Sentences with phrase «possible challenger»

Other names mentioned as possible challengers include Comptroller Scott Stringer who has ramped up his public criticisms of the mayor and Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich.

They didn't mind if things dragged out into early April, keeping the field of possible challengers in the September Democratic primary frozen.

«I'm 74 - years - old, I may not be the best possible challenger to Andrew Cuomo,» Samuels told Fred Dicker on «Focus On The State Capitol.»

This shameful rip - off — which gives incumbents a leg up on possible challengers at taxpayer expense — ought to stop.

He's maintained large polling leads over possible challengers despite now - closed probes into his fund - raising activities, some unflattering newspaper coverage and clashes with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

When matched against possible challengers for the 2017 Democratic primary, at present, Mayor de Blasio is the odds - on favorite.

Several possible challengers stepped forward, but of those, only Sue Serino, a Dutchess County legislator, is still in the race.

Sean Patrick Maloney is the strongest possible challenger.

If Cuomo plans to run for a third term in 2018, the charges against his former aides could hurt his re-election hopes and embolden rumored possible challengers such as state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

As the GOP continues to try to fill out the ticket for this fall names like Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and former Congressional candidate Joe Carvin have been mentioned as possible challengers to DiNapoli.

Though Mr. Jeffries and Mr. Stringer are most often discussed as potential opponents for the mayor in a Democratic primary, there is a longer list of possible challengers, including Ruben Diaz Jr., the Bronx borough president; Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president; Letitia James, the public advocate; and Melissa Mark - Viverito, the City Council speaker.

I'm committed to finding the best possible challenger to Andrew Cuomo.

Valesky spokeswoman Jessica DeCerce declined to comment on possible challengers, saying Valesky is focused on state issues.

Days after Mr. Weiner confessed to sexually explicit online exchanges with at least six women he met over the Internet, New York's political class was buzzing about possible challengers to the Queens Democrat, as well as the possibility that his district could be eliminated through a redistricting process already underway.

Mr. Cuomo, who holds a wide lead in polls over possible challengers, has said he would even go so far as to support rival candidates against recalcitrant legislators of either party, according to people familiar with private discussions the attorney general has had with potential supporters.

A national group that opposes same - sex marriage has purchased billboards in each of their districts, vowing to unseat the lawmakers, and the senators have been eagerly raising money in an effort to defend themselves against possible challengers.

For most of the season so far you would not even have put the Gunners in the category of possible challengers, but things have been improving and last weekend could prove to be a big turning point as Petr Cech suggested in a report by The Mirror.

Bertha Lewis, a black activist with deep ties to de Blasio, is giving a civic award to NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, raising eyebrows in political circles because Stringer is being mentioned as a possible challenger to the mayor's 2017 re-election.

Mike Long has been talking up Wendy Long (no relation) pretty much since she first arrived on the scene as a possible challenger to Democratic US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand during the annual CPAC in late January.

Astorino is considered a rising star in the state GOP and a possible challenger to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014.

Any possible challenger, therefore, would have to be able to trump that popularity with the rank and file and there aren't that many of them in the Parliamentary Labour Party at present.

Mayor Bill de Blasio grabbed an endorsement Sunday morning in his re-election bid — this time from someone once considered a possible challenger.

Astorino is viewed as a rising star in Republican circles and is considered a possible challenger to Cuomo's 2014 re-election bid.

Meanwhile, Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins told reporters in Albany that despite her deputy's recent meeting with a possible challenger to the Independent Democratic Conference leader, reunification of the Senate's Democratic factions remains the goal.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a warm endorsement of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, a possible challenger to his political rival Mayor Bill de Blasio,...

«The three possible challengers we matched up against de Blasio, a black borough president, a white city comptroller and a Hispanic borough president, are all little known, but all three are close,» Carroll said.

The Buffalo school board will have six districts on the ballot in May and incumbents and possible challengers may soon know what the district boundaries will be.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a warm endorsement of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, a possible challenger to his political rival Mayor Bill de Blasio, at the home of one of the Bronx's most prominent developers.

The popular Bronx politician, whose father Ruben Diaz, Sr. serves in State Senate, is up for re-election but is seen is a possible challenger to the embattled mayor — whose campaign financing is now the subject of a federal investigation — in 2017.

But London mayor Boris Johnson, who is often touted as a possible challenger to Mr Cameron, refused to say that Mr Cameron should not resign.

The Daily News first reported this afternoon that Garcia, considered a possible challenger to Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, is being retained after lawmakers received letters from the commission seeking more information on their non-public income and the identity of their legal clients.

Speaking at a fundraiser for Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. at the home of a prominent real estate developer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo offered a warm endorsement of the up - and - coming Democrat — a possible challenger to his political rival NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

A reader wrote in to say he caught state GOP Chairman Ed Cox on the radio in Buffalo yesterday touting some of the local GOP talent as potential statewide contenders in 2014, including Erie County Clerk Christopher Jacobs, who has been floated as a possible challenger to Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

Introduced by Seabrook as «a man with integrity, a man that brings about the change that is needed in this city,» Jeffries, often mentioned as a possible challenger to de Blasio for the Democratic mayoral nomination in 2017, expressed lukewarm support for the de Blasio's efforts in reforming the island, but chided him for keeping the union out of the process.

Just a few months ago, people were talking about DeFrancisco - who has $ 1 million in his campaign accounts - as a possible challenger to Miner.

«The de Blasio administration promised the city of New York that we would receive meaningful police reform,» Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat who has been eyed as a possible challenger to Mr. de Blasio next year, said outside New York Police Department...

If anything, the Democratic victories cut down possible challengers to Cuomo in 2014 and even gave Democrats some momentum heading into 2012 for state legislative races.

Other names mentioned as possible challengers to Cuomo in the Democratic primary include former state Sen. Terry Gipson and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

MANHATTAN — Campbell Brown's conservative Republican husband Dan Senor has joined the list of possible challengers to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the New York race for U.S. Senate, reports said on Wednesday.

Nevada Republican Rep. Dean Heller: Last year, National Republicans had been eyeing Heller, who first won election to the House in 2006, as a possible challenger to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

A black activist with deep ties to Mayor de Blasio is giving a civic award to Comptroller Scott Stringer, raising eyebrows in political circles because Stringer is being mentioned as a possible challenger to Hizzoner's 2017 re-election.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of Long Island has been mentioned as a possible challenger to Gillibrand in a 2010 Democratic primary race.

Some murmured of a possible challenger to Cuomo, either in the Democratic primary or on the Working Families Party line.

Stringer is sometimes mentioned as a possible challenger to de Blasio in 2017, though the Upper West Side Democrat has said he intends to run for reelection.

The next election is 17 months away, but one Democrat has emerged as a possible challenger to U.S. Rep. John Katko in the 24th Congressional District race.