Sentences with phrase «running a primary challenger»

Some «chatter» has started about running a primary challenger to President Obama's left in 2012, but few think it will materialize into an actually candidacy.

What's particularly interesting here is the fact that 1) Lanza was briefly mentioned as a potential NY - 13 contender when it looked possible that the WFP and 1199 would run a primary challenger against Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon (that seems unlikely now), and 2) Lanza said yesterday he would support his longtime friend Vito Fossella if he mounts a comeback attempt against McMahon.

The WFP and SEIU 1199 have threatened to run a primary challenger against Arcuri, but so far no one has stepped forward.

If the two sides could not work together in the state Senate, the state party said it would run primary challengers against IDC members and possibly change up the leadership among the mainline Democrats.

Not exact matches

Also, a number of unions continue to support IDC Leader Jeff Klein in his primary battle with former NYC Councilman Oliver Koppell, though they are supporting — or at least promising to support — primary challengers to other IDC members, including former NYC Comptroller John Liu, who is running against the IDC's newest member, Queens Sen. Tony Avella.

Sen. Bill Perkins, whose outspokenness has so angered some fellow Democrats and charter school advocates that they're shopping for a primary challenger to run against him, will formally kick off his campaign this Sunday.

Sen. Neil Breslin, who, as I mentioned earlier today, is facing an active primary challenger in Luke Martland, has been striving to put some distance between himself and the dysfunction of his Democratic conference at a time when voter disgust with Albany — and incumbents in general — is running very high.

He was also floated as a primary challenger to either state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and also as a LG running mate for Cuomo — both of which he rejected, although his presence on the ticket would have gone a long way toward adding some racial balance and quelling the concerns of black and Latino leaders.

Former Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, running for his old seat in Michigan's 11th District, is suing one of his fellow GOP primary challengers for $ 10 million for allegedly defaming his military record by questioning its authenticity.

[8] Of those incumbents who did run for re-election, 41.6 percent faced a primary challenger.

The safe - streets political action committee has put its support behind the reelection efforts of Manhattan State Senator Adriano Espaillat and Suffolk County Assemblyman Edward Hennessey, Bay Ridge Senate challenger James Kemmerer, Suffolk County Assembly challenger Tom Schiliro, and Pete Sikora, who's running a primary race for Assembly in Brownstone Brooklyn.

DeFrancisco, who has never been shy in his criticism of Cuomo, said he won't run in a GOP primary for governor, should one materialize, nor is he particularly interested in facing off against Democratic Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, whom he counts as a friend, and whose name surfaced this week as a potential primary challenger to the governor next year.

Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams is the latest name to surface as a possible 2018 Democratic primary challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and did not rule out the possibility of running, though he says he's currently «100 percent focused» on the Council speakership that opens in January.

That amount covers ads running through September 9, the day of the Democratic primary in which Mr. Cuomo snagged only 60 percent of the vote thanks to upstart challenger Zephyr Teachout, and includes some $ 296,000 spent the week of September 8.

Fundraising reports filed Thursday by candidates running in the June 24 primaries revealed eleventh hour insight into the financial viability of embattled incumbents and their challengers.

The next day, they ran a story about Ms. Rivera's main primary challenger, Mark Gjonaj, calling for an investigation.

Four Republicans crossed the aisle to help pass gay marriage in New York last year, and three of them are running for re-election this year, Senators Mark Grisanti, Steve Saland and Roy McDonald, are all facing primary challengers that have come out on the opposite side of the marriage issue.

-LRB-... A day after declining to endorse either Gov. Cuomo or his Democratic challenger, Zephyr Teachout, in the primary, The New York Times has thrown its support to Teachout's running mate, Tim Wu, in the race for lieutenant governor.

Lhota, who is expected to formally announce he is running this week, would trounce his largely - unknown GOP challengers with 23 percent of the vote in a primary, according to a new Quinnipiac poll out Wednesday.

The table below shows the number of incumbents who ran for re-election and faced primary challengers in odd - year elections between 2010 and 2017.

Texas sports the Republican Party's largest House delegation — it has 25 members — and 14 of those running for re-election face primary challengers.

Former 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary challenger Zephyr Teachout tweeted that she might be interested, saying that she is «seriously considering running for Attorney General.»

Another of Rangel's Democratic primary challengers, former aide Vincent Morgan, said he was disappointed by Rangel and his behavior and that the 21 - term congressman should not have run for re-election.

As he runs for reelection this fall, Carlos Menchaca, the City Council member for District 38, which includes Red Hook, Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace, faces several challengers in the Democratic primary.

Republican incumbent Janet Duprey, repeat challenger David Kimmel, and Karen Bisso, who has never before run for office, are on the ballot in Republican primary for the 115th Assembly District.

Giffords» anti-gun violence group, Giffords PAC, has so far endorsed eight Democratic House challengers, including Kirkpatrick, all of whom are running in primaries with multiple candidates.

The Republican Party is running a 62 - year - old widow with zero political experience and no campaign cash against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — and Silver, the Democratic Goliath of New York politics, is suing his novice challenger to get her knocked off the ballot ahead of the September primary.

Moore, who is from Schenectady, said she plans to concentrate on local races, including supporting Cuomo's 2014 gubernatorial primary challenger, Zephyr Teachout, in her run for Congress, and candidates hoping to retake the state Senate for Democrats.

32 Black Republicans ran for Congress this year, with a few losing the primary to less conservative whites in Southern areas, and here in NYC, you had Black Republicans challenging people like Adams (his challenger was Samuel Benoit, a Haitian GOP leader), and you had people like Khorshed Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi GOP leader, and Mohsen Elsayed, an Iraqi civic leader, run for office as Republicans.

The shame of it is that Bellavia and his people will be running around collecting signatures (no easy task for a challenger) when he could be out developing a national brand name and national contributor base while making it clear to his supporters there in the 26th that he's coming back with a primary challenge for November, 2012 — one that he could win.

But it's not 100 percent clear if the primary challengers who have already announced their intentions to run — most notably Klein's opponent, former NYC Councilman Oliver Koppell; and Sen. Tony Avella's opponent, former NYC Comptroller John Liu — will stand down.

Panepinto has received the nod of Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who runs for re-election in 2016, and would likely want to be seen as helping Democrats in any capacity least he should face a primary challenger similar to Cuomo's experience this year against Zephyr Teachout.

A new poll found Democrats may be disgruntled with Obama, but don't overwhelmingly support running a more liberal primary challenger against him.

«(W) hile anything can happen in politics, the people best positioned to succeed in a Democratic primary are now unlikely to run... unless someone unexpected steps up or something unusual happens, we should expect four more years of Bill de Blasio,» said Bradley Tusk, a former aide to ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg who has been unsuccessfully seeking a de Blasio challenger.

Cuomo made a few last - minute endorsements in the hours before the primary, backing Rep. Charlie Rangel, who successfully held off multiple challengers, including Sen. Adriano Espaillat; and Assemblywoman Grace Meng, who's running in a newly - drawn district in Cuomo's native borough of Queens.

Whomever wins the April 19 special election will have to run again in November — and possibly, a September primary if there are intraparty challengers — for a full two - year term starting Jan. 1, 2017.

Ms. Teachout, a law professor, ran in the Democratic primary against Mr. Cuomo, winning the highest share of the vote of any primary challenger against an incumbent since primaries were instituted in New York.

But Assemblyman Nojay says for now, they aren't going to promote any specific candidates, though they hope primary challengers will emerge to run against incumbents in the state legislature all the way down to offices for local county sheriff and county clerk.

Schroeder ran a respectable campaign, better than Brown's challengers in the previous three primaries.

During the Democratic primary, longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout — whom the WFP briefly entertained running against the governor — slammed the WEP as a «sham party,» noting that 11 of the 17 candidates on the line are male.

As of April 5, the seven IDC primary challengers still planned on running against the former IDC members in September.

He faces at least two primary challengers: pharmacist Ken Reed, who finished second to Mooney in 2014's crowded GOP primary, and mortgage provider Marc Savitt, who ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination in Virginia's 10th District in 2014.

A slate of Long Beach City Council challengers conceded in court that they did not have enough petition signatures to force a Democratic primary next month, clearing the way for two Democratic incumbents to run in November.

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).

His «face twitching in apparent discomfort,» Cuomo said he supports his 2014 primary challenger Zephyr Teachout's NY - 19 run for congress, though he did not mention her by name.

The Alabama Senate primary last month, in which a far - right challenger defeated a more establishment Republican whom the president had endorsed, served as a warning flare for Trump's team, highlighting the risk he could run if he alienates the core supporters who helped lift him to electoral victory.

Hall, who's running for an 18th term in Congress, grabbed 46 % of the vote against five primary challengers.

Assuming Democrat Hayes Clement's whisker - thin six - vote primary victory over challenger Shayne Gallo — with perhaps a little more than a hundred absentee ballots to be counted — holds up, the finalists in November will be running on the same platform.

(CNN)-- Sen. Tim Scott is passing on throwing his support behind Lindsey Graham, his fellow South Carolina Republican senator, who faces four conservative primary challengers as he runs for re-election next year.

After winning Tuesday's Democratic primary, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is now poised to run strongly against his Republican challenger.