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The move of GE's headquarters from Fairfield to Boston has been a frequent topic of discussion during the gubernatorial campaign as candidates offer their competing visions for making the state more attractive to businesses.

Marissa Shorenstein, one of several members of the Paterson administration who quit in the wake of the David Johnson domestic violence scandal, has joined AG Andrew Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign as director of communications.

Not exact matches

The Democratic gubernatorial primary is so competitive this year, The Sun's Erin Cox reports, that campaigns and strategists think they may need the support of no more than a quarter of the electorate to win — maybe as few as 125,000 votes.

As a sophomore he left school to work on Haley Barbour's 2003 gubernatorial campaign, then joined the Marine reserves with every hope of going to Iraq.

Global also worked on Andrew Cuomo's AG campaign that year, as well as on Eliot Spitzer's gubernatorial bid.

The Paladino campaign is employing a classic strategy to soften / humanize the mad - as - hell gubernatorial nominee by deploying his wife, Cathy, whose agreement to provide two interviews with major NYC dailies resulted in sympathetic stories address the controversial issue of the daughter he fathered with another woman.

This is Koch's first campaign - like upstate swing since his failed 1982 gubernatorial bid during which his anti-upstate statements are now widely viwed as having cost him the primary race against Mario Cuomo.

And, as we all know, Cuomo hasn't yet said what office he plans to seek this fall, although his gubernatorial campaign is all but a fait accompli at this point.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio's campaign released its top line numbers from the 32 - day pre-primary filing due at the state Board of Elections yesterday, which revealed he is still struggling to raise cash as his Sept. 14 battle with self - funding Carl Paladino looms.

In response to Andrew Cuomo's new jobs plan, Carl Paladino's campaign is dredging up the past, citing his record as HUD secretary and a jobs proposal he floated during his failed 2002 gubernatorial bid in an effort to blow holes in his credibility as an economic developer.

NYPIRG has a breakdown of GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino's campaign contributions, which his Democratic opponent, Andrew Cuomo, has cast as pay - to - play donations that helped land the Buffalo businessman lucrative state real estate contracts.

The state Democratic Party responded to the Republicans» new «more of the same» ad campaign with this little Web video, which reminds GOP and Conservative leaders how they used to feel about Carl Paladino — «lo those many moons ago before they embraced him as their gubernatorial standard - bearer.

Semi-related side note: As an aide - de-camp to 2010 gubernatorial nominee, Bellavia campaign strategist Michael Caputo called Long a «crazy old coot» in a tweet.

On the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula becomes official, Paychex founder erstwhile gubernatorial hopeful Tom Golisano is announcing his intention to try to do away with the Electoral College as part of the National Popular Vote campaign.

Susan Del Percio, who handled media for Faso and was part of the team that helped him become the party's gubernatorial nominee at the convention four years ago, has signed on as a consultant to Levy's campaign in the run - up to this year's GOP confab, a source familiar with her hiring confirmed.

As Cuomo huddled with a group of advisors that included former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall (the man he challenged in the 2002 Democratic gubernatorial primary, hurting his relationship with the black community), Manhattan Democratic Chairman / Assemblyman Keith Wright and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paladino's campaign manager talked to Gerson Borrero about the GOP / Conservative nominee's efforts to woo Latino voters.

As you'll recall, the GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful's much - hyped three - minute televised address earlier this month featured a pitch for «emergency» contributions from his campaign chairwoman, former Erie County Comptroller Nancy Naples.

The Buffalo businessman described his 2010 gubernatorial campaign and his continued involvement in state politics as a continued effort to drag the state Republican party to the right.

Teachout has been an ally of gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon and is serving as her campaign treasurer.

After all, King goes waaaaaaay back with Cuomo, serving under him at HUD, running as his LG in his ill - fated 2002 gubernatorial campaign and then, at then candidate - Cuomo's request, serving as the official party attack dog during the 2010 campaign.

GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio's LCA Show response last night is unlikely to help dispel persistent speculation that his campaign isn't firing on all cylinders as he gears up for a likely floor fight at the GOP convention next month.

Ventura was the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a low - budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to «vote for politics as usual».

Wisconsin Democrats have made a concerted effort to make what's referred to as a «John Doe investigation» — conducted at first in secret by state authorities — a campaign issue in the gubernatorial recall election, though the issue hasn't garnered much attention outside the state.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo is out with a new attack ad that isn't actually a direct hit at GOP / Conservative opponent, Carl Paladino, but rather a sideswipe at the candidate for hiring people to work on his campaign who have, as the Times put it, «tainted pasts.»

John Faso, a former Assembly minory leader and the 2006 GOP gubernatorial nominee, has launched a new 527 committee for this campaign cycle — also known as a Super PAC — that will focus on raising cash to assist Republican congressional candidates around the state.

GOP gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio took some time out from campaigning in Rochester today to take a swipe at AG Andrew Cuomo for semi-panning Gov. David Paterson's creative use of budget extenders as «intriguing» but not optimal, YNN's Mark Gruba reports.

Former state GOP Chairman Pat Barrett, who crossed party lines to endorse the Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner, appear in a TV ad for him and serve as one of his three campaign co-chairs, is now sending an open letter to fellow Republicans Monday, asking them not to contribute any last - minute cash to the Buffalo businessman's campaign.

Even with this latest investment, he's still a far sight short of the $ 10 million he pledged to spend and a heck of a long way from matching Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo's bulging $ 25.6 million campaign war chest, which, as the Buffalo News reported today, is stuffed full of special interest cash.

Gubernatorial candidate Marcus Molinaro's enlistment of former congressman Chris Gibson as his campaign manager may have come as a surprise to some, given Gibson's retirement from politics for family reasons two years ago.

Drew also said that he expected no problems as a result of the State Elections Enforcement Commission's decision, also on Oct. 18, to investigate a complaint by Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst's campaign manager that Drew attempted a «shakedown» when he sent gubernatorial campaign fundraising letters to Middletown city employees in September.

Percoco managed Cuomo's successful gubernatorial campaigns and was known as his political enforcer.

She was a driving force — albeit as an advisor and not as a paid campaign member — behind his political comeback in 2006 when he ran a successful statewide campaign for AG just four years after a disastrous and short - lived gubernatorial primary challenge against then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

The plea has ramifications in this political season: It gives Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office has conducted the investigation, a major win as his gubernatorial campaign seeks to burnish his bona fides as a crusader against entrenched corruption.

Republicans, including the party's gubernatorial nominee in 2014, Rob Astorino, have criticized the ad spending as a taxpayer - supported campaign to burnish Cuomo's economic record.

Under cross examination Friday, prosecutor Jim O'Brien pressed Cahill repeatedly about why he authorized ads for the state lottery as his 2010 independent gubernatorial campaign faltered.

Mr. D'Amato said in the interview that he had chosen to play a more prominent role this year than in past gubernatorial campaigns because «the problems were not nearly as pronounced as they are today.»

Then, Percoco told them about money he allegedly got from two Syracuse - area entities, including one whose two top executives are on trial with Percoco, during a period in 2014 when Percoco had left the state payroll — temporarily, as it turned out, to run Cuomo's gubernatorial re-election campaign.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amanda Renteria, who previously served as the political director of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, went after Newsom in a series of tweets.

NY GOP teabagger gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's gay nephew, who was also working as a campaign aide, is ducking the furor over his uncle's homophobic comments and trying to stay out of the glare.

Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon has only been a gubernatorial candidate for one day, but she sure made her mark — calling Gov. Andrew Cuomo's status as a «real Democrat» into question at her formal campaign kickoff on Tuesday morning.

Taking aim at the Governor Andrew Cuomo's demeanor in office and the scandals surrounding many of the incumbent's close associates, Marc Molinaro vowed to restore a sense of ethics and openness as he brought his gubernatorial campaign to the Erie County Republican Committee's downtown Buffalo headquarters Wednesday morning.

Powers said she briefly dated Weiner after meeting him while working as Andrew Cuomo's press secretary in the 2002 gubernatorial campaign.

As two Republicans announced this week they will not seek the party's nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year, state Sen. John DeFrancisco said he will soon decide whether to launch a gubernatorial campaign.

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino, struggling for traction in his uphill fight against Gov. Cuomo, will deliver what some campaign aides see as a make - or - break speech next month outlining his vision for New York, aides said Sunday.

So of all the candidates in the Republican gubernatorial primary in the Lone Star State, it would be fair to think of him as the least likely to run an unconventional campaign.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo is up with his first real campaign spot of the general election, now that he knows who his GOP opponent will be, and it focuses on his «experience and independence» as the Clinton administration HUD secretary and in the AG's office.

STAMFORD — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie campaigned alongside Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley Tuesday, and in his second visit to Connecticut this year Christie said national Republicans have identified the race as one of the most important in the country in 2014.

That should come out about as well as his Gubernatorial campaign did.

The report also comes as Cuomo's rival for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Cynthia Nixon, has made the project an issue in her campaign.

executive assistant in Gov. Cecil Underwood's office and for a time at the Department of Transportation after serving as deputy campaign manager on Underwood's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1996.