Sentences with phrase «after lieutenant governor candidate»

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In 2006, DiNapoli was a candidate for lieutenant governor, but dropped out of the race after Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the party's frontrunner for governor, chose Senate Minority Leader David Paterson as his running mate.

Andrew Barovick has finally departed the city's prestigious bar association after making racist tweets against Chris Moss, the GOP's black candidate for lieutenant governor.

Cuomo, who announced his bid for governor Saturday after months of being coy about his candidacy, said he believed Duffy's political experience upstate would make him «especially valuable» as a candidate for lieutenant governor.

Fortunately, after the primary, many of them backed Howie Hawkins's Green Party bid (I was the candidate for lieutenant governor), which pushed the campaign to a historic 5 percent of the overall vote.

ALBANY — Kathy Hochul, the state lieutenant governor who has logged tens of thousands of miles promoting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his policies, again is facing questions about her political future after the governor recently promoted her as an ideal candidate to run for Congress.

He was forced to drop out of the race, however, after a September 1 vote of the Alaska Democratic Party central committee merged the Democratic ticket with that of independent candidate Bill Walker, pushing both French and Walker's former running mate for lieutenant governor off the ballot.

Mr. Duffy, unavailable for interviews since Mr. Cuomo picked him on Tuesday to be the candidate for lieutenant governor, was surrounded by reporters after the speeches ended.