Sentences with phrase «bid for governor as»

Miner, whose term expires at the end of the year, has acknowledged that she's considering making a Democratic primary bid for governor as a progressive challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Lazio later dropped the Conservative Party bid for governor as well.

Not exact matches

But as of 2016, Scott, who was a hospital executive before launching a bid for Governor, had a net worth of nearly $ 150 million, according to his public financial disclosure forms, and he used funds from his personal fortune on his gubernatorial elections in 2010 and 2014.

By 2010, having suffered a stinging defeat in his bid for re-election as the Democratic governor of New Jersey, Mr. Corzine hoped to resume his career on Wall Street.

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.

Sliwa, a radio personality and founder of the Guardian Angels, is weighing a bid for governor on the ballot line that had first been formed in 2014 as an effort to oppose the Common Core education standards.

The push for procurement oversight reform began last year following the arrests of ex-SUNY Polytechnic President Alain Kaloyeros and a former close aide to the governor, Joe Percoco as well as prominent upstate developers, accused of rigging bids for economic development contracts.

As he continues to rack up endorsements, Republican Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro said he will make his bid for governor official on April 2.

«This is the political silly season at an especially bizarre time in politics,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday, speaking for the first time about «Sex and the City» actress Cynthia Nixon's bid for governor, which he described as part of «the political silly season.»

Now, as Cuomo's closest friend and former top advisor, Joseph Percoco, is about to be indicted for rigging bids on state contracts, the governor proposed a raft of ethics reforms on Wednesday that stand little chance of ever getting made into law.

It also alleged that Kaloyeros and developers rigged the construction bids for several facilities, which the Democratic governor has touted as a cornerstone of legacy in upstate New York.

«There was never a question about who Mario Cuomo was and what he believed in,» said Miner, who worked as Central New York regional representative for Mario Cuomo but supported H. Carl McCall, rather than Andrew Cuomo, in the 2002 Democratic bid for governor.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan will likely be unanimously nominated for attorney general at the GOP convention later this afternoon (assuming the governor vote finishes at some point), as Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci will end his long - shot bid to get on the ballot, according to a source familiar with the upstate lawmaker's thinking.

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.

New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo is bidding to join the New Jersey Republican as the national spokesman for fiscal sanity, and he's doing so in a politically clever way that House Republicans could learn from.

As he mulls a bid for governor next year, Republican Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has released a petition calling for ride hailing expansion outside of New York City.

«Kasich is kind of in limbo — his time as governor will end when he's termed out, he doesn't have a path toward any other office in Ohio, and if Trump runs for reelection, I doubt he'll challenge him,» said Ryan Williams, a former aide on 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney's presidential bid.

DiNapoli, a Democrat, and DeFrancisco, a GOP candidate for governor, touted the bill as a way to restore independent oversight of contracts that were ripe for corruption, bid rigging and kickbacks.

In a federal lawsuit filed today, the party claimed that Rob Astorino, the Republican Westchester county executive and candidate for governor, threatened to «decapitate» party leadership in a bid to win the Independence Party's support as he ran for re-election in Westchester last year.

As for the Erie Canal, info surfaced in 2003 that the quasi-public Canal Corporation, a sub entity of the quasi-public New York State Thruway Authority, had sold the shoreline development rights to a supporter of Republican Governor George Pataki for $ 30,000 via a bid process shrouded in murk.

Mr. Cuomo, who fashioned himself as a political reformer from the day he launched his 2010 bid for governor in front of Tweed Courthouse, included his renewal of the order as part of an ethics package adopted on his first day in office.

Mr. Cuomo has fashioned himself as a political reformer from the day he launched his bid for governor in May 2010, declaring «enough is enough» as he stood in front of Tweed Courthouse, a symbol of corrupt Tammany Hall.

The governor's war chest could increase as he prepares for his second re-election bid.

Cuomo's response came as a key witness in a federal New Jersey trial softened his stance that the two governors cooked up an excuse for the traffic that paralyzed Fort Lee and punished that town's mayor in September 2013 for refusing to endorse Christie's re-election bid.

Now, the former South Carolina governor says he is looking for forgiveness as he mounts a bid for the congressional seat he held from 1995 to 2001.

Former New York State Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who took over as governor when Spitzer resigned amid scandal, weighed in on Spitzer's new bid for office on Monday afternoon but withheld any type of endorsement.

As a scheduling director and fixer for Mario Cuomo in 1991, Mr. Howe arranged for the then - governor to fly to New Hampshire to launch a presidential bid on two planes that, like Mr. Cuomo's campaign, never left the Albany tarmac.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Actress Cynthia Nixon blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a bully and a «wannabe Republican» Monday during her first visit to Albany since announcing her bid for New York governor.

Republican party star gets boost for potential 2016 presidential bid as he takes more than 60 % of the vote over his Democratic rival in New Jersey governor election

As he considers a bid for governor in 2018, businessman Harry Wilson has contributed $ 20,000 to the campaign coffers of the Senate Republicans.

As for the newspaper, which has endorsed his bid for governor in 2010 and his re-election in 2014 (but declined to endorse in a September primary against his little known and liberal opponent) Cuomo said the Times has an historic aversion to his family.

In the statement, Cuomo is knocked by McGrath for the bid - rigging and bribery allegations facing the governor's former top aide, Joe Percoco as well as for having «lied about what he knew» in the Bridgegate scandal (claims made that Cuomo and his office strenuously deny).

In addition to Donovan, Bloomberg also endorsed Andrew Cuomo's successful bid for governor and various New York legislators as well as candidates elsewhere in the nation.

Cuomo soldiered on as Barron, who ran an unsuccessful bid for governor on his self - created «Freedom Party» line last fall, yelled loudly and urged his backers on by waving his arms.

But Cuomo's support for the conference also comes as he is facing a mounting of series of political headaches, including the arrest of his former top aide and others in an alleged bribery and bid - rigging scheme involving the governor's signature economic development efforts in upstate New York.

In California, where former eBay executive Meg Whitman beat businessman Steve Poizner in a bitterly fought primary battle in the campaign for governor, it sometimes seemed as if there was a bidding war for bloggers.

Carl Paladino, the 2010 Republican nominee for governor, is backing Tom Dadey's potential bid to unseat Ed Cox as the chairman of the state Republican Committee.

Cynthia Nixon took Gov. Andrew Cuomo to task on corruption, big money, the state Senate and, yes, the subway, as she launched her bid for the Democratic nomination for governor.

As he mulls a bid for governor, Sen. John DeFrancsico said he's surprised by the «intensity» of the desire to replace the incumbent Cuomo next year.

The Queens Republican Committee erroneously referred to businessman Harry Wilson as a candidate for governor, but he acknowledges he's still exploring a bid next year.

The region was essentially passed over for a casino project that same day as the hydrofracking announcement was made in the governor's year - end cabinet meeting, with the state's gaming facility location board awarding the project bid to a development proposal in Seneca County in the Finger Lakes region.

Three other Democrats let it be known that they were looking at the race: L. Douglas Wilder, who had been elected governor of Virginia in 1989, George McGovern, the man who'd lost 49 states to Nixon in 1972 (and waged a hopeless bid for the 1984 Democratic nomination), and John Silber, the Boston University president who had nearly won Massachusetts» governorship the previous fall by running as a conservative culture warrior.

Lorigo, as you'll recall, initially ran for governor himself, intending to challenge Lazio's claim to Row C. Long called for Lorigo to drop his bid or resign his party post.

WASHINGTON — State Sen. John DeFrancisco has hired a campaign consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., as he explores the possibility of making a bid for New York governor in 2018.

A close personal adviser to Cuomo in his bid to become state attorney general in 2006 and his run for governor in 2010, she deregistered as a lobbyist in 2010 when Cuomo and her ex-husband, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, were elected, in order «to avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest.

Echoing themes of Sen. Bernie Sanders» presidential campaign, actress Cynthia Nixon launched her bid Tuesday to become New York governor with a blistering attack on the incumbent, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, as a «fake Democrat» who favors «massive tax breaks» for the «super rich.»

The victory is testament to Faso's resilience, as he had mounted unsuccessful bids for comptroller, governor and Congress since leaving his longtime seat in the Assembly.

Actress Cynthia Nixon blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a «bully» and a «wannabe Republican» Monday during her first visit to Albany since announcing her bid for New York governor.

A Downstate Republican lawmaker launched a third - party bid for governor on Thursday, exacerbating the challenges facing Gov. Bruce Rauner's re-election as he seeks to heal divisions within his party's base to take on Democrat J.B. Pritzker.

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.