Sentences with phrase «seat on the working families»

Dell Smitherman, a candidate for the seat last year, told the Observer he was undecided about running again yesterday but had previously said he was interested in seeking the seat on the Working Families Party line.

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He went on to work as a Treasury analyst before returning to the family farm in Dipton and standing in the seat known today as Clutha - Southland — a post he held until his decision in 2014 to stand as a List MP only.

The advisory council of the Working Families Party on Wednesday announced its endorsement of Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh for the state Senate seat vacated by Democrat Daniel Squadron earlier this month.

After initially taking a pass on endorsing Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat for the 31st SD seat Sen. Eric Schneiderman is vacating to run for AG, the Working Families Party has announced its support of the Manhattan Democrat.

In an email sent out to supporters this afternoon, Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor listed three major events for the union - backed third party: Kathy Hochul's upset win for a Republican - held House seat (May 24), the genesis of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Zuccotti Park (Oct. 5) and when the worm turned on the tax code debate (Nov. 29).

Democratic congressional hopeful Zephyr Teachout on Thursday was endorsed by the Working Families Party in her bid to win a Hudson Valley House seat.

In Ward 1, political newcomer Jeffrey Ventura Morell will run on the Democratic and Working Families line against Republican, Conservative and Independence Party candidate Michael T. Russell for the seat being vacated by Eckert.

Politically, on all fronts, Cuomo is very much in the driver's seat right now - see examples, Working Families Party, Tom DiNapoli, etc. - and other insiders have said there is concern that if issues aren't raised now, the time will have passed.

• The Post's John Wilson points out that the Working Families Party, largely credited with pushing this «fair tax reform» through, is a carefully constructed tool of the unions, who hold almost all of the seats on its advisory board and provide more than half of its funding.

The Democratic establishment candidate with ties to Silver, Alice Cancel, won his old seat and defeating Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party ballot.

Common Councilman Judd Krasher, who is running on the Working Families Party line for his 11th Ward seat in the general election against Democratic primary winner Alfredo Balarin, said including raises for mid - and high - level management is «absurd,» given the continuation of the city's trash fee and a tax increase.

For highway superintendent, former town supervisor Mike Shultis, running on the Democratic, Green, Working Family and Independent party lines, won his seat over Lee Winne, R / C, 1,199 to 991.

Jeff Bragman is seeking a seat on the East Hampton Town Board, running on the Democratic, Working Families, and Independence ballot lines.

Diana Richardson, the Working Families Party candidate in the race for a vacant central Brooklyn Assembly seat that included no one on the Democratic party line, has won that special election, she declared tonight.

Public Advocate Letitia James today became the latest leading Democrat to endorse Working Families Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's seat — spurning Alice Cancel, the candidate running on the Democratic line in the April 19 special election.

Former 1199 SEIU political coordinator Dell Smitherman, who lost a Democratic primary to indicted Brooklyn State Senator John Sampson last month, told the Observer that he plans to campaign for the seat again if the incumbent is convicted on any of the array of corruption charges he currently faces — even if it means running on the Working Families Party line.

The Elmhurst native has knocked on thousands of doors since January and he believes it is this effort and not landing endorsements from groups like the Queens County Democrats, which backed Koslowitz, or the Working Families Party, which supported candidate Lynn Schulman, that will help to usher him into the 29th Council District seat.

The seat is one of five left open on the council by the departure of incumbents; Jen Fuentes, the first member of the Working Families Party elected to office in Kingston, opted not to seek a second two - year term.

NYS Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson, while she has yet to make an official announcement appears to be continuing her quest for Mount Vernon's top seat, running on the Working Family line.

Sheldon Silver's chosen successor, Democrat Alice Cancel, has won a tight race in a special election to fill the shamed former speaker's Assembly seat — beating back a strong challenge from Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party ballot.

Former Democratic Party chair and election commissioner William Wood has also filed a working families petition to run for a seat on the Cortland County Legislature.

The former councilman's most prominent opponent is Kimberly Council, an East New York activist who ran against Espinal for the City Council seat, losing both in the Democratic primary and the general election on the Working Families Party line.

In 2005, then - challenger Corey Ellis rebounded from just such a defeat to win the 3rd Ward Common Council seat from incumbent Democrat Michael Brown on the Working Families Party line.

In 2002, Mr. Lasher contributed to Tim Bishop's Congressional upset in Suffolk County, and in the past election cycle he worked on several races, among them Working Families Party candidate Letitia James» successful City Council bid, for the seat left vacant when James Davis was murdered in City Hall last summer; Steve Levy's winning bid for Suffolk County Executive (the first Democrat elected for that seat since 1987); and Arlene Bluth's failed bid for Civil Court against Shlomo Hagler in Manhattan.

Parents@Duke also continues to do little things to improve the lives of Duke parents, like organizing exchanges of car seats and children's clothing and conducting seminars on topics such as choosing the right child care facility and strategies for balancing work and family life.

It's been a rather long break away from my little part of the web but not to worry as I'm still here but just taking a back seat for the time being to focus on family and work commitments.

I kind of invited our friends and family for a dinner party Saturday (on a whim) so I spent all week planning what to make, what to get and the seating arrangements (we live in a one bedroom apartment) space is limited, but it all worked out, plenty of seats for everyone!

Some of the story gets very dramatic and heavy in the way of the dysfunctional character development which works well on stage as you sit on the edge of your seat watching and hearing these massive family fights.

In many of my early memories, my mom told me about her work as a teacher as I sat on a makeshift wooden platform between the front seats of my family's Volkswagen van.

The ES300 proved ideal for drivers interested in a comfortable ride to work with enough interior space to seat up to five family members on the weekend.

If you're traveling with your family, your best bet is to work together to decide who should be upgraded to first class on each trip, rotating who gets the seat on each trip like a nonviolent Game of Thrones.

Similarly, for customers needing more than 1 award seat on a particular flight (maybe a family of 4), booking requires a great deal more points and more work to find multiple award seats.

If you're traveling with your family, your best bet is to work together to decide who should be upgraded to first class on each trip, rotating who gets the seat on each trip like a nonviolent Game of Thrones.

Many of these works are on public display at the Duke's family seat, Chatsworth in Derbyshire, which houses a collection of art that spans 4000 years and presents exhibitions by contemporary artists such as Michael Craig - Martin RA (2014).

Left - liberal cultural policies, as advanced by the DEMs and GREENs, are politically on the nose Jack # 55 «to the majority of «working families» out there in swinging seat land.

In what may be one of his last acts before possibly being elected to the family court bench — he is one of three candidates up for the vacant 9th Circuit seat — Ben Mack will present on ethical issues related to guardian work.