Sentences with phrase «former state house»

Former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff's name keeps coming up as a potential primary challenge, a race that likely would be competitive.

According to a new Reuters / Ipsos poll released Thursday, Republican former state House Speaker Marco Rubio holds a 40 to 26 percent lead among likely voters over Gov. Charlie Crist, who is running as an independent after abandoning his bid for the Republican Party's nomination earlier this year.

CEO Bill Allen, 70, testified Thursday in the federal corruption trial of former state House Speaker Pete Kott.

In Florida, where the national party has signaled its preference for centrist Gov. Charlie Crist in the GOP Senate primary, tea party activists are lining up behind former state House Speaker Marco Rubio in reaction to Crist's public backing for President Barack Obama's stimulus package.

* The What Goes Around Comes Around Endorsement: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani endorsing former state House Speaker Marco Rubio in the 2010 Florida Senate primary.

Rob Jesmer, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, sent an e-mail to national political operatives just before noon in which he also predicted that Crist will decide not to compete in the GOP primary against former state House Speaker Marco Rubio.

Kansas» 2nd District: Paul Davis, the former state House minority leader, carried the district when he ran for governor in 2014 against Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

Florida Senate (R, Aug. 24): Gov. Charlie Crist began what is likely to be a sustained attack on former state House Speaker Marco Rubio this week with a tough television ad that seeks to shatter the «Rubio as conservative hero» image.

Florida Senate (R): Gov. Charlie Crist is the overwhelming favorite to win his primary against former state House Speaker Marco Rubio but that doesn't mean there isn't real drama in this race.

Whoever wins Tuesday's Democratic primary will face a three - way race against former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) and Gov. Charlie Crist (I) in the fall.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in Florida today to throw his support behind the Senate candidacy of former state House Speaker Marco Rubio, a bit of political payback directed at Gov. Charlie Crist so great that it has forced us to rename a category in the Fix endorsement hierarchy.

A new Quinnipiac poll in the Florida Senate race shows former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) narrowing the gap against Gov. Charlie Crist (R), numbers sure to embolden national conservatives who are already casting the primary as a fight for the heart and soul of the Republican party.

(Crist faces a primary of his own from former state House Speaker Marco Rubio.

Unresolved questions surrounding Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in Colorado — and Republican attempts to provide accelerant to the incumbent protection flap — have suddenly forced Senate candidates in a handful of other states, including Arkansas, Illinois and Ohio, to respond to queries about possible White House involvement in their own races, throwing them off message and on the defensive.

Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) and likely Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek (D) will have something to say about that over the next two and a half months, however.

The Albany Housing Authority hired Norstar Development for the project — a Canada - based company with significant operations in Buffalo and is led in the U.S. by Richard Higgins, a former state housing czar under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Joseph Holland, a former state housing commissioner in the administration of former Gov. George Pataki, is also considering a Senate bid.

Also seeking the nomination besides Molinaro, who is the presumptive GOP candidate, and Giambra are former state housing commissioner Joseph Holland, a Republican, and Libertarian candidate Larry Sharpe.

He beat out Syracuse - area state Sen. John DeFrancisco, who had 23 votes, and former state housing official Joseph Holland, who received five.

He's already won the support of a majority of the state committee, but still faces state Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) and Joe Holland, a former state housing commissioner.

He beat out state Sen. John DeFrancisco, who won 23 votes, and former state housing official Joseph Holland, who received five.

Currently, there are three active candidates who have formally declared: state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, and former State Housing Commissioner Joe Holland.

Its United States operations are run by Richard Higgins, a former state housing commissioner under Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Others are former state Housing Commissioner Joseph Holland, who is still seeking the gubernatorial nomination and has been mentioned as a potential attorney general candidate, state Sen. Fred Akshar, a former sheriff, and Westchester business and real estate executive Frank Buccanfusco.

Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro is considered the front - runner though DeFrancisco and former state housing commissioner Joseph Holland are also seeking the nomination.

In addition to Molinaro, state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco and former state housing commissioner Joseph Holland are also seeking the nomination.

Other are former state Housing Commissioner Joseph Holland, who is still seeking the gubernatorial nomination and has been mentioned as a potential attorney general candidate,; state Sen. Fred Akshar, a former sheriff; and Westchester business and real estate executive Frank Buccanfusco,

He said the party is considering Giambra, Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro, state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, former state housing commissioner Joseph Holland, and other lesser known candidates.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, GOP leader Donald Trump has seen his lead in Wisconsin evaporate, giving way to Ted Cruz, as Trump has clashed with Republican leaders in the state such as former presidential candidate Gov. Scott Walker and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (a Wisconsin congressman).

Richard Kauzlarich, the former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European Affairs, said the White House should have backed the British from the beginning.

As such, a panel including former White House officials Robert Rubin, Glenn Hubbard and Josh Bolton met in October to simulate what it would look like if a state went down.

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

Senate confirmation is not required for the White House national security post, and Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations, will inherit a staff of several hundred specialists from the Pentagon, State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies.

-- TREY GOWDY: The South Carolina Republican led the House committee investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's actions surrounding the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., right, and Lisa Jackson, former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), arrive at a state dinner in honor of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S.

On Tuesday, January 17th, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich said that the only way he would ever support a Muslim for the presidency of the United States is if that person would «commit in public to give up sharia» thereby continuing his trend to exhibit his ignorance on the subject of Islamic law (sharia) as well as his ignorance of the United States Constitution.

In the last year Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and liberal filmmaker Michael Moore have spoken at Georgetown.

Gingrich, the former presidential candidate and speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said that after the attacks, «We had an opportunity to stand up and say, «You know, it is true - some people in the United States might make a film that is totally whacked out.

Hours after declaring Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be «a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists,» in the foreseeable future, according to Politico.

Rodney Bullard is a United States Air Force veteran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and White House Fellow and currently serves as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and as the Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation where he shepherds the organization's extensive philanthropic and social responsibility efforts, which primarily focus on youth and education.

Matt Huffman, a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives (term - limited out), and now running for state senate in Jordan's district, remembers going to Jordan's daughter's wedding a few years ago and being surprised at who he ended up sitting with for dinner.

Former Michigan great Braylon Edwards is headed to the Big House this weekend for the Michigan — Michigan State game.

In mid-August, the former Secretary of State, First Lady and New York Senator topped out at -590 to win the White House at Bookmaker, her high - water mark of the campaign.

This is notable because his real - life presence at a U.S. Ryder Cup dinner at Jack Nicklaus» house Thursday night — following Wednesday's home video of Woods hitting a 9 - iron into a simulator and the CSI: Jupiter treatment accorded it — engendered another round of wisecracks about the state of the health of the former world No. 1.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

The New York State United Teachers union on Friday blasted the appointment of former Education Commissioner John King to become the acting secretary of education and urged its members to call the White House to «express their displeasure.»

Former U.S. Secretary of State and presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is in talks with Columbia University to take on a formal role at the Ivy League — and potentially house her archives there, multiple sources told the Daily News.

Former Vice President and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar on Friday joined President Muhammadu Buhari at the Jumaat Prayers at State House, Abuja.

A former Federal Commissioner for Works and Housing, Alhaji Femi Okunnu has expressed sadness over the current status of the Federal Secretariat in Lagos and other abandoned and surplus assets of the Federal Government in the State, urging that the assets be returned to the State Government for effective and proper usage.

But addressing the Volta Regional House of Chiefs on Saturday as part of the celebrants at a ceremony to mark the election of Agbogbomefia of Asogli State, Togbe Afede XIV and the former President Volta Regional House of Chiefs Volta Region as President of the National House of Chiefs, an optimistic Akufo - Addo said the NPP was hopeful of wooing the NDC someday.