In the late 90's, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn conducted an investigation into whether the 1994
Pataki gubernatorial campaign traded state paroles in exchange for contributions.
Not exact matches
He pledged to use the nearly $ 400,000 he raised for his own
gubernatorial race to pay bills for the
Pataki campaign.
Cappuccilli got the job from Republican Gov. George
Pataki in 1995 after he ran
Pataki's
gubernatorial campaign in Central New York the year before.
Kieran Mahoney:
Pataki's chief political strategist, Mahoney worked on all three of
Pataki's
gubernatorial campaigns.
Pataki should know: He faced a primary challenge in his first
gubernatorial campaign, crushing Richard Rosenbaum, who received less than 25 percent of the total vote.
Of the 50 donors who gave the most to the G.O.P. in the runup to the 2006
gubernatorial election — when Democrat Eliot Spitzer became governor after three terms of Republican George
Pataki — 28 have given $ 5.5 million to Cuomo and the Democrats for the 2014
campaigns, contributing just $ 435,000 to Astorino and the Republicans during the same time period.
The last time there was an exception in a
gubernatorial race was in 2002, when Cuomo, who had ended his
campaign before the primary election but remained on the ballot, raised less of his funds from small donors than either primary victory Carl McCall or general election winner George
Pataki.