Sentences with phrase «bid for governor after»

State Sen. John DeFrancisco is considering whether to drop his bid for governor after failing to win the endorsement of Conservative Party leaders over the weekend, according to Spectrum News.

Hawkins, 61, of Syracuse, is making his second bid for governor after a prior run for U.S. Senate from New York in 2006.

In 2010, Cuomo was making a second bid for governor after a disastrous run in 2002.

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The same day they were arrested, the first Christian governor of Jakarta was jailed for blasphemy just weeks after losing a gubernatorial reelection bid.

Prosecutors had recommended a light suspended sentence for Jakarta governor Basuki Purnama (popularly known as Ahok) after blasphemy charges led to his failed bid for re-election last month.

The same day the Indonesian men were arrested, the first Christian governor of Jakarta was jailed for blasphemy, just weeks after losing a gubernatorial reelection bid.

After Libous was forced from office, Cuomo quickly endorsed Fiala's bid for the seat, an unusual move for a governor who has often sought to stay clear of the state Senate's thorny politics.

State Sen. John DeFrancisco is not expected to seek re-election after suspending his bid for governor this week.

Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich said he's «seriously considering» a bid for lieutenant governor against Cuomo's running mate, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul, after being approached by Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who's running for governor.

Former state Sen. Terry Gipson on Wednesday pulled the plug on his long - shot bid for the Democratic primary for governor after advocate and actress Cynthia Nixon entered the race.

Former state Sen. Terry Gipson pulled the plug on his long - shot bid in the Democratic primary for governor after Nixon entered the race, but did not immediately endorse her.

At the time, Perry posed with Astorino, then a candidate for governor in New York, after Perry's 2016 Republican presidential rival Chris Christie referred to the GOP candidate's bid against Cuomo as a lost cause.

Former state Sen. Terry Gipson on Wednesday pulled the plug on his long - shot bid in the Democratic primary for governor after Cynthia Nixon entered the race.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro is considering whether to jump into the Republican race for governor, less than two months after he ruled out a bid this year.

Also spotted were Jerry Speyer, another real estate mogul, and Andrew Farkas, who hired Cuomo at his firm Island Capital after Cuomo lost his first bid for governor in 2002.

If they don't, Conservatives will go the way of the now - defunct Liberal Party, which ceased to exist after Cuomo backed out of his 2002 bid for governor and left Liberals without a known standard - bearer.

Two days after the emergency landing, the state Comptroller's Office gave the state police permission to buy a $ 12.5 million helicopter for the governor without competitive bidding, a request it had rejected less than two months earlier.

Donald Trump is now the presumptive nominee for his party ahead of the Republican National Convention in July after Texas Senator Ted Cruz dropped his bid Tuesday night and Ohio Governor John Kasich was confirmed to suspend his campaign later Wednesday.

The current county executive is, of course, Republican Chris Collins, who himself passed up an opportunity to run for higher office (governor) last year after a number of verbal gaffes hampered his ability to gain traction for a statewide bid.

«My only agenda item was to bring a strong, better New York for our children,» said Lazio, who, a decade after losing the U.S. Senate race to Hillary Clinton for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's seat, early last year launched a bid for governor.

Fifteen years after his father left the office, eight years after his own bid for governor went down in flames and long after his rivals jumped into the fray, Andrew Cuomo has declared his plan to seek the executive mansion.

No big surprise here: Days after losing his bid for re-election as Westchester County executive, Republican Rob Astorino is ruling out a second run for governor in 2018.

Bellone, the Babylon town supervisor, will replace outgoing County Executive Steve Levy, the Democrat - turned - Republican who launched an aborted campaign for governor in 2010, but dropped his re-election bid after running afoul of campaign - finance laws.

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.

After an unsuccessful bid for state comptroller in 2002 and another unsuccessful bid for governor in 2006, Faso also served as Gibson's political mentor and helped engineer his 2010 election to Congress.

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.

He flirted with a bid for lieutenant governor but backed down after the labor - backed Working Families Party decided to endorse Mr. Cuomo in return for a series of compromises, including a commitment to hand control of the State Senate back to Democrats.

Quinn also said that WIN is «very grateful to Governor Cuomo» — her return to public service after her failed bid for mayor was as an advisor to Cuomo and she serves on a state homelessness task force — and she praised him for finally giving his OK to release $ 2 billion in funding for the creation of more than 100,000 affordable and supportive housing units in the state over the next five years.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino decided against making a second run for governor, two days after he lost a re-election bid for county executive to Democratic state Sen. George Latimer.

Eight years, and many will - they - won't - they stories, after former New York Governor George Pataki first granted permission for electronic slot machines to be built at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, a winning bid to develop the track has yet to be picked.

State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb recently dropped out of the race for governor, soon after state Senator John DeFranciso launched a bid.

But while it took Sanders several successive defeats in his bids for governor and Senate before he settled for a smaller job (mayor of Burlington, in his case), Teachout has already aimed her ambitions at one of those patchily populated areas she won in 2014 — the 19th Congressional District, where Republican Representative Chris Gibson is retiring after this year.

An interesting trivia tidbit — both candidates ran for this Senate seat the cycle after narrowly losing bids for Missouri Governor; Talent in 2000 and McCaskill in 04.

COLONIE — After praising Donald Trump and saying he was convinced the self - promoting reality TV star would run for governor, Buffalo developer Carl Paladino said he himself would launch another gubernatorial bid if GOP elders settle instead on Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.