Sentences with phrase «politics running for governor»

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Whitman is well - known in state and national politics as well, having worked on presidential campaigns for Mitt Romney and John McCain, and having run against Jerry Brown in 2010 for the governor of California, a race she ended up losing.

Since my Dad decided to run for governor, my family has experienced the highs and lows of politics.

Quinn rejected the suggestion that the governor is being motivated by politics — a desire to settle this long - running Democratic feud before he formally launches his 2018 re-eleciton bid or moves toward a 2020 White House run — saying she believes his only motivated is the «politics of getting legislation passed, and making things better for New Yorkers.»

A reporter in Rochester asked Golisano, who ran for governor on the Independence line in 1994, 1998 and 2002, if he would ever consider getting back into politics.

The news came as a huge shock to yeshiva leaders who only last week were celebrating TAP's passage, «It's really sad that the Governor, who introduced this proposal for our yeshivas when he was running for re-election, was the one who ended up killing it after he decided not to run anymore,» said one yeshiva administrator who suspects that politics may have been to blame.

Turning again to his own future in politics, the governor added: «Running for office is a very personal decision,» and insisted his only political ambition is to run for re-election.

Despite his years of experience in politics, he said running for governor was a completely different experience than other campaigns.

Astorino is expected to continue to play a role in Republican politics statewide, helping GOP candidates fundraise and run for office — chits that could be called in when the race for governor gets going again.

Brian Fitzherbert and Robert Turkavage are running on the Republican side, and politics blogger David Wildstein reports that Hirsh Singh, a Republican and a software engineer who ran for governor last year, will jump in the 2nd District race as well.

Just days after disgraced former New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer announced he would return to politics to run for New York City comptroller, he leads his opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, by nine percentage points.

«The only good news here is the solicitor general is a top - quality person who will not be running for office, so she won't be playing politics and she'll just be doing the job,» the governor said.

WASHINGTON — George Pataki has never met Kid Rock and doesn't know much about his politics, but the former New York governor said Tuesday he hopes the rock star runs for a U.S. Senate seat.

Getting big money out of politics has been a central theme of her campaign to represent the 19th Congressional District, located in New York State's Hudson Valley and Catskills regions, like it was when she ran for governor in 2014.

In the second shock entry of this election season, Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who was forced to resign during a prostitution scandal, is planning to re-enter politics with a run for city comptroller, a source close to Mr. Spitzer confirmed Sunday night.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Donald Trump Jr., rumored to be eyeing a move to follow his father's footsteps into politics, will not be a candidate for governor of New York next year but is not ruling out a possible run for office in the future.

Now the governor is in a relatively fragile position: He's running for a third term, during a time when Establishment candidates are not exactly in favor and with a state - politics corruption trial looming this summer.

They say politics is Hollywood for ugly people, so it's understandable that the question of why exactly Cynthia Nixon is running for governor of New York is one that keeps coming up.

After a decade away from politics, he's mulling a run for governor.

Howie Hawkins, a socialist running for the Green Party in New York State for governor, reached almost 10 % in opinion polls and scored 5 % in the election, winning 174,000 votes; this marks a turning point for left - wing politics in New York.

Later in the day, it was Governor who engaged in politics — holding a rally in the Bronx for Luis Sepulveda, a Democrat who is running for an open State Senate seat.

Indy Politics has learned that Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz is expected to announce next month that she will run for Governor in 2016.

COLONIE — U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, popular with northern New Yorkers and considered a strong candidate for governor of New York State, announced May 2 that he would not be running for the post in 2018, and that he was exiting politics.

A person close to former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer says he is planning a return to politics with a run for New York City comptroller.

But the actual investment of resources is something that is too precious for national organizations to do anything other than place where they need to get wins... there is a question about the nationalization of gubernatorial races in 2018 and whether the national politics related to the president are going to be something that every governor running is going to have to confront.

Cuomo, elected to his current post in 2006, has spent a lifetime in politics and public service including stints as a top advisor during his father's 1977 failed run for mayor as well as his successful run for governor in 1982, after which he came his father's special assistant, and, later, federal housing secretary under President Clinton.

Bysiewicz, who planned to return to politics with a run for state Senate but said she is considering jumping into the governor's race, collected more than $ 102,000 in contributions in the quarter.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence tells Indy Politics a decision regarding any run for the White House will come after the 2015 Legislative Session.

Gov. Chris Christie often dates his entry into politics to age 15, when, driven by his mother, he arrived at the doorstep of Thomas H. Kean, a state assemblyman who was pondering a run for governor, and asked for advice about getting involved.

Although the measure was more about politics than policy — it was designed to raise the Hollywood actor's stature in advance of a future run for governor — the ballot initiative did reflect Schwarzenegger's sincere interest in inner - city schools, dozens of which he had toured during work for his nonprofit foundation, the Inner - City Games.

Jimmy McMillan Runs for NY Governor Although the Giants in the World Series is big news, politics stories continue to dominate headlines.