On the day state Sen. John DeFrancisco is scheduled to launch his gubernatorial campaign, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb announced he has been endorsed by nine Republican
county chairs from the Finger Lakes region.
DeFrancisco, a Republican lawmaker from Syracuse, received the backing of GOP
county chairs from Albany, Lewis and Niagara counties as well as the Conservative Party chairman of Onondaga County.
Four Democratic
county chairs from the district, all of whom had been in the dark about the DCCC maneuvering, released a unified statement blasting the party for its intervention.
Among the three hundred or so attendees were Republican State Chairman Ed Cox, Republican
County chairs from Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island and New York City's two Republican members of the New York State Assembly, Staten Islanders Nicole Malliotakis and Ron Castorina.
Last I looked, Kathleen Rice got the endorsements of
the county chairs from Albany, from Nassau, from Suffolk.
Democratic Party
county chairs from the 11 - county 19th Congressional District met in Hudson last Saturday to hear from interested parties.
Molinaro announced he had secured the endorsements of three more
county chairs from Westchester, Niagara and Albany, giving him more than 80 percent of the weighted vote heading into next month's Republican convention in New York City.
A sixth GOP
county chair from Carl Paladino's home turf of Western NY has thrown his support behind the Buffalo businessman's run for governor, and also issued a statement slamming Rick Lazio for refusing to agree to a pre-primary debate.
Not exact matches
Langworthy is Paladino's only
county chair backer (he sort of inherited this position
from his predecessor, Jim Domagalski, who stepped down to run for retiring Sen. Dale Volker's seat).
Four days after formally announcing his AG campaign, Sen. Eric Scheiderman has landed his first endorsement
from a Democratic
county chair.
Stefanik had locked up endorsements
from various
county chairs and had the aid of Republican - aligned super PACs, including Karl Rove's American Crossroads.
He flatly predicted that Long, who has strong support
from upstate
county chairs and the backing of the state's Conservative Party, was not the best candidate to take on Gillibrand.
Maragos has already lined up more than 25 % of the weighted vote in endorsements
from GOP
county chairs.
A SoP commenter mentioned that LG - turned - governor hopeful M. Myers Mermel was making calls to GOP
county chairs to inform them of his decision to switch races, so I placed a call to Monroe County Chairman Bill Reilich to see if he had heard from the Westchester County businessma
county chairs to inform them of his decision to switch races, so I placed a call to Monroe
County Chairman Bill Reilich to see if he had heard from the Westchester County businessma
County Chairman Bill Reilich to see if he had heard
from the Westchester
County businessma
County businessman yet.
(Recall that he won't be getting help
from the RNC, which has chosen to send its Victory funds directly to
county chairs, bypassing the state operation altogether).
The influential Erie
County Democratic Town
Chairs Association has unanimously called for ending the power of party leaders to enable candidates
from other parties to run on their lines — otherwise known as fusion voting.
Gary Berntsen, who switched
from the NY - 1 congressional race to the US Senate race, announced this week he has been endorsed by state GOP First Vice-Chairman Vincent Reda, and a number of regional vice
chairs, including: John Jay LaValle (Suffolk), Joseph J. Savino (Bronx), John DeSpirito III (Onondaga), Jim Ellis (Franklin), as well as Fulton
County Chairwoman Susan McNeil, Saratoga
County Chairman John Nolan and Allegany
County Chairman Robert Christman.
A $ 75 limit on gifts didn't stop former
County Executive Edward Mangano
from accepting gifts of far greater value — including wood flooring, a massage
chair and a no - show job for his spouse —
from former restaurateur Harendra Singh.
The current Dutchess
County executive had said in January he was no longer considering a run for the Republican nomination, but continued to rack up endorsements from GOP county chairs noneth
County executive had said in January he was no longer considering a run for the Republican nomination, but continued to rack up endorsements
from GOP
county chairs noneth
county chairs nonetheless.
«It's certainly raised his profile within the Republican Party in New York — he's gone
from maybe a regional player in western New York to a statewide player where the
county chairs certainly know who he is,» Dadey said.
That announcement will take place on Thursday at 1 pm, with GOP
chairs from three
counties on the list to attend.
Mayor Stephanie A. Miner called on Republican leaders
from across New York State, including Onondaga
County Republican Committee
Chair Tom Dadey, to publicly repudiate a recent mailer circulated by the Committee to Save the Erie
County Republican Party.
State GOP Chairman Ed Cox, who may face a challenge this fall
from Chautauqua
County Executive Greg Edwards, is stepping up his fundraising game, tapping a new party finance
chair and setting some lofty goals — not to mention ticket prices — for the upcoming annual dinner.
Neighborhood organization presidents like Warren Schreiber and Devon O» Connor including CB11
Chair Jerry Iannece, as well as every elected official
from Congresswoman Grace Meng to District Leader Mary Ann Dorsa (including the entire Queens
County Democratic Organization) have all endorsed Paul Vallone as the best choice for District 19.
It has been humbling to have the support of so many Republican
County Chairs and State Committee people
from all across our state.
The alternate delegates for Trump
from the district will be William Heary of Union Springs in Cayuga
County and Holly Carpenter
from Fulton in Oswego
County, where she is vice
chair of the Oswego
County Republican Committee.
Dustin Czarny, an election commissioner
from Onondaga
County and
chair of the state Election Commissioners» Democratic conference, lauded Cuomo's early voting proposal and the funding that was added to the executive budget.
Party
chairs met Monday at the Fort Orange Club, just up the hill
from the state Capitol, to hear the three remaining gubernatorial prospects: Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco and Joel Giambra, a lobbyist and former Erie
County executive.
The Conservative Party's executive committee voted last month to formally oppose the new ballot line, and its
county chairs are being urged to dissuade candidates
from the taking the Reform Party line.
According to a press release
from Paladino's campaign, the endorsement event will take place across the street
from the Lockport City Hall at 10:30 a.m. Langworthy will be on hand, along with the senator the current and former
county chairs, local Mayor Mike Tucker, North Tonawanda Mator Rob Ortt, and Wheatfield Supervisor Bob Cliffe.
Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino wasn't kidding earlier this week when, after picking up the endorsement
from Genesee
County Chair Richard Siebert, he hinted that more GOP
County Chairs would be backing him in the near future.
Donovan's campaign just announced he has received endorsements
from 12 GOP
county chairs who together account for 27.57 percent of the weighted convention vote, putting him comfortably past the 25 percent mark necessary for ballot access.
From 1993 to 1997, he also
chaired the Economic Development and Public Transport sub-committees on East Sussex
County Council.
Perhaps even more significant, Molinaro convinced the Republican
chairs in Sullivan and Chemung
counties to switch their support
from DeFrancisco to his campaign.
Here is sound
from our YNN Buffalo station last night with Erie
County Conservative Party
Chair Ralph Lorigo, where he explains why they decided to endorse Democrat Charles Swanick instead of Republican incumbent Senator Mark Grisanti.
Stefanik, 29,
from Essex
County, was endorsed by the North Country Republican
chairs earlier in February.
Rochester Town Supervisor Carl Chipman,
chair of the supervisors and mayors» association, had called for a «mathematical» (fiscal impact) report
from the
county the day the agreement was announced late last month.
PLATTSBURGH Town officials
from Beekmantown and Chazy are waiting for the
county legislature to make a decision on who will represent them in the vacant Area 3 legislative
chair.
Last week former Conservative Party chairman, Nicholas Longo, told the Rockland
County Times he was on the verge of taking the Conservative Party back
from Ed Lettre and party
chair Mary Loeffler.
There are now four candidates in the race to succeed Stephen Bittel as FDP
chair: Patel, Palm Beach
County Democratic official Terrie Rizzo, Hillsborough
County State Committeewoman Alma Gonzalez and Monica Russo
from the State Employees International Union.
A month ago, Ognibene's insurgent faction of the party — led by Bart Haggerty and the now - convicted John Haggerty — tried to hold a separate meeting
from Ragusa's to elect Ognibene as
chair, a move the judge wrote was meant to «create confusion» and to «disrupt the internal affairs of the Queens
County Republican Party.»
DeFrancisco has emerged as the leading contender, gathering support
from more than a dozen key Republican
county committee
chairs, two GOP members of Congress, and state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan of Long Island.
Kate Browning,
chair of the
county legislature's Public Safety Committee, said she believes Spota should recuse himself
from any involvement because of his long - standing ties to Walsh.
Torres» prospects depend largely on support
from the Bronx
county machine, which will likely negotiate with the Queens
county establishment to determine how plum Council committee
chair positions are distributed.
Kevin Green comes to Oneida
County Youth Bureau
from Notre Dame High School where he was a Physical Education teacher as well as the Physical Education Department
Chair and previously was that school's head varsity baseball coach.
Committee
chairs of both parties
from the seven -
county Assembly district (which includes Saugerties) met in secret, screened about a dozen candidates all told, maybe fewer, and then separately nominated one
from each party.
'' It has been my honor and privilege to serve as your
County chair for nearly 22 years — January 1989 to July 1991, and
from July 1995 to the present.
A challenge to his petitions filed by Essex
County Democratic Party Committee
Chair Bethany Kosmider cited duplicate signatures, information like dates omitted
from the documents and one cover sheet that failed to list the political party he wanted to run under.
It's not a terribly unfair remark, given that the
county executive, the
county Democratic
chair and the Legislature's deputy presiding officer all hail
from that South Shore town.
Dutchess
County Executive Marc Molinaro said he has enough support from Republican county chairs to win the GOP gubernatorial nomin
County Executive Marc Molinaro said he has enough support
from Republican
county chairs to win the GOP gubernatorial nomin
county chairs to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination.