District Attorney Daniel Donovan today challenged the Democrat to explain his voting record while inattorney general to debate him on the need to oversee Wall Street, District Attorney Daniel Donovan today challenged the Democrat to explain his voting record while inAttorney Daniel Donovan today challenged the Democrat to explain his voting record while in Albany.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After a week of mud - slinging about what the other candidate has or has not done, or where either one stands, Republican Dan Donovan and Democrat Eric Schneiderman are virtually tied in the race for state attorney general, according to a new poll.

Representative Dan Donovan's account for his 2010 race for state attorney general still was active during and after his successful congressional race earlier this year.

Democrats have a terrific primary between state Treasurer Frank Caprio and state Attorney General Patrick Lynch while Republicans are still casting around for a serious candidate after their preferred nominee dropped from the race late last year.

Cuomo has been considering a second race for governor almost since taking office as attorney general in 2007 and last fall, after it was learned that President Obama favored Cuomo over Gov. Paterson, his announcement was widely expected in January.

That opens the door for Espaillat to become the nation's first Dominican congressman and the third Latino rep from New York, two years after he won his race to replace Eric Schneiderman, who is now attorney general.

Two days after this year's votes were counted, Virginia's 1997 race for governor seemed to begin in earnest, when James S. Gilmore III, the state attorney general and the early Republican favorite for the top job, proposed a plan to provide millions of dollars in college scholarships to high school students.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.