Sentences with phrase «first ran for comptroller»

Schroeder received $ 3,500 from Louis Ciminelli when he first ran for comptroller in 2011.

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Turner, one of three Republicans who will face off in the June 26 primary for the right to run on Row B against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand this fall, is making his first return upstate since last month's GOP convention in Rochester when he, attorney Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos were all voted onto the ballot.

There's also a list called Levy's «10 shades of blue» that details all the things the country executive did to support Democratic candidates and / or positions, noting, for example, his backing of single - payer healthcare and early endorsement of former Long Island Assemblyman - turned - state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's first statewide run this year.

It was his first run for political office and his opponent was Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who had been appointed to the office three years prior.

The winner of the Nov. 3 general election will replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who was first elected in 2001 and opted to run in the Democratic primary for mayor against city Comptroller William Thompson, who defeated him.

First: While the Indys backed Democratic AG Andrew Cuomo for governor (who stood with party leaders in Troy two weeks ago, but accepted their nod via teleconference today) and his preferred running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, they crossed over to the GOP line to back Harry Wilson for state comptroller.

Lynch ran Liu's first successful campaign for comptroller — putting together a so - called «rainbow coalition» similiar to the one he engineered for Dinkins, and remained a supporter even as many abandoned Liu during his fundraising scandal.

Garodnick is the first pol to formally announce he'll run for comptroller, but other possible contenders for the job include City Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr., who leads the council's powerful Finance Committee.

In his State of the City speech — the first by a City Comptroller in recent memory — Liu, who is widely expected to run for mayor despite being the subject of a federal investigation, jumped on the «Lin - sanity» bandwagon.

It will, however, be the first time since the early 1970s that the Assembly chamber will be Weprin-less, since David Weprin replaced his brother, Mark, (the sibilings switched seats, with the later taking the former's NYC Council slot after he gave it up to run a failed bid for NYC comptroller in 2009).

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.

In 2002, Cuomo ran an unsuccessful primary campaign against then - Comptroller H. Carl McCall, the first black Democrat to run for governor.

«When Scott told me he was running for comptroller, the first thing I did was Google the word comptroller... I thought the comptroller was the guy who rode on the back of the fire truck and steered!»

The mayor and comptroller have engaged in bitter public relations battles going back to their first year in office — giving rise to rumors that Stringer will challenge de Blasio in this September's Democratic primary instead of running for re-election.

One thing is certain: Cuomo is doing no favors for DiNapoli by negotiating this deal with Hevesi so close to the general election, which is the first time the former assemblyman has run statewide since being placed in the comptroller's office by his legislative colleagues in February 2007 after Hevesi's first guilty felony plea in Chauffeurgate.

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.

As for the timing of Abedin's first public appearance on his behalf, Weiner insisted it wasn't to draw contrasts with Eliot Spitzer (whose wife hasn't weighed in on his run for city comptroller and may or may not be living in a different building).

It was a fine plan, but for the better - established Democrat standing between him and the nomination: Carl McCall, the broadly (if not wildly) popular state comptroller who was running to become the state's first African - American governor.

City Comptroller John Liu dismissed a question about running for mayor at the Jefferson Democratic Club's first meeting in Bayside last week.

Saujani's departure, first reported by Crain's New York Business, comes as Public Advocate Bill de Blasio gears up for an expected run for mayor against a crowded field that includes City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and former City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

DiNapoli — who was appointed comptroller after the resignation of Alan Hevesi, one of the scandal's first dominoes — was already facing a difficult run for comptroller this fall.

The news, which was first reported by Capital New York, comes just over a week after Stringer announced his plans to forgo his mayoral ambitions to run for comptroller following lackluster performance in the polls.

In 1961, at the age of 55, Mr. Beame ran for office for the first time — as the candidate for city comptroller on a ticket headed by Mr. Wagner, who had been mayor for eight years and, though opposed by party leaders, was seeking a third term on a «beat the bosses» slate.

A group of first - time candidates is running to replace term - limited Bronx Councilwoman Annabel Palma: Democrats Elvin García, 30, former Bronx borough director for Mayor Bill de Blasio; Amanda Farias, 27, who served as director of special projects for Queens Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley; and community organizer Michael Beltzer, 31, who has served on the NYPD 43rd Precinct Community Council and volunteered on former City Comptroller John Liu's citywide campaign.