Sentences with phrase «vote for governor on»

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo's new Women's Equality Party succeeded last week in its most urgent mission: getting more than 50,000 people to vote for the governor on the W.E.P. line.

He says he needs to dissuade them from the idea that stage two of their protest is to vote for the governor on the Working Families Party line to send a message.

But WFP officials were miffed as Cuomo sought to promote the Women's Equality Party over their ballot line and sought to frame a vote for the governor on their line as sending him a message.

«I can tell you tenants would be much more likely to vote for governor on Row E if the candidate is Kenny Schaeffer,» Tenants PAC's Michael McKee told me this afternoon while trying to explain why his board decided to endorse the Working Families Party's placeholder candidate over the Democratic gubernatorial designee, Andrew Cuomo.

Officially, the WFP supported Cuomo, issuing a terse statement instructing New Yorkers to vote for the governor on the WFP line.

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«Canadians might not like them as politicians — they may not vote for them because they're too conservative on social issues — but they're not the kind of governors that make trouble for Canada.»

As a Christian and a Republican who voted for Obama last time... I won; t make that mistake again so I am voting for Governor Romney (unless Ron Paul is on the ballot as an independent)

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

«This November, we'll need a bigger than ever vote on our ballot line than ever — voting on the WFP line for Governor Cuomo means voting for that progressive vision,» Lipton continued.

Then the governor started making nosies about no need to rush into a final budget deal, and lawmakers — whose paychecks are being withheld while a final deal eludes them — insisted they were, in fact, close to an agreement, and clamored for him to send them bills to vote on.

The Conservatives will gather on May 28 at the Sheraton, and, assuming their executive committee's March endorsement holds, vote to back Republican Rick Lazio for governor.

The vote for governor will still take place on Wednesday, as planned, and the WP vote will immediately follow the nomination.

New York Democratic Party activists who backed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 — and now support Cynthia Nixon for governor over Cuomo — have drafted a resolution to force the state Democratic Committee to pass a rule allowing independent or «nonaligned» registered voters to vote in the 2018 Democratic primary for governor, on Sept. 13.

Despite the recent attempt by the Cuomo campaign at a rapprochement with the Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent black leader publicly announced over the weekend that he will be voting for NYC Councilman Charles Barron for governor on the Freedom Party line.

«Next year, when you are running for your third term as Governor of new York, when you go to the polling place to cast your vote, promise me you will not ride there on horseback,» he said.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

The New York State Democratic Party plans on blocking a proposed resolution at its May 23 - 24 convention that would allow independent or «unaffiliated» voters to vote in this year's Democratic primary for governor.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and his hometown GOP chairman John Jay LaValle, whose Suffolk county committee will have the most votes at the party's nominating convention, disagree on who should run for governor, with Flanagan supporting state Sen. John DeFrancisco and LaValle endorsing Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro.

Adeyeye condemned Fayose for standing up at a stage during the primary to monitor how delegates voted adding that he complained on the matter to the Chairman of the Electoral Panel, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.

The party needs to receive at lest 50,000 votes on its line in the race for governor in order to maintain ballot status for the next four years.

-- Zack Fink was on Long Island as Governor Cuomo urged New Yorkers to vote for Clinton.

UPDATE: On July 10 VID members gathered to re-consider the original vote of No Endorsement for Governor and voted to endorse Zephyr Teachout.

BY NATHAN RILEY Right in Cynthia Nixon's backyard, just weeks after the actor and activist announced her Democratic primary challenge to Andrew Cuomo, the Hell's Kitchen Democrats — a progressive newcomer on the local political club scene — voted Thursday night to endorse the two - term governor for reelection.

The work of building a more progressive politics will be strengthened, in our view, by voting for Zephyr Teachout for governor on September 9.

ALBANY — After months of listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo assail him as responsible for a bill he voted against, U.S. Rep. John Faso closed a letter to the governor on Thursday with an especially cutting observation: He's not the man his late father was.

Former New York governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate George Pataki expressed significant reservations about presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump Tuesday night, saying that he does not endorse Trump and that he's «still up in the air» on whether he'll vote for Trump.

Cuomo has been arguing with the Legislature on whether a special pay raise commission needs to be reauthorized in order for it to vote on a possible salary increase for the Senate, Assembly and governor's office before the end of the year.

Three days after that vote — the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration and the eve a major women's march in Washington — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state Department of Financial Services would impose similar contraceptive requirements by regulatory action, along with a ban on copayments for abortions.

The occasion for this insult was the latest open letter from the Democratic governor calling on Faso to «stand with his constituents» in opposition to the the federal tax reform law, which narrowly passed the House and Senate in December without a single Democratic vote — and without Faso's vote, either.

Callers asked voters «whether they would be more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if they knew that lesbians dominated on her staff.»

The governor is already running smack into a wall of opposition in the Senate, where Republicans (and at least one Democrat) don't want to hold a vote on a measure to strengthen abortion laws or allow for the public financing of political campaigns.

That cleared the way for Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo to accept the WFP nomination and net sufficient votes on its line to improve its ballot placement for the four years (more on this in a minute).

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan will likely be unanimously nominated for attorney general at the GOP convention later this afternoon (assuming the governor vote finishes at some point), as Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci will end his long - shot bid to get on the ballot, according to a source familiar with the upstate lawmaker's thinking.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is engaging in some last - minute delegate - wrangling prior to the vote for governor this morning, and insisted in an impromptu mini-gaggle with reporters he's «confident» about getting on the ballot.

(I'm told the vote on the governor's race is now tentatively sceduled for the second day of what is supposed to be a three - day event at the Sheraton in Manhattan).

On November 5, the Libertarian Party nominee for Virginia Governor, Robert Sarvis, polled 6.6 % of the vote.

After a light hearted beginning, question topics included his expectations concerning Kathy Hochul's separate primary, where he expects votes to come from, his «position» in the John Liu / Tony Avella senate primary, reports of pressure from Cuomo's staff and allies on Democrats to refrain from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, Teachout's comment that her qualifications include «not under federal investigation», whether Teachout is qualified to be governor, whether votes for Teachout are an anti-Cuomo protest, his encounter with Teachout at the Labor Day Parade and Tim Wu's related comment that Cuomo «failed a basic test of decency and civility».

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

Lawyer David Gerstein, 78, who cast his vote on the Upper West Side Tuesday, said he didn't pay attention to party when he picked Democrat Andrew Cuomo for governor and Republican Harry Wilson for comptroller.

The Connecticut Republican Party challenged (PDF) Secretary of State Denise Merrill's decision to list Democratic candidates first on the ballot this year, arguing that it violated a statute mandating that the party whose candidate for governor got the most votes in the last election gets to be listed first in all ballots.

On May 8, the Four Freedoms Democratic Club held its bi-annual State Offices Endorsement Meeting, at which members voted on endorsements for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Senate (28th District and 29th District) and State Assembly (76th Dis.On May 8, the Four Freedoms Democratic Club held its bi-annual State Offices Endorsement Meeting, at which members voted on endorsements for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Senate (28th District and 29th District) and State Assembly (76th Dis.on endorsements for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State Senate (28th District and 29th District) and State Assembly (76th Dis...

Three others received between 28 and 33 votes — not enough to establish a minority position — on the excessively revolutionary issues of gaps in anti-discrimination legislation, increasing numbers of parent governors at academy schools, changing balloting arrangements for school selections, and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

Without an affiliation with Cuomo — who remains miles ahead in the polls — the party is unlikely to collect the 50,000 votes for governor in November that it needs to score an automatic line on the ballot for the next four years.

According to the New York Post, the Progressive Action Network is circulating a resolution that would force the New York State Democratic Committee to allow independents to vote in the Democratic primary for governor on September 13.

Kavanagh is hopeful that with the renewed focus on New York City's dysfunctional Board of Elections and Governor Andrew Cuomo's inclusion of proposals for early voting and automatic voter registration in his State of the State address, progress on the long list of voting reform bills in Albany may happen this year.

Malliotakis voted for the SAFE Act, proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school killings, which implemented some restrictions and registration requirements on assault - style rifles and limited magazine capacity.

Of course, there was no mention of Addabbo and the rest of his conference not casting a vote on one of the governor's most hard - sought proposals this year: the Tier Six pension measure which scaled back benefits for new state hires.

In the Senate, Democrats there pushed for a vote to be held on the governor's legislation in the final days.

Levy, a Democrat, made an aborted run for governor in 2010 on the Republican line, but failed to get the necessary delegate votes to qualify for a Wison - Pakula.

The situation at the moment is very fluid, and could very well remain so right up until the voting at the convention on the endorsement for governor question begins tomorrow night.