Sentences with phrase «even run for governor»

In another sign of heightened tensions, Newsday reported that GOP Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who has been at odds with Cuomo recently, might even run for governor against him.

So far Vielkind said people seem to be poo - pooing the idea that he's even running for Governor.

Not exact matches

«You could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life, a cult, whatever you want to call it,» he said during his failed run for governor.

Up until this presidential campaign, he rarely if ever brought up his faith even while running for governor.

Cuomo has faced little friction in his Democratic primary run for re-election for governor, but his lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, is fending off a liberal insurgent — Brooklyn Councilman Jumaaane Williams, who is winning early support — before she even hits the campaign trail.

After years of saying he would not consider another run for Governor, Carl Paladino is leaving the door open in 2014 even if it is just a crack.

And the ties go even deeper here... Howard then ran for Governor with Mario Cuomo as his Lieutenant Governor Candidate in 1974.

Even as actress Cynthia Nixon weighs a run for governor, a leading women's organization — the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women — backed Cuomo for reelection, calling the move «an easy decision.»

«I have been preparing to support Governor Walker for months and months before I even knew other candidates were running,» he said.

Even some have floated Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who the governor has made little secret of wanting to run for the congressional seat held by Republican Rep. Chris Collins.

(Under New York election law, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, even if they're informally allied as Cuomo and Hochul are, run in separate primaries.)

Is it possible a candidate Paladino would match even his poor first showing running for Governor?

According to one follower of the race, «After Eldridge lost, the Democrats have gone even farther to the left, recruiting Zephyr Teachout, who ran against Andrew Cuomo for Governor because he wasn't liberal enough.

Even the chairman's one good idea — recruiting fiscal hawk and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to switch parties and run for governor as a Republican — failed because Cox couldn't convince party members to buy the strategy.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

There was not a single elected official at Cuomo's hastily - called event this afternoon — not even the few legislators who stood by him during his last disastrous run for governor in 2002 like Assemblyman Joe Morelle and Sam Hoyt.

He will even have the Government Statistician, the Governor of the Bank of Ghana on the Commission and many more eminent persons who you can gather on the Commission for him to run a constitutional empire.

The «job that isn't even open yet» stuff might strike you as strange as it seems to brush aside the little technicality that the AG seat will be «open» in the fall for voters to fill no matter when or whether Cuomo decides to run for governor.

Cuomo's long flirtation with running for president proved to be as much his undoing as his belief that no one else was suitable to serve as governor, even after he had given 12 years to the job.

According to him, even though the governor has the credentials to be president, given his outstanding performance as governor which earned him a re-election in the face of Muhammadu Buhari's «tsunami» in the north, he has not told anybody that he would run for the post in 2019.

Republican Rep. Chris Gibson revealed he's considering a run for governor in 2018, even Cuomo seeks a third term.

But DeFrancisco said it's «unlikely» he would run for the Senate seat again, even if he fails to win the Republican designation for governor at the party's statewide convention in May or June.

Cuomo has spoken warmly of Biden, even when the vice president was considering a run for president and the governor was already backing Hillary Clinton.

Even as actress Cynthia Nixon weighs a run for governor, a leading women's organization on Thursday backed Gov.

State Supreme Court Justice Edgar Walker rejected arguments that Teachout didn't meet the five - year residency requirement to run for governor, finding she maintained a «physical presence» in New York since 2009 even while driving with a Vermont license until last May.

Neumann, who announced his decision on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee, refrained from criticizing Thompson even though the former governor has been the target of attack ads being run statewide by the national conservative Republican group Club for Growth.

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.

As the governor listened in shock, the woman urged him to run for president — even though, she explained, she'd heard that a member of his family was «involved» with the mob.

ALBANY - Republican Rep. Chris Gibson said Wednesday that he's considering a run for governor in 2018, even if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo seeks a third term.

Perhaps they'll even invite Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who gleefully accepted the NRA's endorsement in her failed run for federal office.

Republican Harry Wilson in a phone interview Monday evening said he «agonized» over whether to run for governor in 2018 — a decision he said that would have kept him away from his family and his teenage children.

The Conservative Party will not give its ballot line to former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra should he be nominated by Republicans to run for governor, Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long said in an interview to air this evening on Capital Tonight.

The point here really isn't what the party - switching county executive is calling for, but rather that he's continuing to stand with the Republicans even after their county leaders rejected his effort to run on their line for governor.

Even though Pigeon was the Erie County Democratic Chair, he remained close to Golisano as Golisano ran for Governor, as an Independent.

One of the more - interested observers of last Tuesday's election results was Zephyr Teachout, who helped crystallize the voter discontent with Governor Cuomo during her Democratic primary run that contributed to Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins — who got even less exposure to the electorate than she did — capturing 5 percent of the ballots for Governor, tripling his vote total from four years earlier.

The fight for love was the good fight, Mr. Cuomo said, and his father always fought the good fight — even when the odds were long, like in his first run for governor in 1982, against New York City Mayor Ed Koch.

Even a union rank - and - filer who runs against a corporate Democrat (for example, Howie Hawkins, the blue - collar Green who challenged Andrew Cuomo for governor of New York last year) finds it hard to collect labor endorsements.

«When he announced for governor before he died, no one even announced they were going to run against [him].»

Even a union rank - and - filer who runs against a corporate Democrat (for example, Howie Hawkins, the blue - collar Green who challenged incumbent Andrew Cuomo for New York governor last year) finds it hard to collect labor endorsements.

The Democrats stressed they are focused on their current jobs even as Cuomo is widely expected to run for governor and Rice is said to be quietly exploring a run to replace him as attorney general.

In 2004, when the New Yorker wasn't even sure if he was long for the Senate and was considering running for governor, Schumer unloaded millions of dollars from his own campaign in a series of five -, six - and seven - figure checks that went to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and to state Democratic committees in key battlegrounds.

It's not uncommon for an exiting governor to stack boards with members whose terms run past even that of the next governor.

Paterson, having given up hope of running for governor, had nothing to lose, and Cuomo had plenty to gain from establishing a precedent, even though Paterson's use of the emergency appropriations method allowed the Legislature room to bargain.

Cox found himself stuck with the recycled, underwhelming Rick Lazio as his only candidate for governor; things got even drearier for this fall's Republican ticket when Joe DioGuardi, a 69 - year - old former congressman, declared that he was running against the vulnerable Kirsten Gillibrand.

Cuomo has repeatedly called for closing the LLC loophole since his initial run for governor in 2010, even as he has benefited more than any other candidate from the money that flows through it.

Astorino said «I consider him a friend... He's always been gracious to me, and we've always been able to get along real well, even when he was thinking of running for governor.»

There's also the possibility, he noted, that Cuomo will lose votes in the general to third party candidates — Nixon won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which would allow her to be on the general election ballot even if she loses the Democratic primary; and Howie Hawkins is running for governor for a third time on the Green Party line, on which he came in third with more than 180,000 votes in 2014.

Christie, even now, is in a position to make Cuomo's life more difficult than it needs to be, as the New York governor prepares to run for re-election.

He said it's unlikely that he will run for re-election even if he doesn't win the Republican nomination for governor.

A good - sized crowd turned out to support Rob Astorino, the Westchester County executive who is running for governor on the Republican and Conservative lines, at East by Northeast restaurant in Montauk on Thursday evening.