Sentences with phrase «several congressional seat»

Chairman Ed Cox has run the state party since 2009, and despite a Democratic enrollment advantage, has overseen some key victories: the Republican takeover of the state Senate after two years of troubled Democratic rule, and several Congressional seat pickups during the 2010 midterms.

Several congressional seats are also up for grabs in November.

Several congressional seats are also up...

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Democrats have not said whether they will take any seats on the Republican - majority special committee, saying the new probe - following several other congressional investigations on Benghazi - is also aimed at damaging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's chances if she runs for president in 2016.

A Senate GOP source confirms several reports that the congressional district currently held by retiring Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY - 22) has been carved up in the their House redistricting plan, along with Democratic Rep. Gary Ackerman's seat.

Democrat Dan Maffei, who's trying to win back his seat from the Republican who ousted him from it in 2010, Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, was one of several New York congressional contenders boosted recently by brief visits from Bill Clinton.

The Department of Justice sued to force the state to move up the September primary, and after several months of delays, a federal judge ruled two weeks ago that the primary for congressional seats was to be held June 26.

Since 2002, the Republicans have lost 8 Congressional seats and several state senate seats that WERE DRAWN to elect Republicans.

Mr. Rangel, 85 and the dean of the city's congressional delegation, is set to step down in 2016 after representing Harlem since 1971, and the vacant seat has attracted the attention of State Senator Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Keith Wright, and Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of Mr. Rangel's legendary predecessor in Congress Adam Clayton Powell Jr., as well as several lesser - known candidates.

With the battle over, the question now is whether the Republicans can form any sort of detente that will allow them to defend several Council seats against in the next city election, take on State Sens. Tony Avella and Joe Addabbo in 2012, and defend Bob Turner «s congressional seat.

Democrats remain bullish on several other Long Island Senate seats, including the district being vacated by congressional candidate Lee Zeldin.

Faso was elected last year to the 19th congressional district, which has been a closely watched House seat for New York and the site of several battleground races since the 2012 round of redistricting.

Demos said Littell's letter confirms Altschuler searched several states «shopping for a congressional seat,» while Cox moved into the district in January.

He was elected to the 1st District congressional seat in 2004 and has spent much of the last several years preparing for a rematch.

Thomas P. Casey, a frequent Democratic candidate over the past several years, will declare Tuesday that he is a candidate for the 27th Congressional District seat.

and Dan Halloran and state Assembly members Rory Lancman and Grace Meng all snagged major endorsements and filed petitions with the city to get on the ballot for the Queens congressional seat — but they were joined by several others.

Congressional primaries were moved to June several years ago but state legislative races are still in September, allowing state lawmakers to run for Congress without giving up their seats.

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.