Sentences with phrase «special election like»

«I know the political parlor game requires an over-reaction about the effects of a special election like this, but the fact remains Queens is one of the strongest and most unified Democratic organizations in the nation.

Not exact matches

Like Doug Jones's win in the special election in Alabama, a win for Democrats in Pennsylvania's 18th District would further add to the party's momentum in the run - up to November's midterm elections and hint at dwindling support for Trump.

«President Clinton will highlight the choice voters face in the upcoming midterm elections, and emphasize the need to continue moving the country forward by electing strong Representatives like Hinchey who are fighting for middle class families — not the wealthy special interests.»

«We would like the special election to be called as soon as possible,» Gianaris said on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom.

Like so many others, he is waiting to see the outcome of the April 19 special election for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» Long Island seat, which could indicate which way the wind is blowing in terms of the GOP's effort to retain the majority.

And despite her apparently inept campaign Coakley may yet pull off a victory, since like most special elections tomorrow is likely to see a relatively low voter turnout, giving the edge to a candidate able to persuade his or her supporters to actually show up and cast a ballot.

With the support of heavyweights like Mayor Bloomberg and former Mayor Ed Koch, Greenfield won a contentious special election in March for the seat vacated by Simcha Felder, who left not long after being sworn in for his third term to take a job with NYC Comptroller John Liu.

Whoever wins the special election will take office immediately and won't have to wait until January 2011 like most of the general election victors.

The punter - whether on the Grand National or the date of an election - surely likes to think their study of the form book has given them special insight.

But voter turnout in primaries, like the New York governor's race, is abysmally low, so the ideologues on the far left and far right — and the special interests who throw money at the elections — control the process.

This year's primary is sort of like a special election, though, since it has been moved up to the court - ordered date of June 26).

Many of the latter would like to see New Jersey's U.S. Senator Jon Corzine run in a special gubernatorial election.

And even though special elections historically generate little enthusiasm, officials from both parties used words like dismal to describe the turnout Tuesday.

For the closing moments of the House District 72 special election, Republican James Buchanan ripped a page from the Donald Trump campaign playbook — holding a Trump - like rally, complete with a chorus of «lock her up.»

That means a lot of celebrations and things like special stickers you can get at your polling place on election day.

Press» remark came during a discussion with New Republic writer Graham Vyse about the intraparty conflicts of the Democratic party and how progressives candidates are being challenged by moderate Democrats like Rep. Conor Lamb (D., Penn.), who recently won a special election in the 18th Congressional District.

The ever - colorful Assemblyman Jim Tedisco has re-emerged after all but dropping off the face of the earth following his loss in the NY - 20 special election, (OK, he lost his leadership post and was relegated to the back row in the chamber, which is almost like being banished to Siberia).

Diplomatic sources and NPP insiders confirmed to this paper that the two former Ukraine «fighters» were invited into the country to train a «special wing» of the biggest opposition party on how to «recruit and mobilize» people to stage a Ukrainian - like uprising in Ghana should Nana Akufo - Addo fail to win the presidential election for the third consecutive time.

Ever since Republican Rep. Bob Turner won former Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat in a special election last year, insiders have discussed the possibility that legislators would carve up the district, helping adjacent incumbents like Rep. Joe Crowley while also getting halfway to the goal of eliminating two seats.

That political fact of life, which has set in among the smart strategist set in Washington over the last 10 days or so, is due longstanding in - state rivalries — much of Hawaii Democratic establishment including its two U.S. Senators don't like former Rep. Ed Case (D)-- as well as a special election quirk that puts Case, state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D) and Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) all on the same ballot.

Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a formal nominating convention.

Even if Democrats are able to win a pending competitive special election and iron out their differences, their continued willingness to do things like pass campaign finance regulations, which would disproportionately impact the party that controls the chamber, isn't guaranteed.

Special elections, like the one scheduled to replace the convicted lawmaker on April 19, do not have open primaries: instead, the county committee, consisting of operatives elected within the party, chooses who gets the ballot line.

Special elections for state office, like the one scheduled to fill the Silver seat next month, do not have open primaries.

«I'm not going to sacrifice the future of our country, the unity of our country, I'm not going to give in to SNP demands around Trident, the deficit or anything like that,» he told Question Time election special.

«I feel like I'm stuck in Groundhog Day,» said Stewart - Cousins, who spoke just before the special election date was confirmed.

«The fact that you have folks calling for special elections that actually control county committees and are district leaders, seems more like special interests [dominating] rather than true democracy.»

Because it was a special election, just about 200 Democratic party leaders in Lower Manhattan, including people like Sheldon Silver's wife and his longtime chief of staff Judy Rapfogel, chose Cancel as the Democratic pick for the seat in February.

Like Ms. Niou, Ms. James is a Democrat who ran on the WFP ballot row against a Democratic opponent in a special election — in Ms. James» case, for a Brooklyn City Council seat in 2003.

In places like New York City, where one party dominates, being nominated in a special election is often tantamount to winning a race.

Like previous special election in New York's 20th and 23rd districts, the nominees would be chosen by the county chairmen rather than a primary — a process that might well have cost Republicans the 23rd as the conservative base revolted against the choice of moderate state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava as the party's standard - bearer.

: The special election in the Upstate New York proved — yet again — why politics is the best sport in the world (in the words of one high level operative who, like the Fix, followed the vote closely).

If Democrats have any hope of gaining control of the New York State Senate this year — gaining an upper hand on progressive priorities like expanding voting rights, campaign finance reform, promoting reproductive justice, affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and gun control — then we have to win the April 24 special election in lower Westchester.

Democrats looked like they were going to pull off another recruiting coup in Ohio by convincing Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett to drop his Senate candidacy in favor of a run in the 2nd District where he narrowly lost a special election last August.

The special election, on Sep. 10, comes at a turbulent two - year mark for de Blasio — amid a spate of negative headlines and rumored challengers — and questions about his focus on places like the 23rd Council District which covers parts of Bayside Hills, Bellerose, Douglaston, Floral Park, Fresh Meadows, Glen Oaks, Hollis, Little Neck, New Hyde Park, Oakland Gardens and Queens Village.

Election victories in New York by President Obama, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Representatives Bill Owens & Louise Slaughter, House candidates Sean Patrick Maloney and Dan Maffei and five high - profile State Senate candidates sent a clear message this week that New York voters want to stop special deals for the wealthy, invest for the future and protect important programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from harsh cuts.

In anticipation of this week's special election in Harlem, the IDC released a video, calling on all 32 Democrats — the number required to pass legislation — to join them in declaring their support for progressive measures like ethics and voting reform, codifying a woman's right to choose, and more.

Democrats would like nothing better than to demonstrate that his success was a fluke resulting from a low - turnout special election in the dead of winter.

The special election will be held on April 19, like the presidential primary, and Mr. Giuliani argued the competitive national race would bring out GOP voters (Democrats believe it will bring out many, many more votes for their party).

Leading election lawyer Jerry Goldfeder noted that past courts have refused to create a deadline for special elections, and suggested that measures like Mr. Borelli's might be necessary to push Mr. Cuomo into declaring them more promptly.

In most special elections turnout is low and nothing drives voters out like sending a message to DC or their party establishment.

A statewide public financing system to elevate average New Yorkers» voices in our elections, buttressed by other comprehensive reforms — like lower limits on how much one person can contribute to a political candidate (now at an outrageous $ 60,800 for statewide candidates per election cycle) and strong independent enforcement of campaign finance laws — will reduce the power of big money special interests.

With the way special counsel Robert Mueller has been cracking down on Russians as of late, recently indicting Russian citizens and companies for sticking their noses into the last election — possibly even colluding with Trump or his people — Red Sparrow almost seems like a well - timed piece of anti-Russki propaganda.

Although a work of fiction, November Third is an education in elections and what it's like to be a «rover» — a special election officer who tests voting machines and helps at various precincts on election day (a job Lewers has held over the years).

Roy Schotland, a «Georgetown University law professor and expert on judicial elections,» succinctly sums it up: «[S] tate judicial races are increasingly becoming «floating auctions,» in which special - interest groups focus money and manpower in states where they can upend judges they don't like.

Like the COBRA election period, this special enrollment period is time - limited.

So for economic actors, these are folks like the Macedonian trolls who we identified with AI tools leading up to the Alabama special election.