Sentences with phrase «gubernatorial primary campaign»

Cuomo told stories about how Farrell, 85, helped the late Gov. Mario Cuomo in his uphill 1982 Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign against then - Mayor Ed Koch.

During an interview in a nearby pizza parlor afterward, Teachout downplayed outside factors, such as her quixotic clean - government 2014 gubernatorial primary campaign against entrenched Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo.

Cynthia Nixon speaks during a Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign kickoff event at the Bethesda Healing Center on Tuesday in Brooklyn.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Suozzi has been trying to keep his name in the news, particularly given the increased interest of late in Albany reform — an issue on which the former county executive was somewhat ahead of the curve with his 2006 «Fix Albany» campaign and longshot gubernatorial primary challenge to then - AG Eliot Spitzer.

«After much thoughtful consideration, we've decided to end our campaign for the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary,» he said in an announcement on his campaign website.

Bill Samuels formally kicked off his LG campaign this morning, pledging to fight in a Democratic primary battle against the running mate of presumptive gubernatorial contender, AG Andrew Cuomo, if necessary.

Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo, who managed to get himself onto the ballot to force a gubernatorial primary with former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio, is having a fundraiser today at the home of Paladino's brother, Joseph, and is also being assisted by the father of Carl Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo.

Gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout made Albany corruption a primary campaign issue and garnered 34 percent of the vote, the highest of any primary challenge to a sitting governor since primaries were instituted in 1970.

During a news conference, on her first trip to Albany since announcing her gubernatorial campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, actress Cynthia Nixon repeatedly called her Democratic primary...

Zephyr Teachout quotes this description in Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United (Harvard University Press), a book that merits the large readership it may get thanks to the author's recent appearance on «The Daily Show,» even if much of that interview concerned her remarkable dark - horse gubernatorial campaign in New York state's Democratic primary, in which anti-corruption was one of her major themes.

Buffalo businessman and former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino says he plans to support primary campaigns against Senate Republicans.

The New York Observer's Will Bredderman reports that comedian and political gadfly Randy Credico, who finished third in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary, campaigned yesterday at the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan with the Green Party's Howie Hawkins.

GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidte Rick Lazio was relentlessly heckled during a campaign stop in Orange County earlier today by Carl Paladino supporters furious over the former congressman's refusal to debate his Republican primary opponent.

The campaign manager of GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, who just yesterday filed enough signatures to force a primary with the party's designee, Rick Lazio, released a statement slamming the former congressman's latest fundraising numbers.

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.

Outgoing Ulster County GOP Chairman Mario Catalano today announced (via a statement released by gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino's campaign) that he is backing Buffalo businessman over Rick Lazio in advance of next Tuesday's primary.

GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has released new TV and radio ads for a last - minute media blitz that will remain on the air through the Sept. 14 primary, according to his campaign.

After Zephyr Teachout's loss in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor, made a public appeal for her disappointed supporters on the left to back his campaign.

Speaking to his fellow Democrats at the party's annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey fundraising dinner one day after the Republican gubernatorial primary, Malloy laid out the broad themes of his campaign.

Danbury, Connecticut Mayor Mark Boughton's gubernatorial campaign said on Tuesday its collected more than the 8,190 signatures needed to get Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti on the ballot for Lieutenant Governor in the state GOP primary.

While it's unlikely Nixon would continue to campaign against Cuomo if he defeats her in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in September, there's a chance she'd continue to use her WFP ballot line to go after the incumbent and provide an opening for some yet - to - be-identified strong GOP candidate.

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.

One of the radio spots features former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, against whom Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a primary challenge during the 2002 gubernatorial campaign — a move that angered the African - American community and very nearly cost Cuomo his political career.

He was also Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign manager in the 2010 gubernatorial primary.

Pataki should know: He faced a primary challenge in his first gubernatorial campaign, crushing Richard Rosenbaum, who received less than 25 percent of the total vote.

Also in the gubernatorial primary was Randy Credico, a onetime comedian turned political activist who has campaigned for a $ 15 minimum wage, lower subway fares, universal Medicare, free state college tuition, and marijuana legalization — among other policies.

Murphy, who will likely run against Fulop for the North and Central Jersey vote in a crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary, is accusing him of using his mayoral campaign as a war chest for that race.

In 2010, Cooper worked on the losing gubernatorial campaign of Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele, Foley's primary opponent.

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.

Boughton, by himself, can not get to the $ 250,000 fundraising threshold that unlocks an initial grant of $ 1.4 million for the Republican gubernatorial primary and, if he wins the primary, several times that for the November campaign.

WRVO, NPR, Central New York: Green Party gubernatorial candidate says primary results could help his campaign

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)- Despite predictions that the Republican gubernatorial runoff might be nastier than the bitter four - way primary fight that preceded it, candidates Nikki Haley and Gresham Barrett traded only mild jibes Wednesday as their campaigns re-grouped and wrestled with strategy following Haley's dominant showing in the polls the night before.

Howie Hawkins said today that while he hoped that Zephyr Teachout's potential entrance into the Democratic primary would broaden the gubernatorial campaign debate, he believes it would have the opposite impact.

ALBANY — As the Democratic presidential candidates turn their attention to New York, the campaigns of both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton say they're looking to the 2014 gubernatorial bid of Zephyr Teachout, who performed surprisingly well in a primary against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as a model that Sanders might follow to exceed expectations in the state Clinton represented in the Senate for eight years.

When actor and activist Cynthia Nixon recently launched her gubernatorial campaign, she said that in 2010 she voted for Andrew Cuomo, the man she is now running to unseat in this year's Democratic primary, but that she became disillusioned with the governor as his approach to governance took shape.

For the long - shot gubernatorial campaign of Cynthia Nixon to make headway, the candidate must hit Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo hard on issues that resonate with progressive New Yorkers who dominate the Democratic primary.

For Bernie Sanders, reports said he was trying to emulate the campaign that liberal upstart Zephyr Teachout ran in the 2014 gubernatorial primary, and expand the support she got in many of

Separately, Our Revolution, the offshoot of Sanders» 2016 presidential campaign, has endorsed a state senator, Daniel Biss, in a crowded gubernatorial primary.

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.

The most recent available figures show Paterson trailing state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo by 2 - to - 1 margin in polls of a hypothetical Democratic primary matchup for the party's 2010 gubernatorial nod — and by a similar margin in the campaign money chase for the first half of the year.

In a recent radio interview, the now - gubernatorial candidate insisted those voters were doing what Zephyr Teachout is doing in her primary bid — «running petitions to support a campaign that is not supported by the party bosses,» who he blasted as corrupt and despised.

With elections set for May 14, a sex - education bill has become a high - profile issue in West Virginia's Democratic gubernatorial - primary campaign.

PHOENIX — In another blow to State Senator Steve Farley's gubernatorial campaign, Arizona's largest teachers union on Wednesday endorsed his Democratic primary opponent, David Garcia, for the state's top office.