Sentences with phrase «town elections takes»

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Election expert Sean Fear offers his predictions for the battles for control of Town Halls taking place in June 2009.

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.

Two years ago, Cahill demanded the county take over ever - increasing Safety Net (welfare) charges to the towns and the city and the cost of administering local election expenses in exchange for his allowing the bill authorizing the 1 percent add - on to reach the Assembly floor for a vote.

Town Democrats believe their increase in voter registration can help them take the election regardless of who wins the primary.

Nevertheless, the Senate Republicans are also feeling bullish about Republican Greg Bernard, who won a special election to fill the remainder of former Yorktown Town Board Member Terrence Murphy's term after Murphy departed at the end of last year to take a seat in the state Senate.

For more than two hours hours, Capital Region Democratic Rep. Paul Tonko took questions at a town hall meeting on, among other topics, environmental policies pushed by Trump, the manufacturing workforce, efforts to repeal of the Affordable Care Act and hate crimes that have gained considerable attention since the election.

And Dash, who had been a Town Board member before winning election as supervisor, took over the supervisor's office from Francis J. Pordum.

Olive had big elections in 2011, when it seemed for a moment that a revived local Republican Party might take over town government, and with one gain ended up with two of five town board seats, as well as in 2013, when long term clerk Sylvia Rozzelle, a lifelong Democrat, rose to become supervisor after the retirement of Berndt Leifeld, and the GOP took a majority of town board seats for the first time in decades.

JAY The two winners of the Democratic primary in September, Robert Segall and Kate Comegys Mongulla, take on one independent candidate, Spencer Reynolds, and two Republican incumbent councilors in the upcoming election for Town Council in Jay.

Should Mr. Van Scoyoc take the top job, a vacancy would be left on the five - member town board as of January, when a board majority could appoint someone to serve until a special election in November 2018.

The positions in question are town supervisor and highway superintendent, and if they pass, the new term length will not take place until elections are held next year.

The county takes the position that having granted the city and towns some $ 30 million a year in safety net and election expenses as agreed to under the 2014 one - percent sales - tax extender, it needs money «to offset critical county expenses,» according to the joint release.

Last year, Cahill held up legislative passage for two months in exchange for the county taking over safety net and election expenses from the towns and the city.

Mrs Duffy had confronted Mr Brown in the final days of the election campaign as he went walkabout in her home town of Rochdale, where she took issue with him about the deficit and mass immigration.

In January, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Gerentine (R - Marlboro), citing increased costs to the county after it took over Safety Net welfare and elections costs, proposed returning the distribution formula to the 1990s formula, when city got 10 percent and the towns 2 percent.

Harrington said he believes the Crown Point Town Council, which can fill the vacancy by majority vote to serve until Jan. 1, 2017, when the person elected takes office, will fill it after the election.

The county takes the position that having granted the city and towns some $ 30 million a year in Safety Net and election expenses as agreed to under the 2014 1 percent sales tax extender deal, it needs money «to offset critical county expenses,» according to the joint release.

«Until we receive a certificate of vacancy from the town clerk, we can't take any actions at the board of elections,» said Essex County Republican Election Commissioner Allison McGahay.

TICONDEROGA William Grinnell's attempt to take his old job back from current Ticonderoga Town Supervisor Joseph Giordano failed in Tuesday's primary election.

In Ulster County, some town supervisors have taken issue with criticism from the County Executive's Office about municipal budgets getting larger despite the county taking over $ 20 million worth of welfare and election costs.

Meanwhile ubiquitous Dan Torres — among the many hats he wears is deputy New Paltz town supervisor, assistant to the county comptroller and pointman for Teachout — tells me that unofficial returns gleaned from town voting machines election night showed that Teachout took 93 percent of the New Paltz vote.

County Executive Michael Hein on Thursday stood by his past contentions that town budgets have grown too much since the county took over the welfare and election costs.

Six months after residents voted in a town election with the largest number of candidates in decades, a special election for town Trustee is taking shape for Electelection with the largest number of candidates in decades, a special election for town Trustee is taking shape for Electelection for town Trustee is taking shape for ElectionElection Day.

Sure, Gaetana didn't win the election last year for town supervisor, but now that Donna has her column, and Gaetana's writing just about every week, they're going to get us all to put on our «dunce caps» and «listen up» to their sage words of wisdom, fear and loathing, and we will, together, take this country by storm, starting right here in Saugerties!

Libertarian Party leaders said they endorsed David Pasick, 30, of the town of Schuyler, to take on Democratic and Republican candidates that may not be determined until after a June 28 primary election.

The closure of the steelworks in 2009 hit the town hard and was the foundation of an immense swing at the 2010 election, when the Liberal Democrats took the seat on a 22 percent swing.

He was there to attend a town hall conducted by Congressman Mike Conaway (R - TX), who has recently taken over the investigation into Russian election tampering for the House Intelligence Committee after Devin Nunes recused himself.

And though her NBC series «Free Agents» didn't take off, she has recently been doing a pretty solid arc on «Parks & Recreation» as the big bucks campaign manager — who couldn't care less about a small town election — brought in to take down Leslie Knope.

So last month Malloy was taking away town's flexibility and this month he is offering them flexibility for one year... an election year.

Take your kids with you to vote (especially for local elections which hit closer to home) and to town hall meetings.