Sentences with phrase «set new district lines»

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Further complicating matters - because of court action, no date for next year's primaries has been set yet, and Governor Cuomo is threatening to veto the legislature's new district lines.

The new proposed state Senate district lines would set Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) against Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst), but the longtime friends say they have no plans to duke it out at the polls.

Mr. Farrell revealed the news district lines at a town hall meeting on 147th Street last night where he said the rest of New York's federal legislative lines have been held up as the State Assembly tried to figure out a way to create a district that would set up Mr. Rangel to win a 22nd term in the House of Representatives.

And while the congressional primaries are set for late June, the legislature does not intend to have redistricting lines for new congressional districts ready until March, leaving little time for challengers to mount campaigns.

ReShapeNY wants to see the new maps vetted by an «impartial» panel applying «a clear and objective set of criteria for drawing district lines and a public explanation as to how and why each individual district was drawn.»