Sentences with phrase «likely voted for governor»

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In December, the Federal Reserve increased interest rates for the fifth time in this cycle, and with a stable of more hawkish Fed governors rotating into voting positions, another three or even four rate hikes look likely in 2018.

What never ceases to amaze ME is the political «wisdom» that (1) black voters are more likely to vote for a gubernatorial candidate governor who will appoint a black Lt. Gov. and (2) women are more likely to vote for someone who appoints a female Lt.. The menfolk (including some in the press) must think that female and minority voters are simpletons.

So when Governor Cuomo's appointed members of the commission began openly suggesting in the media this past summer that they are not likely to vote for a pay raise, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan probably didn't take it all that seriously.

Callers asked voters «whether they would be more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if they knew that lesbians dominated on her staff.»

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan will likely be unanimously nominated for attorney general at the GOP convention later this afternoon (assuming the governor vote finishes at some point), as Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci will end his long - shot bid to get on the ballot, according to a source familiar with the upstate lawmaker's thinking.

«I can tell you tenants would be much more likely to vote for governor on Row E if the candidate is Kenny Schaeffer,» Tenants PAC's Michael McKee told me this afternoon while trying to explain why his board decided to endorse the Working Families Party's placeholder candidate over the Democratic gubernatorial designee, Andrew Cuomo.

The poll also tested the likeliest reasons voters would decide not to vote for Cuomo, effectively trying out potential liberal lines of attack on the governor.

The younger Cuomo will cross that threshold early next year — likely in January — when the state Senate is slated to vote on the governor's pick for the state Court of Appeals vacancy created by the departure of Judge Eugene Pigott, who has reached the mandatory retirement age of 70.

After Paterson's re-emptive display last week of blowing up a tentative two - way deal, look for the Senate to make a last - ditch attempt by passing a one - house bill — likely the governor's plan — to provide at least some cover for Sen. Bill Stachowski to also vote for the revenue bill so he and his colleagues can get paid for the first time since they blew the April 1 deadline.

Another question asked voters about the «probably double digit increase in the cost of the toll» on the bridge and the «jamming it through the Legislature before the July 4th holiday» assessing whether those conditions «make you more or less likely to vote to vote for Governor Cuomo and the state legislators who support it?»

A poll conducted by Dresner, Wickers & Associates LLC May 13 - 15 among 502 residents of New York both registered and considered likely to vote in the general election for governor revealed Mermel to be the biggest GOP threat to Cuomo this November — based on a composite description of both candidates.

But the Republican Governors Association would likely keep running ads in the state, which would trigger matching funds for the other candidates — not a bad deal considering that the more votes Lamarche and Merrill win, the smaller percentage of the vote Woodcock needs to oust Baldacci.

Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo, 56 %, leads his Republican challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, 30 %, by almost two - to - one in the race for governor in New York among likely voters including those who are undecided yet leaning toward a candidate or have voted early.

Second, while the majority of respondents said it would make no difference in their vote if «a candidate for Governor, State Senator or Representative» supported the Common Core, 24 percent said it would make them less likely to support the candidate, versus 16 percent more likely.