Sentences with phrase «gubernatorial primary this year»

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky notes that policy actually is taking a front seat in the Democratic gubernatorial primary this year, which isn't a bad thing.

* Michigan Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra: Hoekstra placed second in Michigan's competitive Republican gubernatorial primary this year, but the 2nd District congressman appears intent on running statewide again.

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.

Stachowski also had the added benefit in 2008 of the Conservative Party line, but this year that went to Kennedy (which is sort of amusing, when you consider that the Erie County Conservative chairman, Ralph Lorigo, has launched a primary against GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for Row D, complaining that he's too liberal).

Paladino, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who surged to a surprise primary victory two years ago against Lazio, endorsed Long on Sunday.

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.

Carl Paladino is on the defensive in the wake of an AP report about a 10 - year - old felony charge against his company, accusing his GOP gubernatorial primary opponent, Rick Lazio, of planting the story.

Teachout, a Fordham law professor, is challenging Governor Andrew Cuomo in a Democratic primary; New York law requires any gubernatorial candidate be a state resident for five years prior to the date of the election.

Now, McCall is Chair of the State University of New York Board of Trustees, and he was put there by his former primary rival in the gubernatorial race nine years ago, current Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Though not yet able to crack double digits in any statewide polling, the 61 - year - old Hawkins — one of the party's most prolific vote - getters — believes he has «a fighting chance» this fall against Wall Street - funded incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his hapless Republican rival, as evidenced by the surprisingly strong showing of underfunded challenger Zephyr Teachout in the recent Democratic gubernatorial primary.

The County Committee shall be constituted by the election biennially in each Election District in the County of New York, at the Primary Election held in each odd - numbered year, of two members of the County Committee plus an additional member if 300 or more votes and less than 451 votes were cast in such Election District for governor under the Party emblem at the last preceding gubernatorial election, and an additional member if 451 or more votes were cast in such Election District at said time.

Singh, who finished a distant third in the Republican gubernatorial primary last year, said he would support President Trump's agenda and stand up to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D - Calif.)

Earlier in his career, he served eight years as Glen Cove mayor and in 2006 lost a Democratic gubernatorial primary to then - Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

Cuomo, who had faced Teachout in a gubernatorial primary in 2014, did not endorse in the 19th congressional district race last year, a swing district race that sent Faso to Congress.

Some insiders have even speculated that the Greens could perform so well next Tuesday, thanks in part to Hawkins» support among disaffected former backers of Cuomo's primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, that they could oust the Conservative Party from its new perch on Row C, which it gained four years ago due to the strong showing in Western New York by GOP / Conservative gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout on Wednesday called The New York Times» decision not to endorse a candidate in the party's Sept. 9 primary «a really powerful rebuke to (Gov.) Andrew Cuomo «s four years in office.»

But the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary — a race no one really expected to happen in the first place — is making a strong claim for the title of nastiest primary race of the year.

Kimball's win came after he and several other tea - party - backed candidates had come up short in recent races: last year, Kimball placed second in the GOP's gubernatorial primary and another tea - party favorite, Ovide Lamontagne, came up short in his bid for the GOP Senate nod.

Former state Attorney General Mike Cox (R) has already said no, and most of the attention seems to be devoted to former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R), who, like Cox, lost in the gubernatorial primary last year.

Schneiderman had played a key role among Democratic state attorneys general in challenging the Trump administration, and the question of who succeeds him will have implications for future mayoral races in the City — and possibly even this year's gubernatorial primary.

Levi Sanders backed Murphy last year during the Democratic gubernatorial primary, an endorsement that helped burnish Murphy's progressive credentials.

ALBANY — Ideally, there will be no Republican gubernatorial primary next year.

Two years later, he lost to Ed Koch in the Democratic mayoral primary, but in 1978, he was elected lieutenant governor, and in 198, he beat Koch in the gubernatorial primary and went on to be elected governor.

Other names being mentioned as possible Gillibrand challengers are former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, who sought the GOP nomination for New York governor in 2006; little - known Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has already «announced» his candidacy; state GOP Chairman Ed Cox, President Richard Nixon's son - in - law; and former US Rep. Rick Lazio, who suffered an embarrassing loss to Carl Paladino in the gubernatorial primary last year and was defeated by Mrs. Clinton in 2000.

His victory comes just one year after losing the gubernatorial primary by 83 votes, and he'll face only token opposition in the fall.

If Cuomo had made a major announcement on a $ 15 minimum wage a year ago, it would have appeared as though he had been dragged to the position kicking and screaming by The Working Families Party and de Blasio, who brokered a deal between the two to prevent a WFP - backed primary challenge to Cuomo in the 2014 gubernatorial race.

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.

At the time, Cuomo, who was finishing his service as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was already positioning himself for a gubernatorial primary two years later against Carl McCall.

Democrats this year lack the kind of grassroots energy that drove huge turnout in 2008 when Barack Obama ran for president, an enthusiasm gap on display in the state's August 24 primary, when 1.25 million Republicans cast ballots in their gubernatorial primary compared with 900,000 Democrats who voted in their Senate primary.

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.

Cuomo has been widely mentioned by commentators as a possible candidate for president if Clinton doesn't run, but a series of setbacks, including the investigation by US Attorney Preet Bharara into the governor's closing of the Moreland panel on corruption, as well as Cuomo's disappointing showing in last year's gubernatorial primary, has cut into his standing.

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.

Last year at this time, Cuomo was gearing up for his gubernatorial run and threw himself a big fundraiser / 52nd B - Day bash at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers that featured an appearance by Jon Bon Jovi and an awkward moment between the then - AG and his potential primary opponent, Gov. David Paterson.

Katz said Nixon voted for Zephyr Teachout in that year's Democratic gubernatorial primary against Cuomo as he sought a second term.

In 2010 — the last year in which there was a heated gubernatorial primary at the top of the ticket — just 15 percent of eligible voters showed up at the polls.

In the same year 2007, A Just Russia held the primaries to determine the candidate for the Gubernatorial election in Altai Krai.

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN)- In an energetic and positive address to his supporters, former state legislator Brian Moran conceded Tuesday night in Virginia's first contested Democratic gubernatorial primary in nearly 30 years.

With next year's primaries including Gubernatorial candidates, it is crucial that grassroots work in Georgia yields highly informed school choice advocates.