Sentences with phrase «paladino gets on the ballot»

«If Paladino gets on the ballot, which I believe he will, then Lazio will spend the next two months squandering what little money he has on a primary, with Cuomo just sitting back and enjoying the summer,» said one of the state's best - known Republican activists.

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GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino is trying to embarrass his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, into a freewheeling debate that, in the Buffalo businessman's opinion, should include every single candidate who got on the ballot — from the Anti-Prohibition Party Manhattan Madam to the Freedom Party's Charles Barron.

Paladino also did not receive sufficient support at the convention to get onto the ballot, but petitioned his way on instead.

Paladino is hoping to get onto the GOP ballot, which he can do without a Wilson Pakula, and also would like to run on the Conservative line, although that seems far - fetched since the party's executive committee has already endorsed Rick Lazio.

-- Lynn Krogh, a former Pataki administration aide who worked until the bitter end with Paladino's vanquished GOP primary foe, Rick Lazio, and was widely praised for her vote counting operation that blocked Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy from getting on the ballot at the convention.

Lazio was the only candidate to get onto the ballot at the convention, but Carl Paladino went on to cream him in the GOP primary and he «ran» for a Bronx judgeship to get off the Conservative line and cede it to the businessman from Buffalo.

According to Caputo, Primary Challenge is just one of «dozens» of organizations with which Paladino's campaign is working to gather the signatures necessary to get him on the September ballot.

Two Paladino - backed candidates failed to get their names on the ballot and lost write - in campaigns, including the current board's president.

Mermel, who backed erstwhile gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio after Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy failed to get on the ballot at the convention, hosted a breakfast fundraiser for Paladino (his first in Manhattan) this past Wednesday.

«[Paladino] didn't get on the ballot during the convention, but he went and clawed his way back on through the petitioning process,» Cox told NY1's Erin Billups.

After the chairman's preferred gubernatorial candidate, former Rep. Rick Lazio, lost to Carl Paladino in last September's GOP primary, the Conservatives got behind the Buffalo businessman, who went on to win enough votes on their line to boost them to Row C on the ballot.

Lazio reportedly raised around $ 2 million in the same period, while Paladino, who's petitioning to get on the primary ballot to challenge Lazio for the Republican nomination, raised $ 1.8 million — but all of it except for $ 100,000 was his own money.

The source predicted that Levy would fail to get enough votes at the GOP nominating convention to get on the primary ballot, and that the tough - talking and still - barely known Paladino would defeat Lazio in the September primary.

This past election cycle, Krogh first worked for gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio and is credited with masterminding his GOP convention strategy that blocked his would - be primary opponents, Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Carl Paladino, from getting placed on the ballot.

The Paladino campaign has collected 28,000 signatures as part of its petition drive, nearly twice the 15,000 required to get on the ballot but perhaps not as much of a cushion as a candidate seeks.

Carl Paladino, the wealthy and outspoken Buffalo developer petitioning to get on the Republican ballot for governor, raised and spent about $ 1.7 million in the first half of the year.

Davis filed 18,000 signatures to get on the ballot last year, participated in the televised debate between Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Republican Carl Paladino last year and got nearly 30,000 votes in the race for Governor running on a libertarian platform.

If Paladino does remain in the general election on that line even if he loses the GOP primary he could block Rick Lazio from getting the 50,000 votes on the Conservative line to protect the party's ballot status.

The deadline to file petitions for statewide candidates is just a couple of days away and Carl Paladino claims he's well beyond the threshold to get on the ballot in the race for governor.

Mr. Paladino then got on the ballot the hard way, by getting more than enough voters to sign petitions.

«Carl Paladino, if he decides to spend the money, could certainly get on the ballot and run a primary.