Sentences with phrase «race as placeholder»
Commisso also turned aside the speculation from some quarters that his father, County Legislature Majority Leader Frank Commisso, was only in the race as placeholder for him, a scarecrow of sorts to dissuade others from entering the race.
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He ran for the US Senate in 2006, served as a placeholder candidate on some ballots in 2008 for presidential candidate Ralph Nader, and received 41 percent of the vote in a Syracuse Common Council race (2009).