Sentences with phrase «run against senator»

Albany, NY — Alan talks to Kathleen Troia «KT» McFarland, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan, who's looking to run against Senator Hillary Clinton in November.

Maloney, however, eventually opted not to run against the senator.

Ms. Farley is currently laying the groundwork to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand this year, and has begun assembling a campaign team, including John Brabender, a former adviser to the presidential candidate Rick Santorum, and the pollster John McLaughlin.

2008 Moves into a different Bronx district to run against Senator Efrain Gonzalez Jr., who is on trial for stealing state grant money from nonprofit groups, and wins.

Regardless, it's thought John Liu, the former New York City comptroller, will also continue his run against Senator Tony Avella.

Valesky owes part of his political success to Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey, one of the key people looking for someone to run against the senator this year.

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.

«Chairman Cox is extremely pleased with David Malpass» decision to run against Senator Gillibrand, and never interfered, in any way, to coerce him to run instead against Senator Schumer.»

The Senate Republicans clearly had a difficult time convincing someone to run against Senator Latimer if they were forced to settle on this flawed candidate.»

«Most of the candidates for Senator Gillibrand's seat were approached at various points by certain Republican State Committeemen, other than Chairman Cox, to gauge the candidates» interest in running against Senator Schumer, only because there was no candidate for that vacancy for some time.»

Jessica Ramos, who is running against Senator Jose R. Peralta of Queens, said she didn't trust the deal.

But Stavisky will have to go up against fellow Democrat John Messer, a Flushing lawyer and business owner, who ran against the senator in a three - way 2010 primary for the same seat.

«I wasn't running against the Senator, I was running for middle class families in my district,» Wagner said in a statement posted to his Facebook page.

Ryan decided not to run, but two other Democrats have announced plans to challenge Libous: Tompkins Cortland Community College Prof. Barrett Esworthy and John Orzel, who unsuccessfully ran against the senator in 2010.

Not exact matches

A self - described «real Indian» who is running against Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren is suing after city officials demanded he take down his signs calling her a «fake Indian.»

Ramesh Ponnuru wrote about how Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill influenced the Republican primaries by attacking the candidate she wanted to run against in the general election as a «true conservative» with a «pro-family agenda.»

There's a Mormon Democrat (Scott Howell) running against Orrin Hatch (a Republican Mormon) for Senator from Utah.

The New York Yankees looked pretty ordinary as they scored only 10 runs in 52 innings against the Senators and Orioles, losing four out of five in the process.

He's intent on running primary candidates against key WNY Republican senators and on ousting Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Allies of convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who is now running for the NYC Council, say they will file a lawsuit against NYC Board of Elections for moving polling sites from his stronghold in LeFrak City in Queens.

Diaz singles out Senator Shirley Hunter and Frank Padavan, as well as Hiram Monserrate (who has since been ousted in from the Senate, but is running for the Assembly) and thanks them for taking a political risk by voting against same - sex marriage.

In Syracuse, Common Councilor - a-Large Jean Kessner said today that she's starting to circulate petitions for a potential run against Sen. David Valesky, and called on the senator to agree to return to the traditional Democratic conference within the next 24 hours.

According to Moroney, Maragos is trying to figure out whether he might have any «viability» in a general election against Schumer (amazing that in such a short time the senior senator has gone from having zero potential GOP challengers to two; all efforts by state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox to entice someone to run have so far gone nowhere).

He's running against current state Assemblyman Mickey Kearns for the seat vacated by current state Senator Chris Jacobs.

Since then, however, Gounardes has accepted a job with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (a former Senate Democrat), and he would have to give up the job if he wanted to pursue a re-match run against the GOP senator.

The only Democrat left in the field against Gillibrand is labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who also mounted a long - shot challenge to Clinton in 2006, running to the then - senator's left by focusing almost entirely on her «yes» vote on the Iraq War.

In an odd twist, Sharpe may have done Parker a favor by running against him this fall, as his candidacy has caused two special prosecutors to be appointed in the senator's assault case, pushing the whole mess still further off into the future.

Run for US Senator against Kirsten Gilibrand!!!! Your bio commerical would kick her butt....

Well, not willingly — a week or two back, Warren's campaign for Massachusetts senator was running online display ads asking for donations to her «response fund» to reply to the television attacks Rove's American Crossroads had launched against her (I was too swamped...

When Ulrich announced his intention to run against Addabbo, it was widely noted that the senator had just $ 1,685.07 in his campaign account as of mid-January.

The source also points out that «The Senator has run against Gounardes before and he comfortably beat him.»

Diana had been mulling a run against the Democratic senator since February, and had said he would announce his decision earlier this month.

Candidate: Avraham Rosenberg Running Against: Senator Carl Kruger Odds of winning: 1 in 100,000 Mr. Rosenberg is a 19 year old Touro College student who is a Republican but is running on the Conservative partRunning Against: Senator Carl Kruger Odds of winning: 1 in 100,000 Mr. Rosenberg is a 19 year old Touro College student who is a Republican but is running on the Conservative partrunning on the Conservative party line.

Dennis Saffran, who lost a bid for the same Council seat in 2001 when he ran against Tony Avella, who is now a state senator, said he would be filing for another run at the spot within the week.

In fact with D'Amato expansion of his Dem lobby firm today, Our GOP US Senator candidate running against Gillibrand is employing one of Al D'Amato's new hires...

The senator also took the Democrats to task for what he called Regina Calcaterra's «invalid candidacy» saying her residency issues should have prevented her from running against Sen. Ken LaValle and likely would have — had the majority done its «homework.»

From «race» he moved to «running», asking Senator Clinton why she thought «Republicans are looking forward to running against you with so much zeal».

Christoper Eachus, who is running against long - time Senator Bill Larkin in the Hudson Valley, also released a statement Tuesday.

Small vowed to remain in the race and run in a primary against the senator

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who's running in the GOP primary against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, has recently given his campaign a big boost in the form of a million dollars, he announced at a Sunday event hosted by the Brooklyn Tea Party.

State Senator John DeFrancisco, who's running for governor against him, blasted Cuomo on Wednesday, saying he's hiding behind photo - ops while the subway system he controls falls apart.

The little - known Long was last seen on the campaign trail in 2012 when she ran against New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand.

Former state Rep. Joseph Morrissey ran as an independent against incumbent Rosalyn Dance (D) in Senate District 16, meaning he himself could have become a deciding vote, something an unnamed Democratic senator told The Washington Post «would put us in a horrible position and make it very hard for us to maintain our integrity and have him be part of our caucus.»

The party leaders — including state party chair and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Queens Congressman Joseph Crowley — wrote that «if the IDC refuses to accept this offer,» then the state party is prepared to run primaries against the senators in the 2018 elections.

I don't want to get started on the animal comparisons I could trot out for Donald Trump, George Pataki, that Senator who's running against Cuomo (I've forgotten the name already), and on down the line.

The campaign referenced a Buffalo News article in which Hoyt admitted to gauging McMurray's interest in running against Republican state Senator Chris Jacobs this fall, instead of taking on GOP Congressman Chris Collins in New York's 27th District.

One Democratic Senate candidate, Terry Gipson (running against GOP Sen. Steve Saland in the 41st SD), and one incumbent Democratic senator, Tony Avella, of Queens, have called for Silver to step down from his leadership post.

Ethics reform is the reason I came to the Senate, it is the reason I ran against a corrupt senator.

The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate running against Democrat Chuck Schumer, Wendy Long, faces great odds in her campaign against the powerful and popular third term Senator.

NY Post is reporting a Rangel loyalist threatened to run against state Senator Bill Perkins, if he followed through with a rumored endorsement of Rangel foe, Adriano Espaillat, According to the paper: Following a Rangel endorsement rally yesterday in East... Continue reading →