Sentences with phrase «ran a primary challenge»

Gipson has previously expressed an interest in running a primary challenge to incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is seeking a third term next year.

Sources say Jessica Ramos, who currently works for Mayor Bill de Blasio, will run a primary challenge in her Queens Senate District next year against IDC member Jose Peralta.

Debbie Medina, the Democrat running a primary challenge to Sen. Martin Dilan, has been endorsed on Thursday.

Stringer said he will give the $ 4,500 he received in 2011 from Loeb and donate it to former City Councilman Robert Jackson, who says he will run a primary challenge next year against one of the breakaway Democrats — Sen. Marisol Alcantara, of Upper Manhattan.

The umbrella labor group also gave its nod to former city Comptroller John Liu, who is running a primary challenge against Queens Sen. Tony Avella, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference.

It's unlikely, for now, the Democrats running primary challenges against Klein's IDC members will stand down, even if they are denied resources and endorsements from party officials.

As Klein relayed on Monday, mainline conference lawmakers continued to help primary challengers to the IDC, including Oliver Koppell, who unsuccessfully challenged Klein (The IDC also sent some money toward Betty Jean Grant, who was running a primary challenge against Sen. Tim Kennedy in Buffalo).

City Councilman Jumaane Williams, who is seekign to run a primary challenge against Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul recently met with the same group.

The goal of the campaign is to persuade the eight renegades to unify with mainline Democrats — or run primary challenges to try to defeat them.

Not exact matches

U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning has filed paperwork to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Maryland, where she may challenge Democratic incumbent Ben Cardin in a primary.

She ultimately chose to run in the 16th SD instead of the 11th, but could always change her mind, especially if she faces a third primary challenge challenge from John Messer.

He was briefly almost challenged by Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci, but he has since decided to run for AG, which sets him up for a primary battle with Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is announcing his candidacy this Sunday.

Hawkins is hoping to tap into liberal dissatisfaction with Cuomo, and gain some of the supporters of Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout, who ran a surprisingly strong primary challenge to the governor in September.

«I know what I'm doing in the future; I am running for re-election, there is no question about that in anybody's mind,» said the speaker, whose last significant challenges came in 2008 when he easily defeated two primary opponents — his first in some 20 years.

Caputo noted his longtime friend and mentor Roger Stone and Credico are «old buddies,» but Caputo said he had never before met the drug law reform advocate / comedian, who is currently running in a longshot primary challenge against Sen. Chuck Schumer.

De Blasio has been trying to reinvigorate the fund since he took office, hiring Reshma Saujani (the financial manager attorney who ran a failed 2010 primary challenge against Rep. Carolyn Maloney) back in January.

Long's small business focus is interesting, considering the fact that Ulrich is one of just two GOP Senate candidates (the other being Bob Cohen, who is running for retiring Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's seat, is also facing a primary challenge and, like Ulrich, is repped by Bill O'Reilly) to proclaim support for raising the state's hourly minimum wage.

Felder is a registered Democrat and is running on the Democratic line, (NOTE: He also is facing a primary challenge from a fellow Democrat, Abraham Tischler), but he has a history of alliances with Republicans — most notably, Mayor Bloomberg (back before he switched his enrollment for the second time and became an independent).

Elmont civic leader and NYPD Det. Carl Achille will run a Democratic primary challenge against Rep. Gregory Meeks, whose district includes parts of Queens and Nassau County.

Failed Syracuse mayoral candidate Democrat Juanita Perez Williams has changed her mind and plans to run for Congress in NY - 24 challenging Republican Rep. John Katko, according to the Democratic Party chairman, though she has to make it through a primary first.

Former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said she's encouraged that Nixon will challenge Cuomo in a Democratic primary, but that Nixon's announcement will have no impact on her decision whether to run for governor.

Koppell maintained his primary challenge to the senator anyway, running with the endorsement of the New York Times.

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon urged Democrats on Saturday to carve out an identity apart from just opposition to the president and run «bluer Democrats» in 2018, as she herself mulls a primary challenge to Cuomo.

Former FBI agent Bernard Tolbert has been considering a run for mayor for months, and is expected to announce Saturday he's challenging Brown in a Democratic Primary.

Cynthia Nixon announced she is running for governor of New York on Monday, challenging Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the Democratic primary.

«Actress Cynthia Nixon is a nuisance to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term, but at this stage she is not running strong enough to make either the Democratic primary or general election challenge successful,» Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said.

He acknowledged he was also approached about running for sheriff in 2013, but opted instead for a Democratic Primary challenge to Mayor Byron W. Brown, in which Brown easily prevailed.

Murkowski faces a challenge in her primary from Thomas Lamb, who ran for a seat in the state house in 2006 but lost.

He lost a Democratic primary challenge to Rep. Charlie Rangel this fall after changing his plans to run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Here's one of two TV ads Sen. Bill Stachowski is running as he battles a primary challenge from Erie County Legislator Tim Kennedy in a fight that every well could be the last the veteran Buffalo Democrat wages.

Zephyr Teachout isn't planning another run for governor, but does expect incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo will face a primary challenge once again next year.

MANHATTAN — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his running mate claimed the Democratic nomination in Tuesday's primary, but the political neophytes challenging the pair captured a high enough percentage of the vote to demonstrate a measurable level of discontent.

While Mr. Herr, the party chairman, would not go into detail about the primary challenge, Mr. Reisfield, who has been running Mr. Havemeyer's campaign, said the challenges were based on witnesses» signatures missing town and / or county information.

Incumbents in primaries: — If an incumbent does run for re-election, does he or she draw a primary challenge?

Administration officials said David, who has been Cuomo's gubernatorial chief counsel since 2015, would not try to challenge Schneiderman in a primary, but only possibly run if there was a vacancy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his running mate Kathy Hochul beat off a challenge from two law school professors in Tuesday's Democratic primary.

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

Mr. Astorino was not challenged in a primary — and as such didn't have to run advertisements reminding voters to hit the polls and choose him when they got there.

I received an e-mail today from Paul Newell, one of two Democrats who ran unsuccessful primary challenges to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in the fall of 2008 — the first opponents the powerful Manhattan lawmaker had received from inside his own party in two decades.

She was a driving force — albeit as an advisor and not as a paid campaign member — behind his political comeback in 2006 when he ran a successful statewide campaign for AG just four years after a disastrous and short - lived gubernatorial primary challenge against then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

But Clinton is facing a stronger - than - anticipated challenge in New York from her rival for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who said he will run a competitive campaign for the state's primary.

Ball has not yet announced his intention to seek another term this fall, and is widely speculated to be eyeing a potential run for Putnam County executive, which would mean he might mount a primary challenge against his fellow Republican and former aide, incumbent County Executive MaryEllen Odell.

MoveOn, as you'll recall, has been playing an outsized role in former NYC Councilman Oliver Koppell's primary challenge to IDC Leader Jeff Klein, running an on - line petition calling on Koppell to get into the race, and then helping him raise campaign cash after he decided to go forward with a challenge.

Club members also heard from former NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, who is running for the Senate seat Adriano Espaillat will vacate if he wins his June 24 primary challenge to Rep. Charlie Rangel; and Jamie Kemmerer, a political activist and executive director of the Bay Ridge Democrats, who plans to challenge GOP Sen. Marty Golden in November.

The WFP has a history with Clinton, supporting both her first 2000 US Senate run (her first attempt at seeking elected office) and her re-election campaign in 2006, though she faced a primary challenge from the left from labor activist Jonathan Tasini.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

(Never forget that Cuomo's 2002 primary run against then state Comptroller Carl McCall badly damaged his image in the black community and there is a concern among some in Cuomo - world that challenging Paterson would pick that scab.)

His main focus when he ran an unsuccessful primary challenge against then - US Sen. Hillary Clinton in 2000 was his opposition to the Iraq War and the fact that she had voted in favor of it.

Cabrera lost his primary challenge to Rivera two years ago by 20 points and according to a number of sources he promised members of the Bronx Democratic Committee not to run again and to work with Rivera.

«Actress Cynthia Nixon is a nuisance to Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he seeks a third term, but at this stage she is not running strong enough to make either the Democratic Primary or General Election challenge successful,» Peter A. Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a news release.