Sentences with phrase «already running for governor»

My take is that he's already running for governor while maintaining a brutal schedule as a congressman.

Not exact matches

That is why he didn't run for re-election as governor because he had already conquered it once.

Obama has already committed to campaign for Ralph Northam, the Democrat running for governor of Virginia.

«The governor has already been speculated to harbor White House aspirations himself — an effort that would enable him to surpass the record of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, who contemplated, but never went for, a presidential run.»

The governor is already running smack into a wall of opposition in the Senate, where Republicans (and at least one Democrat) don't want to hold a vote on a measure to strengthen abortion laws or allow for the public financing of political campaigns.

But in 2014, something changed: A little - known, poorly funded Constitutional law professor named Zephyr Teachout ran against Cuomo in the Democratic primary and captured a third of the vote, proof that not only was a restive progressivism already brewing in the pre-Trump, pre-Sanders era, but that the party's liberals didn't care much for their governor.

All four major - party candidates running for governor have already pledged to support nonpartisan, independent redistricting — a fundamental change that state lawmakers, intent on self - preservation, have resisted for decades.

Fellow Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter already announced his run for governor this month.

State Rep. Daisy Baez has already filed to run for the Senate District 40 seat, and has already grabbed the endorsements of Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, both of whom are running for governor in 2018.

Replacing income taxes with am employer payroll tax, leaving Washington, not Albany, on the hook for billions of dollars in lost revenue, might sound good, but the idea floated by the governor is already running headlong into a barrage of practical questions about how precisely such a switcheroo might work.

Well, nervous enough that NYC Councilman Lew Fidler, who has already started fundraising for an expected run in the 27th SD, asked the Senate Democrats to tell the governor — just in case he's indeed mulling an April 24 special — that to select that date would be «unfair.»

We seem to have gotten over Obama's hippie - days drug use, and, anyway, Paterson already admitted this back when he was running for lieutenant governor in 2006.

Cuomo has spoken warmly of Biden, even when the vice president was considering a run for president and the governor was already backing Hillary Clinton.

Democratic state Senator Jason Carter is expected to formally announce his candidacy Thursday morning at an event in Atlanta, but he's already quoted on his campaign website as saying «I am running for Governor because I believe in Georgia at its best.»

Libertarian Michael McDermott decided to run for Governor on a lark after his friend already decided to run in his Congressional district.

Not that you weren't already, but none of the candidates running for Governor can self - finance in a way that allows them to bypass the need for small donors.

«I commend the governor for his action, and I'm proud to say that our city workers are already on a pace that's well ahead of the state minimum wage as it is, and I think would be very consistent with what the governor put forth,» Mr. de Blasio said, trying to put the onus on Albany and particularly on the Republican - run State Senate.

Some of them are saying Hochul already has made her intentions known publicly and privately that she wants to run again for lieutenant governor.

The former Pennsylvania governor also writes that he saw no reason for the move — which he now calls a bad idea - because additional security precautions had already been taken in the run - up to the election.

Jim Gerlach talking to himself: Let's see, I can run for an open, Executive Branch, Governors Seat or I as a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership who supports Stem - Cell Research, some LGBT Rights and Environmental Issues, where my primary opponent would be an ultra-right conservative who already ran another moderate GOP member to the Democratic party, and if I survived that bloody primary fight, would then face the six - term incumbent senator with long roots in the same part of the state as me and who had a 60 % approval rating among Pennsylvania Democrats before he decided to switch parties and will have a popular president campaigning for him in an already 55 - 45 Democratic state.

«There are many governors, I will not mention them, but a majority of the APC governors have already taken the position that the President should run for a second term in office.

Gabrieli has a lot of money, and the top of the party like him, but he's already run for office (Congress in 1998, Lt. Governor in 2002), spent gobs of money, and didn't win, so that in and of itself isn't a compelling argument.

Eliot Spitzer, hoping to upend an already unpredictable 2013 campaign season in New York City, announced plans Sunday to run for city comptroller — a brazen attempt to re-enter political life years after he resigned the governor's office amid a prostitution scandal.

On Thursday afternoon, reporters asked Governor Andrew Cuomo to explain how he could sound so encouraging about a prospective Joe Biden campaign for president and yet steadfastly support Hillary Clinton, who is already running.

In 2018, 40 women are already planning to run for governor.

Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum has only been running for governor for about a week, but he's already facing a controversy about his use of a political email system.

His active recruitment of Steve Levy, the Democratic executive of Suffolk County, to run for governor - after lifelong Republican Rick Lazio was already in the race - drove a wedge into the party that is sure to play out at the convention, which opens today.

Mrs. Clinton, who explicitly courted Republicans at last week's convention, has already picked up a few telling Republican endorsements: Meg Whitman, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise executive who ran for governor of California as a Republican, backed Mrs. Clinton on Tuesday, as did Representative Richard Hanna of New York, a moderate Republican.

A retiring upstate congressman told people he's already been approached by some of his fellow Republicans about the possibility of running for governor in 2018, a GOP operative said.

Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican who has already announced a GOP run for governor, called Cuomo's explanation of Percoco's office use «preposterous» and «an insult to the intelligence of New Yorkers.»

ALBANY — Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro hasn't yet decided whether he'll run for governor in 2018, but he's already opened a campaign account.

But he's already cozying up to the big green donors — George Soros has chipped in and Schneiderman had an embarrassing email revealed in which he sought contributions from Tom Steyer, the billionaire green activist who himself is considering a run for governor of California.

Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for all of Florida, grocery stores are already running out of food and water, and some residents have already started to evacuate, just in case.

While celebrities from Ozzie Guillen to Shakira have come out publicly against the law, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio — who announced yesterday that he will not resign his post to run for governor — has been running the cable news circuit defending the law, which many say simply justifies questionable tactics his department is already employing.