Sentences with phrase «town candidate who»

She said she has the best balance of a home - town candidate who understands the community but also has experience in Washington and knows how to get things done.

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Disappearing from the Wildrose candidate roster is Chestermere Town Councillor Heather Davies, who was nominated as the Wildrose candidate in May 2011.

It will be interesting, then, to see how Okotokians, especially those thousands who ostensibly flocked to town specifically because of its environmental reputation, mark their ballot in the next provincial election if forced to choose between a not - so - green Smith and a pro-growth PC candidate such as Morton.

The president's comments on the matter came during a town hall event in Maryland, when a questioner who identified herself as an atheist pressed Obama on statements he made as a candidate in 2008 suggesting he was against permitting discriminatory hiring among faith - based organizations backed by taxpayer dollars.

A Maryland town hall attendee who works for Secular Coalition for America asked Obama about statements he made as a candidate in 2008 when he said, «If you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the people you help, and you can't discriminate against them - or against the people you hire - on the basis of their religion.»

One of the two announced Democratic LG candidates, Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence took some subtle swipes at his opponent, Bill Samuels, who has pledged to primary whomever the presumptive gubernatorial nominee, AG Andrew Cuomo, picks as his running mate.

Several names have been mentioned as potential Democratic candidates for Morahan's seat, including Assemblyman Kenneth Zebrowski Jr., whose late father ran unsuccessfully against Morahan in 1999 (a race that contributed to the repeal of the commuter tax), and Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence, who is currently running for LG, but says he won't primary whomever AG Andrew Cuomo taps as his No. 2 if it isn't himself.

The union is backing Democratic Assembly candidate Christine Pellegrino in the 9th district, who is running to replace Republican Joe Saladino, now the Oyster Bay town supervisor.

Alongside Sian Berry, who is standing to be the Green candidate for Mayor, he noted that some of the most interesting forms of democratic organising are taking place at a local level in a reaction to capital's homogenization of our towns and cities.

Nathan McMurray, the Grand Island town supervisor and party - anointed Democratic challenger to Republican Rep. Chris Collins in NY - 27, has raised far less campaign money so far than did four of the Democratic candidates who have dropped out of the race.

Amos Goodman, who ran a losing race as the first openly gay Republican candidate for Suffolk County Legislature in 2015, is breaking ground again as East Hampton Town's new GOP chairman.

And she, along with Public Advocate Letitia James, who arrived at the end of the town hall, both argued that Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison is the best candidate for Democratic National Committee chairman in the internal election in Atlanta this weekend.

Throne - Holst, who's from the small town of Southampton, has garnered a few high - profile endorsements, including those of EMILY's List, a pro-choice Democratic fundraising organization that backs female candidates, and former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman and fellow New Yorker Rep. Steve Israel.

«I have high praise for all the candidates who are running, especially with such a short time frame,» said Kenny Curran, the chairman of the Democratic town committee in Waterbury.

In a debate at the East Hampton Library last month, all three candidates were largely in sync on many of the issues, though Mr. Bragman, a political newcomer, made several efforts to criticize and draw a distinction between himself and Mr. Cohen, who is chairman of the town's nature preserve committee.

A Senate race in Michigan against Stabenow — who has won three terms including beating an incumbent Republican in 2000 — wouldn't be easy and would require any candidate trying to replace her to spend a lot of time courting voters at town halls, rallies and debates, as well as developing a media strategy.

The three candidates vying for two seats on the East Hampton Town Board debated a number of issues Monday evening at the East Hampton Library, with a political newcomer who has the party's backing repeatedly if gently attempting to draw a...

Mr. Van Scoyoc criticized the Republican candidates for supervisor and town board, who he said «started very early opposing the wind farm» and are «trying to drive a wedge» between residents over the project's potential to impact the commercial fishing industry, members of which fear that the wind farm's construction and operation will destroy critically important habitat.

The race was largely seen as one between Mr. Bragman, an attorney who is a first - time candidate, and Mr. Cohen, a past candidate for town supervisor in 2011 and town trustee in 2015.

Wayne Fish, who ran two years ago as a petitioning town council candidate, is doing it again, hoping for more than the 312 votes he got in 2015.

The three candidates vying for two seats on the East Hampton Town Board debated a number of issues Monday evening at the East Hampton Library, with a political newcomer who has the party's backing repeatedly if gently attempting to draw a distinction between himself and the candidate who does not.

The candidates include Luke Hudak (D), who is running for county clerk, North Hudson town council hopeful Brian Gaza, a Republican, and John Drinkwine (D), who is running for town council in Willsboro.

Wastewater contamination, water quality, and Montauk beach erosion were the most serious concerns of 200 residents who responded to a telephone survey initiated by Paul Giardina, a Republican candidate for the East Hampton Town Board, while noise...

The campaign said both candidates, current Grand Island Town Supervisor Nate McMurray and Monroe County businessman Nick Stankevich, attended pro-gun control marches over the weekend and stood with people who support the repeal.

Other candidates who participated in the screenings, which took place at an Islip law office, included Legislators Kevin McCaffrey (R - Lindenhurst), Robert Trotta (R - Fort Salonga), Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore) and Thomas Barraga (R - West Islip) and Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine, according to Newsday.

A former chairman of the Ulster County Democratic Party who helped shepherd his candidates to a 2007 takeover of the county legislature, as well as a former Democratic commissioner at the Board of Elections, the 69 - year old Parete is the long - time owner of the Boiceville Inn in the Town of Olive.

NORTH HUDSON — Incumbent town supervisor Ron Moore emerged victorious in Thursday's Republican primary, brushing back a challenge from a candidate who had previously held the position.

Republican town board candidate Rich Dionisio, who also ran for the Conservative line, ran as a write - in and received 23 votes, which was not enough to beat Stout, according to the BOE's unofficial count.

Like Mr. Cohen, one of the Republican town board candidates, Mr. Larsen, mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge, trying to wrest an Independence Party ballot spot from either Mr. Bragman or Ms. Burke - Gonzalez, the Democrats who had been cross-endorsed.

The Independence Party also endorsed the Democrats Rick Drew and Bill Taylor, both incumbents and the trustees» two deputy clerks, as well as Rona Klopman, a former candidate for trustee, and John Aldred, a new candidate who had been the director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery.

Pataki, who's been campaigning for months under the guise of a super Pac, joined the growing list of declared Republican candidates with a speech to about 200 supporters in Exeter's Town Hall.

Other candidates who have been mentioned include former state Sen. Charles Fuschillo and former Hempstead Town Clerk Dan Fisher.

Dionisio, who has also been endorsed by the Independence Party, will run against the winner of a Democratic primary between Chris Rodier, the town Democratic Party endorsed candidate, and Stout, who was appointed by an all - Republican council in January following former Councilman Joe Canella's resignation to become a town justice.

Mr. Ghosio, who will replace Republican Chris Talbot on the Town Board, was far from the only candidate to win an open seat Tuesday.

He has regularly attended both town and planning board meetings since 2006, and has positioned himself as a candidate who will add integrity and respect to the position.

That was a message, the campaign said, that resonated among small - town residents who had backed President Barack Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin in 2012, but who, even more than most, were fed up with the political status quo.

Mr. Goodman, who is 34 and runs a corporate advisory firm focused on aerospace and defense industries, takes the helm of the Republican Committee after a disappointing campaign in which its candidates for supervisor and town board were defeated by wide margins and just two of its nine candidates for town trustee prevailed in the November election.

In fact, Schoonmaker was the only candidate for town board who articulated specific ways that Saugerties could effectively contribute to the fight against climate change.

In conversations with nearly two dozen political operatives, office holders and candidates, the consensus was that The Times remains the biggest single factor in deciding who gets elected in this town.

Among the upstate town's major political donors are Joseph and Esther Markowitz, who run a local real estate company and regularly write four - figure checks to certain candidates from New York City.

Prior to the vote, GOP leaders said they needed a candidate with significant name recognition, such as an elected official, to run a competitive campaign against Mr. Krupski, who had served in town government for 28 years.

Asked what his reaction to the results was, Koenig — who ran on the People for Gardiner (P4G) line, along with Town Board candidate John Hinson — said that he was «happy with the turnout.

A man who tried in 2015 to win a town council seat as an independent is collecting petitions to force a primary to get onto the Democrat slate as a council candidate.

So it comes as a bit of a surprise that both «environmentalist» candidates for Town Board prevailed this time around, unseating Ken Hassett, a Republican incumbent who has served a total of 16 years on the Board.

Dadey said he recommended several candidates to fill the vacancy, including his sister - in - law and LaFayette Town Councilor David Knapp, who beat Cox in a party primary in September and went on to win the seat in the November election.

Robert Ripp, an independent who is running for Oyster Bay Town supervisor, speaks during a candidates forum at the Hicksville library on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017.

If the Republicans are to succeed, voters who will not cast a ballot for Mr. Zeldin must nonetheless vote for the party's candidate for town board, he said.

Now it appears that there is already a Ukip candidate for the Essex seaside town who has no intention of meekly moving aside, which makes a nonsense of Ukip as the activists» party.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate at the Kogi state election, late Abubakar Audu, who died on Sunday, will be buried in no distant time in his home town, Ogbonicha in Ofu local government area of the state.

Republicans who live in the 127th Assembly District will choose between two candidates: a relative political newcomer from Cicero, and someone who's been a part of town of Manlius politics for several years.