Sentences with phrase «political confidant»

«Andrew Cuomo, this is his close political confidant.

He started the year as a family friend of the Camerons, a close political confidant of the Prime Minister Cameron and widely regarded as one of the smartest in the Cabinet with impeccable personal connections across the parliamentary party.

That's not only because he himself is ill - informed and erratic; it's also because he lacks long - time political confidants to ground him and also those who tied to the Republican party.

Not exact matches

«I think his relationship with Steinbrenner showed him how wealthy guys work the political system,» longtime Trump political adviser and confidant Roger Stone told Business Insider.

Indeed, top political talent like Patrick Gaspard, a de Blasio confidant who now serves as the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, and Jennifer Cunningham, a top Democratic operative in the state, cut their teeth at 1199.

Political consultant Charlie King, former executive director of Sharpton's National Action Network and a confidant of Gov. Cuomo, is working behind the scenes on behalf of Cornegy, who, if elected, would become the first African - American council speaker.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- Political consultant and longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone was a guest of strategist Michael Caputo on WBEN Thursday morning.

Percoco, the governor's confidant, ex-campaign manager and sometimes political enforcer, is accused of participating in bribery schemes that effectively rigged development contracts with Cuomo campaign donors.

Trump has discussed with confidants and advisers in recent days the possibility of installing a new attorney general through a recess appointment if Jeff Sessions leaves the job, but has been warned not to move to push him out because of the political and legal ramifications.

I became a confidant in the political class because I controlled a whole platoon of «psychological warriors», I won and lost some of the battles, at some point I got it right while at another point I got it wrong because I am human, I made friends and seen all sorts of fun.

Stringer himself, described by insiders as «in near panic» over his poor showing with black voters, belatedly responded last week by hiring two well - regarded African - American political operatives: Patrick Jenkins, a longtime confidant of US Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens; and Kevin Wardally, an associate of the late Bill Lynch and an official at the Cuomo - controlled state Department of Labor.

BerlinRosen, a political p.r. firm helmed by top de Blasio confidant Jonathan Rosen, received a subpoena in connection with the investigation last April, but it has denied wrongdoing.

Development director Ben Kalish was finance director for de Blasio's 2009 public - advocate campaign, it says, and Michael Gaspard, a senior adviser, is the brother of de Blasio confidant and former White House political director Patrick Gaspard.

She and Lloyd Constantine, a longtime Spitzer confidant, were nearly alone in arguing against an immediate resignation; Eliot, recognizing he was a political dead man, had wanted to do it first thing Monday morning.

No doubt at his overbearing father's (Bruce Dern, «Nebraska») urging, Kennedy's inner circle of confidants met to offer some damage control, knowing that the Senator's political future was on the line.

Political strategist Roger Stone, Trump's long - time confidant, had boasted during the campaign of knowledge about upcoming Wikileaks publication of damaging documents, at one point telling the Boston Herald Radio that he expected «Julian Assange and the Wikileaks people to drop a payload of new documents on a weekly basis fairly soon.