Sentences with phrase «own gubernatorial campaign»

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) has caved and signed a ban on private on gun sales after running a gubernatorial campaign in which he rejected the need for more gun control.

During the 2002 gubernatorial campaign, Democratic candidate Thomas Birmingham charged that Romney had «amassed a fortune on the backs of working people.»

As a sophomore he left school to work on Haley Barbour's 2003 gubernatorial campaign, then joined the Marine reserves with every hope of going to Iraq.

And, as we all know, Cuomo hasn't yet said what office he plans to seek this fall, although his gubernatorial campaign is all but a fait accompli at this point.

The Cuomo administration on Wednesday is denying claims being made by Republican Rob Astorino's gubernatorial campaign that a top aide sought to move the county executive to a less - than - prominent seat at an event featuring President Obama.

He also said the Legislature missed an opportunity to reach a deal on a property tax cap — one of the signature issues of his gubernatorial campaign platform — after the Assembly departed without passing the measure, leaving the Senate to approve a one - house bill.

The gubernatorial campaign of Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro on Wednesday announced a half dozen county Republican committee chairs had flipped to endorsing his candidacy.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox insisted following the failure of his preferred candidate, Steve Levy, to make it onto the ballot at the convention today that the party - switching Suffolk County executive's gubernatorial campaign is finished and he will not be trying to launch a petition drive for an independent bid.

Sen. John DeFrancisco remained downcast on the chances of his gubernatorial campaign pulling out the nomination against frontrunner Marc Molinaro, saying Wednesday it's unlikely he'll be successful.

During the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, then - AG Eliot Spitzer surprised some members of his own staff by coming out against the legalization of medical marijuana during a pre-primary debate with fellow Democrat and then - Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi.

Levy's «Contract for New York,» which was essentially his gubernatorial campaign manifesto, would mandate that the executive budget automatically take effect if the Legislature blows the April 1 deadline.

Caputo, Stone's protégé, ran Paladino's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

We already noted the Club for Growth's new spokesman is Barney Keller, who was the voice of Rick Lazio's failed 2010 gubernatorial campaign (Lazio, unlike most NY Republicans, was a Mitt Romney supporter in 2008).

The 145th AD special election has turned into a redux of sorts of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, pitting a Democrat backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo against a fellow Democrat (running on the GOP line) supported by Cuomo's defeated foe, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.

The Buffalo businessman described his 2010 gubernatorial campaign and his continued involvement in state politics as a continued effort to drag the state Republican party to the right.

Cindy Darrison, who has raised money for the likes of Eliot Spitzer (in both his AG and gubernatorial campaigns), Gov. Andrew Cuomo and two sitting NYC DAs (Brooklyn's Charlie Hynes and Manhattan's Cy Vance), has signed on to work for Kindlon.

After all, King goes waaaaaaay back with Cuomo, serving under him at HUD, running as his LG in his ill - fated 2002 gubernatorial campaign and then, at then candidate - Cuomo's request, serving as the official party attack dog during the 2010 campaign.

Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro named Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo and former Secretary to the Governor John Cahill co-chairs of his lieutenant governor screening committee, his gubernatorial campaign announced.

So, if you are keeping track at home, Ciminelli and his wife have contributed $ 123,850 to Cuomo's gubernatorial campaigns.

Before abruptly calling off his gubernatorial campaign, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb's weekend schedule was jam - packed with events related to his run.

Cynthia Nixon answers questions after kicking off her gubernatorial campaign at Bethesda Healing Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Tuesday.

New York candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon kicks off her gubernatorial campaign at Bethesda Healing Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on March 20.

During a news conference, on her first trip to Albany since announcing her gubernatorial campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, actress Cynthia Nixon repeatedly called her Democratic primary...

ALBANY — Sen. John DeFrancisco became the third Republican to jump into the gubernatorial campaign, saying Tuesday «enough is enough» and that it was time for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to go.

The News Corp. donation prompted Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association and son of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, to demand in a letter to Fox News chairman Roger Ailes that the cable news outlet include a disclaimer in its coverage of gubernatorial campaigns.

32BJ and its affiliates have given nearly $ 100,000 to Cuomo's gubernatorial campaigns over the past decade.

Adam Green, co-founder of PCCC noted that Teachout won the majority of all of the counties that are in the district during her gubernatorial campaign.

Secretary Daniels is considered by many to be the most conservative candidate in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, and if successful would have been the first black governor in the history of the state of New York.

Zephyr Teachout quotes this description in Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United (Harvard University Press), a book that merits the large readership it may get thanks to the author's recent appearance on «The Daily Show,» even if much of that interview concerned her remarkable dark - horse gubernatorial campaign in New York state's Democratic primary, in which anti-corruption was one of her major themes.

Sean Connolly is the latest Democrat to drop his gubernatorial campaign.

About two weeks ago, before Cuomo formally announced his gubernatorial campaign, I caught up with Lee at a soup kitchen in Harlem.

Maggie Haberman thinks the Ethan Ellner story was the beginning of the end for Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy's gubernatorial campaign.

After toying with the idea of his own gubernatorial campaign in 2014, then trying to draft Trump to run, Paladino ultimately got behind the endorsed GOP candidate Rob Astorino.

«With every passing day — with every passing criminal trial — more and more New Yorkers are catching onto Mr. Cuomo's act,» Republican consultant Bill O'Reilly wrote in a memo released by Sen. John DeFrancisco's gubernatorial campaign.

Carl Paladino had some very choice words for the Buffalo News in response to the paper's report this weekend that he «stiffed» staffers, vendors and consultants who worked on his 2010 gubernatorial campaign to the tune of about $ 130,000.

If the gubernatorial campaign is going to be little more than war - by - press release, it's going to get very old very fast.

Kolb said he'll be traveling around the state to gauge potential interest in his would - be gubernatorial campaign.

Republican Carl Paladino sent supporters this extended video appeal in a final attempt to win votes for his longshot gubernatorial campaign.

ALBANY — A Republican county executive from the Hudson Valley kicked off his gubernatorial campaign Monday, pledging to «restore accountability to New York state government.»

Federal rules bar states from awarding bond work to parties who have donated to gubernatorial campaigns within the last two years (more than $ 86,000 of the campaign cash from the firms flowed to Cuomo in the last two years).

ALBANY — Republican state Sen. John DeFrancisco kicked off his gubernatorial campaign from a hotel in suburban Syracuse on Tuesday with a pointed critique of two - term incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, calling him a «bully.»

The major obstacle to such a move, however, might not be a shared party, but shared donors: Cuomo himself has received $ 127,000 from some of the same Vance contributors at the heart of the recent controversies — and his gubernatorial campaigns have also received more than $ 72,000 directly from Weinstein himself.

Drew also said that he expected no problems as a result of the State Elections Enforcement Commission's decision, also on Oct. 18, to investigate a complaint by Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst's campaign manager that Drew attempted a «shakedown» when he sent gubernatorial campaign fundraising letters to Middletown city employees in September.

In its quest to wipe out violations of campaign finance laws in the state, the commission issued a subpoena to a firm that had done advertising for Cuomo's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

Percoco managed Cuomo's successful gubernatorial campaigns and was known as his political enforcer.

There was also talk of reviving the Liberal Party, which died alongside Cuomo's 2002 gubernatorial campaign, when he ended his candidacy but kept the party's line.

ALBANY — Amid reports that actress Cynthia Nixon has been whispering with people close to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio about a gubernatorial campaign this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo escalated his yearslong feud with the mayor, lashing out at his progressive credentials and calling his record «repugnant.»

Aetna secured the tax credits after giving $ 500,000 in the last three years to the Democratic Governors Association, which has supported Cuomo's gubernatorial campaigns and which appointed Cuomo policy chair in 2016.

Earlier this year, he transferred the remaining balance from his gubernatorial campaign to his county executive account.

Republican Rob Astorino on transferred the remaining balance of his 2014 gubernatorial campaign to his Westchester County executive re-election campaign committee, records filed with the Board of Elections show.