Sentences with phrase «as gubernatorial candidate»

As a gubernatorial candidate Pence has used his anti-public education agenda to raise massive amounts of money from wealthy corporate education reform donors both in and out of his state.

Walker, obviously speaking as a gubernatorial candidate, said the program should spell out what recipients must do to get off the program.

He has not announced whether he will continue as a gubernatorial candidate.

State republicans formally designated Rick Lazio as their gubernatorial candidate Wednesday and swiftly sent packing his chief competition - denying ex-Democrat Steve Levy a spot on the GOP ballot.

But whereas four years ago the Republican Party offered the estimable John Faso as its gubernatorial candidate, this year the man at the top of the GOP ticket is a Buffalo businessman with a towering temper and a well - documented contempt for the truth.

NEW YORK (AP)- New York's progressive Working Families Party is expected to formally endorse «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon as its gubernatorial candidate - challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo accepts the nomination of the New York State Democratic Party as their gubernatorial candidate.

Tricycle operators in Enugu State under the auspices of Association of Tricycle Riders Transport Union on Monday unanimously adopted Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi as their gubernatorial candidate...

When actor and activist Cynthia Nixon held her first news conference as a gubernatorial candidate, at a Pentecostal church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, she was introduced by Zakiyah Ansari, an education activist and longtime ally.

With disaffected leftists upset at Cuomo, WFP officials are conceding privately that the Green Party will likely surpass the WFP's vote totals with little - known UPS worker Howie Hawkins as its gubernatorial candidate.

This promise — along with others that Cuomo has so far neglected in his new term — won him the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which at the time was split over whether to endorse Cuomo or run law professor Zephyr Teachout as its gubernatorial candidate.

In the meantime, there is a question as to whether Nixon can win a place on the Working Families party as their gubernatorial candidate.

Cuomo has been an aggressive fundraiser for the past several years, as a gubernatorial candidate and as an attorney general candidate before that, in 2006.

The party first ran someone in a statewide campaign in 1998, fielding Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster, as its gubernatorial candidate.

New York's progressive Working Families Party is expected to formally endorse «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon as its gubernatorial candidate - challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

A number of fellow Democrats and journalists who covered Spitzer as gubernatorial candidate recalled instances where he'd acted like an irrational bully and demonstrated a taste for abuse of power.

Scarinci serves as counsel to the state's assembly Democrats and was instrumental in getting Jersey's boisterous Democratic bosses to rally behind Jim McGreevey as gubernatorial candidate.

NEW YORK >> New York's progressive Working Families Party formally endorsed «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon on Saturday as its gubernatorial candidate — challenging incumbent Democratic Gov.

New York's progressive Working Families Party formally endorsed «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon on Saturday as its gubernatorial candidate — challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

«The Working Families Party is proud to announce it will be nominating Andrew Cuomo as our gubernatorial candidate,» Cantor said in a statement.

Steele and Cox have been at odds for some time, starting with a fallout over the state chairman's push to get party - flipping Suffolk Executive Steve Levy onto the ballot as a gubernatorial candidate.

New York's progressive Working Families Party has formally endorsed «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon as its gubernatorial candidate - challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

NEW YORK >> New York's progressive Working Families Party formally endorsed «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon on Saturday as its gubernatorial candidate — challenging incumbent Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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.

Moss ran for election to the office of Lieutenant Governor of New York on the same ticket as gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino.

Here's Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Brooklyn Democrat and Orthodox Jew, speaking at an event outside City Hall in Lower Manhattan earlier today at which Jewish leaders accused Republican Carl Paladino of being anti-Semitic, racist and generally «unacceptable» as a gubernatorial candidate.

Edwards ran for Lt. Governor in 2010 as Carl Paladino's running mate, and has been rumored as a gubernatorial candidate ever since.

He's convinced this plan was, as he put it, «born on the floor of the (GOP) convention to punish or get even with the Conservative Party» for holding its convention first, tapping Rick Lazio as its gubernatorial candidate and helping him to block Cox's preferred candidate, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, from getting on the GOP primary ballot.

Not exact matches

In 1981, when he was acting as adviser to then New Jersey gubernatorial candidate (later Governor) Tom Kean, the RNC assembled a ballot security force consisting of off - duty law enforcement officers wearing armbands that read «National Ballot Security Task Force» that was alleged to have engaged in voter intimidation in minority neighborhoods of Newark, Camden, Paterson, and other cities.

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.

This isn't the first time that Romney has pointed to Whitman — who is also the former CEO of Ebay and a former California gubernatorial candidate — as a leader to emulate.

In Washington's gubernatorial race in 2004, the first automated count and the automated recount had the republican candidate, Dino Rossi, as the winner.

Rinfret, as you'll recall, came within one percentage point of losing to Conservative Party gubernatorial candidate Herb London in 1990, which would have caused the demise — at least for four years — of the GOP.

During his first - ever Q&A with reporters as a full - fledged gubernatorial candidate, AG Andrew Cuomo declined to say if he supports Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver continuing in his leadership role.

«It slices the vocal cords,» complained Jeffrey Henson, who ran the Facebook page, calling for a boycott of Target over its $ 150,000 donation to a group supporting a candidate some view as hostile to the gay community, Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.

One of the two announced Democratic LG candidates, Ramapo Town Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence took some subtle swipes at his opponent, Bill Samuels, who has pledged to primary whomever the presumptive gubernatorial nominee, AG Andrew Cuomo, picks as his running mate.

As Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino pushes for a special state prosecutor to pursue a concurrent Moreland Commission investigation, Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy declined to comment on the proposal.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the late APC gubernatorial candidate in Kogi State, Prince Abubakar Audu, as a remarkably committed democrat that believed firmly in the principle of the rule of law.

Heck, if he felt he could be a viable gubernatorial candidate, he should seriously look into serving the City first as mayor.

Republicans have gleefully predicted that GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino's selection of Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss as his running mate will pressure Gov. Andrew Cuomo to diversify the Democratic ticket this year.

Paladino also praised a man he just recently was quoted as calling a «degenerate idiot» — former Gov. George Pataki — saying his fellow Republican «put his own political best interests aside for the public good» by insisting in 2002 that the minor party gubernatorial candidates be included in debates along with his Democratic opponent, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

Also expected at the convention today: 2010 gubernatorial candidate Carl «Mad as Hell» Paladino.

During a recent wide - ranging interview, former Gov. David Paterson offered a new explanation for why he had agreed to run as then - gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer's lieutentant governor in 2006.

Speculation continues to mount as to how long state GOP Chairman Ed Cox will manage to hold on to his leadership post now that the rank - and - file has officially rejected his party - switching preferred gubernatorial candidate, Levy.

Cox hatched the idea at the GOP convention last month as it became increasingly clear that Long's ploy to tap Rick Lazio to run on Row D prior to the GOP gathering in hopes of blocking Cox's preferred gubernatorial candidate, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, had succeeded.

Today's Q poll finds Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has widened his lead against his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, even though many New Yorkers identify with the Buffalo businessman's mad - as - hell sentiments.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, a presumptive GOP gubernatorial candidate, called for the firing of Michael Green, who serves as commissioner of the Division of Criminal Justice Services.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King is keeping the pressure on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio to reveal the details of his compensation as a JPMorgan Chase lobbyist, sending a letter to the chair of the firm's compensation committee seeking information about his salary and non-salary benefits from 2005 through the present.

«In the gubernatorial race, they'll choose between Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has served as a strong voice for New Yorkers and consistently taken on corruption in both government and the private sector, and Carl Paladino, a radical Republican candidate who is out of touch with New Yorkers — and whose positions appear to be growing more extreme by the day.»

He said Sharpton made an analogy about his decision to stick with an ally being much along the lines of President Obama's snub to Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio out of loyalty to his opponent, independent candidate Lincoln Chafee, who (as a Republican) crossed party lines to endorse Obama over GOP Sen. John McCain in 2008.