Sentences with phrase «gubernatorial election campaign»

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A lifelong Republican, Whitman switched her support to Hillary Clinton three months before last year's election — she was the only Fortune Most Powerful Woman to publicly campaign for a nominee — stoking speculation that the former gubernatorial candidate would reenter the political arena.

These teams included PhD - caliber data scientists, seasoned strategists with experience of presidential primary, congressional, gubernatorial, and international election campaigns, expert researchers, digital marketing strategists, and content creators.

The populace must certainly believe so, for it is no exaggeration to say that many a gubernatorial election in Georgia has been carried by means of votes gained at barbecues, and no campaign for Governor is complete without a series of such popular feasts.

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.

The 145th AD special election has turned into a redux of sorts of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, pitting a Democrat backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo against a fellow Democrat (running on the GOP line) supported by Cuomo's defeated foe, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.

An analysis of Andrew Cuomo's 27 - day post-general election filing by NYPIRG's Bill Mahoney found that while the Democratic governor - elect spent less overall on his successful campaign than previous gubernatorial contenders, he spent more in the final days of his bid than all but self - funding candidate Tom Golisano.

The Reform Party, a ballot line formed last year by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, filed its first campaign finance report since it was rechristened this election season, showing a single, massive donation from a limited liability company.

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».

Molinaro opened a campaign account with the state Board of Elections in November for a potential gubernatorial bid but said at the time that he had not made a decision about running.

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.

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.

Republican Rob Astorino on transferred the remaining balance of his 2014 gubernatorial campaign to his Westchester County executive re-election campaign committee, records filed with the Board of Elections show.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King's latest hit on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio comes in the form of a call to the state Board of Elections to investigate the former congressman's «ongoing relationship» with JPMorgan Chase for potential campaign finance violations.

According to his latest filing with the Board of Elections, Astorino, the GOP's candidate against Gov. Cuomo in 2014, zeroed out his gubernatorial campaign committee and transferred the bulk of its remaining funds - $ 51,825 - into his campaign committee for county executive.

The spending has become an issue in this year's election campaign, with Republicans including gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino saying they are little more than a taxpayer - funded political boost for Cuomo, a Democrat who is campaigning in part on his work to revive the state economy, particularly upstate.

Astorino, a Republican, has opened a campaign account with the New York State Board of Elections that allows him to raise money for this year's gubernatorial race.

MONTPELIER — The Republican former gubernatorial candidate who nearly defeated Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) in 2014 kicked off a campaign to challenge Democrat U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy in the November election.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has opened a campaign account with the state Board of Elections for a potential gubernatorial bid, but he said Wednesday that he still hasn't decided whether to run for the job next year.

For his part, Cuomo — who spent two days campaigning in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic ahead of Tuesday's gubernatorial election instead is expected to send Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul in his place.

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.

A 2010 New York Times examination of top staffers in the gubernatorial election teams of Cuomo and then - opponent Carl Paladino found that «women are suddenly popping up everywhere» in the race — «everywhere, that is, except inside the campaigns» inner circles.»

The push began on Tuesday with an unveiling of eight bills designed to close the LLC loophole in state election, all impacting different houses, but all touching gubernatorial campaigns.

Unless he goes on a political spending binge over the next four weeks, Gov. David Paterson will end his gubernatorial tenure with $ 225,263 in his campaign committee coffers, according to his 27 - day post-general election report.

Even though the 2014 New York gubernatorial election is still two years away, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is heading west to Los Angeles to bolster his campaign coffers, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

If you thought Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino would change his tone and approach for a general election campaign, well, you were wrong.

Her campaign distributed an Election Day mailer to Orange County voters picturing hundreds of Hasidic boys with losing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall.

The ballot line was formed during last year's gubernatorial elections by Cuomo's re-election campaign as a way to boost women's issues.

In the last election cycle, the money raised in direct contributions by Cuomo's campaign committee was almost three times as much as the total Super PACs spent on every gubernatorial, attorney general, comptroller, Senate, and Assembly candidate combined.

Under the state's clean election laws, each gubernatorial candidate received a $ 6.5 million grant to pay for their campaigns in exchange for a promise not to spend beyond that amount.

ROBERT F. MCDONNELL»S crushing victory in Virginia's gubernatorial election Tuesday testified to his skills as a politician and to his disciplined, focused and generally positive, issues - based campaign.

Post election, Astorino's gubernatorial campaign manager, Michael Lawler, reportedly accused Skelos of entering into a secret deal with Gov. Cuomo in which Skelos wouldn't help Astorino if the governor didn't push the Democratic Senate candidates on Long Island.

«It's also the right thing for the state Democratic Party to fully cooperate with the state Election Enforcement Commission's investigation of Governor Malloy's and their purposeful, inappropriate and possibly illegal circumvention and outright disregard of state law during the 2014 gubernatorial campaign,» Rell said.

New York gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino ripped New Jersey Gov. and fellow GOPer Chris Christie Wednesday for appearing with rival Democratic Gov. Cuomo at a joint bistate security press conference at 7 World Trade Center — in the heat of an election campaign.

(CNN)- Former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford will join gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on the campaign trail Friday for a headline - grabbing final push ahead of next Tuesday's Republican runoff election, a Haley source tells CNN.

(CNN)-- Campaigning for Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee in Virginia's gubernatorial race, Vice President Joe Biden depicted Republican nominee Ken Cuccinelli as a puppet of the tea party and framed the race as a referendum on the conservative grassroots movement, one day before voters head to the polls on Election Day.

«With less than two weeks until Election Day, it's going to take more than a minor miracle by the Paladino campaign to turn the gubernatorial race around,» Greenberg said in a statement.

Republican former gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino all but exhausted what was left in his campaign account, a filing posted by the state Board of Elections shows.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman plans to report $ 2.3 million in cash on hand in his campaign account, according to a person familiar with his July filing with the state Board of Elections, underscoring the Democrat's efforts to prepare for a possible gubernatorial bid.

Campaign finance rules are adopted by the State Board of Elections on a four - year cycle, Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group pointed out, meaning any changes could not take effect until the 2018 legislative elections or the 2022 gubernatorial Elections on a four - year cycle, Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group pointed out, meaning any changes could not take effect until the 2018 legislative elections or the 2022 gubernatorial elections or the 2022 gubernatorial election.

The leading Democratic candidates in the race to take on Republican Gov. Scott Walker in only the nation's third gubernatorial recall election made their final campaign stops Monday before the primary.

Green Party activist Howie Hawkins is set to make a gubernatorial run after his 2010 campaign netted him 59,906 votes, enough to keep the party on the ballot for the coming election.

Of the 50 donors who gave the most to the G.O.P. in the runup to the 2006 gubernatorial election — when Democrat Eliot Spitzer became governor after three terms of Republican George Pataki — 28 have given $ 5.5 million to Cuomo and the Democrats for the 2014 campaigns, contributing just $ 435,000 to Astorino and the Republicans during the same time period.

The RGA head has been extremely active this election cycle, raising money and campaigning for Republican gubernatorial candidates across the country.

Turnout is likely to be lower in 2014 — without a presidential campaign or a contested New York gubernatorial election — which could also hurt Eldridge's chances.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, will discuss the primarily election and its impact on the campaign as well as the upcoming march for climate change in New York City, the status of gubernatorial debates, fracking and student debt.

O'Malley, who has maintained a busy travel schedule campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidates this election cycle, will be in South Carolina later this week, attending his daughter's college graduation and holding a campaign event with Vincent Sheheen, the state's Democratic nominee for governor.

The last time there was an exception in a gubernatorial race was in 2002, when Cuomo, who had ended his campaign before the primary election but remained on the ballot, raised less of his funds from small donors than either primary victory Carl McCall or general election winner George Pataki.

After completing the focus groups, the campaign polled targeted voters to gauge their knowledge of and interest in the gubernatorial election.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Obama still hasn't committed to campaign with Creigh Deeds before Election Day, but the Democratic gubernatorial hopeful is getting an assist from a former President: Bill Clinton.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam's campaign has castigated Gillespie in the weeks leading up to Election Day for his ads painting Northam as soft on the MS - 13 street gang and sex offenders.