Sentences with phrase «run state conventions»

Moderates now are in a kind of wilderness, Sherman contends, and need to take steps to utilize energies provided by powerful moderates who run state conventions in Texas and Virginia, plus other new moderate groups in Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Illinois.

Not exact matches

-- Lynn Krogh, who is widely credited with running the highly successful floor operation at last year's state GOP convention for another Pataki ally, ex-Rep.

Maragos, who ran a very short - lived challenge to Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2010 (he failed to get onto the ballot at the last convention), has been traveling the state for months now, but has failed to wow the GOP rank - and - file.

Later yesterday afternoon, the Westchester County Democratic Committee sent out an email informing recipients that a «mini convention» would be called by Chairman Reggie Lafayette for the purpose of selecting a candidate to run for the yet - to - be-called special election to fill the seat of departing state Sen. George Latimer, who will become Westchester County executive on Jan. 1.

But it has been Maragos who has been a steady candidate for the better part of a year now and, after the decision by businessman Marc Cenedella not to run, remains the most viable GOP candidate heading into the state convention on March 16.

Now that she has taken herself out of the running to be considered as an interim replacement for Schneiderman, NYC Public Advocate Tish James is seen as a front - runner heading into the May 23 - 24 state Democratic nominating convention that will choose candidates to appear on the ballot for a full four - year term.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and his hometown GOP chairman John Jay LaValle, whose Suffolk county committee will have the most votes at the party's nominating convention, disagree on who should run for governor, with Flanagan supporting state Sen. John DeFrancisco and LaValle endorsing Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro.

In the 60 - second spot, which a source close to the Levy campaign says cost in the «mid-five figures» to run (another source with ties to the media buying market says it's a week - to - week buy, unlike Carl Paladino's buy, which is «significant» and will run up to the convention), the county executive touts his tax - cutting record and pledges to «radically reform our dysfunctional state government.»

The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association calls for gun owners to vote against the Convention because it «will be run by New York City special interest groups.»

If he can be guaranteed that no other candidate will receive enough backing at this month's Republican state convention to qualify for a primary, he said he will abandon his hopes of running on the Reform minor party line for governor.

These pro-Rangel forces already have a candidate: Guillermo Linares, a State Assemblyman who bucked convention to back Mr. Rangel over a fellow Dominican — although the choice was surely made easier by the long - running feud Mr. Linares has with Mr. Espaillat, and the chance to knock off a rival from the Rangel succession sweepstakes.

Most of the actual delegates are elected at state and congressional district conventions run by party insiders, members of the Republican establishment that Trump has run against from the outset of his campaign.

A Democratic powerbroker from New Haven — the biggest prize on the political map at the state party's upcoming convention — says he's underwhelmed by Ned Lamont's choice of Susan Bysiewicz as his running mate in the governor's race.

As you'll recall, after failing to get onto the ballot at the GOP convention in early June, Levy insisted (contrary to statements made by his chief champion, state Republican Chairman Ed Cox), that he was still contemplating a run on an independent line.

A benefactor of the wealth of Republican and Democratic candidates could be Oz Griebel, the former banker and longtime leader of the MetroHartford Alliance who is bypassing the convention process and traveling across the state to collect the 7,500 signatures needed to run on his own ballot line in November.

James, who kicked off her campaign for attorney general last week, running as a Democrat, did not attend the WFP's annual state convention at the First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem yesterday.

The state Democratic convention will reportedly be held in Melville on Long IslandMay 21 - 22, and Kevin Law, president and CEO of the Long Island Association might be on tap to replace Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy as Cuomo's running mate.

So far, we know this much for certain: AG Andrew Cuomo is going to finally announce he's running for governor some time before the state Democratic Party's convention kicks off in Rye next Tuesday.

File Photo - N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his running mate, former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul, acknowledge audience applause as their party's nominees at the state's Democratic Convention, in Melville, N.Y., Thursday, May 22, 2014.

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Suffolk's Democrats and Republicans have both held nominating conventions, but neither party has decided who will run in November for the North Fork's open State Assembly seat.

Marc Molinaro, the Hudson Valley politician who jumped into the race for the Republican nomination for New York governor after initially saying he wouldn't run, announced Thursday that he has enough support from county GOP leaders statewide to win the party's nod at next month's state convention.

A group called «Concerned Citizens United» was one of the state's top spenders in the run - up to Election Day, putting more than $ 400,000 into an effort to oppose the convention and support Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins in the first three weeks of October.

In May, when I was still trying to get my first interview with Cuomo, I ran into one of his senior staff members at the Democratic State Convention in Westchester County.

Cuomo, who will chair the state Democratic delegation to the convention (to the consternation of supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders) insisted the focus should be on presumptive Hillary Clinton and her running mate.

While there's chatter that New York's freshman governor would be a prime candidate for a 2016 presidential run, several Democratic National Convention delegates from the early caucus state of Iowa knew very little about Andrew Cuomo's record in Albany.

Members of the state GOP are headed to Buffalo, where they will hold a convention tomorrow to nominate attorney Wendy Long to run against Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer this fall.

A top advisor to Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino said an unveiling of his running mate will come in the next several days ahead of the state convention, to be held next week in Rye Brook.

Fresh off their anointment at the state GOP convention in Westchester today, gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino and his hand - picked running mate, Chris Moss, will hit the campaign trail together, heading back upstate.

Wendy Long, who is running to challege Sen. Chuck Schumer, addresses the annual convention of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association in Melville on Sunday, March 20, 2016.

Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a formal nominating convention.

MELVILLE — Gov. Andrew Cuomo accepted his party's nomination to run for re-election today at the State Democratic Party Convention, proclaiming that he had revived New York from a state of political and fiscal crisis and slamming national Republicans for having an «ultra conservative» social agState Democratic Party Convention, proclaiming that he had revived New York from a state of political and fiscal crisis and slamming national Republicans for having an «ultra conservative» social agstate of political and fiscal crisis and slamming national Republicans for having an «ultra conservative» social agenda.

Cuomo is supporting Aqueduct racino operator Genting's plan to spend $ 4 billion to build the nation's biggest convention center adjacent to the Queens racetrack in exchange for state approval to expand racinos run by the Malaysian - based gaming giant.

Trump will try to steal some of Clinton's thunder during the Democratic convention with a slate of swing - state appearances that will test the appeal of his new running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

Businessman and Democratic activist Bill Samuels on Friday said he is not considering a run for governor next year and is instead focusing on an upcoming referendum for a state constitutional convention this November.

At the convention, Republicans unanimously nominated ex-Pataki aide John Cahill to run for attorney general against incumbent Eric Schneiderman and Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci to challenge state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

«While acknowledging the potential negatives of such a convention — e.g., the risk of amendments being approved that would weaken the home rule authority of local governments — the Executive Committee viewed the opportunity to strengthen the position of municipalities in New York's governmental structure as more important and voted to approve NYCOM's support of a «Yes» vote on the constitutional convention question facing New York voters this November, with the additional stipulation that municipal officials would need to run for and be elected as delegates to the convention if our intended outcomes are to be achieved,» the guide states

Paterson, a former Senate minority leader before being chosen as Gov. Eliot Spitzer's running mate in 2006, in May at the state convention said he didn't want to «raise expectations» and pointed to the failed «six and change» strategy of taking the chamber out of Republican hands.

Cuomo envisions a «state - of - the - art» facility at Aqueduct Racetrack nearly 20 percent bigger than the 3.1 million square foot McCormick Place convention center in Chicago — which, as it happens, is reported to be running at only 55 percent capacity after a costly expansion of its own.

In order to give anyone interested in running for Morahan's seat time to reach out to committee members and make their case, Reda has decided to postpone the vote on a Senate nominee until June 7 — after the state GOP convention in Rye.

The Women's Equality Party announcement was, in fact, the first Hochul event officially advised by the Cuomo campaign since her selection as the governor's running mate at the state Democratic Party convention on Long Island in May.

The state's AFL - CIO President Mario Cilento says there's just too much uncertainty over how the convention would be run to give «carte blanche» to the process through a «yes» vote.

With all this in mind, the County Legislature amended the 2017 County Budget to provide funds to Visit Buffalo Niagara, the organization responsible for running the convention center and promoting tourism, to conduct a campaign in Albany to allow ridesharing throughout the state.

PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump will try to steal some of Hillary Clinton's thunder during the Democratic National Convention here this week with a slate of swing - state appearances that will test the appeal of his new running mate.

Fisher, who got unanimous backing from her district's GOP convention, ran into a late season snafu in the past month when another State Supreme Court Justice ruled that votes taken in the Conservative Party's judicial nominating convention in September violated election law.

Delegates to the Third Judicial District nominating convention will convene at 1 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 at the Albany County courthouse to nominate two candidates to run for state Supreme Court in November.

A few political developments in our town and around the state: • Joel Giambra will head down to Manhattan this week for the Republican State Convention, his dalliance with running for governor over and his ideas for a «big tent» GOP never advancing past the door state: • Joel Giambra will head down to Manhattan this week for the Republican State Convention, his dalliance with running for governor over and his ideas for a «big tent» GOP never advancing past the door State Convention, his dalliance with running for governor over and his ideas for a «big tent» GOP never advancing past the door flap.

After two rounds of balloting on Thursday, Mr. Blakeman, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for state comptroller in 1998, emerged with just over half of the votes of Republican delegates, making him the convention's designee.

At age 84, Feinstein is expected run for re-election without the state party endorsement, against a California state Senate leader, Kevin de Leon, who won 50 percent of the convention vote to only 37 percent for her.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- Marc Molinaro, the Hudson Valley politician who jumped into the race for the Republican nomination for New York governor after initially saying he wouldn't run, announced Thursday that he has enough support from county GOP leaders statewide to win the party's nod at next month's state convention.