Sentences with phrase «of running for governor this year»
Trump, of course, had flirted with the possibility of running for governor this year before ultimately declining.
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Himself a candidate for governor of California in 1962 (he lost in a primary to Richard Nixon), Shell worked this year as the state's finance chairman for the Goldwater presidential campaign and ran interference for the GOP just as resolutely as he did when he was captain and a valuable blocking back for the undefeated USC team that shut out Tennessee 14 - 0 in the 1940 Rose Bowl game.
Former state Sen. Terry Gipson has taken another step toward running for governor, forming a campaign committee to explore a statewide run next year, according to a filing posted Friday at the state Board of Elections.
Molinaro earlier this year had declared he would not run for governor, a development that came after businessman Harry Wilson did the same at the start of the year.
DeFrancisco, a Syracuse Republican, is considering a run for governor next year and plans to make a decision before the start of 2018, he told Fred Dicker on his Talk - 1300 radio show earlier in the morning.
After years of saying he would not consider another run for Governor, Carl Paladino is leaving the door open in 2014 even if it is just a crack.
«Next year, when you are running for your third term as Governor of new York, when you go to the polling place to cast your vote, promise me you will not ride there on horseback,» he said.
«With Donald Trump as president, it's no surprise Nicole Malliotakis has emerged as the Republican candidate to take on Mayor de Blasio — after all, it was only four years ago she talked to Trump about running for Governor of New York,» the email states.
We know this because Doe Fund founder George McDonald, a Democrat - turned - Republican who is running for NYC mayor next year, tweeted a photo of the governor with said cake, and a message that he had «a wonderful time» celebrating with Cuomo last night.
Though he attended the gala in 2010 when he was the state attorney general preparing to run for governor — an awkward moment that saw him sharing a table with Paterson, who looked to be on a political collision course with Cuomo until he decided not to follow through with his plans to seek a full four - year term — Cuomo generally avoids the public portions of caucus weekend in favor of private events at the mansion where he has more control — both over the guest list and media access.
Antonacci this week announced he would run for the seat held by Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Republican who plans to retire at the end of the year as he suspends his campaign for governor.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro said Thursday he will not run for governor, ending more than a year of speculation about whether the two - term leader might take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year for the state's top post.
Senator Fred Akshar turned down an offer, to run for the Lieutenant Governor... in this year's race for Governor of New York State.
Of all the House members running for governor this year, Hawaii Rep. Colleen Hanabusa may have the best shot.
Andrew, on the other hand, has often appeared callow and controlling: He drove a Jaguar with AMC ESQ plates; he ordered up 30,000 copies of a 150 - page brochure on his Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tenure; and after a disastrous 2002 run for governor, he went to work for a developer he had investigated at HUD, raking in $ 2.5 million over three years helping to build luxury marinas, of all things.
Former Rep. James Walsh, R - Onondaga, once accused Cuomo of pandering to the media — a claim that, years later, resurfaced as Cuomo crisscrossed the state for months talking about sex offenders and phony travel vouchers while refusing to say whether he would run for governor or answer tough questions about the state.
Nixon's aides say that Governor Cuomo left something out when he said he released 10 years of tax returns when he first ran for office.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- A majority of New York voters do not want disgraced former Governor Eliot Spitzer to run for statewide office this year, but many say that they would support a run in the future, a poll said on Wednesday.
One of the more prominent Republican contenders to run for New York Governor against Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo this year has decided he won't be a candidate after all.
DeFrancisco, who has never been shy in his criticism of Cuomo, said he won't run in a GOP primary for governor, should one materialize, nor is he particularly interested in facing off against Democratic Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, whom he counts as a friend, and whose name surfaced this week as a potential primary challenger to the governor next year.
Incumbent Rep. Chris Gibson is retiring at the end of the year and plans to teach at Williams College after he initially considered running for governor.
The Working Families Party has had a tough time getting many of their key issues, such as paid family and medical leave, across the finish line in the General Assembly but most of the Democrats running for governor this year have come out strongly in favor of those types of progressive policies.
Despite his years of experience in politics, he said running for governor was a completely different experience than other campaigns.
A letter calling on Rep. Rick Nolan, D - Minn., to run for governor next year is being circulated to more than 1,000 members of Minnesota's Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party.
George Pataki ran for governor and released 14 years of taxes.
Two years later, Trump briefly explored running for governor of New York as a springboard to the White House.
Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, who was elected as a Republican in 2009, and who seriously considered running for Governor as an independent this year, now has some feelings of regret that he didn't run as an independent this year.
The Carnahans: A.S.J. - Congressman and first U.S. ambassador to Sierre Leone Mel - Lt. Governor, Governor, and was elected to U.S. Senate after his death Russ - Congressman Robin - Secreatry of State and is running for U.S. Senate this year.
Astorino, a Republican, said he will make a decision by the end of February about whether to run for governor this year.
Jimmy McMillan, political activist and founder of the Rent Is Too Damn High party, ran for governor in 2010 and is running for mayor next year.
Comer ran for governor of Kentucky last year and lost the Republican primary by a scant 83 votes.
A new poll in California indicates that the Golden State governor's approval rating is soaring and that he's far ahead of his Republican challengers as he runs this year for an unprecedented fourth term in office.
Although a majority of voters do not want the former governor to run for office this year, the electorate isn't ruling out a political return for Spitzer in the future.
Disenchanted members of Gov. Cuomo's administration, embarrassed by the worsening government scandals and convinced that Cuomo won't be president, will soon leave their jobs — just as the governor is stepping up plans to run for re-election next year.
Actress and activist Cynthia Nixon is running for governor of New York, challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D - New York, from the left in this year's...
He has made no secret of his interest in running for governor, and he said he will make a decision before the end of the year.
The governor also said involvement by millennials — either as volunteers or candidates — is going to be crucial to outcomes in the mid-term elections this November, before plugging one of his 29 - year - old staffers who is running for U.S. House, Gareth Rhodes.
But Molinaro, who is considering running for governor next year, said state leaders like Gov. Andrew Cuomo bear some of the responsibility for New York's high state and local taxes.
In Buffalo and Rochester, Paladino says the core group consists of many of the same people who tried to convince Trump to run for governor last year.
His aggressive disinterest in running for governor has been a hallmark of this former Pataki administration official's campaign this year for state attorney general.
When Singh ran for governor last year, he was able to accept a $ 1 million campaign loan from his father because of a loophole in New Jersey's campaign finance law that allows unlimited donations from a relative if they're in the same household.
She also told the New Paltz Times that what prompted her to run was, among many disappointments in Cuomo's record the past four years, «when he did not support public financing of elections this spring: something he promised to do when he ran for governor.»
During his 2010 run for governor, he came under fire for comments he made about the attire at gay pride parades, and for a series of emails he had allegedly sent to friends and associates over the years — emails that included pictures of nude women, videos of horses copulating with humans and material that seemed to compare African - Americans to chimpanzees.
Trichter worked for Harry Wilson, a Republican businessman who ran for comptroller in 2010 against DiNapoli and bowed out of the race for governor this year.
She informally advised Andrew Cuomo as he positioned himself for a successful gubernatorial run last year, and it was because of her close ties to the governor that the coalition of gay rights groups fighting for marriage equality hired her this spring.
Not only did the two team up in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, with Cuomo praising Mangano for his leadership during the storm, but the governor also said nothing when the county executive ran a TV ad during last year's campaign that seemed to indicate he had Cuomo's endorsement for his re-election bid.
Governor Cuomo made the creation of the Justice Center for People with Special Needs one of his top priorities this year, citing the many instances of abuse at state - run and state - certified homes for the disabled.
LG Kathy Hochul said she plans to run for re-election this year and dismissed the notion that she would instead challenge Republican Rep. Chris Collins as «political fodder of the chattering class,» but she refused to say whether the governor has actually asked her to be his running mate again.
The current county executive is, of course, Republican Chris Collins, who himself passed up an opportunity to run for higher office (governor) last year after a number of verbal gaffes hampered his ability to gain traction for a statewide bid.
Collins, meanwhile, earned his share of detractors within party ranks during his four - year tenure as Erie County executive, his short - lived, gaffe - filled run for governor and his support of Edward Cox over Henry Wojtaszek of Niagara County for state party chairman a few years back.