Sentences with phrase «women running primary»
Four of the women running primary campaigns the members of the Independent Democratic Conference are urging in a letter to have Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins included in the top - level leaders meeting this month.
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Reshma Saujani is a former hedge fund lawyer, New York City deputy public advocate and the first Indian - American woman to run for Congress (she lost a primary race in 2010).
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For women candidates, many of them seeking elected office for the first time, the success of women in early primary states has provided them with confidence that their sometimes - unexpected runs aren't so far - fetched.
A former Nassau County district attorney, Rice ran for attorney general in 2010 and finished just a few points behind Schneiderman in a five - way primary where she was the only woman.
In Ohio, there are three women running for governor in the Democratic primary and one in the Republican.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand likes the woman running for mayor of New York, but won't endorse her, or anyone else, until after the primary.
In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.
The former Kansas governor said she is heartened by the number of women she sees running for the job in 2018 - including in her own state, where veteran state Sen. Laura Kelly jumped into the Democratic primary in mid-December and immediately became the favorite to win the nomination.
A woman in the 19th Congressional District, who picked up a lot of Upstate New York votes in a 2014 primary run against Andrew Cuomo, is now one step closer to a seat in Congress.
In this past Primary, Adriano Espaillat threw his support for a women, Carmen De La Rosa to run for Assembly against Guillermo Linares.
A Democratic party rule designed to encourage women to participate in state committee elections has backfired for some female candidates running in the 2018 Pennsylvania primary.
«The Republican who I ran against, this is a man who is against a woman's right to choose, this is a man who wants to lock refugees out of this country — it is not a person who I would stand next to,» said Cuomo, who was appearing with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a potential 2017 primary rival to de Blasio.
The Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., recently found that childcare is a primary reason why women opt not to run for office.
When he wrapped up the nomination, Mondale put out the word that Cuomo was on his list of potential running - mates — a customary way for a nominee to thank a key primary supporter (and a particularly empty gesture from Mondale, who was intent on putting a woman or minority on his ticket).
James, who is serving her second and final term as public advocate, and is the first woman of color elected to a citywide position, is running in the Democratic primary to replace former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who
While the Republican Party lines up behind Romney after divisions emerged in the primaries, the chatter has increasingly turned to the man or woman the former Massachusetts governor will tap to run alongside him during the general election.
Lipton and others within the party, sources say, believe running someone who would likely launch a Democratic primary challenge against James, looking to become the first black woman elected to statewide office, could alienate African - American liberals the Working Families Party is trying to cultivate.
She had run a strong primary challenge to Quinn in 2009, winning almost a third of the vote in a three - woman race, but improved her percentage only modestly after four years in which she remained an anti-establishment critic, focusing particular attention on the closing of St. Vincent's Hospital, for which she repeatedly faulted the speaker.
Since «2012,» according to those trusty press notes, was written during the run - up to the 2008 presidential election, it's worth noting that the role was originally written for a woman — until the Iowa primaries.