Carl Paladino on a potential Conservative
Party gubernatorial run in 2014: «If they can't pick a good Republican candidate who is qualified and not just another RINO... I may take up (Chairman) Mike Long on his offer.»
Not exact matches
Which continues: «Ms. Davis, formerly known as the Manhattan Madam for having
run a high - end prostitution ring in New York City... was [in 2010] the
gubernatorial candidate of the Anti-Prohibition
Party.
Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo has fired back at state Conservative Chairman Mike Long for suggesting he should stop
running for governor or resign his
party post, saying Long himself should resign if his preferred
gubernatorial candidate (and Lorigo's primary opponent), Rick Lazio loses.
But the 2010 Republican
gubernatorial nominee in an email says he hasn't «weakened my position» when it comes to his threat to
running on the Conservative
Party line if the state GOP doesn't adhere to his demands.
Former Republican
Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino's threat to
run for Governor on a fourth
party line could derail any plans for
party unity.
This year, Niccoli in a statement said her daughter will do so again and faulted Amedore for not going far enough in scaling back the standards, despite having
run in 2014 on the ballot line Stop Common Core (former by Republican
gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, the line was renamed the «Reform
Party» after the election).
Susan Del Percio, who handled media for Faso and was part of the team that helped him become the
party's
gubernatorial nominee at the convention four years ago, has signed on as a consultant to Levy's campaign in the
run - up to this year's GOP confab, a source familiar with her hiring confirmed.
This statewide tour involves state Democratic
Party leaders — Jay Jacobs (chairman), Charlie King (executive director) and June O'Neill (ex-chair, executive committee chair)-- traveling to communities across New York to solicit ideas from residents and (ostensibly) forwarding the best of those on to the
gubernatorial designee and his
running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy.
At the time, as you'll remember, it was Cuomo who was trying to redeem himself after a near career - ending failure of a
gubernatorial run in 2002, when he challenged the
party favorite for the Democratic nomination, then state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.
Long, who has been among GOP
gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio's staunchest allies and pushed hard for him to get the Conservative line (endangering his own standing with some
party leaders in the process), said he has spoken to the former Long Island congressman and urged him not to
run on the new, yet - unnamed line.
In so doing, Lazio is basically conceding there will be a floor fight for the
party's
gubernatorial nomination — not a great development for a candidate who once believed he would have a lock on Row B (back after his main competition, Erie County Executive Chris Collins, who suffered from a persistent case of foot - in - mouth disease and decided not to
run).
So far, two of the
gubernatorial candidates — the Democrat and one of the four Republicans — have announced their preferred
running mates in advance of their respective nomination at major
party conventions.
After all, King goes waaaaaaay back with Cuomo, serving under him at HUD,
running as his LG in his ill - fated 2002
gubernatorial campaign and then, at then candidate - Cuomo's request, serving as the official
party attack dog during the 2010 campaign.
But a number of those chairs have already said they won't support him in a primary if he's not selected as a
running mate by the
party's
gubernatorial nominee — whoever that might be.
The governor and lieutenant governor
run separately in
party primaries and their have been instances in which a
gubernatorial candidate's preferred nominee for lieutenant governor fails to win the nomination.
I have spoken to at least one of Mermel's backers, Rochester's Bill Reilich, who says his support won't last if the
party's
gubernatorial nominee — assuming there is one — picks someone other than Mermel as his
running mate.
Ventura was the Reform
Party candidate in the Minnesota
gubernatorial election of 1998,
running a low - budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to «vote for politics as usual».
Mr. Cuomo is the Democrat many
party leaders prefer as their
gubernatorial candidate next year, believing he would stand a better chance of winning should Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, decide to make a
run for the office.
The New York
gubernatorial race has a number of colorful candidates, including Jimmy McMillan, a former postal worker
running as a member of the «Rent Is 2 Damn High»
party.
Democratic
gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo finally put the WFP out of its misery and agreed to
run on its line after it received a clean bill of health from the US attorney's office and sign off on his «New New York Agenda,» which includes some proposals the
party opposes — most notably a property tax cap.
New Yorkers for Growth, the conservative political action committee that has launched a crusade against the Working Families
Party, and GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio are out with duel statements slamming AG Andrew Cuomo for agreeing today to accept the endorsement of the labor - backed party and run on its line in Nove
Party, and GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio are out with duel statements slamming AG Andrew Cuomo for agreeing today to accept the endorsement of the labor - backed
party and run on its line in Nove
party and
run on its line in November.
New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council political director Neal Kwatra is on loan to the state Democratic
Party where he will be
running a statewide field operation for
gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, multiple sources confirm.
(In one of the odd, two degrees of separation situations that pervade NY politics, Turner is neighbors with state Conservative
Party Chairman Mike Long, who opposes the mosque and is
running TV ads on the subject for GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio).
Her decision to
run follows a contentious Working Families
Party convention, where the third party nominated Cuomo for their ballot line in this year's gubernatorial elec
Party convention, where the third
party nominated Cuomo for their ballot line in this year's gubernatorial elec
party nominated Cuomo for their ballot line in this year's
gubernatorial election.
It doesn't include big spending by the New York State Democratic Committee — the state
party, which Ms. Teachout unsuccessfully tried to stop from
running pro-Cuomo ads — which has dropped just under $ 5 million on air time in the
gubernatorial race across the state, according to the figures, including more than $ 368,000 the week of the primary and almost $ 459,000 this week.
The newly - recharged New York State Democratic
Party is seizing on the news, first reported by POLITICO, that NYS GOP Chairman Ed Cox was discussing a fourth entrant into the
gubernatorial contest and melding it with Vito Fossella's bizarre nomination to a seat he's not (yet, if ever)
running for.
Howie Hawkins, the Green
Party's 2014
gubernatorial candidate who is contemplating another
run in 2018, welcomed Cynthia Nixon's declaration of her candidacy with the following statement:
Buerkle was recently among six in - state House candidates for whom Dan Senor, who almost
ran for U.S. Senate against Kirsten GIllibrand, raised funds along with former
gubernatorial nominee John Faso and Conservative
Party chairman Mike Long.
The state Democratic
Party is out with yet another attack TV ad this time targeting both GOP
gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino AND (I believe for the first time) his
running mate, Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss.
In a Capital Tonight interview on Thursday, the Green
party gubernatorial candidate said he was «misquoted or misspoke in an earlier interview» when it was said that did not plan to
run again, and that he is available for any role the
party wants him to play.
Republican
gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is reconsidering his decision not to
run on a third
party line of his own creation in the general election if he fails to win the GOP primary in September, a source familiar with the Buffalo businessman confirmed this morning.
Senor has kept his finger in NY politics even though he decided against
running for office, lending his name back in June, along with state Conservative
Party Chairman Mike Long and 2006 GOP
gubernatorial nominee John Faso, to a joint fundraiser for six New York GOP congressional hopefuls.
Paterson was selected as
running mate by then New York Attorney General and Democratic
Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York
gubernatorial election.
Cox said he hadn't talked with Malliotakis about a
gubernatorial run, which several potential candidates from both
parties are eyeing.
«That's why we as the Republican
party are saying look, we have to have a good mayoral candidate to
run against Mayor de Blasio and a good
gubernatorial candidate against the governor,» he said.
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But hoping to broaden its reach, Astorino — the Westchester County executive who has left the door open for another
gubernatorial run in 2018 — formally changed the name recently to the «Reform
Party.»
But Carl Paladino, the Republican
gubernatorial nominee in 2010 who
ran against Andrew Cuomo, says the
party is being hypocritical.
In 2002, he was Andrew Cuomo's
running mate in a long - shot primary challenge to the
party gubernatorial favorite, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, and his No. 2, Dennis Mehiel.
The DN gave Donovan props for having the «spine» not to join in former GOP
gubernatorial contender Rick Lazio's anti-moqsue drumbeat, for taking himself out of the
running for the Independence
Party line to investigate it (the probe resulted in no charges) and handing the case the grandson of his former boss, Staten Island BP James Molinaro, over to a special prosecutor.
While Astorino has not yet formally announced his candidacy, he has made a number of clear indications that he is highly likely to
run — regardless of the fact that Paladino, the 2010 GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial candidate, has threatened to challenge him on the Conservative
Party, effectively splitting votes on the right and making a long - shot change of ousting the popular and well - funded incumbent governor all the more difficult.
The Reform
Party was founded in 2014 as an extra ballot line for Republican
gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino to
run on in the general election.
State law bars any person from
running for more than one office at a time, so if the
party's nominee is nominated for and accepts a candidacy for a judgeship, they will be struck from the
gubernatorial ticket.
The press release announcing Shimer's selection includes laudatory comments from Jeremy Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Delaware North; and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, who, as you'll recall, crossed
party lines last year to endorse Cuomo's
gubernatorial run.
Stone is
running the
gubernatorial campaign of «Manhattan Madam» Kristin Davis, who is
running on the Anti-Prohibition
Party line (an independent line of her own creation).
He ousted Democratic incumbent Tom Suozzi, who was viewed as a rising star in the
party — possibly even a
gubernatorial contender (ahem) or a
running mate for Gov. David Paterson.
Paladino is attempting to petition his way into the GOP
gubernatorial primary against the
party's designee, Rick Lazio, and also plans to petition to create an independent «Taxpayers» line to
run on in November.
Republican
gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino is refusing to
run on the Independence
Party line and called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to do the same.
The Green
Party is up in arms over a mailer sent out by Terrence Murphy, the Republican
running for retiring Sen. Greg Ball's Hudson Valley seat, that links the candidate to Green
gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins.
The Green
Party is «very focused» on finding a candidate to
run in the 11th congressional district race following the resignation of Republican Michael Grimm, former
gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins on Friday said.