Sentences with phrase «governor run the state»

Ofsted believes there was an organised campaign of infiltrating schools, undermining head teachers and governors running state schools like private fiefdoms.

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Whitman is well - known in state and national politics as well, having worked on presidential campaigns for Mitt Romney and John McCain, and having run against Jerry Brown in 2010 for the governor of California, a race she ended up losing.

Jenny Wilson, a Democratic candidate running for Senate in Utah, said this week that «Utah families deserve another Utahn as their senator, not a Massachusetts governor who thinks of our state as his vacation home.»

Nixon may be taking cues from the success of New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who successfully ran for governor on a platform to legalize marijuana in the state.

State Treasurer John Chiang, who is running for governor, has asked President Donald Trump for guidance on how the state's marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system, while pot remains illegal under U.S.State Treasurer John Chiang, who is running for governor, has asked President Donald Trump for guidance on how the state's marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system, while pot remains illegal under U.S.state's marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system, while pot remains illegal under U.S. law.

Nevada's governor, a former federal judge named Brian Sandoval, had run for office in 2010 promising to attract jobs to the state, desperate to expand beyond its casino industry after unemployment topped 14 %.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.

Governor Kasich asked me to help him run economic development for the state and privatize the department so it could move at the speed of business not the speed of government.

California's state treasurer, John Chiang, who is also running for governor there, traveled to the meeting to call for a shakeup in the executive ranks.

The state's Republican governor, Mike Pence — later picked by Trump as his vice-presidential running mate — decried the decision, and spoke out against it often on the campaign trail.

Mid-decade activism by CalPERS, for example, reportedly was «fueled partly by the political ambitions of Phil Angelides, California's state treasurer and a CalPERS board member,» who planned on running for governor of California in 2006.

There is no Mitch Daniels candidacy for reasons of family, and now there is no Chris Christie candidacy for reasons having to do with concerns for being governor of his state and not really wanting to run for president (at this time).

«We are stressing now on guarding churches,» Adil Labib, the governor of Alexandria, told state - run Nile TV.

Just as the governor of a state is responsible for the smooth running of a state's government without having to become personally involved in every decision» without, in other words, feeling that his office obligates him to serve as the traffic cop at every busy corner» so too the Cosmological Argument contains no implication whatever that God has become the traffic cop of cellular evolution.

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Ggovernor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant GovernorGovernor.

Himself a candidate for governor of California in 1962 (he lost in a primary to Richard Nixon), Shell worked this year as the state's finance chairman for the Goldwater presidential campaign and ran interference for the GOP just as resolutely as he did when he was captain and a valuable blocking back for the undefeated USC team that shut out Tennessee 14 - 0 in the 1940 Rose Bowl game.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, was running for governor in 2010, but still serving as state attorney general.

As far as I know, the governor isn't doing anything to assist any of the other candidates running in the three other Assembly specials taking place around the state tomorrow or the contest down in Brooklyn to fill the seat of former Sen. Carl Kruger.

Former state Sen. Terry Gipson has taken another step toward running for governor, forming a campaign committee to explore a statewide run next year, according to a filing posted Friday at the state Board of Elections.

Traditionally, the covnentions start with the nomination of down ballot statewide candidates — state comptroller and state attorney general — on Day One, and build up to the main event — nomination of the governor and his running mate (the identity of whom we still don't know, thanks to LG Bob Duffy's recent announcement that he won't be on the ballot)-- on Day Two.

State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long believes Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino should be given «serious consideration» about a potential run for governor on the influential third party's ballot line.

To balance the ticket you would need «LEVY THE BOLD» to run for Governor and then switch Edwards to US Senate vs Schumer, and have Townsend leave the state.

Lazio's trouble raising money was one of the chief concerns cited by state GOP Chairman Ed Cox when he wooed Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who had $ 4 million in the bank, to switch parties and run for governor.

Despite the recent rumors of Donald Trump's potential interest in running for governor, state GOP Chairman Ed Cox is continuing to forge ahead with his preferred 2014 candidate, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo has fired back at state Conservative Chairman Mike Long for suggesting he should stop running for governor or resign his party post, saying Long himself should resign if his preferred gubernatorial candidate (and Lorigo's primary opponent), Rick Lazio loses.

Paladino has still not ruled out another run for Governor on the Conservative line if the GOP doesn't nominate a candidate who will call for a change in Republican Leadership in the State Legislature.

Latimer, a state senator, is running in what amounts to a key race this year given the incumbent, Republican Rob Astorino, is considering a second bid for governor in 2018.

It was widely viewed as a major gaffe by Cuomo, who was at the time making a long - shot run for governor against Pataki and the Democratic Party's preferred candidate, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

How can you run for governor of the state of New York if your supposed supporters are in bed with your opponent?

Democrat Kerin Rigney, a DeWitt town councilor, is running for the 50th district state Senate seat that may be vacated by Republican John DeFrancisco, the deputy Senate majority leader who is seeking the GOP to run for governor.

I was told that even the current transport minister who was the governor of Rivers State said not long ago that he didn't know that trains still run in Nigeria.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox today confirmed to NY1's Josh Robin that the mysterious fourth candidate for governor of which he has been speaking is indeed M. Myers Mermel, the Westchester businessman who has been traveling the state to build support for an LGState GOP Chairman Ed Cox today confirmed to NY1's Josh Robin that the mysterious fourth candidate for governor of which he has been speaking is indeed M. Myers Mermel, the Westchester businessman who has been traveling the state to build support for an LGstate to build support for an LG run.

Paychex billionaire Tom Golisano doesn't appear to like the idea of Democratic AG Andrew Cuomo running on the ballot line of the state Independence Party established and nurtured by his three unsuccessful self - funded campaigns for governor.

Gov. David Paterson this morning gave a big shout - out to Bob Duffy, who is running for the lieutenant governor post Paterson himself once held, saying the Rochester mayor is ready to step in and lead the state if necessary.

«Yes, our next state Senator (running unopposed) and our promising, next Governor of New York will appear at the same venue.

The removal occurred AFTER TU reporters Jimmy Vielkind and Jim Odato had already photocopied the document, which they in a box of notebooks that had been kept by Ellen Biben, who ran the Public Integrity Bureau when Cuomo was attorney general, was elevated to the postition of state inspector general when he became governor and is now the executive director of the Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The statement came from Charlie King, a former state Democratic Committee executive director who was Cuomo's running mate during his ill - fated run for governor in 2002.

Whoever holds that title is also third in line to run the state should the governor and lieutnant governor be unable to do so.

The poll found that 36 percent of state voters want the current governor to run for president, while 39 percent say he shouldn't run.

Western New York was once again highlighted during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fourth State of State Address — a focus that has fueled rumors the governor may be considering Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown as his new running mate.

With two top GOP potential candidates for governor recently deciding to forgo a run, longtime state Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long admits to worries over whether the remaining possibilities have the right stuff.

Gareth Rhodes, who worked for the governor until 2015 before going to Harvard Law School, is preparing to return to the state — and NY - 19 — to run against Rep. John Faso, a Republican, next year.

State GOP Chair Ed Cox said Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro is running for governor after winning a party straw poll, but a Molinaro spokesman responded that his boss had not publicly committed to running and would not be making an announcement any time soon.

The state GOP has launched a new Website to mark the day that AG Andrew Cuomo will receive the unanimous support of his fellow Democrats to run for governor this fall.

Former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, who is seeking to run for governor as an independent, is calling on his fellow Republicans in the state Senate to pass the Child Victims Act this year.

«I'm not getting in my opinion any better cooperation right now than I was getting when I was still a candidate for governor back in December and the Legislature left the state $ 600 million short and we ran out of money,» Paterson continued.

«With Donald Trump as president, it's no surprise Nicole Malliotakis has emerged as the Republican candidate to take on Mayor de Blasio — after all, it was only four years ago she talked to Trump about running for Governor of New York,» the email states.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and his hometown GOP chairman John Jay LaValle, whose Suffolk county committee will have the most votes at the party's nominating convention, disagree on who should run for governor, with Flanagan supporting state Sen. John DeFrancisco and LaValle endorsing Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro.

Interesting aside: The RGA, unlike the RNC, was supposedly once supportive of state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's successful wooing of Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to switch parties and run for governor.

Though he attended the gala in 2010 when he was the state attorney general preparing to run for governor — an awkward moment that saw him sharing a table with Paterson, who looked to be on a political collision course with Cuomo until he decided not to follow through with his plans to seek a full four - year term — Cuomo generally avoids the public portions of caucus weekend in favor of private events at the mansion where he has more control — both over the guest list and media access.