Sentences with phrase «with holding special elections»

Last year, after Cuomo appointed several sitting state legislators to his cabinet, he scheduled special elections to coincide with scheduled primary elections, sparing counties the significant costs associated with holding special elections.

Not exact matches

A special election being held next could add Chris McGrath, but he is locked in a tight race with Democratic Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky for the district formerly led by disgraced former Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Liberal advocates had been upset with the timing of the special election, namely holding it after the state budget is expected to be approved, thus giving Republicans in the Senate a chance to negotiate the spending plan.

The Senate race is one of 11 special elections held that day, but the race is a key one in Westchester County with control of the chamber potentially up for grabs.

Even if this latest peace deal between Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and IDC Leader Jeff Klein holds when lawmakers return to Albany after the Easter / Passover break next week, and even if the Democrats win both the April 24 special elections (the Westchester County race is really the deciding factor there, since the Bronx seat seems a safe bet), the Republicans will still have control of the chamber as long as Felder, a conservative Democrat, continues to caucus with them.

Campaigning with Brian Benjamin (center) our candidate for State Senate in the special election to be held on Tuesday, May 23rd 2017.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

Republicans in NY - 29 have lost their lawsuit that sought to force Gov. David Paterson to immediately call a special election to fill the seat vacated by disgraced former Rep. Eric Massa instead of his (extremely confusing) plan to hold one concurrent with the general election.

There are already six vacant Assembly seats — all of them previously held by Democrats, and all of them to be filled in special elections to run concurrent with the upcoming September primary.

The unification plan put forth by leaders of the New York State Democratic Party, predicated on a special election likely to be held after the state budget is approved in late March or early April, would bring together the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) with the 23 mainstream Democrats in the Senate.

The new town board will appoint his replacement in the coming weeks, and in November a special election will be held, with the winner serving the final year of Mr. Van Scoyoc's term.

For the closing moments of the House District 72 special election, Republican James Buchanan ripped a page from the Donald Trump campaign playbook — holding a Trump - like rally, complete with a chorus of «lock her up.»

Despite winning both special elections last night and now holding a numeric majority in the Senate, Brooklyn Democrat Simcha Felder played spoiler even before the votes were counted, declaring in the afternoon that he's staying put and casting his lot with the GOP.

It might be a bit more difficult for the strategy to have the same impact this time around, as Killian's ties to Trump are more tangential than Astorino's, and the special election will be held on a date with fewer extraneous factors that might influence turnout.

The special general election for District 45 was held on November 7, 2017, with Manka Dhingra (D) defeating Jinyoung Lee Englund (R).

Democrats also held a majority of Senate seats after winning a Special Election in 2016, and once again after the 2016 election, but Republicans have remained in charge through their alliance with rogue DeElection in 2016, and once again after the 2016 election, but Republicans have remained in charge through their alliance with rogue Deelection, but Republicans have remained in charge through their alliance with rogue Democrats.

If Mayer wins and Democrats hold onto another seat up for special election in the Bronx, where they're heavily favored on Tuesday, they would still need to convince Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat from Brooklyn who conferences with the Senate Republicans, to rejoin their conference.

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At 6:30 p.m., the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Actin Network holds a forum with nine candidates vying in next week's special election for Assemblywoman Inez Dickens» old NYC Council seat, 106 W. 145th St., Manhattan.

Fidler also tried to debunk the idea that holding specials concurrent with primaries or general elections makes things less confusing for voters and saves money.

Doheny doesn't yet have competition for the GOP nod, since the man he defeated in the primary last year, Doug Hoffman, (the Tea Party darling of the 2009 special election, who forced former Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava out of the race and then split the vote with her, costing the Republicans a seat they'd held for more than a century), hasn't yet decided whether to run.

The new Democratic conference now holds 29 of the 32 Senate seats necessary to have a majority, with special elections for two vacant seats slated for April 24.

Todd Kaminsky held a narrow lead Tuesday night over Republican Christopher McGrath in the special election to replace former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos — with control of the Senate potentially in the balance.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo called special elections (much to the chagrin of the good government advocates and the New York Times) to run concurrent with the Sept. 13 primary to fill six vacant Assembly seats and the House seat formerly held by ex-Rep.

As part of our ongoing «Congressional Battleground» series here at CapTon, I sat down earlier today with Rep. Scott Murphy, the incumbent Democrat in NY - 20 who is trying to hold onto the seat he won in a special election following the elevation of Kirsten Gillibrand to the US Senate by Gov. David Paterson last January.

Since a primary will not be held for the vacated seat, county Democratic leaders will be tasked with choosing a candidate to run in a special election.

New York's 29th (D): Even with the special election to replace former Rep. Eric Massa (D) set for the same day as the general election this fall, this is still a tough hold for Democrats given the swing nature of this southern tier seat.

Mr. Felder, who has repeatedly said he actually has no loyalty to any party, said in a statement that he would continue to sit with the Republican majority regardless of the outcome of two special elections being held in the Bronx and Westchester County.

The special election for the 9th Congressional District will be held on September 13 to coincide with the state's primary elections.

They also said a February election could be held in conjunction with a special election for Brookhaven Town highway superintendent — a move they said could save Suffolk County taxpayers $ 100,000.

First elected to the Council in 1999 ---- in a special election to fill Tom Duane's seat representing the West Village, Chelsea, and Hell's Kitchen after he was elected to the State Senate ---- Quinn has held tight reins over the Council's agenda as speaker while forging a working partnership with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Some of you may be following the election to replace former Rep. Anthony Weiner that will be held on Sept. 13th, in conjunction with a number of primaries and special elections throughout the city.

The Hill reported: «On Tuesday, Biden campaigned twice in Pennsylvania with Democratic House candidate Conor Lamb, whom polls show has a good chance of pulling off an upset special election victory next week in a district long held by Republicans.

The decision on whether to hold a special election to fill the seat or leave to the November general election rests with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has yet to indicate his preference.

Assemblyman Joseph Borelli — whose district completely overlaps with the vacant Staten Island Congressional seat once held by Michael Grimm — today proposed a pair of measures that would create hard time frames in which Gov. Andrew Cuomo would have to call special elections.

Blair Horner, with the New York Public Interest Research Group, also thinks special elections should be held to fill the 11 vacancies.

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