Sentences with phrase «week as party chairman»

The town's Democratic committee is looking for a successor to Gerard Terry, who resigned last week as party chairman after Newsday reported he had collected $ 1.4 million in federal and state tax debts while receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public work.

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Former state Sen. Ray Meier, whose name has been floated as a potential replacement to Ed Cox as state GOP chairman, had no reservations about criticizing the party's lack of organization going to this week's convention during an interview that will appear on «Capital Tonight» this evening.

However, he said that as party chairman, he was neutral on the vote this week and will remain neutral in the presidential race.

Last week, in an official statement as Gov. Cuomo's newly picked state Democratic chairman, former Gov. David Paterson blasted Astorino as representing «the far right [which] is taking over and terrorizing the Republican Party,» pledging, «We will stop the ultra-conservatives here and now.»

What started as a constituency of one with Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy grew last week to include elected officials and party leaders from the county next door, Genesee, with Sen. Mike Ranzenhofer becoming the first senator to break with the minority conference and endorse Paladino over Lazio.

Last week, the State Assembly censured Lopez for allegedly groping two female interns, stripping him of his seniority and forcing him to give up his role as Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman.

Brooklyn Democratic Party Chairman Vito Lopez, who was censured last week for sexually harassing two interns, announced today that he will «regrettably» relinquish his role as an old - school political boss, but plans to keep his position in the State Assembly.

(ACORN head Bertha Lewis, who was much in the news last week, doubles as vice chairman of the Working Families Party).

Tom Dadey, chairman of Onondaga County's Republican party, said this week he's favoring county Comptroller Bob Antonacci as the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York.

KINGSTON, N.Y. — David O'Halloran, who resigned last week as vice chairman of the Ulster County Republican Party, said the lack of GOP support for his plan to bring video lottery terminals to his Kerhonkson resort shows the party is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's ecoParty, said the lack of GOP support for his plan to bring video lottery terminals to his Kerhonkson resort shows the party is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's ecoparty is less interested in helping local businesses than it is in looking for a «white knight» to ride in and save the county's economy.

Last week, Cox, who took over as state party chairman in September, succeeded in recruiting Steve Levy, the Suffolk County executive and ex-Democrat, to run for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Mr. Ferraro, now 79, even replaced Craig Eaton as chairman of the Brooklyn Republican Party this week.

Also on hand was Assemblyman Marcos Crespo, who several weeks later would take Heastie's place as Bronx Democratic Party chairman.

Things get more interesting as there are grumblings and rumblings that the town's Democratic chairman and county legislator, John Parete, may also be facing an in - party challenge for the legislature despite having received a nomination at the party's county caucus last week.