Sentences with phrase «political confidante»

In 2014, Ganim's longtime political confidante, Democratic town chairman Mario Testa, was quoted as saying, «As far as I know, he doesn't intend to run for anything again.»

Just minutes earlier, the Daily News reported that Joseph Percoco — the governor's former executive deputy secretary and close personal and political confidante — may have engaged in «self - dealing» by taking work from a lobbyist while still employed by the state.

«It should surprise no one that despite refusing to return a single penny to Floridians who gave to him in good faith, Charlie Crist wasted no time in refunding money to his indicted political confidante,» said Rubio spokesman Alex Burgos.

Instead, the gold standard was Roger Stone, a gleefully nihilistic, nakedly cynical operator who helped Trump pretend to explore a presidential bid in 2000 on the Reform Party ticket, and who remains one of the candidate's closest political confidantes.

Gillibrand's grandmother Polly Noonan earned a reputation as a close adviser to Democratic Albany Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd, a relationship that led many to wonder if they were more than political confidantes.

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Her husband is Thomas Lloyd, a grandson of the late Rachel «Bunny» Mellon, an arts patron and political financier who was a confidante to Jacqueline Kennedy.

The investigation also reportedly is looking at Joseph Percoco, Cuomo's longtime confidante and political enforcer who left his job as the governor's executive deputy secretary in January.

He says he was devoted to his father, who he called his hero, best friend, confidante, and mentor and that they reveled in each other's political victories.

Melbourne provides the film's sole source of conflict, both political and romantic: his essentially conservative politics hold considerable sway over the naive young Queen, bringing out her of public favor, while the quasi-romantic confidante status he enjoys with her is resented by Albert.