Sentences with phrase «run in an election expected»

Nassau Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs cited Kaminsky's experience and background to run in an election expected to focus on government corruption.

Not exact matches

Her campaign has at least 55 offices across the state, a number expected to grow in the final weeks before the election, and has a veteran of the Obama campaign running the show.

Here are the latest updates to the growing list of nomination candidates preparing to run in the expected Spring 2015 Alberta Election:

It is expected that current Progressive Conservative MLA and former Premier Alison Redford could resign to allow Jim Prentice to run in a by - election shortly after he wins the PC leadership race in September.

It is expected that any cabinet ministers appointed from outside the Assembly would be required to run in by - elections alongside Mr. Prentice, who currently does not hold a seat in the Alberta Legislature.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

Hanna is running again this year at a time when anti-incumbent sentiment is very high and the Democrats are expected to take a hit in the mid-term elections.

The NUS president told the BBC's Politics Show that the Union would consider running a candidate in the expected by - election in Phil Woolas» old seat of Oldham East and Saddleworth.

By all accounts, the incumbent, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (or just Cristina, as she is either affectionately or dismissively called by her supporters or foes) is expected to win either outright on Sunday or a few weeks later in an unlikely run - off election.

Regardless of who is selected by local party leaders to run, the special election is expected to be one of the most costly in the state's recent history, given the stakes for control of the chamber.

Expect more spin and shouting as the parties try to demonstrate they're on the side of the «hard - working people» in the run - up to the 2015 election.

For the record, Brodsky insisted last week during an interview with me on «Capital Tonight» that 1) Cuomo has informed him he won't be endorsing anyone running for the job he's expected to give up to run for governor, and 2) the whole ticket - balancing thing is IRrelevant in this year's elections.

He was expected to face opposition in a Democratic primary from Erie County Legislature Majority Leader Maria Whyte, but she withdrew from the race to instead run in a special election for Erie County Clerk.

I half expected the polls to all converge together in the run up to the election, as they have a tendency to do before general elections, but in reality we got the same sort of contrast as we do in Westminster polls.

But Teachout, the all - but - certain winner of Tuesday's Democratic primary for the right to run in a Hudson Valley election expected to be one of the most hotly contested in the nation, also said she opposes Gov. Cuomo's new order barring the state from doing business with BDS - supporting companies and went on to seemingly give a nod of support to many BDS backers.

We can also expect further tax cuts for low and middle earners, in an attempt to create a «feel good» factor in the run up to the election.

The endorsement from Gillibrand comes the same day as Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to stump for Democrats running in key Senate races on Long Island — a major battleground that could sway control of the narrowly divided chamber this election cycle.

Unfortunately freedom of speech is contingent to how much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.

The governor is expected to attend a fundraiser later this month for Democratic Sen. Todd Kaminksy on Long Island, where is running for a full term after winning a special election in April to fill the unexpired term of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Power - sharing at Stormont is «unlikely» to be restored in the run up to the general election, expected in May, Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern has confirmed.

Yet eight months later, according to the February 13, 2017 New York Post article «Low voter turnout expected for special election to fill Harlem city council seat» it stated that «Construction and development executive Brian Benjamin, chairman of Community Board 10 and finance chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party, has expressed interest in running» for State Senate.

He also left open the possibility of running for the seat in the regular election cycle in 2016, when many expect the Democrats will win a majority of seats in the State Senate.

The group has been running a mail and digital ad campaign in select Republican - held House seats in New York and is expected to increase its efforts in districts like the ones held by Reps. John Faso and Claudia Tenney as the 2018 midterm election approaches.

Labour's chief election co-ordinator Alan Milburn has rejected claims that Gordon Brown has been sidelined in the run up to May's expected poll.

Westchester County Republicans are expecting to choose from a pool of two candidates to run in a special election to fill County Executive George Latimer's recently vacated state Senate seat.

Councilman Erik Martin Dilan gave more than $ 200,000 in member items this year to the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, which is expected to help his chief of staff, Rafael Espinal, as he runs in an Assembly special election.

On these figures, you might expect Ken Livingstone to have a solid lead in voting intentions for the Mayoral election in 2012, but in fact he is running significantly behind his party.

... As expected, the Republican leaders in NY - 26 have selected Assemblywoman Jane Corwin to run for the yet - to - be-called special election for the seat vacated by Rep. Chris Lee in the wake of his Craigslist scandal.

Cahill, who also wants the county to take over the cost of running elections from municipalities, has said that he expects the Assembly to convene in September to take up the request, but only Gov. Andrew Cuomo has the authority to call the legislature into a special session.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chairman Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Congressman Charles Rangel «s job in Washington, confirmed over the weekend that he is interested in returning to Albany — by running for the position of Harlem State Senator Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the City Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens left her local post to assume Wright's old role in the State Legislature.

But its very welcome, it will cause worry and concern in the PLP and this will feed into the public narrative of a government in serious trouble and decline If this type of Conservative poll lead continues with the Labour party continuing to drop under the 30 % barrier, I would expect it to have a similar destabilising effect on the Labour party comparable to the run up to the Conference season last year when we were facing an Autumn election with Labour riding high in the polls.

Teachout decided to run in a Democratic primary, and her better - than - expected showing has prompted something of a quandary for the 181,000 people who voted for her: Do they sit home on Election Day, swallow hard and vote for Cuomo (perhaps on the W.F.P. line), or cross over for someone like Hawkins, who has been actively pitching them?

The criticism of Obama might have seemed like the typical, if surreal, electioneering you would expect in the run - up to a presidential election, but the psychology of disgust suggests that it would have struck deeper with many voters than the Democrats might have realised.

Expect to see further examples of where the coalition parties disagree in the run up to the general election.

Candidates ran as moderates in the last election and the American public expects them to govern as moderates.

The majority of us don't even vote much less take the time to question them on their positions and learn about who they are and so elections are left to a minority of members and we continue on our merry way expecting them to run the show with the interests of everyone in mind when in fact they're never told what these collective interests would be and what is expected of them.