Sentences with phrase «to win the special election»

The former investigative reporter also won a special election in 2012.

She served a year prior to that after winning a special election.

«Obviously, each side would rather win a special election than lose,» he said.

Erik Bohen, who won a special election for the NYS 142nd Assembly seat last week, was sworn in to his seat on Monday.

Kaminsky, who won a special election in April to fill the term of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once again faces Republican Chris McGrath.

When Arnold Drucker talks about his feats in the Nassau County Legislature after winning a special election last year, he holds up a binder of media clippings about himself and lathers his pitch in Democratic talking points.

Cuomo last weekend campaign for Democrat Shelley Mayer, who won a special election on Tuesday to retain a Westchester County district for the party.

Democrat Brian Benjamin easily won a special election Tuesday for a vacant State Senate seat in Upper Manhattan.

If the Democrats win the special elections in April, it would not be the first time in recent years that Democrats have held the 32 seats needed to run the Senate.

Incumbent county Legislator Al Krupski is running for his first full term on the county level after winning a special election earlier this year against Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter.

Syracuse Common Councilor Pam Hunter easily won a special election in the 128th District.

On Tuesday, real estate developer Brian Benjamin replaced Bill Perkins, who left the Senate for the City Council in February, by winning a special election for Manhattan's 30th Senate District, bringing the number of Democratic lawmakers in the 63 - seat Senate to 32, a bare majority.

He first won a special election in 2009 to win the seat vacated by former Rep. John McHugh, a Republican who stepped down to become Secretary of the Army in President Barack Obama's administration.

Rep. Conor Lamb, who recently won a special election in a Pennsylvania district carried by Republicans in 2016, cut advertisements stating he was not supportive of Pelosi as party leader.

Democrat Todd Kaminsky won a special election on Long Island in April to fill the vacancy created when Dean Skelos was convicted of a felony.

Murphy won a special election last year to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand after her promotion to the Senate, but is no shoo - in for reelection in a district that often goes Republican.

The party usually cross-endorses Democrats; Ms. Richardson is the first candidate to win an office solely on their party line since now - Public Advocate Letitia James won the a special election for City Council in 2003.

Simanowitz won the special election for the seat in September after his former boss and predecessor, Nettie Mayersohn, 86, announced her retirement from the Assembly after 28 years in office.

Developer and Democrat Brian Benjamin won a special election on Tuesday to represent Harlem in the New York State Senate.

Some Democratic candidates — including Conor Lamb, who just won a special election to flip a deep - red Pennsylvania seat — have declined to support Pelosi to be the party's leader in the House.

The Nassau County Senate seat Skelos once held now belongs to Democrat Todd Kaminsky, who narrowly won a special election last month.

Whoever wins the special election will take office immediately and won't have to wait until January 2011 like most of the general election victors.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — With Assemblyman Mickey Kearns winning the special election for Erie County Clerk, some current elected officials in South Buffalo are already exploring the possibility of replacing him in the Assembly.

Carter won the special election with 53 percent of the vote.

Crowley defeated former Councilman Anthony Como in the 2008 election after Como won a special election earlier that year to replace disgraced -LSB-...]

Wills won the special election last month to fill the seat vacated by White, who was just months into his second term when he died of cancer in August.

In advance of the party's May 14 county nominating convention, Republican leaders were scheduled to meet Wednesday to consider potential candidates for the legislative contests and the State Assembly seat left vacant when Dan Losquadro won a special election in March for the Brookhaven highway superintendent's post.

Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to finish the rest of Clinton's term, and won re-election to the seat in 2012 with 72 % of the vote.

Skartados has been in office since 2012, after winning a special election following the death of Republican Thomas Kirwan.

Bohen last week won a special election for a vacant Assembly seat.

The New York state Senate met for the first time Wednesday since two Democrats won special elections held Tuesday.

The effort to rename the center after Buckley dates back to 2005, a project supported by former Buckley staffers and then taken up after Turner won the special election to fill Rep. Anthony Weiner's seat last year.

A handful of more current House members won special election races at least 20 years ago including California Democrat Sam Farr (1993), Texas Republican Sam Johnson (1991), Oklahoma Republican Frank D. Lucas (1994), New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler (1992), Florida Republican Ileana Ros - Lehtinen (1989), New York Democrat José E. Serrano (1990), and Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson (1993).

Killian is from Rye but has spent a large amount of time in Yonkers, perhaps realizing that she needs to win the city, or at least hold her own, if she stands any chance at winning the special election to replace former Sen. and now County Exec.

Orrall in September won a special election to the Massachusetts House, flipping the 12th Bristol seat from Democratic control for the first time in more than 30 years.

Turner, the representative of the 9th Congressional District, was a relatively unknown businessman before winning a special election for the seat last year after U.S. Anthony Weiner resigned in the midst of a sexting scandal.

Trump noted that the GOP won the special election in Arizona this week «where the Democrats spent a fortune.»

Coming off of a big, successful season (UConn went to the Fiesta Bowl, Manchin won a special election to replace Robert Byrd), it is a bit of a retooling season for Manchin.

Richards won a special election in 2011 to replace now Lt. Governor Bob Duffy.

Perkins won a special election last month to fill a vacant seat on the New York City Council.

Golden defeated Gentile in 2002 with the help of nearly $ 4 million from the Senate GOP, and Gentile, who spent about half a million dollars on his Senate campaign, subsequently won a special election for the NYC Council seat Golden vacated to move up to the Senate.

«Winning a special election gives you an advantage heading into your first general election, but that is one advantage that has to be stacked up against other potential advantages and disadvantages heading into that election,» Greenberg said.»

Democrat Luis Sepúlveda won a special election for a seat on the State Senate in the 32nd senatorial district last night, easily defeating his two challengers.

Djou won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by Neil Abercrombie, who resigned the office to run for governor of Hawaii.

Lois Capps won a special election to succeed him.)

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.

The Republican wave that swept across Suffolk County Tuesday didn't stop short of Southold, where GOP incumbent Dave Bergen won a special election for an abbreviated term on the town's Board of Trustees.

Kathy Hochul, a Democrat from western New York who surprisingly won a special election in a majority Republican district in 2011, once again voted «no» on the repeal.

If Mayer wins the special election for the Senate seat, then her Assembly seat will become vacant, and will be filled this November.