Sentences with phrase «first ran for governor»

A memo sent to Donald J. Trump in December 2013 detailed how he could increase his chances of winning the White House if he first ran for governor of New York.

But Cuomo has come along: When he first ran for governor in 2002, he declared that he supported civil unions over same - sex marriage.

Samuels supported Cuomo when he first ran for governor in 2002, but has become disenchanted and has begun his own reform group to try to pressure the governor to, in Samuel's words, return to the Democratic Party's progressive roots.

Boughton first ran for governor in 2010 but dropped out of the race to become Republican Michael Fedele's running mate.

Four years ago, when Hawkins first ran for governor, he garnered enough votes to pass the 50,000 - vote threshold and put the Green Party on the ballot.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, a Syracuse resident who first ran for governor in 2010, entered the race in April.

She does not count donations Cuomo received when he first ran for governor in 2010.

One of the first backers of Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he first ran for Governor in 2002, Pigeon became a key player in Western New York for Cuomo.

As CBS 2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, when Cuomo first ran for governor, it was with the promise to stop corruption in Albany.

When Cuomo first ran for governor, he won 63 percent of the vote and carried the overwhelming majority of the state's counties.

Like Cuomo, who withdrew when he first ran for governor in 2002 after making a blunderous remark about George Pataki, Chris Christie suffered setbacks on his eventual road to success in New Jersey.

In 2010, when he first ran for governor, Cuomo did not release his tax returns until after election day.

Though he pledged when he first ran for governor in 2010 to clean up Albany, the pace of legislative corruption scandals has not slowed on Cuomo's watch.

Cuomo did not release his tax filings in 2010, the year he first ran for governor, until a month after elections.

Jacobs, much of his extended family, and a number of Limited Liability Companies or LLC's have given Cuomo nearly $ 125,000 in campaign contributions since he first ran for Governor in 2010.

UFCW Local 1500 has long been a Cuomo ally, dating back all the way back in 2010 when he first ran for governor.

Farrell, who has longstanding ties to the Cuomo family forged during Mario Cuomo's first run for governor, recalled when Andrew Cuomo floated the idea last November of a complete tax code overhaul during a closed - door meeting of the black and Latino legislative caucus.

Jones says he was honored to be picked by Hawkins, whom he's admired since Hawkins» first run for governor four years ago.

Hawkins restored ballot status for the Green Party by receiving more than the threshold 50,000 votes during his first run for governor in 2010 — the year Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo was first elected.

The speech was largely a standard one for Cuomo before a crowd of upstate Democrats that first lent their support to him in 2002 during his first run for governor.

If you include the small - donor contributions he took during his first run for governor, Cuomo's small - donor contributions have (so far) outpaced Nixon's.

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.

He was roundly criticized during his first run for governor in 2002 for having said that then - Gov.

Not exact matches

Eric Sapp, who runs a faith - focused consulting firm with Strider, said he wasn't hired by the House and Senate Democratic campaign committees or by candidates for Congress or governor, for the first time since he started doing such work.

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Paterson, New York's first black governor, insisted he planned to run this fall for the office he had inherited from disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, in spite of his historically low poll numbers, faltering fundraising and loss of support from the Obama administration.

Astorino can still mount a run for governor, but losing twice, first statewide and now on his home turf, is not an ideal position.

At 11 a.m., Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro holds the first of two events at which he'll announce his run for governor, Tivoli, where he launched his political career as the youngest mayor in the US at the time.

«I would have never put myself running for governor in the first place if I felt I had skeletons in the closet,» said Kolb.

Nixon's aides say that Governor Cuomo left something out when he said he released 10 years of tax returns when he first ran for office.

Republican political newcomer Bob Stefanowski is the first candidate in the crowded field running for governor to air TV ads.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo spoke publicly for the first time since his former closest aide was convicted of running two bribery schemes while working for the governor and managing Cuomo's re-election campaign.

Ms. Cole, making her first run for public office, says she has never met the governor, and faults Mr. Collins for his pursuit of fame in Washington — he's a regular on national talk shows — rather than concerns in his district.

Lerner said when Cuomo was running for his first term as governor in 2010, he did not endorse an AG candidate, and the contest was decided in a five - way primary that Schneiderman won.

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.

And Collins, who considered running for governor in 2010, when Cuomo won his first term, seemed happy to see the governor sweat.

Cynthia Nixon speaks to people at the Bethesda Healing Center in Brooklyn on March 20, 2018, at her first event since announcing that she is running for governor of New York.

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

If he fends off the challenge from Nixon, Cuomo could become the first Democratic nominee for governor to run without the Working Families Party's support since the minor party line was created in 1998.

The three Democratic candidates for governor have now chosen their running mates, the first year that candidates for governor will be paired with a candidate for lieutenant governor.

Former Trumbull First Selectman Timothy Herbst, who is running for governor against Lumaj and others, immediately condemned the statements by Higbie.

Cuomo's successful first session as governor has fueled speculation he would run for president in 2016, when either Obama is term limited out of office or a Republican incumbent is running for a second term.

Duffy will be joining RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum, who is a big Cuomo supporter and was the first labor leader to call on Gov. David Paterson to step aside to let the AG run unopposed for governor this fall.

Asked why he's waiting until Jan. 1, 2011 — the first day he is no longer governor — to implement his layoff plan, Paterson replied that not only is that the day the no - layoffs MOU that he signed with the unions in exchange for creation of Tier 5 runs out, but it's also the first day of the next governor's tenure.

Republican Rob Astorino has made little secret of his desire to run for governor once again in 2018, but first he'll have to consider running again for his current job as Westchester county executive.

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Becoming the first New York governor to run for president since Nelson Rockefeller, former three - term Republican Governor George Pataki jumped into the race this morning in a YouTube campaign video before appearing in New Hagovernor to run for president since Nelson Rockefeller, former three - term Republican Governor George Pataki jumped into the race this morning in a YouTube campaign video before appearing in New HaGovernor George Pataki jumped into the race this morning in a YouTube campaign video before appearing in New Hampshire.

He was victorious in his first run for federal office, having previously run for lieutenant governor and governor, as well as twice for mayor of Philadelphia.

The Democratic attorney general — who is widely believed to be planning a run for governor this year — revealed for the first time yesterday that his office and federal prosecutors from New York's Southern District had launched a joint criminal probe into Espada.

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.