Sentences with phrase «whose ballot line»

One advantage has been the frequent cross-endorsement of Republicans by the Independence Party — a minor political party whose ballot line is seen as more likely to make conservative - leaning Democrats comfortable voting for GOP candidates.

But Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, is threatening to cut into the party's share of the vote by promoting his own political party, the Women's Equality Party, on whose ballot line he will also appear.

Bruno also has a good relationship with state Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay, whose ballot line could make up the difference for some GOPers who lose the Conservative Party's endorsement.

Suffolk Conservatives, whose ballot line can draw as much as 12 to 13 percent of the vote on Election Day, have endorsed Suffolk Police Commissioner Timothy Sini for district attorney this fall, county party chairman Frank Tinari said late Sunday.

He began with an opening statement and then answered questions on topics which included the Independence Party (whose ballot line Cuomo is on), the protest at the rally and Cuomo's efforts on passing the DREAM Act, a recent report that 34,000 people have been designated under the SAFE Act as ineligible to own guns and the prospect of Ebola - related restrictions on commercial flights.

Not exact matches

Several labor leaders whose unions have departed the WFP are considering the formation of their own ballot line.

The county settled a lawsuit with Dhyalma Vazquez, a former county employee, who claimed she was dismissed due to her involvement with the Independence Party in Westchester County, a ballot line whose chairman has been sharply criticized by Astorino.

Hawkins said that candidates for public office in New York should run on only one line, rather than cluttering up the ballot with fake third parties and independent lines whose main function is patronage and vote - buying.

Teachout called the endorsement a «surprising rebuke» of the sitting governor, whose campaign hopes to appeal to women with a new «Women's Equality Party» line on the November ballot.

Cuomo, in an interview on WNYC with Brian Lehrer, denied the ballot line was meant to rival the WFP, whose endorsement he had to fight for back in May.

Unmentioned is the fact that Cuomo, whose victory over Republican Rob Astorino in November is even more likely without a WFP candidate in the race, would probably seek some sort of retaliation against the WFP — assuming, that is, that the party managed to get 50,000 votes for Teachout on its ballot line in the November general election and maintained its official status.

These numbers could be drawn upon by Commisso, whose name will remain on the Independence Party ballot line in November.

LaVenia's fellow co-chair, Howie Hawkins, whose gubernatorial candidacy last fall brought the Greens official party status and a ballot line for the next four years, concurred, saying:

The anti-Common Core ballot line was formed by Republicans earlier this year to highlight their opposition to the new education standards, whose roll out in New York has been altered after complaints from parents and teachers.

The process to replace (Squadron) involves obscure mechanisms that could empower old allies of Sheldon Silver, whose corruption scandal cost him the Assembly speakership two years ago... Voters do not decide who runs on each political party's ballot line in such an election.

Sal Albanese is the only candidate whose name appears on the Reform Party ballot, but Dietl and rival candidate Nicole Malliotakis are each mounting write - in campaigns aimed at wresting the Reform Party line from the Party leadership's chosen candidate.

The former Rockland Independence Party chairwoman, whose son - in - law is county legislator Frank Sparaco (Republican) of Clarkstown, admitted to lying to a grand jury who was investigating improprieties involving the signing of petitions for the party's ballot line during the Assembly race -LSB-...]

Green Party leaders in Nassau and Suffolk say their ballot lines have been hijacked by Republican and Democratic judicial candidates who aren't party members — and whose political views sometimes clash with Green Party stances....

(Lipton, whose criticism came after polls had closed, was referring to the governor's creation of a new Women's Equality Party, which narrowly won the 50,000 votes to guarantee a future ballot line.)

Any candidate wanting to run on the Republican line for a Mayor or other citywide posts will ultimately need the support of the five chairmen, whose organizations will be critical when it comes to getting on the ballot and other grassroots functions of the campaign.

If Wu could somehow defeat Hochul on their separate ballot line, he has already pledged to continue his campaign alongside Cuomo, whose father got stuck under similar circumstances with an opposing lieutenant governor candidate in 1982.

One of the pragmatic reasons the union officials who play such a big role in the WFP's operation wanted to give him its nomination rather than backing an obscure law professor whose lack of name recognition at the time was equaled only by her paucity of funding was that they felt more confident he could produce the 50,000 votes on the WFP line necessary to preserve its spot on the state ballot four years from now.

After the four - ballot shootout the new Leader of the Opposition is Dion, whose first line was «How did I get here?