How to Use assemblyman in a Sentence

assemblyman

noun
  • Tahanie Aboushi is a civil rights lawyer, while Dan Quart is a state assemblyman.
    Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan, CNN, 20 June 2021
  • Charles Wohlforth, a past city assemblyman for the area, has raised questions about its future.
    Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The assemblyman’s conviction cannot stand in light of the new Supreme Court precedent mentioned above.
    Eugene Volokh, Washington Post, 17 July 2017
  • Fong would appear to have an inside track to the front of the field, given his name ID as a state assemblyman and former McCarthy lieutenant.
    Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Before his election to Congress in 1998, Mr. Crowley was a state assemblyman for more than a decade.
    Mara Gay, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Henry grew up to become a prominent lawyer and, in 1819, a New York State assemblyman.
    Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The former assemblyman has done little to attract attention as the state schools chief.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • No on Prop 25 spokesman Mike Gatto, a former Democratic assemblyman, said the campaign has not tried to conceal the sources of its funding.
    Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The turf ban and other measures will help achieve that, and buy the region time to ensure long-term sustainability, said Mr. Watts, the assemblyman.
    New York Times, 3 May 2022
  • The former assemblyman from Alameda County, who was born in the Philippines, is expected to run.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Koretz, who was a state assemblyman when the attacks occurred, said watching Edan and other young people read the victims’ names gave him pause.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2021
  • His father Juan Arambula was a state assemblyman in the early 2000s.
    Kathleen Ronayne, The Seattle Times, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The #FreeBritney activists and their expertise were crucial in the bill-creation process, according to the assemblyman.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2022
  • In the ensuing scrum, Azzopardi issued a statement calling Kim a liar and denying the language that the assemblyman said Cuomo used on their call.
    Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Steinberg is a former assemblyman and president of the state Senate.
    Ryan Lillis, sacbee, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The Rocklin assemblyman is a proponent of school choice and opposes mask and vaccine mandates.
    Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2021
  • He's matched out in California by Leland Yee, a state assemblyman whose election-night victory moves him to the state Senate.
    Wired News Report, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2006
  • When the prime minister boasted on the campaign trail in West Bengal that 40 of the opposition’s assemblymen were in touch with him, his opponents were outraged.
    The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • A resolution from the downtown assemblyman points to a brewing storm over public consumption and the number of pot shops downtown.
    Devin Kelly, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 July 2017
  • Fiennes’s politician — who, again, is a local assemblyman not even elected to the Senate — cannot shake off the paparazzi, who hound him with the sort of fervor usually reserved for young British royals.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Robert Carroll, an assemblyman from Brooklyn, called for an impeachment vote within a week.
    New York Times, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Andres Pico was an assemblyman in the new state of California.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Back in 1968, a Wisconsin assemblyman lost his bid for reelection by a single vote in one of the closest races in American history.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The idea quickly became a lightning rod in the recall race, with Republican Kevin Kiley, an assemblyman from Rocklin, vowing to fight it.
    Melody Gutierrez, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The assemblyman won, but a year later state legislators banned the use of guards at polling places unless they are approved by local election officials.
    John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • The assemblyman, Shupe said, is struggling financially and without the party’s support is not a viable contender.
    Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2018
  • Rocky Chavez, a Republican assemblyman, initially seemed poised to make the top two in this race, but Democrats have since targeted him aggressively.
    NBC News, 5 June 2018
  • Gallagher, the Republican assemblyman who represents the Oroville area, said the crisis showed why safety plans need to be open for public review and criticism.
    Ryan Sabalow, Jim Miller and Dale Kasler, sacbee.com, 15 June 2017
  • Last year, a California Republican assemblyman introduced a bill that would have forced school staff in all schools in the state to inform parents if their child showed signs of being transgender.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
  • Dickinson, a former California assemblyman, is leading in early returns Tuesday with about 44.4% of the vote.
    Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2024

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