Sentences with phrase «from running for a statewide office»

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Gibson backed the brief, signed by 300 other Republican office holders and operatives — including fellow upstate GOP Rep. Richard Hanna — as he considers a statewide run for office after his planned departure from Congress in 2016.

Nearly six in 10 registered voters — 58 percent — say they don't want Spitzer to run for statewide office this year, but that's a big improvement from last September, when the number was 69 percent.

Gibson, a three - term representative from the Hudson Valley, has said he plans to retire at the end of his current term and potentially run for statewide office.

Thirteen House members — and one non-voting delegate from Puerto Rico — gave up their posts to run for statewide office this year, with varying success.

Yet as a line worker for the United Parcel Service (UPS), he has managed to run for office numerous times from local to statewide, in the process helping to make the Green Party of New York State the real left opposition here.

UPDATE: The Legal Intelligencer just posted an article headlined, «Williams Could Face Fallout From Porngate Prosecutors,» which asserts that the D.A.'s decision not to fire the prosecutors «will likely come back to haunt Williams if he decides to run for statewide office.»