Sentences with phrase «challenger zephyr»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo defeated liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout in the state's Democratic Primary Tuesday, turning back an energetic longshot bid by liberals who have criticized his pragmatic, centrist approach.

Adding to the headache this week for Gov. Cuomo, his 2014 primary challenger Zephyr Teachout predicted that he would face a candidate running from the left.

Though they didn't produce Primary Day upsets at the top of the Democratic ticket, gubernatorial challenger Zephyr Teachout did earn 35 percent of the vote, Lieutenant Governor hopeful Tim Wu, 40 percent.

Cuomo lost a number of upstate communities in his primary to Democratic challenger Zephyr Teachout in September, a showing she attributed in large part to the turnout among anti-fracking activists.

With the Democratic gubernatorial primary two weeks away, challenger Zephyr Teachout says she has momentum and a major media victory.

The AFL - CIO's decision to stay on the sidelines anyway will be embarrassing to Cuomo and fuel buzz about his challenger Zephyr Teachout.

Moore, who is from Schenectady, said she plans to concentrate on local races, including supporting Cuomo's 2014 gubernatorial primary challenger Zephyr Teachout in her run for Congress and democratic candidates hoping to retake the state senate for Democrats.

The union says Thursday it won't endorse Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his liberal primary challenger Zephyr Teachout, Green Party hopeful Howie Hawkins or Republican Rob Astorino.

His «face twitching in apparent discomfort,» Cuomo said he supports his 2014 primary challenger Zephyr Teachout's NY - 19 run for congress, though he did not mention her by name.

At a late afternoon appearance at P.S. 29 in Cobble Hill, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's feisty challenger Zephyr Teachout told reporters that regardless of the outcome of Tuesday's primary, her campaign made the governor rethink some of his positions.

During the Democratic primary, longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout — whom the WFP briefly entertained running against the governor — slammed the WEP as a «sham party,» noting that 11 of the 17 candidates on the line are male.

The yelling didn't make a difference in the end, as 58 percent of the party voted to endorse the governor, instead of his would - be challenger Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor and former Howard Dean campaign aide.

Democratic primary challenger Zephyr Teachout may not be doing well in the polls, but she did score a major win Wednesday when an appeals court rejected an attempt by Governor Cuomo's lawyers to have her thrown off the ballot.

But, gubernatorial challenger Zephyr Teachout won over one third of the vote statewide, and 43 percent of the 16,000 votes in Suffolk County.

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

As elected officials like Mr. de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito rushed to loudly back Mr. Cuomo's re-election bid against insurgent left - wing challenger Zephyr Teachout, Ms. James was silent.

Hawkins criticized both WNYC's Brian Lehrer's and Democratic Party challenger Zephyr Teachout's involvement in a debate that excluded both the Green Party and the other Democratic Party primary challenger, Randy Credico.

-- A Quinnipiac pollster on the absence of polls measuring Cuomo's standing against Democratic challenger Zephyr Teachout.

The New York Times Thomas Kaplan reports on the efforts of Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign to knock challenger Zephyr Teachout, law professor and former Howard Dean internet director, off the September 9 primary ballot by challenging her New York state residency.

As a would - be candidate for governor — and one whose New York residency is sketchy — Democratic gadfly challenger Zephyr Teachout should immediately make public her tax returns.

Unsurprisingly, the plans for reform did not find favor with the state's teachers union, New York State United Teachers, nor with Mr. Cuomo's liberal primary challenger Zephyr Teachout, who both insisted the true crisis was inadequate and unfair state education funding.

ALBANY — Supporters of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are mounting another effort to knock liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout off next month's primary ballot.

Though not yet able to crack double digits in any statewide polling, the 61 - year - old Hawkins — one of the party's most prolific vote - getters — believes he has «a fighting chance» this fall against Wall Street - funded incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hapless Republican rival, as evidenced by the surprisingly strong showing of underfunded challenger Zephyr Teachout in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Former 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary challenger Zephyr Teachout tweeted that she might be interested, saying that she is «seriously considering running for Attorney General.»

Cuomo beat out unexpected challenger Zephyr Teachout to gain the Democratic bid for Governor in 2014.

In 2014, again facing the potential threat of extinction and under pressure from its labor backers, the party agreed to endorse Cuomo over liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout.

That amount covers ads running through September 9, the day of the Democratic primary in which Mr. Cuomo snagged only 60 percent of the vote thanks to upstart challenger Zephyr Teachout, and includes some $ 296,000 spent the week of September 8.

So far this election cycle, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ignored repeated calls for a debate from GOP candidate Rob Astorino on the right and Democratic primary challenger Zephyr Teachout on the left.

The New York Supreme Court began hearings on August 7, 2014, to determine if primary challenger Zephyr Teachout met the five - year residency requirement for ballot placement.

Not exact matches

With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Cuomo received 61.9 percent of the vote compared to challenger and Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout's 34.5 percent.

Cuomo's 2014 primary challenger, Zephyr Teachout, won more than a third of the vote — without Nixon's star power.

In 2014, an unknown challenger to Cuomo, Zephyr Teachout, won over one third of the primary vote.

Zephyr Teachout, the Democratic primary challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, expects to file more than 40,000 signatures late Thursday to obtain a place on the ballot for the September primary voting.

-LRB-... A day after declining to endorse either Gov. Cuomo or his Democratic challenger, Zephyr Teachout, in the primary, The New York Times has thrown its support to Teachout's running mate, Tim Wu, in the race for lieutenant governor.

Zephyr Teachout, Democratic challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, celebrated her latest legal victory over the governor on Monday with a party at the Hollow Nickel on Atlantic Avenue, not far from the courthouse.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara rebutted criticism today of his high - profile speeches and media spots at a Fordham University symposium organized by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2014 primary challenger, law professor Zephyr Teachout.

His challenger, Zephyr Teachout, might strike some as an unusual candidate — a constitutional law professor and community organizer, Teachout is not a politician in the traditional sense.

Moore, who is from Schenectady, said she plans to concentrate on local races, including supporting Cuomo's 2014 gubernatorial primary challenger, Zephyr Teachout, in her run for Congress, and candidates hoping to retake the state Senate for Democrats.

Zephyr Teachout, Cuomo's 2014 gubernatorial primary challenger, tweeted that «Cuomo and Klein are still playing reindeer games with the IDC» as Republicans make a mess of federal policy.

It's a perfect echo of what happened last year in the run - up to the Working Families Party convention, where Cuomo - aligned unions blocked the minor party from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, and spared Cuomo a mainstream, left - flank challenger on the general election ballot.

The labor group backed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Democratic challenger, Zephyr Teachout, in the September primary.

Panepinto has received the nod of Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who runs for re-election in 2016, and would likely want to be seen as helping Democrats in any capacity least he should face a primary challenger similar to Cuomo's experience this year against Zephyr Teachout.

and Zephyr Teachout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2014 challenger and campaign treasurer for his Democratic opponent Cynthia Nixon, all submitted letters of support for Shirley.

Clinton, as well as 24 congressional lawmakers; Free Speech For People, a national nonpartisan campaign; Dēmos, a public policy organization; and Zephyr Teachout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2014 challenger and campaign treasurer for his Democratic opponent Cynthia Nixon, all submitted letters of support for Shirley.

While Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos said Cuomo's denouncement would make negotiations on some (likely already dead) issues more «challenging,» many of his colleagues expressed confidence that now Cuomo has secured the W.F.P. line — and kept Zephyr Teachout, a potential left - flank challenger, off the ballot — he'll revert to his normal centrist self.

An underfunded challenger, law professor Zephyr Teachout, garnered a surprising 34 percent of the vote against Mr. Cuomo last year.

Zephyr Teachout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's primary challenger last year, backed Mr. Najmi, as well as the Make the Road Action Fund, the campaign arm of the immigrant rights group Make the Road New York.

The governor, meanwhile, wanted the WFP endorsement, a tool of the city's biggest unions, primarily to cripple his challenger in the Democratic primary, Zephyr Teachout, who would have benefited enormously from WFP backing.

The exit of 32BJ SEIU and the Communications Workers of America was the latest in a long exodus of unions from the WFP that began in 2014, when the party nearly endorsed Zephyr Teachout, Cuomo's left - flank challenger that year.

Lenora Fulani, the controversial Independence Party activist who challenged former Gov. Mario Cuomo for the Demoratic nomination in 1994 — the same year he lost the governor's office — issued a statement congratulating his son's challenger, Zephyr Teachout, on her performance in yesterday's primary.