Sentences with phrase «state senate seat created»

Behind the marching, munching and merengue at today's Dominican Day Parade, a fierce power struggle is shaping up in the open state Senate seat created by Eric Schneiderman's decision to run for attorney general.

Earlier today, he quietly filed for a new State Senate seat created in heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

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Democratic Assemblyman James Skoufis has created a campaign committee geared toward running for the state Senate seat being vacated by Republican Bill Larkin, a filing at the Board of Elections shows.

The coalition created out of the Working Families Party convention to flip the state Senate into Democratic hands is quickly putting together its list of seats to target and / or protect, and apparently one of just two remaining Republican senators representing New York City is in its crosshairs.

We need leaders at every level who are dedicated to progress and creating meaningful change,» Assemblywoman Shelley Mayers, who running in a Special Election for George Latimer's vacant State Senate seat, April 24th shares with Black Westchester.

The process has been widely criticized, particularly by Democrats in the State Senate, where Republicans hold a narrow majority, and plan on creating a new seat near Albany to help them retain it.

An upstate Republican state senator, Hugh Farley, said the newly created 63rd senate seat near Albany «helps the capital region.»

What the Senate Republicans are doing is illegal and no reading of the State Constitution would allow a new seat to be created.

«Rather than allow our entire state government to be controlled by extreme New York City Democrats who don't care about Upstate, Long Island or the Hudson Valley, hardworking New Yorkers are speaking loudly and clearly that they want Senate Republicans to have a seat at the table to help deliver meaningful tax relief, create new jobs and continue to move this state forward,» said Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cathy Young in a statement.

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.

Gillibrand gave up her House seat the two men are vying for to fill the Senate vacancy created when Hillary Clinton stepped down to serve as secretary of state.

The SOP blog reports on reaction from Brooklyn Assemblyman Karim Camara to the NY Court of Appeals ruling upholding the constitutionality of the formula creating a sixty - three seat State Senate.

Which would create a quandry for Sepulveda: he would have to decide whether to keep his assembly seat or run for the state senate in the September primary.

Buhrmaster was referring to the fact that the 46th Senate District was created in the state's recent redistricting — a 63rd seat that was widely seen as an effort by Republicans to keep their upstate - anchored majority as a check on the Assembly, which is dominated by downstate Democrats.

The beauty of Republican state senator Michael Nozzolio's defense of creating a new State Senate seat near Albany was its brutal simplistate senator Michael Nozzolio's defense of creating a new State Senate seat near Albany was its brutal simpliState Senate seat near Albany was its brutal simplicity.

Then, New York Gov. David Paterson appointed Democratic Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand to the Senate seat now vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - creating a political circus over why Caroline Kennedy was given the cold shoulder.

(The Upstate seat was vacated by Kirsten Gillibrand when she was appointed by Gov. David Paterson to the Senate opening created by Hillary Clinton's ascension to secretary of state.)