Sentences with phrase «lieutenant governor last»

Sonju, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor last year, spent much of Thursday at the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is preparing for a potential Senate bid by freshman GOP Rep. Steve Daines.

Only hours after Governor Paterson made his legally dubious appointment of former MTA chief Richard Ravitch to lieutenant governor last week, Donald Trump sent Paterson a letter expressing his opposition to the selection.

The party, which endorsed Nixon and Williams for governor and lieutenant governor last month, held 112 organizing house parties across the state last week.

He's been mentioned as a congressional candidate, and was reportedly on Cuomo's shortlist when he had to pick a new lieutenant governor last summer.

Not exact matches

Duffy served as lieutenant governor under Cuomo until last year, when he declined to run for re-election and was replaced on the ticket by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Last year, Morelle objected when Kaloyeros and AIM Photonics Leadership council chair Bob Duffy, the former lieutenant governor, announced the project would be headquartered at the former Bausch and Lomb Building in downtown Rochester.

The New York Times reported last week that Quinn is seen as a possible candidate for lieutenant governor, replacing Kathy Hochul on the ticket.

The following list details the last five lieutenant governors, their tenures in office and why they left the position:

Paterson defied legal precedent and appointed Ravitch as his lieutenant governor at Silver's urging last July.

ALBANY - As the state political conventions draw near, the last piece of the puzzle for Democratic Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo or Republican challenger Rob Astorino is selecting a lieutenant governor candidate.

Most recently he ran for state Senate and before that lieutenant governor, solidifying Vanderhoef as the most prominent politician in Rockland County over the last 30 years.

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.

A key problem for Jarjura was that he clearly ruffled some feathers in his hometown last year when he ran at various times for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and, finally, state comptroller.

It make sense the lieutenant governor would brush off a poll last week suggesting she and Williams are in a virtual dead heat, considering the source — Big Dog Strategies, a consulting firm owned by a longtime Collins associate, Chris Grant.

This is the same group that a month ago had no constitutional problems stripping the lieutenant governor of the powers the state constitution grants him, and yet now they're raising constitutional objections that they didn't utter a peep about during the campaign season last year.»

Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, Chemung County Sheriff Chris Moss, said last week he would support revisiting a strengthening of the laws.

Prior to becoming lieutenant governor in 2007, Paterson served as a state senator from Harlem for more than two decades, the last four years as the Democratic minority leader.

But while the governor's race has been slow to develop, there has been a swirl of intrigue in the undercard contest of lieutenant governor in the last 48 hours.

The Post disclosed last week that Ravitch, a private - sector businessman picked by Paterson to be his lieutenant governor because of his pubic - sector financial expertise, has been angrily boycotting the leaders» meetings because the governor rejected his plan for borrowing billions of dollars to help reduce the state's massive deficit.

Moss, who ran for lieutenant governor on Rob Astorino's gubernatorial ticket last year, has made little secret of his desire to run for statewide office again.

Cuomo has been a supporter of charter schools, but has communicated the message largely through emissaries like lieutenant governor Robert Duffy, who told the city's charter contingent it had the «support» of the Cuomo administration during a rally last month.

Weingarten, former president of New York City's United Federation of Teachers, voiced a last - minute robocall supporting current lieutenant governor Hochul last September when the former Buffalo congresswoman faced what appeared to be a serious challenge from an anti-Cuomo insurgent candidate, Tim Wu, in the Democratic primary.

Look up the last time three different candidates qualified for a lieutenant governor primary.

«I think she's been a great lieutenant governor and I would hope any of these grumblings that she might not continue on the ticket are just that: rumors and without substance,» Glick, a member of the Assembly since 1991, said in an interview outside the Assembly chamber last week.

The speculation about the real estate deal and the lieutenant governor's political future led to a rare, testy exchange with reporters at the State Fair in Syracuse last summer, where Duffy was once again filling in for Cuomo.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney appeared with Hochul at a rally last week, and Rep. Grace Meng appeared at an earlier event in Queens with the lieutenant governor candidate.

State Sen. David Paterson, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, and Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Spencer have each reportedly skipped voting in elections in the last six years.

Asked last night at state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's fundraiser at the Roosevelt Hotel whether he wants to see the marriage bill brought to the floor of a Senate, Gov. David Paterson adopted a hands - off approach, saying: «I supported same - sex marriage legislation when I was running for lieutenant governor with Governor Spitzer, and we had advocated for its passage and we are ready to have it passed at agovernor with Governor Spitzer, and we had advocated for its passage and we are ready to have it passed at aGovernor Spitzer, and we had advocated for its passage and we are ready to have it passed at any time.

Duffy's tax return from last year listed $ 167,997 in wage income for the lieutenant governor and his wife, plus $ 70,255 from his Rochester police pension.

The machine began to rev up last week in support of Cuomo's lieutenant governor candidate, Kathy Hochul, a former congresswoman from suburban Buffalo whose lower statewide profile has led to some worry she might fall to Teachout's running mate, Tim Wu.

Paterson was elected New York's lieutenant governor in 2006, and took over when Eliot Spitzer stepped down last year.

Elected BP in 2002, he had weighed a run for controller in 2009, and put out a weak feeler last year about running for lieutenant governor with Andrew Cuomo that quickly crashed and burned.

The former lieutenant governor's approval rating soared last autumn, after he took office in the wake of Eliot Spitzer's resignation amid a prostitution scandal.

But after Democrats failed to retake the State Senate last year, and after the 2014 election season was over, with Cuomo victorious, the governor and his lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul both declared the abortion plank of the act officially dormant, if not dead.

Last week Andre Bauer, the lieutenant governor of South Carolina and a candidate to become the state's next governor, compared providing government assistance to those in need — including school kids eligible for free or reduced price lunches — to feeding stray animals.

Last week AFT President Randi Weingarten hosted teachers from Newark, Perth Amboy, North Bergen, and Garfield for a meet - and - greet with gubernatorial shoo - ins Phil Murphy and his lieutenant governor running partner Sheila Oliver, reports