He has a loving and competitive relationship with his son, and helped start his political career, tapping him to help run his seemingly long - shot
bid for governor in 1982.
Golisano and Paladino share a consultant, Roger Stone, who is an unpaid advisor to Paladino and worked on Golisano's third and final failed
bid for governor on the Independence line in 2002.
It will be his first campaign north of NYC since his
failed bid for governor in 1982 in which some disparaging remarks in a Playboy magazine interview about people who live in what my colleague Jimmy Vielkind refers to as «Upstate America» helped seal his primary loss to Mario Cuomo.
Latimer, a state senator, is running in what amounts to a key race this year given the incumbent, Republican Rob Astorino, is considering a
second bid for governor in 2018.
Before the results were in, Joan Walsh of Salon wrote this piece arguing that Zephyr Teachout's
primary bid for governor of New York had the benefit of forcing incumbent Andrew Cuomo to fight for the votes of liberal Democrats.
Miner, whose term expires at the end of the year, has acknowledged that she's considering making a Democratic primary
bid for governor as a progressive challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
April 5, 2010: Carl Paladino, seeking to tap into the anger of Tea Party supporters and voters disgruntled with u201cthe Albany ruling class,» announces
GOP bid for governor.
In the early 1980s, Mannion stood apart from most other Syracuse - area Democrats when he backed Cuomo's
bid for governor over New York City Mayor Ed Koch.
A Downstate Republican lawmaker launched a third -
party bid for governor on Thursday, exacerbating the challenges facing Gov. Bruce Rauner's re-election as he seeks to heal divisions within his party's base to take on Democrat J.B. Pritzker.
Mermel (seen here with his family in a shot taken last night by «Capital Tonight» reporter Kaitlyn Ross) received just 7.89 percent of the vote in the first roll call for his long -
shot bid for governor after dropping his LG run and joining the fray just over a week ago.
Harris, the former consumer protection commissioner and one - time West Hartford mayor tried to parlay his extensive contacts in the state Democratic Party into a
successful bid for the governor's office.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.), a longtime rival of de Blasio, mocked the news of her potential celebrity
bid for governor last week.
Mario Cuomo lost his
fourth bid for governor, in part because, in an era of high incidents of violent crime, he clung to his belief that the death penalty was wrong.
A week after former Manhattan madam Kristin Davis lost her
quixotic bid for governor, a judge agreed to put an early end to her probation.
In 2006, the then - former minority leader ran an unsuccessful
bid for governor against the odds - on favorite, Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
Also spotted were Jerry Speyer, another real estate mogul, and Andrew Farkas, who hired Cuomo at his firm Island Capital after Cuomo lost his
first bid for governor in 2002.
It had long seemed that the front - runner for the minor party's nomination was former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, who previously abandoned a GOP
bid for governor due to a lack of support among Republican leaders.
The Green Party leader's
bid for governor became public by accident, he said, when a fellow party member, who was a brother of a local reporter, emailed Hawkins and told him he should consider running.
But complicating a second
Astorino bid for governor is GOP Rep. Chris Gibson, a three - term Hudson Valley lawmaker who is considering a statewide campaign himself.
Hawkins garnered nearly 60,000 votes in a
previous bid for governor in 2010 — a showing that restored the Green Party's automatic ballot access in the Empire State.
Fifteen years after his father left the office, eight years after his
own bid for governor went down in flames and long after his rivals jumped into the fray, Andrew Cuomo has declared his plan to seek the executive mansion.
Recall that Collins, who dropped a 2010
bid for governor following controversial comments about Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is believed to still have designs on running for higher office in the future.
Under state law, government resources can not be used for political purposes — and DeFrancisco is pushing the issue in his
uphill bid for governor.
When Cuomo began his own comeback in 2006, running for attorney general four years after a
disastrous bid for governor, Quinn was one of his earliest endorsers.
The notion of a
Trump bid for governor gained more momentum among his supporters when a group that opposed Mr. Cuomo commissioned a private poll, conducted by Kellyanne Conway, a Republican strategist.
But unbeknown to the co-chairs and commission staff, Mr. Cuomo was by far Buying Time's biggest client in New York, spending some $ 20 million on ads since his ill -
fated bid for governor in 2002.
Cuomo soldiered on as Barron, who ran an unsuccessful
bid for governor on his self - created «Freedom Party» line last fall, yelled loudly and urged his backers on by waving his arms.
Jennifer was also a founding member of Mitt Romney's Senate campaign staff and served on the Economic Policy Committee advising Meg Whitman's
bid for Governor of California.
I covered those multi-candidate debates, which also included then - Independence Party contender Tom Golisano (on his third
failed bid for governor and being advised by none other than Roger Stone, who is now helping Paladino.)
DeFrancisco compared his situation to Republican Rob Astorino's
unsuccessful bid for governor in 2014, when then - Majority Leader Dean Skelos was seen as less - than - supportive of the GOP nominee in order to stay on good terms with Cuomo.
Joel Giambra, the former Erie County executive waging a long
shot bid for governor, may instead set his sights on state comptroller.
In addition to Donovan, Bloomberg also endorsed Andrew Cuomo's
successful bid for governor and various New York legislators as well as candidates elsewhere in the nation.
«Lots of good ideas to expand economic opportunity today,» said Lamont, who kicked off his second
bid for governor last month.
In deciding against a
fourth bid for governor, Perry has now paved the way for Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott to run for and likely win the state's Republican gubernatorial nomination.
By 2002, when Mr. Cuomo embarked on his
quixotic bid for the governor's mansion by challenging Mr. McCall, widely seen as the Democratic heir apparent and potentially the state's first black governor, Mr. de Blasio was among his few backers.
It had long seemed that the front - runner for the party's nomination was former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, who previously abandoned a
GOP bid for governor.
«There was never a question about who Mario Cuomo was and what he believed in,» said Miner, who worked as Central New York regional representative for Mario Cuomo but supported H. Carl McCall, rather than Andrew Cuomo, in the 2002
Democratic bid for governor.