The Republican candidate
for state attorney general says the man who holds the office now, and those who served before him, have treated it has a political stepping stone.
Sources say Peters is interested in making a second bid for Brooklyn district attorney in four years, depending on how the race shakes out this year, and is also considering a
run for state attorney general if Eric Schneiderman makes a bid for governor.
The mailer hits Maloney on a variety of topics — from his involvement in the post-Troopergate scandal damage control for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, to the fact that he has never held elected office and received only 9 percent of the vote in his
campaign for state attorney general in 2006.
The message was sent directly to Elana Leopold, a mayoral «special assistant» who's now on leave working for his re-election campaign, and cc'd to aides including Avi Fink, now deputy chief of staff, and Amy Spitalnick, who left City Hall in October to become press secretary
for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who once ran against
Cuomo for state attorney general, scoffed at reports that actress Cynthia Nixon is considering a primary challenge against the governor because he's not progressive enough.
Central New York Rep. John Katko, a former longtime federal prosecutor, is reportedly considering a 2018 run
for state attorney general on the GOP line.
A veritable bevy of former Pataki administration members — from the former governor himself on down — will gather in Albany tomorrow night to host a fund - raiser for their onetime colleague, John Cahill, who is running
for state attorney general against the Democratic incumbent, Eric Schneiderman.
DeFrancisco has
called for state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman or a special counsel to investigate if laws were broken when Cuomo allowed Percoco to keep his state office and use taxpayer resources after resigning.
The Working Families Party could delay its nomination
process for a state attorney general candidate expected to take place at the party's convention this weekend, POLITICO has learned.
Sources say Aborn is eyeing a campaign
for state attorney general if Andrew Cuomo runs as expected for governor next year to replace unelected Gov. David Paterson.
Tanya Walker, 54, who is outreach coordinator and co-founder of NYTAG, said, «I was bullied out of a college» — the College of Staten Island when she protested Borough President Guy Molinari for calling Karen Burstein, the 1994 Democratic
nominee for state attorney general, «unfit for public office» because she is a lesbian.
Enck, who worked for a time as former attorney general and Governor Eliot Spitzer's environmental advisor, says Spitzer formed the
template for state attorneys general suing the federal EPA, bringing court action 15 times against the Bush administration.
Enck, who worked for a time as former Attorney General and Gov. Eliot Spitzer's environmental adviser, said Spitzer formed the template
for state attorneys general suing the federal EPA, bringing court action 15 times against the Bush administration.
So he called for the prohibition of new charter school applications and
for the state attorney general Chris Koster to look into the possibility of requiring all operating charter schools to fall under the auspices of the St. Louis public school system.
His aggressive disinterest in running for governor has been a hallmark of this former Pataki administration official's campaign this
year for state attorney general.
Investigators
for state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo quizzed him over the $ 1.5 million his firm Arapaho Partners received in exchange for helping a firm called Carlyle Europe Partners win a $ 133.7 million deal.
Bharara, who appears regularly on CNN as a commentator, has the resume to campaign successfully as an independent, said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political consultant who helped pull off the last upset in an
election for state attorney general when Eliot Spitzer won the office in 1998.
About 100 people participated in the rally at the oldest Republican club in the United States, funded in 1875, to meet Republican and Conservative candidates Chris Moss for lieutenant governor, John
Cahill for state attorney general, Bob Antonacci for state comptroller, Grant Lally for Congress and Maureen Koetz for state Assembly.
MANHATTAN — For the third time in less than 48 hours, the Democratic candidates
for State Attorney General took to the stage to make their cases to voters.
The Communications Workers of America have reprised its 2005 endorsement of Assemblyman Richard
Brodsky for state attorney general, throwing its support to the Westchester Democrat's second attempt at statewide office this fall.
MANHATTAN — Eric Schneiderman's campaign in the race
for state attorney general got some star power Wednesday in the form of an endorsement from the actor - comedian Alec Baldwin.
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Public Advocate Letitia James launched her Democratic campaign
for state attorney general Wednesday, casting herself as «the people's lawyer» as she looks to become the first woman of color to hold the post.
Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, left, shown in this 2017 file photo, is backing Chris
Mattei for state attorney general and not state Sen. Paul Doyle, right, a member of Looney's Democratic caucus.
State Sen. Eric Schneiderman (D - Manhattan) went ahead and, apparently without consulting his rivals,
announced for state attorney general the other day, citing support from 3 members of Congress, nine state Senators, three Assembly members and several New York City district leaders and state committee members.