Sentences with phrase «than a dozen candidates»

Bellone said he personally conducted more than 30 interviews of more than a dozen candidates — some in his office and others by phone and Skype.

More than a dozen candidates are vying to de-throne mayoral incumbent Bill de Blasio, who is vying for his second term in office this year.

New York lawmakers are set to interview more than a dozen candidates as possible temporary successors to former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned last week following allegations of abuse.

There are more than a dozen candidates vying for three - at - large school board seats.

As part of our Focus on Education reporting, WBFO, WNED - TV and The Buffalo News teamed up to record interviews with more than a dozen candidates running for the May 6 election.

New York lawmakers are set to interview more than a dozen candidates this coming week as possible temporary replacements for former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who resigned last week following allegations of sexual abuse.

The election was a run - off after an October 19 open primary with more than a dozen candidates, where Riser and McAllister finished in first and second place, at 32 % and 18 %, respectively.

The race to succeed Mr. Boehner in Ohio's eighth district, which includes suburban Cincinnati and rural communities, has more than a dozen candidates who will be on the primary ballot on March 15.

All this week we are bringing you the voices of more than a dozen candidates vying for three - at - large Buffalo School board seats.

What started with more than a dozen candidates has been narrowed to two: businessman Donald Trump, the Republican, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democrat.

Early the following week the Minister's office sent an unsolicited list of more than a dozen candidates to be interviewed by the JPRC.

The race, which has attracted more than a dozen candidates, is seen as one of the most competitive House contests in the country.

Not exact matches

Not surprisingly, more than a dozen companies on this year's list are IPO candidates.

It is harder to research a couple dozen candidates in a given election (which would be typical in a nine seat election since there would be viable third party candidates as well as a candidate for each seat from each of two major parties) than it is to research two of them as you would in a single member district with the two party system that single member districts strongly favor.

But consulting firms can't work on more than one campaign in a primary, and if a half - dozen or more top - flight candidates jump into the Republican race, the big - name firms will quickly find themselves snapped up.

At least a dozen 2016 candidates are hoping that their close calls in 2014 were more than a mirage of a missed opportunity.

Gianaris is among easily more than a dozen potential candidates for the New York attorney general seat abandoned by Scheiderman.

More than a half - dozen Democratic Senate candidates this cycle are women, some of whom are considered the top recruit in their respective race.

In more than a dozen states, House and Senate primary elections will happen on the same ballot with the presidential race — timing that could pose a challenge for incumbent candidates in intra-party battles.

Schurin says he doesn't expect much legislation this session because lawmakers will be focused on the November election, with a closely divided legislature and more than two dozen candidates actively campaigning for the open governor's seat.

More than two dozen Democrats, Republican, and independent candidates have launched campaigns for the open seat.

Instead, the developer and his associates gave with astonishing frequency using dozens of shell companies, exploiting a loophole in campaign finance laws that allowed them to give exponentially more to candidates than they would otherwise be permitted as individuals.

Louis has moderated more than two dozen debates between candidates for mayor, public advocate, city and state comptroller, state Attorney General and U.S. Senate.

Since 2012, the firm has worked for more than a half dozen Florida Republican congressional candidates, earning more than $ 1.8 million from those campaigns, including U.S. Reps. David Jolly and Gus Bilirakis, federal campaign finance reports show.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

One of the 2018 elections» most significant trends: More women than ever are in the mix to potentially lead their states as governor — traditionally one of the hardest reaches for female candidates and a position now held by just half a dozen women.

With the political season gearing up, the disparity between the high - profile gubernatorial contest, which features more than a dozen Republican candidates, and the lonely slog of the congressional aspirants couldn't be starker.

Democrats in New York and more than two dozen states have crafted bills that would require presidential candidates to release their federal returns in order to appear on that state's ballot.

The election of two BNP candidates stole much of the limelight that night, but Ukip far outperformed them: it beat Labour for second place, won more than 16 % of the vote and elected more than a dozen MEPs.

More than four dozen progressive leaders met in Albany on Saturday to launch a statewide organization aimed at moving the Democratic Party leftward and building support for a candidate to oppose Cuomo in 2018.

For the first time in 16 years, the election for Suffolk County district attorney won't involve Thomas Spota — and in his absence, more than a dozen potential candidates are jockeying for prized major and minor party endorsements.

Other culprits included more than a dozen churches that put money behind candidates or political groups.

«For all his boasting about being unintimidated, it is clear Scott Walker is panicked, and he should be,» said Mahlon Mitchell, one of more than a dozen Democratic gubernatorial candidates.

Conversations with more than a dozen Democratic candidates, party officials and strategists found confidence that a glut of crowded primaries won't damage the party's overall prospects for a big November.

There have only been a couple of dozen instances since 1999 in which state - level candidates have received donations from more individuals in a six - month filing period than Cynthia Nixon did in just 24 hours.

«I've made it clear that they shouldn't rig the convention in favor of a specific set of candidates,» said Mr. Hogan, who is one of more than two dozen upstate Democratic officials who have endorsed Mr. Dinallo for attorney general.

In the case of Jobs For New York, the group is not simply trumpeting the real estate industry's pet causes, such as increased development, but is sending flyers and mailers that pinpoint the supposed misdeeds and missteps of individual candidates, according to a review of more than a dozen pieces of opposition literature.

The two state legislators face off against each other, and against more than a half - dozen other candidates, in voting booths across upper Manhattan and the Bronx today.

«It took us more than two years to screen, test and engineer about five dozen enzyme candidates and variants to identify the final set of 17 that we used to construct our cycle.»

Out of more than 100 candidates, they and Duke developmental neurobiologist Debra Silver tested a half - dozen.

After Yu - Hsiang had tested more than three dozen candidates, Liman had all but given up.

It also comes in a re-election year during which he is being challenged by Evers and more than a dozen Democratic candidates.

According to Biography.com, «his rise to infamy cost the lives of three Colombian presidential candidates, an attorney general, a justice minister, more than 200 judges, dozens of journalists, and over 1,000 police officers».

All of the more than 6000 licenced paralegals in the province need simply log on to the website to cast their votes (each voter can select 5 of the two dozen or so candidates in the mix).

More than two dozen candidates have been selected from associations across the country for the inaugural nine - month, five - session program scheduled around national meetings.