Sentences with phrase «long ties to the governor»
He has long ties to the governor or his late father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
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Malpass has long - standing ties to Pataki, and his Senate bid was run by former aides to the governor.
Joseph Percoco, the former deputy executive secretary to the governor, has had long - standing ties to the political family.
Additionally, though the governor reluctantly supported the Democrats» effort to take over the State Senate this year, he has long cultivated close ties to the Republican delegation and to the IDC.
As I predicted earlier today, AG / Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has announced yet another settlement in connection with his pay - to - play pension fund probe, this time with a lobbyist with long - standing ties to his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
De Blasio's spokeswoman Lis Smith offered the following reaction to a request for comment on the spat: «Mayor - elect de Blasio and his team have long - standing ties — both personal and professional — to Governor Cuomo and his team, dating back to the Clinton - Gore campaign in 1992.
Bickhart will be replaced as finance director by Mary Heitman, a long time fundraiser with deep ties to Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour for whom she served under at the RNC and the Republican Governors Association.
The template for the 2018 Illinois governor's race had long been set — Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner linking House Speaker Michael Madigan to the Democratic nominees, while Democrats try to tie the governor to President Donald Trump.
The move marks the latest in a series of policy changes in which the governor — whose fiscal conservatism and ties to business interests have long left progressives in his party disenchanted — has circumvented the legislative process in order to take the state in a more left - leaning direction.