Sentences with phrase «state senate seat against»
The account was created by Alex Castex - Porter of Washington Heights in 2014, after Jackson, who was term - limited out of the City Council in 2013, ran for and lost the District 31 state Senate seat against Adriano Espaillat.
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He is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year, and knows he will have to appeal to voters beyond his own party in a race against the incumbent Democrat, Bill Nelson.
Republican Christopher McGrath, who lost a special election last month to fill Dean Skelos» State Senate seat, will face off in a November rematch against Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach).
With the New Jersey Senate and Assembly included, Democrats in 2017 collectively sought to defend 80 state legislative seats against Republican challengers.
Barrett is a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully in 2010 against Sen. Stephen Saland, R - Poughkeepsie, in the state's 41st Senate District Seat.
Andre Baker won in the Democratic primary against former state Sen. Ernest E. Newton II for the 23rd District state senate seat.
Latimer's Hudson Valley state Senate seat in District 37 has been a battleground in the past — including in 2010, when Republican Bob Cohen fell just short against Suzi Oppenheimer, and in 2012, when Cohen lost to Latimer.
In the bluest of states, Democrat Martha Coakley, best known for failing to win Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat, is polling evenly in this year's race against Republican Charlie Baker.
In one of the closest Senate races in the nation, Democratic Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin is running against Republican Tommy Thompson, the state's former governor, to take the retiring Sen. Herb Kohl's seat in the Senate.
Tkaczyk ran on the Green Party line in 2012, when she narrowly won her Senate seat against Republican George Amedore, a former state assemblyman who is running again for the district that stretches from the Mohawk Valley to the Hudson Valley.
Trump strongly endorsed Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for a United States Senate seat here, prompting the RNC to restore its support for a candidate accused of sexual misconduct against teenage girls.
Jobs for New York spent $ 8 million on New York City's 2013 elections, and recently registered a new state - level campaign committee to benefit three GOP Senate candidates: Amedore; Yorktown Councilman Terrence Murphy, who is running against Democrat Justin Wagner for the seat vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Greg Ball; and Dutchess County Legislator Susan Serino, who is trying to unseat freshman Democratic Sen. Terry Gipson.
Filings with the state Board of Elections show REBNY spent $ 20,277 in mailers on behalf of Republican Senate candidate Tom Croci, who is running against Democratic candidate Adrienne Esposito in an open Senate seat in Suffolk County.
Had she stayed in office and possibly faced a recall election, she would have gone up against a Republican, thus risking the Democrats» slim one - seat majority in the state Senate.
«She's back: Amanda Murphy to square off against Ed Hooper for north Pinellas state Senate seat» via Florida Politics — The former state Representative said she was «sick and tired» of what's happening in Tallahassee and that she wants to be back there to «fight the good fight.»
But at the same time, Faso took a more direct shot Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, two of the state's most prominent Democrats who have vocally opposed the measure and pushed Republicans in marginal House seats like Faso's to vote against it.
The Cuomo administration has set April 24 as the date for the special election, in which state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, a Democrat, is vying for the Senate's 37th District seat against either Dan Schorr, a former prosecutor in Westchester and New York City and previous Yonkers inspector general, or Sarmad Khojasteh, a commercial litigation attorney from the town of Bedford, both Republicans.
He recently scored a victory against Espaillat by securing the Democratic line for his preferred candidate, Brian Benjamin, over the congressman's pick Rev. Al Taylor in next month's special election to fill Harlem's vacant State Senate seat.
Serino originally planned to run for the state Assembly's 106th District seat against Democratic incumbent Didi Barrett but was recruited for the Senate race to avoid a Republican primary and a potentially split ticket.
Libertarian John Babiarz is running in a 3 - way race for governor of NH against former majority state Senate leader Maggie Hassan and Republican attorney Ovide Lamontagne for the open seat vacated by 8 - year Democratic incumbent Governor John Lynch.
(The «traitor» flier was sent against Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, who Espaillat beat to retain his state Senate seat, after losing to Rangel.)
Democrat Thomas Suozzi is running against Republican Jack Martins in the race to fill retiring Democrat Steve Israel's seat in the New York State Senate.
In California, charter school advocates successfully backed Tim Grayson in his race for an assembly seat against Mae Torlakson, the wife of the Golden State's traditionalist - oriented superintendent, and got Scott Weiner elected to a state senate State's traditionalist - oriented superintendent, and got Scott Weiner elected to a state senate state senate seat.