Sentences with phrase «then ran for the seat»

The committee then made transfers in that same amount to state Sen. Michael Venditto, who was then running for the seat.

Not exact matches

In 2009, Daniels considered running for the U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana then held by David Vitter, a family - values Republican linked to a prostitution ring run by the «D.C. Madam,» saying that voters had drafted her.

And then I screamed, terrifying the mouse that was attempting to run out of the shed, who instead ran back into the shed, causing Navah to leap up off the seat of the riding mower and join me in my cowering position outside the shed, pondering my question about whether we were cut out for this.

I would put Alex in the car, back it out of the garage, then run in the house to get Anna's bucket seat (since the garage was too small for loading everyone in together.)

Yes it was very time consuming but it only really took a day of her feeling the water run down her legs for her to feel uncomfortable and then the next day she was trying to make it to the potty seat on her own.

I put my 2 month old baby in his infant seat, snapped it into the car and then drove all over running errands for two hours while he slept.

Kllian last ran for the seat in 2016, challenging then - incumben George Latimer, a Democrat.

Then, because you're not simply running for an open seat, but to replace a sitting congressman, you can expect the «establishment» to come down hard on you.

She also ran in 2002 for what was then a newly - created Asian seat in Flushing.

It would mean that suddenly all of the perennially safe seats would be in play - to the extent that everyone who lives in them would get to express a meaningful vote for their next MP - if not on election day, then in the primary running up to it.

Wright was also probably hurt by his own friend and mentor, Charlie Rangel who announced his retirement more than once, only to dangle the possibility of Wright running for the seat, then pulling it away and saying he intends to run again.

Ball actually briefly announced a run in NY - 19 before switching races to run for the 40th SD seat then held by Vincent Leibell.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

Unlike most staffers who made that switch and then returned to City Hall, Botnick then went on to run David Greenfield's successful special election bid to succeed former Councilman Simcha Felder, who gave up his seat to go work for city Comptroller John Liu.

Then, there's activist and businessman George Alvarez, who ran previously for a Bronx Assembly seat, and Community Board 3 member Marlon Molina, who, like many, highlights gentrification concerns in a South Bronx district that includes neighborhoods like Hunts Point, Longwood and Melrose.

As an independent, he then won the special election to succeed himself, but resigned again to run for the Senate seat due to Republicans» strong control of the state House.

But unlike in 2008 — or in any election for the congressional seat since then — Mr. Cusick would not have to put his Assembly seat on the line to run for Congress in a special election.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

If you can do any of get, say, a couple of million people to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the minimum wage; win parliamentary seats by running on this issue; or provide polling evidence showing majorities would repeal the race, gender discrimination laws, etc then I will withdraw the claim about this being a minority position.

Here's the trouble: If legislators don't agree on a bill to move their own primary date to correspond with the one that US District Court Judge Gary Sharpe ordered for the federal races, then Assembly members and senators could theoretically challenge sitting House members and then, if that doesn't work out, fall back to run for their own seats.

-- Queens Assemblyman Rory Lancman runs in a primary for the House seat currently occupied by Rep. Bob Turner, (assuming NY - 9 still exists after redistricting and Turner doesn't end up in a general election head - to - head with Rep. Joe Crowley or Rep. Gary Ackerman), loses and then goes back to run for his Assembly seat.

But Dilan loses the congressional primary, so he then collects petitions to run for his Senate seat — unless he doesn't have to run because his son and Espinal back off.

Then this year, the whole Anthony Weiner thing happened, and Weprin was tapped to run for the open seat, and that was that.

In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

He was recruited by Republicans in 2008 to run for the cross-state Senate seat held by then - Sen.

BY EVAN WECHMAN In 2010, Republican Tea Party candidate Anthony Mele defeated the local GOP machine in a primary and then ran against incumbent Democrat Eliot Engel for his 17th District Congressional seat.

If he wants to run for Congress, then let him run in two years and let him either win or lose based on the two - year fight for that seat.»

In 2013, Mr. Johnson successfully ran for a City Council seat representing Manhattan neighborhoods including Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Midtown West that had been occupied by Christine C. Quinn, then the speaker of the City Council.

His Consultants gave us Hillary Clinton by not allowing then Gov George Pataki to run for the open seat.

«I had people who were interested but then they hear numbers like $ 1.5 million to $ 2 million to run for a congressional seat and they said «thanks, but no thanks.»»

With 585 constituencies, the party can run 10 open primaries a week from January 2014, each one in a different part of the country, starting with seats notionally held by the Conservatives pre-2010, then those notionally won in 2010, then the target seats for 2015, then the rest.

He ran an unsuccessful 2010 Democratic primary for the 20th Assembly District seat against then - incumbent Harvey Weisenberg.

Doheny doesn't yet have competition for the GOP nod, since the man he defeated in the primary last year, Doug Hoffman, (the Tea Party darling of the 2009 special election, who forced former Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava out of the race and then split the vote with her, costing the Republicans a seat they'd held for more than a century), hasn't yet decided whether to run.

The primary came after Manning initially announced he would abandon his seat to run for governor but then changed his mind amid the news that he had an extramarital affair and was separating from his wife, Barbara.

It took her ten years, during which she joined the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, worked on Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, served as special counsel to then — HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, and took another law job, before Gillibrand found the upstate House district in which she wanted to run... against a four - term incumbent for a seat that hadn't been held by a Democrat in 30 years and where Republicans outnumbered Democrats almost two to one.

Baldridge first ran for the Senate in 2016, where he lost to Helming in a race for the then - vacant seat by over 30,000 votes.

The former United Nations ambassador entered the 6th District race in July, and since then it's become an open - seat race with Republican incumbent Ron DeSantis» announcement that he's running for governor.

He then went on to run for, and win, the House seat vacated by his former boss, Chuck Schumer, when he won a squeaker election against then - GOP Sen. Alfonse D'Amato.

Arnold, then 24, ran for the 62nd District seat in 2014 on an anti-SAFE Act platform.

Micah Lasher, who once served as then - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's chief Albany lobbyist, has put a poll into the field as he considers running for the Manhattan Senate seat currently held by Adriano Espaillat, one source said.

The caucus then turned to the two open seats on the Town Board up for grabs this November, with Republicans Mele and Rich Koenig opting not to run for another term on the Board.

Faulkner, 59, ran unsuccessfully in 2010 for then - U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel's congressional seat.

Jim Gerlach talking to himself: Let's see, I can run for an open, Executive Branch, Governors Seat or I as a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership who supports Stem - Cell Research, some LGBT Rights and Environmental Issues, where my primary opponent would be an ultra-right conservative who already ran another moderate GOP member to the Democratic party, and if I survived that bloody primary fight, would then face the six - term incumbent senator with long roots in the same part of the state as me and who had a 60 % approval rating among Pennsylvania Democrats before he decided to switch parties and will have a popular president campaigning for him in an already 55 - 45 Democratic state.

Tony Avella, who is running for Padavan's seat, then showed up for the debate.

YOu are saying that he acted like a democrat and then WORKED as the CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR in Washington Heights (the very area Ydanis is from) for the Republican Party and then ran for the Assembly seat outside his district... oh you obviously intentially left out the councilman he worked for - Miguel Martinez, who is now in his way to jail.

He then ran for an open seat in 2006 after Cook declined to run, and Maynard defeated well - known House Republican Lennie Winkler in a race that many Republicans believed Winkler would win.

Incumbent Democrat Al Krupski of Cutchogue won his then - vacant seat in a January 2013 special election against Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter, after Ed Romaine surrendered it to run for Brookhaven Town supervisor.

However, had David Cameron read any history — and given that he thinks America fought with us in the Battle of Britain, he probably hasn't — he would remember the outcome of the pact between Ramsay MacDonald, then secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, and Herbert Gladstone, the Liberal chief whip, in 1903 to allow some Labour candidates a clear run at the 1906 election, in return for Labour not fighting seats where the Liberals could beat the Tories.

Democrats running for Carrozza's seat include Edward Braunstein, who works as a legislative assistant for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan); Steve Behar, an attorney who ran last year in the race to replace then - City Councilman Tony Avella; Elio Forcina, a Whitestone attorney; and John Duane, a former assemblyman in the district and brother of state Sen. Tom Duane (D - Manhattan).

The GOP leaders then picked Errigo, who formerly represented the 130th Assembly District, to run for Nojay's former seat.