Sentences with phrase «running against incumbent democrat»

Throughout the rally, Smikle's hovered at the edge of the crowd, smiling and shaking hands; a political consultant and adjunct Columbia professor, he is now a candidate for the State Senate, running against incumbent Democrat Bill Perkins, who has become the prime target of Harlem's charter - school backers.

Republican Joe Carni is running against incumbent Democrat Jake Barrett for the 1st District seat on the Syracuse Common Council

Wood is running against incumbent Democrat Raylynn Knolls.

Akin, the Republican nominee running against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill, has faced calls from practically every prominent Republican in the country to step aside after his remarks that women rarely get pregnant from «legitimate rape.»

The other Republican / Conservative - backed candidates endorsed by the union are Teryl Mickens, a member of the Independence Party who is running against incumbent Democrat Bill Carey in Ward 5; James Rodden, a registered Democrat who is running against incumbent Democrat Steve Schabot in Ward 8; and Patrick O'Reilly, who is not enrolled in a political party and is running against registered Democrat Bryant «Drew» Andrews for the open seat in Ward 7.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

In Ramapo, Democrat Scott Goldman is running against incumbent Democrat Chris St. Lawrence for supervisor.

It will spend $ 1.4 million to boost North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis, who is running against incumbent Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan.

He has always been something of an outsider, conferencing with the Republicans during his last stint in the Senate and then running against an incumbent Democrat, former Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., in the 2008 primary.

There is no incumbent that's running, so I don't think that the Republicans have the advantage that they have when they're running against incumbent Democrats who have frankly been in office too long.

In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

BY EVAN WECHMAN In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

Both were running against incumbent Democrats.

The following year, he ran against incumbent Democrat Ralph W. Yarborough in the U.S. Senate race.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro announced that he will not seek the Republican Party Nomination to run against Incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo for Governor this year.

The minor party just two years ago endorsed Killian's failed run against incumbent Democrat George Latimer, who resigned in January to become Westchester County executive.

Not exact matches

He is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year, and knows he will have to appeal to voters beyond his own party in a race against the incumbent Democrat, Bill Nelson.

Sara Niccoli, a Democrat running for the 46th Senate district against incumbent George Amedore, took aim at Flanagan's comments this week.

Cuomo, through intermediaries like former top aides Larry Schwartz and Drew Zambelli, reached out to several Westchester County Democrats and encouraged them to run for county executive against GOP incumbent Rob Astorino.

State Sen. George Latimer is the choice of the Westchester Democrats to run for county executive against Republican incumbent Rob Astorino, though County Legislator Ken Jenkins has vowed to fight on in the September primary.

But he also most recently worked with Harry Wilson, a Republican businessman who unsuccessfully ran for comptroller in 2010 against incumbent Democrat Tom DiNapoli.

[54] In February 1972, Kerry's wife bought a house in Worcester, with Kerry intending to run against the 4th district's aging thirteen - term incumbent Democrat, Harold Donohue.

In 2000, President Obama ran for Congress against incumbent Democrat Bobby Rush.

HOOSICK FALLS >> The Democrat running against incumbent state Sen. Kathy Marchione found a unique and high - profile way Tuesday to criticize the Halfmoon Republican over her handling of the water contamination crisis that has plagued the village and the town of Hooisick for nearly a year.

Democrat James Kemmerer, owner of a tech company, is running against Golden this year and is determined to keep the incumbent from winning Bay Ridge, or any other part of the district for that matter.

Even amid intraparty warfare among New York Democrats, ongoing questions about Cuomo's ethics in light of a corruption conviction against his former aide and a gubernatorial run from «Sex and the City star» Cynthia Nixon, Molinaro would still have to run against an incumbent.

Two New Yorkers also ran against each other in 1904, when Democrat Alton B. Parker challenged incumbent Republican Theodore Roosevelt.

ALBANY — A Democrat who is a financial consultant said he is running for state comptroller as a Republican against three - term incumbent Thomas DiNapoli so that he could wield the untapped «superpower» of the job and reign in Albany's spending and corruption.

Democrats saw a potential opening in 2014, when incumbent Republican Sen. Greg Ball declined to run for re-election, but Murphy won the seat against two - time candidate Justin Wagner.

Those will be followed by a high - dollar fundraising brunch for Mayer and fundraiser for Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi, a Democrat running in a central New York congressional district against incumbent Republican Claudia Tenney.

Rhode Island: Lt. Gov. Charlie Fogarty (D) is running an under - the - radar campaign against incumbent Gov. Don Carcieri (R) that some Democrats believe has the potential to surprise in November.

Pete Hoekstra, running for Senate in Michigan against incumbent Debbie Stabenow, hit the Democrat for her record on spending.

The teachers union worked unsuccessfully in the last election to help Democrats running against incumbent Republicans.

Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman and CEO, Warner Music Group Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: $ 15,000 Harold Ford Jr. for Tennessee: $ 1,000 Ford, a Democrat, is running against GOP incumbent and Senate majority leader Bill Frist.

He is running against Democrat Kevin Kim in November for the District 19 seat, which will be vacated by incumbent Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside) and includes the neighborhoods of Bayside, Little Neck, Douglaston, College Point, East Flushing, Malba and Whitestone.

Rozum is running against Republican incumbent Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle and former Congressman Dan Maffei, a Democrat for the central New York congressional district which includes Syracuse.

In such a blue state as New York, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2 to 1, any Republican has to be considered a long shot to be elected governor, especially if they're running against an incumbent Democratic governor.

Longstanding town supervisor Bert Leifeld, a Democrat who's been in town government for almost four decades now, is running for reelection against former councilwoman and news correspondent Cindy Johansen, a Republican; while incumbent councilpersons Henry Rank, a Democrat, and Peter Friedel, a Republican, will be facing Don Van Buren, a Republican, and Trenice Winne, a Democrat.

David Zinczenko, editor - in - chief, Men's Journal Lois Murphy: $ 1,000 Murphy is a Democrat running against an incumbent Republican in Pennsylvania's Sixth District.

She's running for mayor of Rochester this year against incumbent Democrat Lovely Warren.

She has run dozens of campaigns throughout Queens, New York City and the state and is currently working on Democrat Steve Behar's bid for the 26th state Assembly District seat in northeast Queens and consulting for incumbent Assemblywoman Democrat Catherine Nolan, who is up for re-election in the 37th Assembly District in western Queens against Republican John Wilson.

Mr. Akselrod is running in a competitive primary against incumbent Democrat Steve Cymbrowitz.

With things more or less quiet in Saugerties, speculation has arisen over whether popular police chief Joe Sinagra will run for sheriff against incumbent Democrat Paul VanBlarcum next year.

Now she is a Green Party candidate running for Senate against incumbent Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Republican Wendy Long.

Ross Barkan, a Democrat running against Golden, called on the Republican incumbent to fire Testaverde

In Orange County, incumbent Republican County Executive Steve Neuhaus is running for a second term against a political newcomer, Democrat Patrick Davis.

Nathaniel Horowitz, 27, is running on the Republican, Conservative and Independence party lines against incumbent Democrat Charlie Landi, 77, who arrived on the Common Council in 1988 and, with a few breaks, has been there ever since.

In the Hudson Valley, the IE filed plans to spend a whopping $ 294,112 on digital and TV ads as well as mailers to boost Democrat Chris Eachus, who is running against Republican incumbent Bill Larkin.

The race pit Democrat Mayer, a state Assembly member, against Republican Julie Killian, a member of a local city council who ran unsuccessfully for state Senate in 2016 against the Democratic incumbent.

«Americans are left with an awful choice to make on November 8,» said Killian, a Republican running for a seat in Westchester County against incumbent George Latimer, a Democrat.