Sentences with phrase «half term governor»

The former mayor of Baltimore and a two - term governor of Maryland, O'Malley supports immigration reform, is pro-union, and has supported tax increases as well as increases to the minimum wage in his state.

Rick Perry, the three - term governor of Texas, and Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina, will join half - a-dozen already declared candidates for president, including two Democratic hopefuls.

Bush, a two - term governor of Florida as well as that state's secretary of commerce in the 1980s, is also an entrepreneur.

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.

Hesburgh, in an October 1984 article syndicated by the United Press Syndicate, termed Governor Cuomo's speech «brilliant.»

The «Quitter», a former half - term governor, could not be elected as a Wasilla dog catcher in her home state again.

And the four - term governor often speaks of a culture war between the nation's Christians and secular humanists, who he says are trying to stamp religion out of the public square.

Huckabee was the two - term governor of Arkansas who has been an astute critic of his party's inability to appeal to people who are at or under the earnings median.

That is why he is losing by 25 % in his «home» state that he was a 1 term Governor in!

The note is signed by Gaston Caperton, a former two - term governor of West Virginia who is president of the College Board.

In June last year, the anti-graft commission had grilled the former two - term governor along with some former cabinet members, over alleged corruption.

The federal corruption conviction of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's former fixer and longtime top aide, Joe Percoco, further yoked the two - term governor to a broken culture in Albany that he has long tried to campaign against, marking a nadir in Cuomo's governorship and only the start of a political headache that is likely to intensify.

After hours of discussion, and in defiance of pleas from state committee members pushing to delay the decision, the party formally broke its uneasy alliance with Cuomo, the two - term governor leading Nixon in one early poll by a 3 - to - 1 margin.

BY NATHAN RILEY Right in Cynthia Nixon's backyard, just weeks after the actor and activist announced her Democratic primary challenge to Andrew Cuomo, the Hell's Kitchen Democrats — a progressive newcomer on the local political club scene — voted Thursday night to endorse the two - term governor for reelection.

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The would - be Democratic contest would pit a two - term governor who has $ 30 million in his campaign account against a first - time candidate who likely would have energetic backing from a progressive wing of the party, which believes the incumbent hasn't done enough for liberal causes.

Mario Cuomo was a three - term governor who grew up in Queens.

The first - term governor was also viewed favorably in the new poll by 66 percent of respondents, which also is up from November.

Actor and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon has made Cuomo's ties to the IDC a major part of her primary challenge to the two - term governor.

Sounding like the Republican nominee — like JFK, Molinaro expects to have the nomination locked up going into the May state Republican convention — the candidate served up familiar anti-Cuomo themes: the two - term governor is a bully and he hangs with some shady characters.

The second - term governor has a 22 - point lead over the «Sex and the City» actress in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Mario Cuomo, former three - term governor of New York, passed away on January 1, 2014 at the age of 82.

The first - term governor is, after all, running against another GOP county executive, Rob Astorino of Westchester.

This time the Assembly majority picked Oliver Koppell over the outgoing third - term governor's choice to fill the unexpired term of Attorney General Robert Abrams, who resigned before his term was up.

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Charles Aniagwu, the Governor eulogized Saraki's tremendous contributions and outstanding accomplishments in the service of his country over the years as a two term Governor, Chairman of Governor's forum, distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and President of the Senate in the 8th Assembly.

Then again, how do you tell your 80 - year - old, three - term governor dad to hush?

Mr. Akpabio, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party is a Senator representing Akwa Ibom State, and is the former two term governor of that State.

A gubernatorial spokeswoman says the 82 - year - old former three - term governor is in good spirts and is thankful for the best wishes and support he's received.

Among the many right - wing luminaries scheduled to speak at this year's CPAC are: Sam Brownback, the pig farmer turned governor of Kansas who recently stripped LGBT state workers of employment non-discrimination protections, Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon turned professional Obamacare basher who compares marriage equality advocates to supporters of bestiality and pedophiles, and half - term Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin who is well, Sarah Palin.

The former three - term governor had been ailing in recent months, but did appear with son Gov. Andrew Cuomo on election night.

We asked New York's most recent full term governor, George Pataki, for his thoughts on the rapidly deteriorating relationship between current New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

In doing so they're not officially lining up behind any candidate — even their favorite son, the former three - term governor who was the last Republican to win statewide office.

Moreover, Cuomo argued that his father, the former three - term Governor Mario Cuomo, related to Dominicans because of his own background as the son of Italian immigrants who didn't speak English.

The official also says that he was told by Pataki's office that the former three - term governor «would have something to say» about a presidential bid.

Speculation was that the former three - term governor would announce his candidacy Saturday at the Polk County Republican fundraiser.

«A three - term governor of the state of New York — a northeast state — extraordinary political talents, on - the - ground talents you're seeing in New Hampshire.

The now two - term governor received the biggest cheers, though, when he invited his father on stage, former Governor Mario Cuomo, who lost to Republican George Pataki twenty years ago.

The former two - term governor from New Mexico claims he's been «shafted» by the GOP in spite of his status as being a popular and successful governor of a state and a resume that included budget cuts, a balanced budget and economic -LSB-...]

After all, he was running in a primary last year against the sitting lieutenant governor who had the endorsement of the outgoing two - term governor and the rest of the Democratic party establishment.

The two - term governor reiterated Sunday on CNN's «State of the Union» that he's considering the opportunity, but his attention is mostly on his current job.

Cuomo was not quite distancing himself from his father, a former three - term governor who had been a liberal voice during the Democratic Party's wilderness years in the Reagan era, but he wasn't embracing the brand of politics either.

«I think any three term governor is deserving of something to be named after them,» Heastie said.

He might even go for fellow reality TV Star and half term Governor Sarah Palin.

Miner had been discussed as a potential candidate to run against Gov. Andrew Cuomo next year in a primary, matching up the incumbent two - term governor against his former state Democratic Committee co-chair.

Pataki, a former three term governor from 1995 through 2007, is expected to make his presidential intentions official on May 28 in New Hampshire.

The former three - term governor and last Republican to be elected statewide in New York has traveled to New Hampshire in recent weeks to speak with Republican audiences there.

In the end, the former three - term governor decided it would be too much of a burden on his family to make a run.

The four - term governor, 72 years old at the time, received a 10 - year sentence....

The comment comes as Pataki's super PAC, We The People Not Washington, opens office space in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire while the Republican former three - term governor weighs his first campaign since 2002.

All of these first - term governors were seeking re-election in 2014 with hopes of continuing the conservative wave that swept them into office four years earlier.