Sentences with phrase «woman running for the seat»

She is the only woman running for the seat currently occupied by a woman and is also running on the Women's Equality ticket.

Farias — the only woman running for the seat — is the oldest of three children in a single parent household.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said he had «no reason to doubt» the women who have come forward in recent days with sexual - misconduct accusations against Roy Moore, the Alabama Republican running for Sessions» vacated Senate seat.

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A Wave of Losses Coming: There's an influx of female candidates running for Democratic seats in 2018 — but many of those women are running in races considered to be easy Republican wins.

A candidate forum for a vacant southern Brooklyn Assembly seat turned into a bitter verbal tussle over abortion last night — not between the two women running to represent the district, but between one of them and a civic leader in the audience.

UPDATE: The first line of this post has been edited to reflect the fact that there are, in fact, two women in the running for this seat, as referenced by the sentence above.

During the last cycle, she help raise more than $ 1 million for other congressional hopefuls and then touted the role she had played in an «historic election for women» that saw a record number of female candidates running — and winning — seats in Washington.

If Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema vacates her 9th District seat to run for Senate, there could be no LGBTQ women in the House in the next Congress.

Amid a sexting controversy involving women, the New York Democrat resigned his U.S. House seat in 2011 only to have new allegations doom his 2013 run for mayor.

I was for example not going to run in a front seat, as number one in my constituency but we could only find one woman out of six constituencies to take leadership and I felt it was really bad to create a political movement with no women in the front.

Ms. Hochul noted that most candidates running this year are seeking local seats like county legislature and county executive, but asserted that 2015 would represent both a milestone for the party and for women's issues.

She ran an unsuccessful campaign for NYC comptroller (lone woman in the field) in 2009 and had to give up her seat.

«There is no other candidate who has proposed, has run or is running for this seat who has the strong record in fighting for women's health care that Kirsten Gillibrand has,» said PPANY President and CEO M. Tracey Brooks.

These are some of the Democrats already moving: Mr. Kaminsky, a former prosecutor who is rumored to be eyeing a run for Mr. Skelos» Senate seat; Mr. Kavanagh, the leader of the reform caucus that emerged during the speaker's race; Mr. Perry, the chairman of the powerful Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; Mr. Mosley, who took on his seat from now - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and almost got the Caucus nod Mr. Perry did; Marcos Crespo, new Bronx Democratic chairman and close friend of Mr. Heastie; Mr. Blake, a former Obama staffer from the resurgent Bronx; and Ms. Rozic, who at the time of her election was the youngest woman ever elected to the Assembly.

While 2018 has marked a watershed moment with regard to women running for elected office, we know that there is still much work to be done to ensure greater gender equity, including more opportunities for women to have many seats at the political and business leadership table.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand isn't positive Hillary Clinton will run for president, but the woman who took Clinton's former New York Senate seat would like to think so.

«Is this the candidate who Mike Gianaris and the New York City Democrats are supporting now, after they successfully pushed aside a woman who wanted to run for this seat as a Democat?

After seven years in military prison for carrying out one of the largest leaks in US history and coming out as a transgender woman, Chelsea Manning is embarking on the next stage in her epic journey: running for a seat in the US Senate in Maryland.

Also at 6 p.m., the four candidates running in the special election for the seat vacated by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver participate in a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the City of New York, The Villager, The Downtown Express and the Downtown Alliance, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, Manhattan.

Alicka Samuel, who is running for Mealy's seat, hopes to support the «21 in 21» campaign and organizations such as the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women and Higher Heights.

It took her ten years, during which she joined the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum, worked on Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, served as special counsel to then — HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, and took another law job, before Gillibrand found the upstate House district in which she wanted to run... against a four - term incumbent for a seat that hadn't been held by a Democrat in 30 years and where Republicans outnumbered Democrats almost two to one.

Klobuchar, who is one of 20 women currently serving in the Senate, recalled the lack of female role models she had when she first ran for a Senate seat in 2006.

Four women who lost bids for their districts» Congressional seats in the recent mid-term elections — but plan to run again — will be at the dinner parties, Bennett noted.

The longtime congressman is seeking a 22nd term in office and is facing at least three challengers: former presidential aide Clyde Williams, who has $ 125,000 on hand; district leader Joyce Johnson, the only woman in the race; and State Senator Adriano Espaillat, who announced this morning that he had been endorsed by one of Rangel's former aides, Vince Morgan, who previously ran for the seat.

The Federal Election Commission on Thursday gave a woman running for a Long Island congressional seat the OK to use campaign funds for child care — a landmark precedent for...

One of the «strategies for the future» that the report identifies is: «Party leaders, advocacy organizations, and other political groups also need to make an active effort to reach out to individual women about running for seats.

When asked about her experience, which has been used against her in previous runs for NYS Assembly and Mayor of Rochester, Barnhart says now is a time when life experience, rather than political experience is coming to the forefront, citing how women across the country with no political background are running for seats to change up the game.

To put people before politics, we suggest a competent administrator, an elder statesman or woman, willing to do it for a year — someone who promises not to run for the job when the seat opens in 2017.

At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the New York City branch of the National Women's Political Caucus will host a candidate forum for female candidates running for the open seat in City Council District 4.

Wave of women running for US House seats sets record with dozens more expected to qualify for state ballots in coming weeks.