In order to
create a new party line on a ballot, a candidate must generate 15,000 independent signature statewide, including a certain number from each Congressional district.
Co-host and Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez asked Hawkins, «Cuomo
even created a new party, or helped support the creation of a new party, the Women's Equality Party.
«Governor Cuomo thinks he can buy women's votes by
cynically creating a new party to advertise values he hasn't fought for in office,» she said in a statement.
Female leaders of the Working Families Party are fuming that Gov. Cuomo has
created a new party geared to women that threatens to siphon votes from their ballot line.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Cuomo
even created a new party, or helped support the creation of a new party, the Women's Equality Party.
Republicans are now rumored to be
creating a new party line of their own, one focused on capturing voters unhappy with Common Core.
Should Kenney win, the next step in his plan would be to negotiate a framework agreement with the Wildrose to
create a new party.
It requires 50,000 votes for a gubernatorial candidate to
create a new party that gets automatic ballotn status for the next four years).
Democrats — including Cuomo — hammered Republicans for refusing to pass the governor's full 10 - point Women's Equality Act due to the presence of a controversial abortion rights plank, and Cuomo even
created a new party (the Women's Equality Party) to woo this key voting bloc.
(Paladino bristled at the suggestion that this is actually an attempt to
create a new party, insisting he's merely giving voice to the Tea Party movement, not trying to codify it).
This is the bill to repair the typographical error that requires petitions to
create a new party to contain a list of presidential elector candidates if that group intends to nominate someone for President.
Shadow Former Home Secretary David Blunkett told BBC News Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters should split from Labour and
create a new party.
Cuomo and his allies will have to collect 15, 000 signatures across the state to
create the new party, and submit them to the state Board of Elections by Aug. 19.
Among the Democratic women I talked to, the overwhelming reaction to Andrew Cuomo's plan to
create a new party to focus solely on women's issues was: What for?
For her part, Cuomo's Democratic primary opponent Zephyr Teachout accused the governor of «trying to buy women's votes by cynically
creating a new party to advertise values he hasn't fought for in office.»
«There wasn't enough time,» said Gallo of the petition process to
create a new party line for himself.
Teachout said she is not ready to rule out an effort to
create a new party — which, if successful, would assure her a spot on the November ballot — but is focusing her efforts on petitioning her way into a Democratic primary against Cuomo.
He said that if he is not the Conservative nominee, he will go ahead with a petition process to
create a new party.