Sentences with phrase «third bid for the seat»

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Steve Stern has won the endorsement of the powerful SEIU Local 1199 United Health Care Workers East in his bid for retiring Rep. Steve Israel's Third District seat.

The assemblyman is running for the 23rd Council seat now held by his brother, Councilman David Weprin (D - Hollis), who chose to make a bid for the comptroller's job instead of seeking a third term.

They say that the third time is the charm, and fortune finally turned in Manna Jo Greene's favor on Election Day 2013: She prevailed in her bid to represent all of Rosendale and part of Marbletown as Ulster County Legislator for District 19, after having lost previous bids for the same seat in 1989 and 2003.

But Mara, a socially liberal fiscal conservative who has lived in D.C. for the past 16 years, is in the midst of his third GOP bid for a Council seat and is pretty confident that he's going to win this time around.

Kathryn Thome, a Forest Hills resident and softball coach, and Forest Hills resident Michael Reddy said they appreciated Katz's decision not to run for a third term in the City Council, even though they said she would have won «hands down» had she made another bid for her seat.

Republican Erin Baker raised over $ 91,600 this year in her bid for a Town Board seat — six times more than either of her Democratic opponents — but she placed third behind them.

The Green Party moved into the spotlight in 2014 in the North Country's congressional race, with Matt Funiciello from Glens Falls running a strong third - party bid for the 21st district House seat.

Former Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi says he has raised $ 450,000 so far in his bid to run for retiring Rep. Steve Israel's Third District seat.

Babinec, 61, of Little Falls, had been poised to make a significant third - party bid for the congressional seat.

Maathai also lost her bid for a seat in the National Assembly, coming in third.

Interestingly, Josh Kushner, the brother of embattled senior advisor to the president Jared Kushner, returned to his seat at the IAC building after Fry hopped off the stage, apparently having missed the whole opening bit stuffed with swipes at the president, but he stuck around to see RAA chairman Declan Kelly introduce the third honoree, Aryeh Bourkoff, the LionTree Partners founder whom Jared Kushner tapped to advise him when he made his bid for the L.A. Dodgers in 2012.