Sentences with phrase «special elections took»

Between 2011 and 2017, an average of 74 special elections took place each year.

Special elections took place in the Washington State Senate and Washington House of Representatives on November 7, 2017, in order to address eight vacated seats between the two chambers.

It called for Cuomo to be required to stop «unnecessarily» delaying, denying or refusing to issue the proclamation, or for the court to provide the special election take place on June 26.

She said after the special elections take place, there will only be a couple of dozen working days left in the session.

She says after the special elections take place on April 24, there will only be a couple of dozen working days left in the session.

PITTSBURGH — Ask anyone in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District what they think of the special election taking place, and they'll mention the same thing.

Not exact matches

While Democratic upsets have taken place in special elections from Pennsylvania to Alabama of late, Tipirneni's odds of winning on Tuesday are still seen as slim.

Republicans aren't taking the congressional seat for granted, given the typically low turnout for special elections.

In a complaint aimed at blocking the certification of Alabama's special election, which is scheduled to take place later on Thursday, Moore's campaign makes accusations of voter fraud and smears against him.

Moore claimed he took the test shortly after losing the special election and that it «concerned allegations of sexual misconduct made against me during the last month of the campaign by Leigh Corfman, Beverly Nelson, and Tina Johnson for «alleged» conduct approximately 30 - 40 years ago.»

WASHINGTON — A group of Republicans will take the House floor Tuesday evening to call for the recusal of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Now, as FBI special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional intelligence committees continue to investigate Russia's election interference, evidence is emerging that the hacking and disinformation campaign waged at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin took at least four separate but related paths.

There is no evidence that the offer was accepted, but the email containing the offer is one of tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller's team as part of the ongoing investigation into what, if any, collusion with Russia took place during last year's presidential election.

(2) The Passover, which Mark relates to this supper (the trial and death take place on Passover in Mark, though not in John), commemorated the election by God of Israel as his special people, but Jesus had already made clear that the Jews were forfeiting this status in rejecting the Messiah.

With the pending departure of George Latimer, who takes office as Westchester County executive, the seat is up for grabs in a special election expected to be called for the spring.

The race is one of two special elections for Senate seats taking place tomorrow.

This month in Albany two new Democrats took seats in the Legislature after winning special elections in the Senate and Assembly.

A series of special elections to fill seats opened by representatives who have taken jobs with the Trump administration is exposing a significant enthusiasm gap between energized Democratic and complacent Republican voters.

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.

First off, any stab at reunification can't take place until after a special election is held to fill two vacancies that won't even materialize until January.

Journalists with NMC accreditation will take part in special voting «It's a system which is robust and it is so verifiable that it is practically impossible for any single individual or group to manipulate and change election results,» he added.

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.

Republicans still hold the Senate majority for now, though Democrats hope to take over following two special Senate elections April 24.

But even if Democrats do win both Senate seats in the special elections, they still have to convince a Democratic senator from the Brooklyn area to stop caucusing with the GOP in order to take control of the chamber.

Should the pieces fall into place, a special election will likely take place in February to fill the vacancy.

Conor Lamb, who recently won a special election in a conservative district in Pennsylvania, took a similar approach — private moral opposition matched with public support for the legal right.

Special state legislative elections are also taking place in 2018.

The race is one of two special elections for Senate seats taking place Tuesday.

Nine special elections, all for state legislative seats, have taken place since Donald Trump was elected president in November.

It took a judge's order to spur the governor to call a special election last May for the congressional vacancy.

According to the press release announcing the event, the Thompsons were «were incredibly instrumental when a rather shy individual took a stand against politics as usual in New York State and made the 23rd Congressional District Special Election international phenomena.»

It's a special election, though, and very few people had taken advantage of early voting as of this weekend, meaning that a candidate able to pull a core group of supporters to the polls has chance.

If the intra-party warfare is still going on by the state's presidential primary date of April 19, it could be good for the GOP as it battles to retain former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat on Long Island in a special election that will also take place on that day.

After the 2008 elections, he called a special session to close another deficit but lawmakers didn't get the job done until the next year when Democrats took over the Senate majority from Republicans.

«Mr. Fidler is a man who has given money and taken money from the now disgraced Carl Kruger — the man who pled guilty to corruption and is the reason we have this special election.

«If the November 8, 2016, election results in a one - vote majority in the House of Representatives, for example, a December 6 special congressional election in New York would take on far greater importance than the others,» argued Martins» primary challenger, Republican Philip Pidot of Glen Cove, through his filings in a federal appeals court Thursday.

Under New York law, a governor can call a special election, which then takes place at least 30 days but no more than 40 days later.

«Last election, Congressman John Katko attacked his opponent for taking special interest money, but when he got to Washington, he did the same,» an announcer says in the ad.

Special state legislative elections also took place in 2017.

However, the governor has discretion as to when to call for a special election, which could prevent it from taking place until the next general election in November.

Murray took office in 2010 after winning a special election.

The statement comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who liberal advocates have accused of not doing enough to help his own party take control of the Senate, begins a push to elect a pair of Democrats ahead of an April 24 special election, triggering a unity plan that could shift control of the chamber away from Republicans.

The 8 p.m. Far Rockaway event is taking place six hours after a more secular campaign kick - off Goldfeder will attend with another Assembly special election contender tapped by the Queens Democrats this week: Michael Simanowitz, the former chief of staff to retired Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn who is now running for his old boss» seat.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Nneka Anibeze, directed all Secretaries of the federation to take charge of their various Federations during the election process.

A special election will be held to choose who fills Latimer's seat, the date of which will be announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and should take place sometime in the next three months.

The four prosecutors involved in the first Silver trial have left the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan — Carrie H. Cohen entered private practice; Andrew D. Goldstein joined the office of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election; Howard S. Master became a senior enforcement counsel for the New York attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman; James M. McDonald now heads enforcement for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — and a new team has taken over.

Both had different takes on 2015 when we asked them during meetings with the Advance Editorial Board whether they would vow to serve out their two years terms if re-elected or would look at running in a potential special election.

Republicans now have a one - seat majority in the 63 - seat chamber, but Democrats hope to take over following two special Senate elections April 24 in the Bronx and Westchester County.

With the Republican nomination in the rearview, former Rye City Councilwoman Julie Killian will prepare to take on Democratic candidate and state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer in an upcoming special election for a crucial state Senate seat.

«It sounds likely that there will be a special session after the election, and we think this should be taken up as a part of it.»