Sentences with phrase «separate primary dates»

The ruling has the potential to set up three separate primary dates come 2012: one for the presidential primary, another for House and Senate races and a third for state and local elections.

A reader with a lot of knowledge of the state of play in various New York House districts emailed to note that the possibility of three separate primary dates in New York — April 24 (presidential), June 26 (House and US Senate) and Sept. 11 (state Legislature)-- raises «some interesting, theoretical, maybe far - fetched but not impossible scenarios» that would give not a few elected officials and party leaders heartburn.

New York has a separate primary date for its federal elected officials.

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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver does not seem terribly perturbed about the prospect of having three separate primaries — federal, state and presidential — despite the fact that he and his Democratic colleagues have indicated a preference for moving the state contests up to conform with Judge Gary Sharpe's mandated June 26 date for the House and US Senate races.

In fact, because congressional elections look likely to have a separate primary election date from other elections this year, Mr. Jeffries» election may very well be the only contested race on the ballot in the district.

Senate Republicans in a separate brief urged Sharpe to set the primary date himself, noting that time to reach an agreement in the Legislature had run out.

Though Sharpe rejected a motion by Senate Republicans that pushed for an August primary and, in a separate brief, urged him to rule on a date, Sharpe essentially backed the essence of what the GOP conference called for in his pronouncement.