Sentences with phrase «primary against paladino»

Lazio's lead in a GOP primary against Paladino, assuming his petitions are all good, fell to 40 - 20 from 45 - 18 one month ago, but 40 percent of Republican voters remain undecided.

Edwards was actually the original running mate of Lazio, but in a quirk won his primary against Paladino's preferred bottom half of the ticket, Tom Ognibene.

Not exact matches

Bellavia predicted victory in today's GOP primary, despite facing off against a better - funded and better - known candidate who has the support of the Republican establishment (along with 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino).

During a live interview with NY1's Erin Billups during our live statewide election coverage, Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long re-asserted that Rick Lazio will be the Conservative Party's nominee even if Lazio loses the GOP primary to Carl Paladino, although he says he's confident Lazio will be victorious against the Buffalo businessman.

At 8:30 a.m. Carl Paladino, who has been under pressure to drop his pledge to petition his way into a primary against the GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Lazio, will hold a press conference to discuss his next move.

That Paladino defeated Lazio in the primary was something of a surprise, but like the general election against Cuomo he managed to get high turnout in western New York.

In the 22nd Congressional District, Paladino has backed Michael Kicinski in the GOP primary against U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R - Barneveld.

Recall that Paladino said last year he would fund primary campaigns against Senate Republicans, which ultimately showed little success.

And Cox saw his party get burned by made - as - hell Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, who won an upset GOP primary victory to land the line against then - AG Cuomo in 2010.

Clarey is referring to Paladino's effort to remake the Senate GOP by supporting conservative primary candidates against more moderate incumbents.

Paladino, the Republican gubernatorial candidate who surged to a surprise primary victory two years ago against Lazio, endorsed Long on Sunday.

Buffalo businessman and former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino says he plans to support primary campaigns against Senate Republicans.

Paladino has said he would back Kevin Stocker, a lawyer who has launched a primary against Grisanti, a freshman Republican who is considered especially vulnerable this year.

«We're going to run some candidates against some key people, alright, and primary them,» Paladino said.

Much like a previous radio ad on this subject, this spot casts the race for governor as a two - person contest between «two major candidates» — Paladino and Cuomo — making no mention of the third contender, Republican Rick Lazio, whom Paladino must first defeat in a primary before facing off against the AG.

Paladino last year pledged to support primaries against incumbent Senate Republicans, though none of his direct efforts were successful.

The Lazio spin on this is that he's announcing a «growing list of talent» that will aid his final push to the general election (note that he makes no mention of the September primary battle he faces against Carl Paladino).

Yet another Western NY Republican is siding with GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino against Rick Lazio in advance of next week's primary.

Carl Paladino is on the defensive in the wake of an AP report about a 10 - year - old felony charge against his company, accusing his GOP gubernatorial primary opponent, Rick Lazio, of planting the story.

Here's a surprise: Heading into a tough primary against right - of - center Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, GOP / Conservative gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio is saying nice things about Democratic President Barack Obama.

-- AG Andrew Cuomo continues to blow away the competition, although Carl Paladino has made some modest headway against the Democratic frontrunner, while his GOP primary opponent, Rick Lazio, has not.

UPDATED: One, items like the one I'm writing is clearly what Lazio is going for - he has almost no money for paid media and is trying to tap into the GOP base in advance of his primary against Carl Paladino, and the echo chamber isn't a bad way to do that.

Albany, NY — Host Alan Chartock is joined by Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, who is seeking to win the primary against Rep. Rick Lazio for the GOP nomination for governor.

Second, Lazio will find out if Buffalo real - estate mogul Carl Paladino has the 15,000 Republican signatures he needs to run against him in the September primary.

Paladino is attempting to petition his way into the GOP gubernatorial primary against the party's designee, Rick Lazio, and also plans to petition to create an independent «Taxpayers» line to run on in November.

Former NYC Council Minority Leader Tom Ognibene, who was also briefly the 2010 running mate for gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (until he lost the GOP primary to former Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards), circulated petitions to run against Democratic Sen. Joe Addabbo, but then declined the nomination.

«The longer things lay out there and people don't close ranks — just ask Mitt Romney about this — and when you're going through a primary where the appeal is to the hard right to win, there's the potential for more mischief,» said Rick Lazio, a former Republican congressman and U.S. Senate nominee who struggled through a 2010 gubernatorial bid against challenges by then - Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy (who he beat) and Paladino (who he did not).

Buffalo builder and megamillionaire Carl Paladino, a Tea Party activist expected to challenge Lazio in the GOP primary, said, «I am dead set against the mosque at Ground Zero because it's an affront to Americans everywhere.

The point here, clearly, is to demonstrate that Paladino doesn't have the market cornered on either upstaters or Republicans, some of whom have been distancing themselves from the Buffalo businessman since he won last week's gubernatorial primary against Rick Lazio.

Even former state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, whom Cuomo challenged in the 2002 gubernatorial primary, earning him the long - standing ire of many in the black community, has stepped in to act as a surrogate for the AG against Paladino and also defended him when it looked like he might primary the state's first black governor, David Paterson.

That's why Paladino is also backing Johnny Destino in a primary against Maziarz.

Republicans are increasingly nervous that self - funding Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, whom recent polls have shown on the move against Lazio, will be able to defeat their designee in the Sept. 14 primary, leaving the party deeply fractured with Lazio on the Conservative line and Paladino (maybe) on a third party Taxpayers line.

A spokesman for Turner said the candidate has not endorsed Paladino, who won last week's Republican primary, has been cheered by the Tea Party movement and is running against Democratic state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

In 2009, Paladino got involved in the campaign on behalf of South Buffalo councilman Michael Kearns in Buffalo's Democratic primary mayoral election, campaigning against incumbent Byron Brown.

In October 2011, Paladino filed a lawsuit against National Grid and Verizon (the primary electric and telephone utilities in Western New York, respectively) for what he alleged were exorbitant fees which the two companies charged for services.

But what it means is that the 62 percent he won against Carl Paladino in 2010 (and Zephyr Teachout in her Democratic primary earlier this year) is the high - water mark for his term in office, and quite possibly for his career as an elected official.

The two - page letter is highly detailed - and commits Cox in no uncertain terms, and in writing, to the man he recrutied to run in a primary against Rick Lazio (and now Carl Paladino and Myers Mermel as well), and describes Levy as a «Reagan Democrat» who withstood a «whisper» campaign against him recently without losing his stack.