Sentences with phrase «state committee members»

The senator has said he will take his fight for the nomination to the Republican convention floor and gain the votes of state committee members who will split with their party chairs.

A spokesman for the party confirmed «a routine call» last night with state committee members, but declined to provide additional details.

Other state committee members quickly weighed in with their own questions.

By 4 p.m. Friday, Molinaro had secured the backing of Republican state committee members from counties that will represent about 40 percent of the weighted vote at the GOP nominating convention in May, his campaign said.

«I think everyone knows that Governor Cuomo is trying to kill the Working Families Party, because it's the only group that has ever really stood up to him,» said Anita Thayer, a Working Families Party state committee member from Albany.

Jenny was elected the Democratic State Committee Member in the 65th AD since 2014.

In 2011, Watch ran for state Committee member against Councilman Halloran — who withdrew at the last minute — and was substituted by Dr. Anthony Daddiego, a special education teacher who won the state committeeman position outright.

If I were a betting woman, and let it be known that I am generally fairly risk averse, I would right now be putting money on the likelihood that the Working Families Party's state committee members endorse upstart Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon over incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo when they gather in Albany tomorrow.

Kara Stimson is the $ 28,000 secretary for Republican Sen. Catharine Young and an Independence Party state committee member in Cattaraugus County.

He had locked up about 12 percent of the statewide vote from Republican state committee members who will choose the party's candidate for governor in May.

When Working Families Party state committee members gather at their convention tomorrow, far more than the endorsement for governor will be at stake.

Presented by State Committee Member Rachel Lavine

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs told me yesterday that the threshold for getting a resolution onto the agenda is pretty low, requiring about a dozen state committee member signatures.

Schneiderman and de Blasio put their solid progressive credentials to work for Cuomo in pushing Working Families state committee members to back the governor and not Zephyr Teachout, the academic and activist who had emerged as a progressive alternative.

One W.F.P. delegate said the tentative deal, first reported by the Daily News and Salon, was being well received by state committee members gathering at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center in suburban Colonie, where a formal vote of the party's state committee will be taken on Saturday night.

She's likely to have a third if the Conservative Party acts as expected and endorses her when state committee members meet Monday.

Hanna, a moderate who represented Central New York in Congress for six years before retiring at the end of 2016, said he dismissed the idea because GOP state committee members likely would not support someone who has repeatedly broken from the party's conservative orthodoxy.

I salute Democratic Party of Georgia State Committee Member Sarah E. Todd who wrote the following open letter to Marshall:

Democratic Party of Georgia State Committee Member Sarah E. Todd knows not of what she speaks.

Michael Caputo you need to pick up State Committee members support do you have any yet for The Knight in Shinning Money Carl Paladino

Then they pack the room with their buddies — many of the voters who were yelling to table the resolutions weren't even State Committee Members — and just try to outyell their opposition by a so - called «voice vote.»

After hours of discussion, and in defiance of pleas from state committee members pushing to delay the decision, the party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two - term governor leading Nixon in one early poll by a 3 - to - 1 margin.

4 CCD 9 Candidates filed to run to replace Councilman Dan Garodnick — District Leader Keith Powers, State Committee members Bessie Schacter & Marti Speranza, educator Vanessa Aronson, Sanders DNC Delegate Maria Castro, Council aide Jeffrey Mailman, business owner Alec Hartman, public relations executive Rachel Honig and business consultant Barry Shapiro

A straw poll of 83 county chairs and state committee members showed strong support for Molinaro: he won 55 votes, compared to five for Holland and 23 for DeFrancisco.

In an email sent this morning, Cox reminded state committee members of the rescheduled dinner — now taking place on Sept. 14 and featuring Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (again) as a keynote — and then added:

But leaders of the party said Saturday they would not play into Cuomo's «divide and conquer» tactics, instead nominating longtime state committee member Kenny Schafer as a placeholder candidate — a move, POLITICO reported Thursday, that gives them the option of backing whomever is picked by the Democratic Party during its convention in the coming week.

Several state committee members raised other concerns but the Q & A portion of the agenda quickly ended.

Montgomery County Democratic Chairwoman Bethany Schumann - McGhee sent an e-mail to state committee members today after reading Nick Confessore's account of Cuomo's push on behalf of Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, expressing her concern over the suggestion that the convention process is «being manipulated to benefit one candidate.»

State Committee member Arthur Schwartz, former City Council candidate and Community Board 6 member Dodge Landesman, and star of HBO's documentary «By The People,» Ronnie Cho will be co-hosting the August 23rd event at the 14th Street Y.

ALBANY — With just hours until state committee members begin voting, some progressive members of the Working Families Party said they remain undecided as to whether or not to support Governor Andrew Cuomo as the party's nominee.

On Monday, state Committee member Jack Friedman filed a complaint against Friedrich on the matter with the city's Campaign Finance Board.

As state chairman, he pulled a similar maneuver in 2011, when state committee members advanced contentious resolutions calling for higher taxes on the wealthy and a ban on natural gas hydrofracking.

The Onondaga County Republican Committee's state committee members unanimously endorsed DeFrancisco, said Tom Dadey, the local committee chairman.

None of this is sitting particularly well with at least one influential state committee member, who fumed to me this morning:

While not mentioning the tax - exempt organization by name, DeLeo directed criticism toward the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, an advocacy group headed by Republican State Committee member Rick Green.

-- promoted by Rob «EaBo Clipper» Eno) As just your average State Committee member & new found member of the MassGOP Candidates Committee, I can attest that candidates are popping up all over.

Well, none other than Howard Wolfson (now a deputy mayor in the Bloomberg administration) showed up along with a Democratic State Committee member dressed as Uncle Sam at an event held by her GOP opponent, Rick Lazio, to taunt him with her property tax returns and demand that he follow her lead.

Besides McKinney, Searcy and Dixon, also present were former state Party co-chairs Thano Paris (2007 - 2008), Patricia Crayton (2010), current state Party Chairman Adam Shapiro (2010 - 2011), former Congressional candidate Al Herman (2002) and past state Committee member Lucy Grider - Bradley (2009 - 2010).

A local State Committee member for the 26th A.D in Queens has a front row seat to the Democratic National Convention and he's sent Queens - Politics a few pictures to share the experience.

It is clear the 22 State Committee members take their responsibility for making this historic decision very seriously, and I appreciate Governor Pence's acknowledgement that the decision lies alone with them and that he will support the nominee they choose.

The endorsement means that Molinaro now has 50.01 percent of the weighted vote of Republican State Committee members heading into the party's May nominating convention, according to Molinaro's campaign.

District Leaders are free, and Club Members and State Committee Members enjoy a discounted rate of $ 35.

The Democratic State Committee members seen at the reception (no mention if their glasses held bleeding men) almost plotzed when Paterson did a «poor taste» stand up shtick wherein he listed his top 10 reasons for wanting to be lieut - goober.