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(CNN)- A special House panel considering an impeachment measure against South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford decided Thursday that their review will not include most of the state ethics charges filed against the governor last month.

Not exact matches

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

Last week, Omisore who contested against Governor Rauf Aregbesola in the 2014 governorship poll had given indications that he could leave the party.

Lobbyists, elected officials and reporters who spent a lot of time waiting around outside closed doors last week, hoping against hope that legislative leaders and the governor would finally hammer out a budget deal, noticed a key member of the Senate GOP conference was not participating in their closed - door caucuses.

On their first day at the Capitol last Wednesday, lawmakers openly talked about pushing back against the Democratic governor this year, saying they need to be treated as a co-equal branch of government.

The announcement came the same day that actress Cynthia Nixon announced she would challenge the governor with the backing of the last woman who ran against him, Zephyr Teachout.

(Metro PSA, NYSLSA and the Retailers Alliance lobby together as Last Store on Main Street, the single - issue front against the governor's proposal.)

As he has done for the last several months, the governor railed against the federal government for the Republican tax bill that Congress passed last month and President Trump signed.

On Monday, a New York judge threw out the residency challenge brought against Zephyr Teachout's candidacy for governor following a two - day trial in Brooklyn last week.

The last time two Empire State residents battled it out for the presidency was in 1944 when the Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt faced off against Republican Thomas Dewey, a former governor of New York.

Christie had reportedly met with Astorino late last year to discuss a potential run for governor against Cuomo, a Democrat who the New Jersey Republican has had a publicly cordial relationship.

The labor - backed WFP in 2014 declined to give Teachout its ballot line in her insurgent campaign for governor against Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo last year.

Paterson also asked another state employee, Deneane Browne, who knows both the governor and the accuser, to contact the woman before she was to appear in court last month seeking an order of protection against Johnson, the paper said.

The millionaire Buffalo businessman, who last week became his party's candidate for governor, has shaped much of his Tea Party message by railing against government spending and vowing Draconian bureaucratic bloodletting.

The associates said Paterson believes Silver turned against him last fall after concluding that the governor would campaign against the Legislature as part of his own election strategy.

Paterson told associates that Silver began seeking his ouster months ago, well before last week's bombshell allegation that he and his staff sought to block a Bronx woman from seeking an order of protection against David Johnson, the governor's longtime aide.

«A question asked about «Governor you came out and campaigned against some of our members last time.»

He is not interested in running for governor in 2018 — something he wouldn't say when put on the spot during a debate in his last campaign — especially if it meant going against Cuomo.

After all, he was running in a primary last year against the sitting lieutenant governor who had the endorsement of the outgoing two - term governor and the rest of the Democratic party establishment.

«Last year, the governor endorsed every Democrat that ran against our members,» Flanagan said.

The Democrat ran against former GOP Sen. Mark Grisanti, who was the last of the Republicans who voted «yes» on same - sex marriage during Cuomo's first term, earning the governor's support and gratitude.

Strategic Advantage also took aim at Schneiderman's filing last month, which it says included «an irrelevant polemic against «dark money,» highlighting the Commission's bias against an out - of - state organization that has chosen to express opinions and support policies of which the Commission and the Governor disapprove.»

Last week, Executive Director Charlie King pushed back hard against local Democratic elected officials who signed an open letter to the governor, questioning his progressive credentials and calling on him to end his opposition to extending the millionaire's tax.

During a wide - ranging CapTon interview last night, Buffalo Sen. Marc Panepinto unleashed on the governor, saying he had «lined up with the Senate Republicans against the mayor of New York City» during the end of the 2015 session.

Trump has said Astorino, who declared his intent to run for governor last month, won't win against the better funded and better known Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Panepinto was not endorsed by Cuomo last fall, and his victory against now - former GOP Sen. Mark Grisanti was one of the few bright spots for the Senate Democrats in their failed quest to re-take the majority — in which they received considerable assistance from de Blasio, but not much from the governor (despite his promises to the contrary).

The governor was on tap to skip ESPA's big dinner, but ended up make an last - minute decision to attend the cocktail hour after his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, stunned the LGBT community by warning against the perils of children being «brainwashed» about homosexuality.

Late last month, Basil Paterson, the governor's father and a longtime Rangel ally, said on New York 1 that Cuomo's 2002 run against McCall had left a «sour taste» among black voters and suggested a repeat performance by the attorney general could cost him the black vote.

Rather than spend the last weeks of session raging about inaction on the political priorities that Democrats plan to use as bludgeons against their enemies, the governor once again chose a position in the middle.

The governor campaigned against them last year with an eye toward tipping Albany's upper chamber into the Democrats» hands.

Anambra State Governor, Mr Peter Obi has denied allegations leveled against him by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, over the last governorship election...

A Twitter account for the Democratic governor's re-election campaign, @QuinnForIL, tweeted out an article last week that compared black voters supporting Quinn's Republican challenger, Bruce Rauner, to Jewish people collaborating with the Nazis during World War II against their own people in hopes of being spared the same fate.

«On top of that, Mr. Latimer voted against last year's historic property tax cap vote and he went MIA for Governor Cuomo's pension reform vote last week that will ease costs on local governments.

A panel from the Second Judicial Department of the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division released the opinion Thursday, upholding the challenge brought by state Sen. Dean Skelos (R - Rockville Centre) against Paterson after the governor appointed Ravitch, a long - time government adviser, to the position last month.

Speaking after an unrelated education press conference in Brooklyn, Ms. Fariña fiercely reiterated a number of the arguments Mayor Bill de Blasio made against the governor's plan when testifying to the state legislature in Albany last month.

In spite of Bevin's campaign against the Republican leader last year, multiple McConnell allies were encouraged by the governor - elect's decision to hire Brickman.

But the mayor also said that his outburst last year, in which he accused the governor of shortchanging his political agenda out of a desire for «revenge,» was far from spontaneous, calling the diatribe the result of more than a year's worth of mounting tensions and slights by the governor against de Blasio.

Murray has been closely identified with Senate Republicans, who Astorino did not see eye - to - eye with during his campaign for governor last year against Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo.

Even a union rank - and - filer who runs against a corporate Democrat (for example, Howie Hawkins, the blue - collar Green who challenged Andrew Cuomo for governor of New York last year) finds it hard to collect labor endorsements.

Even a union rank - and - filer who runs against a corporate Democrat (for example, Howie Hawkins, the blue - collar Green who challenged incumbent Andrew Cuomo for New York governor last year) finds it hard to collect labor endorsements.

And, as Gay City News reported in its last issue, those committed to the fight against AIDS are pressing the governor and legislative leaders for at least $ 50 million in the coming fiscal year out of a $ 2 billion pot of money Cuomo has pledged for state housing needs overall.

The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has asked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to present evidence of ownership of the $ 43.4 m, # 27,000 and N23m (about N13bn) uncovered in a house in Ikoyi, Lagos, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission last Wednesday.

Last week, Paterson, who became governor in 2008 after Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace, said he would not seek a full term in office following reports that he had intervened in the case of a top aide who was accused of domestic violence against a woman.

Those efforts have not appeared successful, either: Ms. Miner announced last month that she was «seriously considering» running against Mr. Cuomo for governor this fall.

The Vermont Attorney General has filed a civil lawsuit against the losing candidate in last fall's Lieutenant Governor's campaign.

Last year, Governor Ambode devoted his birthday to raising funds towards the fight against cancer, a move the CECP said, went a long way to opening the floodgates of support to the cause.

Corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office last week against two former top aides to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and others involve a power plant project in the Hudson Valley.

Questions about the governor's commitment continued last week after he declined to openly endorse Democratic State Senate candidate Marc Panepinto in his campaign against incumbent Republican Mark Grisanti of Buffalo.

That happened the last time NYSUT decided to remain neutral in a governor's race back in 2002 when then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (the official Democratic designee after Cuomo dropped his longshot primary challenge one week before the September election) squared off against GOP Gov. George Pataki.

The sweet - and - sour strategy echoes what Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat who is the state attorney general, did last week in his bid to become New York's next governor against Mr. Paladino.