Sentences with phrase «until special elections»

If they win, Democrats will be down by two members until special elections are held.

Either it could remain open until a special election in November or city council members could appoint an interim mayor, which they did.

The board could operate with just four people — Mr. Van Scoyoc, Ms. Burke - Gonzalez, Mr. Bragman, and Sylvia Overby — until a special election next November; however, the supervisor - elect said late last month that he would want to appoint a replacement to serve until then.

Most states have a provision to allow the governor to appoint people to Congressional positions until a special election is held.

«I think when it all is said and done, my colleagues in the Independent Democratic Conference all believe that unity can not wait until a special election.

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.

«When it all is said and done, my colleagues all believe that unity can not wait until a special election.

Current Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom Hutchison is challenging for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, is expected to appoint a replacement until the special election is held a few months later.

By party rule, Schreibman's position as Democratic chairman will be filled by first vice chair Karen Markisenis of the town of Ulster until a special election can be held.

Johnson appeared on WXXI as the city awaits a court ruling on a challenge to the city's appointment of Carl Carballada as acting mayor until the special election scheduled for March 29.

The decision to consider the measure on September 9, just after lawmakers return from break, highlights the growing momentum to pass a change allowing the appointment of an interim senator to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat until a special election can be held to replace him.

Following Lautenberg's death earlier this month, Republican Gov. Chris Christie appointed an interim senator, Republican state Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, to hold the seat until the special election in October.

A fighter to the very end, the senior senator from Massachusetts spent his final week focused on the people of the Bay State and of the entire United States, lobbying to ensure that Massachusetts would have two votes in the U.S. Senate after his passing, fighting for the governor to have the right to appoint a temporary replacement for the Senate seat until a special election could be held.

Not exact matches

Jones himself will not be up for re-election until 2020, at which time he will likely be the Democrats» version of former Senator Scott Brown, the surprise Republican winner of a 2010 Massachusetts special election, who was unable to hold the seat under more normal conditions.

That was until a NYSUT - connected independent expenditure committee got involved in an Assembly special election in Paladino's backyard.

So far, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is yet to call a special election to fill the seat along with nearly a dozen soon - to - be or currently vacant seats in both chambers of the Legislature as a vacancy is yet to be created until the seat is vacated.

Eaton said he will wait until Gov. Andrew Cuomo calls a special election in NY - 11 (something the governor has shown no signs of doing any time soon), and then convene a convention of county committee members to which all potential candidates will be invited to make their respective cases.

First off, any stab at reunification can't take place until after a special election is held to fill two vacancies that won't even materialize until January.

Originally, it was not supposed to happen until after the special election April 24th.

NYS Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long indicated the party would wait to select its candidate until after the governor sets a date for the special election.

The state Independence Party has endorsed Republican Matt Doheny's challenge to Democratic Rep. Bill Owens in NY - 23 — a move that could prove significant in the GOP's effort to win back the North Country seat it had held for over a century until last year's special election loss.

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.

(A ninth Democrat, Simcha Felder, caucuses with Republicans but is not an IDC member — even if the Democrats gain two seats in this month's special elections, a number of Albany Democratic sources expressed doubt that Felder would come back into the fold until the Democrats strengthened their majority.)

The Republicans, until the recent Special election in Brooklyn, controlled that body by one seat.

The party leaders said they don't think the two seats will be filled by a special election until after the state budget is approved in early April.

It is not yet clear when there will be a special election to fill the remainder of Louise Slaughter's term, which runs until the end of this year.

After the 2008 elections, he called a special session to close another deficit but lawmakers didn't get the job done until the next year when Democrats took over the Senate majority from Republicans.

Republicans will retain control of the Senate at least until April 24, when special Senate elections will fill two vacant Senate seats representing heavily Democratic areas of the Bronx and Westchester County.

And until two open Senate seats are filled in a special election next year (no date has been set), he said it's premature for the IDC to talk about uniting with mainstream Democrats.

However, the governor has discretion as to when to call for a special election, which could prevent it from taking place until the next general election in November.

«We wouldn't actually have to call a special election, we'd just wait until November,» Cuomo said.

He noted that the country has less than 10 months before the next general elections and the special courts may not come on stream until his second term, should he get it

«Five weeks until Election Day, and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven GreenbeElection Day, and this special election is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven Greenbeelection is a wide - open race with both candidates trying to become more known to the voters of the district and earn their support,» Siena pollster Steven Greenberg said.

Which cancels the possibility of a special election and allows his fellow Democrat, state Senate President Richard Codey of Essex County to assume office and hold it until November 2005.

The special election was set for the same date as the general election — which includes races in Queens and The Bronx — and the winner will serve until Dec. 31, 2016.

Cuomo said he'll call special elections for those seats, which are in staunchly Democratic districts, but not until after the budget is completed, perhaps sometime in the spring.

With two weeks to go until a crucial state Senate special election in Nassau County, Democrat Todd Kaminsky's campaign's latest ad hits Chris McGrath over the fees his law firm received for its work on the early 2000s settlement agreement between states and tobacco companies.

As Jerry Goldfeder, a prominent Democratic election lawyer (who once worked for Cuomo) pointed out in a column, the governor has until Monday to call special elections, with whoever is elected able to take office for the last scheduled weeks of the legislative session in June.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit — which is being spearheaded by several GOP county chairmen in the district, including Steuben County Chairman Bill Hatch and Ontario County Chairman Jay Dutcher — are a group of 29th District constituents who claim they've been disenfranchised, since they will be without representation until 2011 if there is no special election.

By the way, if you want to register to vote in that special election or the other one (Assembly District 43) happening May 5, you have until April 10 to register.

But those special elections likely won't take place until after the state budget negotiation is slated to conclude at the end of March, which means the current Republican - IDC partnership could remain in force through at least half of the 2018 legislative session.

Cuomo could also opt not to call a special election, which would delay the vote to replace Castro until the general elections in November.

With only one week until two Rensselaer County Legislators face off in a special election for the 107th Assembly District seat, Democratic candidate Cindy Doran received support from numerous Democratic women leaders from across the state on yesterday afternoon.

«These are all core, essential progressive principles that were not passed in the budget and which we will not pass until we have a Democratic Senate,» Cuomo said, echoing comments from the night before, made at a fundraiser for a Democratic Senate candidate running in a special election for a key empty seat in Westchester.

Cuomo had also faced criticism for waiting to call this year's Senate special elections until after the state's budget deadline, which made certain the GOP would control the chamber through the crucial budget talks.

In a sign of the tenuous nature of the state Senate Democratic peace deal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters he could forgo calling special elections, which would push off the replacement of departing Democratic Sens. Ruben Diaz Sr. and George Latimer until next November.

Despite the agreement, Democrats will remain short of a numerical majority until potentially winning two seats in a special election on April 24.

The special election won't be called by Gov. Andrew Cuomo until Diaz and Westchester County Executive - elect George Latimer take office at the start of the new year.

Anthony hasn't even put in his resignation... and until that happens, the governor can't even call a special election.»

With two weeks to go until a crucial state Senate special election in Nassau County, Democrat Todd Kaminsky's campaign's latest ad hits Republican Chris McGrath over the fees his law firm received for its work on the early 2000s settlement agreement between states and tobacco companies