Sentences with phrase «potential gubernatorial candidate»

Cuomo is planning an aggressive fundraising schedule through the end of the year as potential gubernatorial candidates like Miner mull challenges to him.

Other potential gubernatorial candidates in 2018 include Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, a Republican; former Democratic state Sen. Terry Gipson of Rhinebeck; Democrat Stephanie Miner, the outgoing mayor of Syracuse; Republican businessman Harry Wilson; and Republican state Sen. John DeFrancisco of Syracuse.

Party officials and seasoned operatives who spoke to POLITICO in recent days have used words like «crisis» and «desperate» to describe the state of affairs, as the two potential gubernatorial candidates deemed the strongest have opted out and potential candidates for two other key statewide positions races are nonexistent.

Party members heard from elected officials and candidates at all levels of government, including potential gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino.

Other Republicans, including potential gubernatorial candidate Sen. John DeFrancisco, were skeptical as well.

Cox mentioned other potential gubernatorial candidates as Westchester businessman Harry Wilson; Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco.

On the eve of his much anticipated visit to Western New York potential gubernatorial candidate Donald Trump continued to pressure state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino to get behind him, or get out of his way.

DeFrancisco was the only potential gubernatorial candidate to address the audience that evening.

A Board of Elections spokeswoman confirmed that the agency had mistakenly listed potential gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout as disabled and would correct the error, diffusing what some of her critics had pitched as a possible controversy.

Some Republican county leaders were upset last week that after state GOP Chairman Ed Cox was reelected to his position for another two - year term, he did not allow several potential gubernatorial candidates in attendance to address the state committee.

Mr. Cuomo is planning an aggressive fundraising schedule through the end of the year as potential gubernatorial candidates — including a wealthy Republican businessman and a Democratic former Sex and the City star — weigh challenging him in 2018, according to an advisory his campaign sent supporters that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Party officials and seasoned operatives who spoke to POLITICO in recent days have used words like «crisis» and «desperate» to describe the state of affairs, as the two potential gubernatorial candidates deemed the strongest have opted out and potential candidates for down - ballot races are non-existent.

Westchester County Executive and potential gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino called Common Core the «granddaddy of unfunded government mandates and said New York should withdraw from the new standards altogether.

In addition to reiterating his call for Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb to lose their jobs, he wants both Astorino and Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, another potential gubernatorial candidate, to do the same.

Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino hosted an event for former Texas Gov. Rick Perry last September, and Donald Trump drew large crowds during a visit as a potential gubernatorial candidate back in January of 2014.

He declined to speak with Capital about his ambitions, saying only that he was attending the event to support Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a potential gubernatorial candidate who served as its headliner.

But Miner and DeFrancisco, who are both potential gubernatorial candidates, were united in their criticism of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development programs and the accompanying multimillion - dollar TV ad campaigns, which Miner called «sound bite government.»

DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, said in an interview Friday that he began traveling around the state to attend Republican events and float his name as a potential gubernatorial candidate.

Organizer's lead investor and biggest supporter is former Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly, who lost the 2010 Democratic primary race for state attorney general to the eventual winner, and potential gubernatorial candidate, Kamala Harris.

ALBANY — The Working Families Party is talking to a potential gubernatorial candidate who is a close ally of the teachers» union, sources said.

His name has been bandied about as a potential gubernatorial candidate because of his Republican Party's success in Democratic - majority Rockland the past four years.

On Monday, Paladino launched a preposterous attack on Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who's being talked about as a potential gubernatorial candidate for 2014.

In addition to Wilson, the potential gubernatorial candidates are Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse), Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro and Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua).

Incumbent Westchester County executive Rob Astorino, considered a potential gubernatorial candidate, lost his bid for a third term last month and the GOP suffered defeats in a traditional suburban stronghold of Nassau County.

Erie County Republican Committee Chairman Nick Langworthy has recommended the state party require all potential gubernatorial candidates to officially enter the race by the NYGOP Federal Convention on March 2.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is also a potential gubernatorial candidate.

The Florida Democratic party may be fractured right now, but there's no shortage of potential gubernatorial candidates.

The rising Democratic star and potential gubernatorial candidate is pushing back on a Presidential Executive order.