Sentences with phrase «race on the working families»

Nicoletti previously said he would stay in the race on the Working Families ballot line if he lost the Democratic Primary, but in a show of what he called «party unity,» Nicoletti bowed out.

James won her first City Council race on the Working Families Party line alone, but has insisted she's focused on the Democratic nomination.

Not exact matches

When morality is based on religious text, its OK to: • behead one's daughter to restore a family's «honor» • deny emergency medical aid to a child • kill gays, children who misbehave, anyone who works on a particular day of the week, entire groups and races of peoples, and many others for equally capricious reasons • buy and sell humans as chattel, including one's own family members • kill anyone who visually depicts Muhammad

Mark and Patricia are familiar with the impact non-monogamy has on our family and our work regarding race and polyamory.

Since the Working Families Party has, at AG Andrew Cuomo's request, held off on endorsing in the AG's race until after the primary, taking its own considerable field operation off the table for now, the individual unions are going their own way and will take on a heightened significance in the primary.

Although Richards will appear on the ballot, under the Independence and Working Families lines, he has twice announced he was out of the race and supporting Warren.

Richards still has the Working Families and Independence Party lines on this November's ballot should he choose to stay in the race.

But fewer than half think the governor is doing a good job in office, and, if the state's Working Families Party follows through on threats to run a progressive leaning candidate on a third party line, Siena's Steve Greenberg says the race becomes much closer, to just a 15 point lead for Cuomo.

Ms. Crowley must count on the support of the building trades if she is to counter the support that the Queens County Democratic Party has provided to Grace Meng and the Working Families Party has given Rory Lancman, her two biggest rivals for the race.

Much of the attention at this weekend's Working Families Party convention in Buffalo centered on the statewide races (three out of five of which the labor - backed party chose to punt on, tapping placeholder candidates for governor, LG and AG), but decisions were made on a number of legislative races, too.

Key stakeholders in the Working Families Party have sent a letter to fellow committee members on behalf of Sen. Eric Schneiderman, calling him the «only choice» to receive the labor - backed party's endorsement in the AG's race.

The potential endorsement of Cynthia Nixon in the race for governor by the Working Families Party is leading some labor leaders to consider forming their own ballot line this fall, sources with direct knowledge of the talks on Thursday said.

The state's highest court in a ruling on Tuesday found that a special prosecutor can continue an investigation into whether the labor - backed Working Families Party broke election laws during a 2009 Staten Island city council race.

Three Democrats and a Working Families newcomer were on their way Tuesday night to winning the Hartford Board of Education race at a critical period for the city public schools.

The race in county legislature District 6, which covers the city's third, fifth and ninth wards, features a contest between Dave Donaldson on the Democratic and Working Families party lines and Jean Jacobs running on the Republican and Independence Party Lines.

(Update 4:36 p.m.) Working Families» Lisa Tyson, who signed the letter, just called us back to say the party bailed on Fields because «we don't want to be a spoiler in the race.»

August 3, 2011: Blue Oregon Has Lengthy Story on Working Families Party August 1, 2011: Four Qualified Minor Parties May Have Contested September Primary in Schenectady, New York Mayoral Race July 24, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Will Have 3 Candidates on Ballot July 1, 2011: Pennsylvania Gets its First Working Families Party Office - Holder

VOTE - COPE, a PAC with ties to the New York State United Teachers, a union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families Party, has spent $ 4 million on this year's Senate races, records show.

But in both of these races, a candidate who lost the Democratic primary to Warren appeared on the general election ballot on the Working Families and Independence lines, and the share for that second Democrat decreased from 39 percent to 14 percent.

«I am in this race to build on my career of fighting for middle - class families and improving the lives of working New Yorkers.

August 1, 2011: Four Qualified Minor Parties May Have Contested September Primary in Schenectady, New York Mayoral Race July 24, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Will Have 3 Candidates on Ballot July 1, 2011: Pennsylvania Gets its First Working Families Party Office - Holder

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.

New York's liberal - leaning Working Families Party is working to broaden its reach with a new emphasis on local, down - ballot races around theWorking Families Party is working to broaden its reach with a new emphasis on local, down - ballot races around theworking to broaden its reach with a new emphasis on local, down - ballot races around the state.

And the Working Families Party state director, Bill Lipton, suggested that Mr. Cuomo's donations from that fund on behalf of five Senate candidates — some $ 55,000 — were not enough in expensive and competitive races where millions will be spent.

The Siena poll found that dissatisfaction among left - leaning Democrats in New York could cost Cuomo 15 points on election day, if the progressive Working Families Party put up its own candidate in the governor's race.

Diana Richardson, the Working Families Party candidate in the race for a vacant central Brooklyn Assembly seat that included no one on the Democratic party line, has won that special election, she declared tonight.

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins isn't sure where potential Working Families Party candidate for governor Diane Ravitch stands on all of the issues, but believes she could contribute a lot to a debate on education in this year's gubernatorial race.

As Election Day approaches in the New York's governor's race, progressives across the state are furiously debating whether to vote for Howie Hawkins of the Greens or for Andrew Cuomo on the Working Families Party ballot line.

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September 3, 2011: Working Families Party Chooses its Own Nominee in Brooklyn Legislative Race August 3, 2011: Blue Oregon Has Lengthy Story on Working Families Party July 24, 2011: New York Special U.S. House Election Will Have 3 Candidates on Ballot

If Cuomo had made a major announcement on a $ 15 minimum wage a year ago, it would have appeared as though he had been dragged to the position kicking and screaming by The Working Families Party and de Blasio, who brokered a deal between the two to prevent a WFP - backed primary challenge to Cuomo in the 2014 gubernatorial race.

But the two other sources said people close to Cuomo were looking to provide a soft landing for Hochul after the Working Families decision on Saturday introduced a host of political complications into the statewide race.

Teachout's entry into the AG's race leaves the Working Families Party, which is holding its nominating convention in Harlem on Saturday, with a tough decision.

Sheldon Silver's chosen successor, Democrat Alice Cancel, has won a tight race in a special election to fill the shamed former speaker's Assembly seat — beating back a strong challenge from Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party ballot.

New York's left - leaning Working Families Party is working to broaden its reach with a new emphasis on local races around theWorking Families Party is working to broaden its reach with a new emphasis on local races around theworking to broaden its reach with a new emphasis on local races around the state.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

The left - leaning Working Families Party, which has evolved into arguably the most powerful third party in the state, has decided to focus its considerable organizational resources on ousting Mr. Espada and electing a little - known candidate who is running his first race — Jose Gustavo Rivera, 34, a former aide to Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.

«Major depression is common, affects all ages, races and ethnic groups and has a serious consequence on people's family lives and work,» Narr said.

The great American playwright August Wilson (1945 - 2005) may no longer be physically of this world, but his work, which discusses issues of race and family, among other topics, very much lives on, as relevant as ever.

It's smart, funny and works both as a delightful family film on the surface and a rich allegory for race relations on a much deeper level.

Program: Ed.M., Human Development Research Areas: Life courses from pregnancy through childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-life; the influence of reproductive transitions on life course trajectories; class, race, and ethnic disparities in education and health and designing interventions to reduce these disparities; prevention efforts targeting parenting, schooling, community, housing, and work - family balance.

I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work on the development of young children in immigrant families.

A Plan B type option might work for these children, but not it's entirely based on family economics or race.

Prior to leading Mastery's work on race, culture and class, Erin led Mastery's family and community engagement and political advocacy.

A + Denver will be working with the Gates Family Foundation to continue the dialogue on the role of race in schools.

She managed a Federal Preschool Development Grant and, as part of the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant, worked on a first time initiative to require child care providers to conduct developmental screening on children aged 6 weeks to 5 years old and to help families access referrals and / or resources as necessary.

Cars in My Life — Nick Baldwin reflects on some of his all time family favourites / The Greatest Race III — Marc Douezy's story of the 1914 Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France moves on to the pre-race scrutineering and practice / Working on a Chain Gang — The Editor drives arguably the rarest pre-war Frazer - Nash sports car / Travelling First Class — Zoe Harrison assesses Austin's flagship limousine of the 30's — the Mayfair / The French Brooklands IV — Bill Boddy's epic story of the Montlhery track reaches its final lap / Missing Link — Frank Lugg tells us why he thinks Guiseppe Coda was an unsung hero of early Italian car design / Vital Spark — Roy Berry journeys westward to visit a magneto specialist / Dew Drop — Michael Worthington - Williams on the cars of Harold E Dew.

Currently Tharps lives in Philadelphia with her husband and three children and she is working on a new novel that explores the intersection of race, religion and family.

I think it depends massively on the style of game, our music is pretty loud and energetic so it works well on racing games and first person shooters but we would probably be a bit out of place on more light hearted family games!