Sentences with phrase «protest candidate»

But this kind of rhetoric isn't coming just from angry - man protest candidates.

Kristin Davis, the erstwhile Manhattan Madam and protest candidate for governor on her self - created Anti-Prohibition Party line, came out today with a full - throated endorsement of Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, the lone woman in the Democratic AG field.

Randy Credico, a comedian and perennial protest candidate who recently received 3.6 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for governor, told New York Post Capitol bureau chief Fred Dicker that he saw Schneiderman using drugs at the event.

Perennial protest candidate Jimmy McMillan also filed petitions to challenge Cuomo.

Protest candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson can be conduits for the frustration of voters (or, to be more accurate, poll respondents), but they will never be president, and most of their supporters probably know it.

Such protests candidates don't have to win more than a state or two to have an impact; they merely have to show up and sow division.

Samuels is running on a «five pillars of reform» platform (redistricting, member items, outside income etc. — the usual), but insists he's not a protest candidate and is in the race to win.

NYC Councilman Charles Barron is heading up the Thruway (OK, actually, he's taking the train) to file more than 43,500 signatures at the state Board of Elections to create an independent «Freedom Party» line on which he plans to run as a protest candidate for governor this fall.

Davis is a Libertarian activist and ran for Governor of NY in 2010 as a protest candidate.

Questions have been raised — including by yours truly — about whether the WFP chose pragmatism over ideology by backing Cuomo over a protest candidate, Fordham Law School Prof. Zephyr Teachout, and how the party can hold the governor to his pledge to flip the state Senate into Democratic hands in hopes of passing progressive agenda items like local power over minimum wage and public campaign financing.

Tim Rogers, who organized Teachout and Wu's stop in New Paltz, said that he originally supported her as a «protest candidate,» but as time went on saw that she was «gaining incredible momentum,» with endorsements from unions, environmental organizations and NOW.

The benchmark for a protest candidate that most people have been using is the 17 percent labor activist Jonathan Tasini received in his primary challenge to Hillary Clinton in 2006.

Clarke is significant as well because Schneiderman is trying to lock up support of minority voting blocs since there are no candidates of color in the AG's race — a fact that has spurred NYC Councilman Charles Barron to run as a protest candidate for governor.

And prominent labor leaders like George Gresham and Chris Shelton stood up to formally nominate Mr. Cuomo, a seeming rebuke of the labor - backed Working Families Party's ongoing deliberations about whether to support a protest candidate against Mr. Cuomo — who stressed a desire for inclusion.

She ran as a protest candidate for New York governor in 2010.

Sanders's supporters aren't going anyway quietly: They were back in the media tent at the Wells Fargo Center last night to protest their candidate's treatment.

She was a protest candidate who energized public employees, environmentalists and liberal activists angry at Mr. Cuomo's centrism and lack of commitment to good government reforms.

But the story won't change the fact that Zephyr Teachout is a protest candidate, or that, as Republican Governors Association chair Chris Christie noted on the subject of Rob Astorino, New York is not a realistic target for a Republican pick - up this year.

A Cuomo official told the Buffalo News earlier this week that «any protest candidate is going to get in the low - to mid-high 20s,» and the paper reported «Cuomo operatives were suggesting Teachout could get as much as 30 percent of the vote.»

But Ms. Mark - Viverito was outside the Fifth Avenue Xanadu to protest the candidate's claim that an American judge's Mexican ancestry made him unfit to handle the fraud case against the mogul's real estate seminar, Trump University.

But the story of the P.E.F. endorsement is nevertheless instructive about the dissatisfaction with Cuomo among some of the most active liberals in his own party, and about why Teachout — a well - put - together protest candidate, but a protest candidate nonetheless — has become impossible for him to ignore.

The labor - backed WFP is meeting this week to decide whether to endorse Mr. Cuomo — who has charted a more fiscally moderate course and irked many in the WFP — or run a protest candidate in his place.

A fresh sign of disunity (though perhaps more nationally than locally) burst out Friday when the progressive Democrats for America organization, which supported Perriello in the primary, suspended any cooperation with the Northam campaign to protest the candidate's «clarification» yesterday that he would sign a bill banning sanctuary cities in Virginia if any were actually created — a statement DFA called «gutless, politically senseless, and morally debased.»