Sentences with phrase «on running for statewide office»
Pataki launched Revere America not long after deciding to take a pass on running for statewide office here in New York (GOP leaders hoped he would challenge Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, as polls showed he was the strongest of their would - be competitors).
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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.
On February 17, 2010, Rice announced her candidacy for the statewide office of attorney general, the seat vacated by Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who ran for governor in November.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy today announced he is closing the door completely on a potential run for governor, deciding against seeking statewide office on an independent line and throwing his support behind his erstwhile opponent, Rick Lazio.
You're supposed to work your way up the ladder, working on political campaigns and in legislative offices, running for local elections and then statewide elections, gaining experience along the way.
Gianaris said campaign finance disclosures set to be filed on Friday would show he has raised $ 350,000 in the statewide account, New Yorkers for Gianaris, that had its roots in his abortive run for attorney general in 2006, when Eliot Spitzer vacated the office to run (successfully) for governor.
The «Stop Common Core» party candidates would include Astorino and his running mate, lieutenant governor candidate Chris Moss, as well as other Republican candidates for statewide offices and federal or local contenders who want to run on the line, he said.
After Cuomo picked a white man to be his running mate even with zero blacks running on the Democratic slate this year for any statewide office, Barron felt that the Democrats were taking the black vote for granted and created his own «Freedom Party.»
Mark Green, who served as public advocate in New York City and ran for any number of statewide offices, took on the city's dry cleaners for their pricing discrepancies.
Holtzman, best known for serving on the House committee that voted to impeach President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal, had flirted for months with running again for statewide office.
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.
«I'm not going to be commenting on whether I'll be running for statewide or federal office until I make a decision.»
Nearly three - quarters of the 44 who opposed the bill either are on House Republicans» target list or are running for statewide office in a conservative leaning state in 2010 — a classic bifurcation between those who are on the ballot in a midterm election and a president who doesn't stand in front of voters for another three plus years.
By noon on Sunday, three churches along a single two - mile stretch of Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, had played host to three of New York State's more prominent elected officials: the state's attorney general and comptroller, both of whom are running for statewide office, and the mayor of New York City.
Those in the know say to keep an eye on state Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, a rising star in the party who may well run for some statewide office in 2010.
ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Republicans who plan to run for statewide office on a ballot line called «Stop Common Core» are spreading «mythology» that the academic standards represent a power - grab by the federal government.
Even in New York, where Mr. Cuomo has run for statewide office twice, Ms. Lee is just as likely as he is to show up on television or stroll across a red carpet.
According to Fitzpatrick, Kolb was asked to run for statewide office and while he was specifically asked about the U.S. Senate, he could be in the running for lieutenant governor on the GOP ticket.