Sentences with phrase «who running in a special election»

Saccone, who running in a special election against Democrat Conor Lamb, has backed Trump's decision to impose steel tariffs.

We need leaders at every level who are dedicated to progress and creating meaningful change,» Assemblywoman Shelley Mayers, who running in a Special Election for George Latimer's vacant State Senate seat, April 24th shares with Black Westchester.

Not exact matches

Moore is running in Alabama against Democrat Doug Jones on 12th December in a special election to fill the vacancy left by Jess Sessions who left to become Attorney General.

Killian, who is running in a pivotal special election on April 24 to fill the district vacated by Westchester County Executive George Latimer, said the tax amounted to a «bait and switch» if the revenue isn't sent to a dedicated and protected fund.

Manhattan Democratic Party Chair Keith Wright, who abdicated his Assembly seat last year to unsuccessfully pursue retired Rep. Charles Rangel's post, confirmed he's interested in running to replace Sen. Bill Perkins, who is expected to win a special election to fill the NYC Council vacancy created when Assemblywoman Inez Dickens was elected to Wright's old seat.

Regardless of who is selected by local party leaders to run, the special election is expected to be one of the most costly in the state's recent history, given the stakes for control of the chamber.

Earlier today, I posted a robocall Cuomo recorded on behalf of Chris Fahey, an aide to Rep. Brian Higgins who is running for former Assemblyman Marc Schroeder's seat in a special election tomorrow.

Fidler is running in the March 20 special election for the seat vacated by former Sen. Carl Kruger, who was forced to resign when he pleaded guilty last month to felony federal corruption charges.

Hochul has said she will run in NY - 27 and won't primary Higgins (although there are some who believe she might reconsider this after Higgins failed to elect his top aide, Chris Fahey, to the 145th AD in last week's special election).

Democratic state Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, who running for state Senate in a critical special election in Westchester County Tuesday, has the backing of former Vice President Joe Biden, who has cut a last minute automated phone call on her behalf.

The NY - 20 congressman, who won his seat in a close special election and is now running in hopes of keeping it, used the fact that he has been endorsed by both the WFP and the state Independence Party (which has its own share of legal issues) to tout his cross-party appeal.

He'll soon be in the assembly, via a Special Election, replacing his brother Mark who is running for his (David's) council seat.

The civil lawsuit, filed in Albany County Supreme Court on July 2, pits Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, against the campaign of Shirley Patterson, a little - known candidate who ran unsuccessfully for a Brooklyn state Assembly seat in a May special election.

The Democrat ran in a special election that year to replace her husband, Walter Capps, who died of a heart attack less than a year into his first term in Congress.

Mr. Storobin and Mr. Fidler are currently running in a spirited special election to replace former State Senator Carl Kruger, who pleaded guilty to corruption charges and resigned last December.

Assemblyman Michael Cusick — a Democrat who has eyed a Congressional run in the past but has never jumped into the fray — is emerging as a front - runner for the party's pick in a special election to replace Congressman Michael Grimm, sources told the Observer.

In addition to managing Congressman Bob Turner's successful special election last summer, Mr. Murray worked on the campaign of another would - be challenger to Ms. Gillibrand, Marc Cenedella, who declined to run after a storm of criticism of some controversial blog posts.

(Keep in mind that state lawmakers who have tried to run for Congress in recent years have had no success in doing so, but those runs were in special elections, which are a different animal altogether from your standard primary election.

The Queens Democrats have not yet made a decision about who will run for Weiner's seat in the Sept. 13 special election.

Now Bohen follows to Albany the same path established by Kearns in 2012, who back then won his own special election to a vacant seat by running as a Democrat on the Republican and Conservative lines.

Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Fashour adds that $ 100,000 of the money raised at the Thursday night fundraiser will go to the campaign of Yonkers Assemblywoman Shelly Mayer, who is running as a mainstream Democrat in a special Senate seat election on April 24th.

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, who was boosted in his 2014 run for a Long Island Assembly seat by robocalls from his legendary relative, may now deliver the State Senate into Democratic control next month by winning a special election that will reverberate heading into the November elections.

The Democratic congressman, who's running in a special Senate election to fill the remainder of the late - Sen.

Former assemblyman Dan Losquadro, who was elected in good faith to represent us in Albany, abdicated his post after only 2 1/2 years to run for a totally unrelated position, that of Brookhaven Town highway superintendent, leaving a vacancy that may be filled by a special election.

Councilman Mark Weprin, Fomer councilman Eric Gioia, and former councilwoman Melinda Katz — who lost to Weiner in 1998 — have all emerged as potential candidates who may run in a special election later this year.

But Mr. McGreevy couldn't have imagined having to gear up the party in an effort to defeat the councilman, who is running against Riverhead Republican Supervisor Sean Walter in the Jan. 15 special election.

Booker is running in the Oct. 16 special election against Republican Steve Lonegan to fill the remainder of the term of longtime Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died earlier this year.

(CNN)-- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani strayed from the facts in discussing the discord within the Republican Party caused by the insurgent candidacy of Doug Hoffman, a Republican who chose to run on the Conservative Party ticket in the recent special election for New York's 23rd congressional district.

This is the moment,» said Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, D - Yonkers, who is running for the state Senate in a special election in April.

The civil suit pits Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, against the campaign of Shirley Patterson, a little - known candidate who ran unsuccessfully for a Brooklyn state Assembly seat in a May special election.

Comedian Mel Brooks will again record a robocall for his great - nephew, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, who's running in the April 19 special election for former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos» seat.

Jones is likely to run an anti-establishment campaign: In the interview, he knocked state government leadership, which has currency in any election, but could help in a special election to replace a lawmaker who lost his seat due to a corruption convictioIn the interview, he knocked state government leadership, which has currency in any election, but could help in a special election to replace a lawmaker who lost his seat due to a corruption convictioin any election, but could help in a special election to replace a lawmaker who lost his seat due to a corruption convictioin a special election to replace a lawmaker who lost his seat due to a corruption conviction.

Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, running in a key state Senate special election, is under fire for her handling of sexual harassment claims made by women who worked for the Senate while she was counsel to the Democratic conference.

Chang faces two Democrats for the special election: Alice Cancel, a press - shy candidate who has been linked to Silver allies in the district, and Yuh - Line Niou, a Democrat running on the Working Families Party.

American Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram, who got 0.35 % of the vote for Governor of West Virginia in the recent special election, ran a controversial ad in the campaign's closing days that proclaimed him to be the «voice for white American issues,» according to WTOV channel 9.

On Long Island, Mr. Cuomo endorsed two Democratic candidates for the Senate on Monday: Adam Haber, who is running for an open seat in the Seventh District, and Todd Kaminsky, who won a special election in April in the Ninth District.

A special election opened up in the aftermath of the incumbent's death and Ms. James, who had run against Mr. Davis before, would indeed mount another bid.

40th District (Queens): We interviewed Elizabeth Crowley, who is unopposed in the primary and is running against the newly minted Republican incumbent, to whom she lost by a narrow margin in the recent special election.

Assemblyman William Colton, a southern Brooklyn Democrat, is joining a couple of Democrats who are mulling running in a special election to replace Mr. Grimm, who pleaded guilty to a single felony tax evasion charge in December.

Arroyo was elected to the city council in 2005 in a special election to succeed Jose M. Serrano, who vacated the seat to run for the state Senate.

Perkins must quickly run for reelection and he is facing several competitors, most notably Marvin Holland, who came in second to Perkins in the special election.

[1] He ran in the 2010 special election to fill the seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy, his predecessor's uncle, but lost the primary to Martha Coakley, who in turn lost the general election to Republican Scott Brown.

Others, reportedly including former GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, who was urged to run himself, were were pushing for Assemblywoman Jane Corwin, who has the advantage of being able to self - fund — a big plus in the compressed timeframe of special elections.

Some of the legislators who are older than 65 may run, win and retire before the session begins Jan. 1, the way former Assemblyman William F. Boyland did in 2003 to help turn his Brooklyn seat over to his son in a special election, avoiding a difficult primary.

Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr., who is running for Bronx borough president in an April 21 special election, has decided to forgo public financing from the NYC Campaign Finance Board despite his eligibility, according to a press release issued by Diaz» campaign last night.

Regardless of who runs in April, there will be a regularly scheduled November election, as the special election is to finish the remainder of Borelli's term, which ends this year.

That's what Representative Joe Crowley, the Queens County Democratic boss who selected David Weprin to run for the Anthony Weiner seat, said to Politico reporter Jake Sherman about yesterday's special election in New York's Ninth Congressional district.

The same political reporters who last week were telling you that Tom Lee would run for Congress and that a Republican would win the special election in House District 114 will now attempt to tell you Corcoran's decision to back Putnam doesn't matter.

Special elections for state seats — like the one Gov. Andrew Cuomo scheduled in Harlem for May 23 — do not have an open primary: instead, the county committee, a panel of party insiders, selects who gets to run on the ballot line at a formal nominating convention.

And surely the post-polling analysis will show that Independents who ran away from Trump ran to Mayer in the special election.