Sentences with phrase «previous bid for governor»
Hawkins garnered nearly 60,000 votes in a previous bid for governor in 2010 — a showing that restored the Green Party's automatic ballot access in the Empire State.
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Three other Democrats let it be known that they were looking at the race: L. Douglas Wilder, who had been elected governor of Virginia in 1989, George McGovern, the man who'd lost 49 states to Nixon in 1972 (and waged a hopeless bid for the 1984 Democratic nomination), and John Silber, the Boston University president who had nearly won Massachusetts» governorship the previous fall by running as a conservative culture warrior.
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Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has made two previous bids for the presidency, says he will not run in 2016.