Sentences with phrase «run a contest billed»

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In Arkansas, just days before the June 8 Senate runoff, Republicans leaped at the chance to score points in a contest where another pesky Democratic challenger, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, is running against Sen. Blanche Lincoln, the White House - backed incumbent.

He was a late entrant into this year's contest, and announced his intention to run only after incumbent Rep. Bill Owens said he wouldn't seek another term.

While all the bills would cover candidates running for governor, six of the individual measures would also close the loophole for different sets of statewide and legislative offices: all legislative races in one bill, Senate - only or Assembly - only in two others; the races for attorney general and comptroller in one bill, those contests individually in two others.

Sugarman's referral documents extensive efforts by Mayor Bill de Blasio's election campaign to route large contributions through Democratic Party County Committees to Democrats running for the state senate in a handful of contested seats upstate.

If he were to run for president, Christie «would face some challenges among the more conservative circles of our party... concerned about issues like Common Core and judicial activism,» Bill Gustoff, a member of the Iowa Republican Party's state central committee, said this month as Christie campaigned in the state that hosts the nation's first presidential nominating contest.