Sentences with phrase «gillibrand last ran»
Gillibrand last ran for re-election in 2012 and handily defeated Republican Wendy Long.
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Gillibrand's prominence comes as she last month said she was «ruling it out» when it came to running for president in 2020.
Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.
A lot of GOP county chairs have been scratching their heads about the Conservatives» decision last Friday to give their line to little - known consultant Jay Townsend to run against Sen. Chuck Schumer and former Rep. Joe DioGuardi to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Dan Rubino, an attorney from Armonk in Westchester County was «seriously considering» a run against Gillibrand last fall, but GOP sources say recent family concerns are likely to prevent him from running.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat running for a full - six year term, last reported $ 10.5 million in cash on hand and is expected to easily outraise Long.
The little - known Long was last seen on the campaign trail in 2012 when she ran against New York's junior senator, Kirsten Gillibrand.
Republican Harry Wilson, a wealthy investor and friend of Mayor Bloomberg who ran a strong, but losing, campaign for state comptroller last year, said yesterday he's giving «serious consideration» to challenging the once - moderate but now ultra-liberal Gillibrand in the 2012 balloting.
Gov. David A. Paterson chose Ms. Gillibrand to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton last year; Ms. Gillibrand has never run in a statewide race.
In addition to managing Congressman Bob Turner's successful special election last summer, Mr. Murray worked on the campaign of another would - be challenger to Ms. Gillibrand, Marc Cenedella, who declined to run after a storm of criticism of some controversial blog posts.
Gillibrand also name - drops the Democratic Senate candidates running in key districts that could decide control of the chamber, including Buffalo's Marc Panepinto, who the governor is yet to endorse (Cuomo is torn on the race, considering Sen. Mark Grisanti is the last sitting Republican in the chamber to have supported same - sex marriage in 2011).
During her last run for Senate in 2012 when she unsuccessfully took on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY), Long suggested that people don't really care about Roe v. Wade, the ruling that made abortion legal.
Prior to that, the last contribution Cuomo gave to a federal candidate, according to the FEC, was a $ 1,000 donation to Kirsten Gillibrand's House committee in 2006, when he was running for attorney general after a political hiatus.
Last week I posted that former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford Jr., who voted against ENDA and for the federal marriage amendment, was weighing a run for NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's seat.