Sentences with phrase «failed run for governor»

It traces the rise of publisher William Randolph Hearst, in the guise of Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), and included a failed run for governor of New York.

She has dodged question after question about the Jewish state and Israel's right to defend itself — starting in 2014 during her failed run for governor.

In addition to his failed run for governor last year, Neumann also ran for the U.S. Senate in 1998 when he lost to Russ Feingold.

He was involved in Andrew Cuomo's first, failed run for governor in 2002, joined his staff when he was elected Attorney General in 2006 and then helped him win the governor's office in 2010.

In 1982, Koch had a failed run for governor and was beaten by Mario Cuomo, in what was a contentious Democratic primary race.

«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.

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Prior to that, he ran a failed campaign for governor in 2002, worked in the private sector at Island Capital (developer / donor Andrew Farakas» firm), served as President Clinton's HUD secretary and founded a housing non-profit in NYC.

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.

As a political neophyte, Khojasteh says he recognizes what he doesn't know, and therefore hired some recognizable names to assist him in his Senate quest, including Mollie Fullington, a former Pataki administration spokeswoman, who is handling media; and Mike Lawler, an Astorino administration aide who ran the former county executive's failed 2014 run for governor, as campaign manager.

Barbour, as you may recall, heads the Republican Governors Association, and backed up state GOP Chairman Ed Cox in his (eventually failed) effort to convince former Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to switch parties and try to run for governor on the GOP line in 2010.

There was widespread speculation that LaValle and state GOP Chairman Ed Cox had struck some sort of deal that boosted Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's failed pitch for the GOP line in the governor's race and Chris Cox's House run, but all parties denied that.

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.

Levy, a Democrat, made an aborted run for governor in 2010 on the Republican line, but failed to get the necessary delegate votes to qualify for a Wison - Pakula.

The room was receptive to a proposal that the WFP run someone else for governor on Row D — a gamble, given the fact that the party risks losing its hard - won ballot placement if its candidate doesn't perform well, and could lose its ballot status altogether if the candidate fails to win at least 50,000 votes.

The truth is that Gov. Cuomo has played a slight of hand game with both parties since becoming Governor and now with the election season drawing nearer his base will show they have a longer memory than he might have counted on when he failed to back Democratic Senate candidates and let if not openly encouraged the IDC Coalition to come into being by acting like Party didn't count at all in his game plain to win re-election and then possibly run for President in 2016.

Should Astorino run for governor in 2014, expect Cuomo's re-election campaign to replay that effort ten-fold, especially in the wake of the women's agenda failing in the state Legislature.

First he spent $ 200,000 per vote in a poorly run failed campaign for governor, next he helped elect Alan Hevisi as NYS Comptroller and then he gave us the most corrupt NYS Senate in history under democrat control.

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.

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.

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

If Teachout and others fail in their bid to topple Cuomo in the September primary, then the job falls to Hawkins, of Syracuse, who also ran for governor four years ago.

He ran for lieutenant governor as Cuomo's running mate in his failed campaign in 2002, and lost to him in the primary for state attorney gen eral in 2006.

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin sent a letter to Governor Dannel Malloy and state lawmakers on Thursday warning that his city will run out of money in about 60 days and may be forced to file for bankruptcy if the state fails to approve a new budget.

The former Assembly minority leader has been through the mill, having run failed — but loud — campaigns for governor and state comptroller, the first a debacle against Eliot Spitzer, the latter a credible showing against Alan Hevesi.

In a unanimous decision, the Appellate Division in Brooklyn ruled that the governor's campaign had failed to prove that Teachout did not meet the five - year residency requirement to run for governor.

Cuomo, elected to his current post in 2006, has spent a lifetime in politics and public service including stints as a top advisor during his father's 1977 failed run for mayor as well as his successful run for governor in 1982, after which he came his father's special assistant, and, later, federal housing secretary under President Clinton.

Attorney General Cuomo, the son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo and the former federal housing secretary who tried and failed in a run for governor in 2002, made his long - expected announcement that he's running for governor this year at an unexpected time — early this morning — via a prerecorded announcement posted at his campaign web site on the internet.

Levy recently switched from Democrat to Republican in a failed bid to run for governor as a Republican.

While Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's budget fails to properly fund public schools in Connecticut it does provide for an increase in the number of privately run charter schools.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

Jerry Brown, a Democrat and son of a former California governor, was first elected to that office himself in 1974, serving two terms, but later failing in three runs for president and a campaign for U.S. Senate.