Sentences with phrase «governor in a landslide»

Known as the «Sheriff of Wall Street» during his tenure as New York's attorney general, Spitzer was elected governor in a landslide victory in 2006.

Schneiderman, who also ran with the Independence and Working Families party backing, will take over for Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who was elected governor in a landslide victory.

Not exact matches

Walker was elected governor in the GOP landslide of 2010, when Republicans also gained control of the Wisconsin state senate and house of representatives.

Governor Cuomo says the landslide approval of PEF was not because of any changes that were made in the contract, but instead a change in tone surrounding the negotiations.

In his first extended interview since his landslide victory Tuesday, a jubilant Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo said he expects to bring progress to a scandal and dysfunction - weary state, but warned change won't come quickly or easily.

Cuomo brought up the hypothetical of a wealthy businessman who decides to self - fund a campaign for governor (Businessman Carl Paladino did just that in 2010, vowing to spend his own money against the very well - funded Cuomo campaign and lost in a landslide).

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He explored a run for governor in 2010, but has attracted a legion of new critics and drawn a crowd of challengers in his upstate New York district — after twice winning reelection by landslide margins.

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

Even outside the district he served, his name's been on the ballot enough to rack up some name ID — he left his Assembly seat to run for State Comptroller in 2002, losing a close race to now - disgraced Alan Hevesi and then in 2006 won the GOP nomination for governor, where he lost in a W - fatigue landslide to now - disgraced Eliot Spitzer.

That he wasn't crushed in a landslide evidently gave him encouragement — and so he hasn't stopped running for governor.

Green says that Cuomo will win re-election with, at best, 52 percent of the vote, a bare majority that would represent a humiliation to the governor, who is known to want to win by at least the landslide 64 percent margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, in his first bid for re-election in 1986.

Yet the political damage, then and now, is clearly worse for Spitzer: He'd become a star as a prosecutor, and won a landslide victory in the 2006 race for governor, on his record and reputation for rectitude.

Among his greatest disappointments was the 1994 election, when, caught in a GOP landslide, he narrowly lost his bid for a fourth term as governor to a pedestrian upstate Republican mayor, George Pataki.

Similar to Zephyr Teachout, who challenged Cuomo from the party's left in a September primary, Hawkins has no chance at winning, but he does threaten to upset the governor's quest to win in a landslide on the order of, say, 65 percent.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino made the comments at a news conference in Manhattan, which fell a day after Christie, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said he doesn't invest in «landslides» or «lost causes.»