After all, who cares what
some failed gubernatorial candidate says to his email list?
Paladino also testified that he decided to run for the Buffalo School Board after
his failed gubernatorial bid in 2010, when someone suggested Paladino start his political career on the School Board or city Council and work his way up.
Andrew Cuomo's
failed gubernatorial bid in 2002).
Mr. Diaz, a conservative Democrat and pastor who has previously endorsed Republican candidates (including
failed gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino), said he is «extending an invitation» for Mr. Cruz to join the New York Hispanic Clergy Organization for its Annual Ministers Banquet on April 18, and «bring with him the gift of hope.»
Cuomo ran against McCall in a Democratic primary in 2002 during his first,
failed gubernatorial run marred by an infamous gaffe aimed at Gov. George Pataki's handling of Sept. 11 and created strained tensions with the state's African - American community.
When Cuomo began his political resurrection after
a failed gubernatorial bid in 2002, Percoco was with him.
Carl McCall weathered
a failed gubernatorial primary challenge from Cuomo back in 2002 that almost cost the governor - elect his career.
While three Republicans — former assemblyman and
failed gubernatorial candidate John Faso of Columbia County, Dutchess businessman Andrew Heaney and Schoharie County assemblyman Pete Lopez — have announced their campaign, so far the only Democrat who's in the race (or at least filed papers to run in it) is Dutchess» John Patrick Kehoe.
Ed Cox was responsible for Levy's
failed gubernatorial bid, wooing the county executive into the race and convincing him to switch parties — although a bit too late to provide enough time for rank - and - file Republicans to get comfortable with the idea of his candidacy.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy raised just $ 29,937 from individuals for
his failed gubernatorial bid, according to his July 15 campaign finance report.
He is so far sticking with his pledge not to run for office again after
his failed gubernatorial bid last fall.
The Dyms were donors during Andrew Cuomo's
failed gubernatorial run in 2002 — and he thanked the couple for their support in his 2003 book «Crossroads: The Future of American Politics.»
Walsh's abandonment of the younger Cox is particularly interesting, since he was among one of the more outspoken supporters of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's
failed gubernatorial bid.
Not exact matches
This is Koch's first campaign - like upstate swing since his
failed 1982
gubernatorial bid during which his anti-upstate statements are now widely viwed as having cost him the primary race against Mario Cuomo.
Meanwhile, Cox has repeatedly said he has no intention of stepping down — even when anger with his leadership peaked following his
failed effort to get Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy onto the
gubernatorial ballot at last summer's state GOP convention.
In response to Andrew Cuomo's new jobs plan, Carl Paladino's campaign is dredging up the past, citing his record as HUD secretary and a jobs proposal he floated during his
failed 2002
gubernatorial bid in an effort to blow holes in his credibility as an economic developer.
2) The fact that LaValle, who is also Rick Lazio's home county chairman and was the first to endorse the former congressman's
gubernatorial run, is now stepping up to protect Levy so publicly demonstrates just how all - in he plans to be when it comes to the Democrat - turned - Republican county executive — both this fall and, potentially, in 2011 if Levy's current statewide experience
fails and he seeks re-election.
Rather predictably, state Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs released a statement earlier today in which he slammed GOP
gubernatorial hopefuls Steve Levy and Rick Lazio for
failing to release their 2009 tax returns.
Gov. David Paterson today lambasted GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial Carl Paladino, accusing him of showing a lack of «leadership» for
failing to join fellow elected officials — both Republicans and Democrats — in denouncing a recent rash of anti-gay crimes and instead making statements designed to whip up the right.
We already noted the Club for Growth's new spokesman is Barney Keller, who was the voice of Rick Lazio's
failed 2010
gubernatorial campaign (Lazio, unlike most NY Republicans, was a Mitt Romney supporter in 2008).
The governor and lieutenant governor run separately in party primaries and their have been instances in which a
gubernatorial candidate's preferred nominee for lieutenant governor
fails to win the nomination.
But the current field pits a state delegate against Corey Stewart — Trump's former state chair who
failed in his 2017
gubernatorial run as a defender of Confederate «heritage» — and E.W. Jackson.
The former «Sex and the City» star, holding her first capital city news conference since declaring her bid for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination, said Cuomo has
failed to clean up corruption as promised.
Since Grisanti is the senator in Paladino's home base, it stands to reason that he would be the
failed 2010
gubernatorial candidate's primary target.
M. Myers Mermel, the one - time LG contender and short - lived
gubernatorial candidate who
failed to make the cut at the state GOP convention this summer, has contributed $ 21,000 to Carl Paladino's campaign for governor, making him among the Buffalo businessman's largest (if not THE largest) individual contributors.
Not surprisingly,
failed GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is not impressed with the first steps of his old nemesis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying the Democratic governor hasn't done enough to improve transparency and ethics in the early days of his new administration.
The joke, of course, refers to GOP
gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's unfortunate LCA Show response, during which the sight gag that was supposed to spoof on Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's mustache
failed because the former Long Island congressman misplaced his nose wig.
GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is back on the airwaves with an attack ad that again labels his Democratic foe, Andrew Cuomo, an «Albany insider» and accuses him of
failing to live up to his anti-corruption pledge: «If you break the law, you will go to jail.»
After
failing to make the cut at the GOP convention last week, onetime LG /
gubernatorial contender M. Myers Mermel has not ridden off into the sunset, but is instead seeking to keep himself in the mix by issuing endorsements of statewide contenders.
Mermel, who backed erstwhile
gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio after Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy
failed to get on the ballot at the convention, hosted a breakfast fundraiser for Paladino (his first in Manhattan) this past Wednesday.
«We're not going to comment on any statements from a
failed former
gubernatorial candidate looking to extend his 15 minutes of fame, especially one who has received millions of dollars in tax breaks from the same State government he so often criticizes.
If the party
fails to win at least 50,000 votes for its
gubernatorial contenders on its ballot line, it will both its line and its official status — and basically all but cease to exist.
The Niagara Gazette reports the Giacomo Hotel, a Niagara Falls property owner by the Buffalo businessman and
failed 2010
gubernatorial candidate, will be one of the stops along a so - called Business Familiarization Tour local economic development officials are planning for Sept. 22.
Failed GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial contender Carl Paladino is inserting himself into the NY - 26 race, slamming independent candidate Jack Davis for «claiming to be a Tea Party candidate, while supporting Nancy Pelosi, endorsing Barack Obama and supporting radical liberal policies like partial birth abortion.»
The two wealthy candidates running outside the duopoly in the Massachusetts
gubernatorial contest this autumn have
failed to catch fire, according to a Boston Globe survey released Friday.
Failed GOP
gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (remember him?)
Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy just announced he won't be seeking a third term after all this fall, saying his
failed 2010
gubernatorial bid will indeed be his political «swan song.»
Seizing on GOP
gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's comments on «The Capitol Pressroom» earlier today, state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King is accusing the former Long Island congressman of playing «cat - and - mouse» for repeatedly pledging to release his tax returns, but
failing to say when, exactly, he'll do that.
It was highlighted during the 2010 campaign by
failed GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, who nearly came to blows with Dicker; and, more recently, by the Gotham Gazette's David King; and WAMC President and CEO Alan Chartock.
Things haven't been going so well for Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, for whom problems have been mounting since he returned to his day job after
failing to make the cut for a
gubernatorial bid at the GOP convention this past summer.
Republican
gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is reconsidering his decision not to run on a third party line of his own creation in the general election if he
fails to win the GOP primary in September, a source familiar with the Buffalo businessman confirmed this morning.
But, as you'll recall, Levy dropped his
gubernatorial bid early this summer after he was was out - maneuvered by former Rep. Rick Lazio and
failed to get onto the ballot at the state GOP convention.
The attorney general has worked hard to recover from his
failed 2002 Democratic
gubernatorial primary against H. Carl McCall, who was seeking to become the first black governor.
Failed Texas
gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis is keeping an eye on the «electoral climate in Texas» as she decides when she should make another political run, she wrote in Cosmopolitan.
But in statewide races, winning isn't (always) everything: When a party
fails to mount competent candidates for long - shot
gubernatorial and Senate races, it can doom more competitive candidates down - ballot.
One leader of the 2nd Amendment Coalition just so happens to be Rus Thompson, a controversial Tea Party figure who worked on Carl Paladino's
failed 2010
gubernatorial bid.
But the fact that Suozzi, who once harbored
gubernatorial aspirations of his own,
failed in that effort didn't seem to bother Cuomo in the slightest.
Shortly after sending expletive - filled missives to the Daily News, Donald Trump supporter and
failed 2010
gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino sent an email to former U.S. Sen. - turned - lobbyist Alfonse D'Amato, calling him «such a piece of S @ # t.»
Deputy Senate Majority John DeFrancisco has hired a veteran New York Republican consultant, Michael Lawler, who ran ex-Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's
failed 2014
gubernatorial campaign, to run his 2018 campaign for governor.
GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Sen. John DeFrancisco blasted Cuomo, saying he
failed to release most of $ 2 billion in school funding, some of which could be used for safety measures.