Sentences with phrase «first gubernatorial candidate»

In 2010, Cuomo became the first gubernatorial candidate to win the council's endorsement, promising to rein in government spending and cap local property taxes.

The other, former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, was also the first gubernatorial candidate to air a TV ad when his affiliated political committee in November dished out $ 800,000 for a 30 - second spot.

This week, Paladino will be in the field shooting footage for his first TV ad (I believe he'll be the first gubernatorial candidate to hit the airwaves).

Not exact matches

This isn't the first time that Romney has pointed to Whitman — who is also the former CEO of Ebay and a former California gubernatorial candidate — as a leader to emulate.

In Washington's gubernatorial race in 2004, the first automated count and the automated recount had the republican candidate, Dino Rossi, as the winner.

During his first - ever Q&A with reporters as a full - fledged gubernatorial candidate, AG Andrew Cuomo declined to say if he supports Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver continuing in his leadership role.

Heck, if he felt he could be a viable gubernatorial candidate, he should seriously look into serving the City first as mayor.

NARAL Pro-Choice NY's first TV ad of this election cycle targets GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino for his staunch opposition to abortion rights, even in the case of rape or incest — an unusually far - right position for even the most conservative candidates in this Democrat - dominated state.

Billionaire businessman and former gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano, in Albany today to push his national popular vote plan, said he was both «pleased» and «surprised» by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first few months in office.

Last month, just before the state budget was approved, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made her first visit to Albany, appearing with education advocates she has worked closely with in recent years.

Joanie Mahoney, the Republican Onondaga County executive and first woman to hold that post, is the latest member of her party to announce support for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, YNN's Bill Carey reports.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo's lastest TV ad features, for the first time, an extended appearance by the candidate himself, slamming Albany dysfunction and special interests and promising to restore New York to a state «we can be proud of.»

He's convinced this plan was, as he put it, «born on the floor of the (GOP) convention to punish or get even with the Conservative Party» for holding its convention first, tapping Rick Lazio as its gubernatorial candidate and helping him to block Cox's preferred candidate, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, from getting on the GOP primary ballot.

During the first day of a marathon SED hearing on Carl Paladino's future on the Buffalo School Board, Paladino's attorney accused Buffalo school officials of being out to «get» the former Republican gubernatorial candidate.

In her first appearance as a New York gubernatorial candidate, «Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon hammered her Democratic opponent Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the crumbling subway, the «cesspool» of corruption in state government and inequality across the...

The troubles afflicting the subway system that Cuomo effectively controls may be so severe that, for the first time since there has been an MTA, a gubernatorial candidate is making it central to her campaign.

Secretary Daniels is considered by many to be the most conservative candidate in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, and if successful would have been the first black governor in the history of the state of New York.

Democratic New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon appeared in her first nationally broadcast television interview Wednesday.

Former GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful and current state Supreme Court candidate Rick Lazio will make his first public appearance tomorrow since dropping out of the race almost a month ago following his big primary loss to Carl Paladino.

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.

GOP gubernatorial candidate really got two bites out of the Helen Thomas scandal, first using it to curry favor with Jewish voters and now, in the wake of her retirement announcement, suggesting his Democratic target, AG Andrew Cuomo, was AWOL on the issue.

But that doesn't mean McCall has forgotten 2002, when Cuomo drew the wrath of the Democratic establishment to mount a long - shot primary challenge to the then - comptroller — the party favorite and the state's first black major party gubernatorial candidate.

Andrew Cuomo's hand - picked LG running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, just gave the Democratic ticket's first interview since Carl Paladino accused Cuomo of engaging in extramarital affairs while married to Kerry Kennedy and declined to respond to the GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate's allegations.

McCall not only gave Cuomo cover back when it looked like he might again mount a primary challenge against a black gubernatorial candidate (in this case, a sitting governor — the first African American to hold the post, David Paterson), but also stood by him when other black leaders were complaining about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

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.

In her first appearance as a New York gubernatorial candidate, «Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon hammered her Democratic opponent Gov. Andrew Cuomo on the crumbling subway, the «cesspool» of corruption in state government and inequality across the state.

In July Rasmussen Reports had Republican - turned - Independent Gubernatorial Candidate Lincoln Chafee slightly leading his putative Republican and Democratic challengers, putting him in good position to become Rhode Island's first independent governor in recent memory.

New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon continues to lean into the insult lobbed at her during the very first days of her campaign: she's now selling «Unqualified Lesbian» buttons on her site.

Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins yesterday received the endorsement of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club — the first time the NYC LGBT club has backed a non-Democrat for governor in its 10 - year history.

The state Democratic Party is out with yet another attack TV ad this time targeting both GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino AND (I believe for the first time) his running mate, Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy took advantage of petitioning candidate Joe Visconti's first appearance at a gubernatorial debate to criticize his Republican opponent Tom Foley's position on Connecticut's gun control law.

MANHATTAN — The seven gubernatorial candidates are set to duke it out at their first and only scheduled debate Monday night, and political pundits are predicting fists will fly.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo sat (sort of) for what I believe is his first extended TV interview of this campaign cycle with Fox - 5's «Good Day NY» (he appeared from JFK Airport just before taking off for an upstate swing that includes Syracuse and Buffalo).

Former Trumbull First Selectman Tim Herbst, shown in this file photo, is one of the GOP gubernatorial candidates

Former Trumbull First Selectman Tim Herbst, shown in this file photo, is one of the GOP gubernatorial candidates (John Woike / Hartford Courant)

Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey first met Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2014 when Trump was considering a gubernatorial run.

In the first part of a two - part series, we'll find out what top GOP women actually think of their gubernatorial candidate: Rick Scott.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg denounced gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino's controversial comments on homosexuality, marking the mayor's first criticism of the candidate since he became the Republican nominee.

The first candidate out of the gate in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign was the first to comment on Andrew Cuomo's late entrance.

The state Business Council, which endorsed then - AG Cuomo for governor in 2010 — the first gubernatorial endorsement in its 30 - year history — has also yet to endorse a candidate in this year's race, and might very well remain neutral.

«Alec Ross certainly wouldn't say Rushern Baker is «prancing around» Prince George's County, or that Krish Vignarajah was «prancing around» while serving on first lady [Michelle] Obama's staff,» the campaign's statement read, referring to two of the other Democratic candidates in the gubernatorial race.

Trumbull First Selectman Timothy M. Herbst, an aspiring 2018 gubernatorial candidate, bemoaned the closing of the federal investigation.

Cuomo was in the Democratic doghouse after his failed long - shot 2002 primary challenge to then - state Controller Carl McCall - at the time New York's highest - ranking black elected official and first black major party gubernatorial candidate.

Actress and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon says she has received more small - dollar donations in her first 24 hours as a candidate than Gov. Andrew Cuomo has in his seven years as governor.

In his first campaign speech Monday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Marcus Molinaro sought to position himself as a nonpartisan problem - solver who would bring civility to Albany after years of rough - and - tumble politics.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Carl Paladino, a Buffalo businessman, school board member and former New York gubernatorial candidate, said Friday afternoon that he fully stands behind comments published about President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

(CNN)- Former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford will join gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on the campaign trail Friday for a headline - grabbing final push ahead of next Tuesday's Republican runoff election, a Haley source tells CNN.

Sanford gave Haley's campaign its first major endorsement last fall, when Haley, a state representative, was the least known of the four candidates seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

The party first ran someone in a statewide campaign in 1998, fielding Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster, as its gubernatorial candidate.

Correction 4:18 p.m. An earlier version of this story misspelled Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Allan Fung's first name.