Sentences with phrase «run for governor this year as»

He was elected as a Republican in 2009 and, as the article describes, he is thinking seriously about running for Governor this year as an independent.

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Himself a candidate for governor of California in 1962 (he lost in a primary to Richard Nixon), Shell worked this year as the state's finance chairman for the Goldwater presidential campaign and ran interference for the GOP just as resolutely as he did when he was captain and a valuable blocking back for the undefeated USC team that shut out Tennessee 14 - 0 in the 1940 Rose Bowl game.

Duffy served as lieutenant governor under Cuomo until last year, when he declined to run for re-election and was replaced on the ticket by Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Duffy did not run for re-election this year; former Rep. Kathy Hochul filled his spot on the ticket and will take office as lieutenant governor on Jan. 1.

Flanagan had also toyed with a potential run for governor and has been named over the years as a potential statewide candidate.

«Next year, when you are running for your third term as Governor of new York, when you go to the polling place to cast your vote, promise me you will not ride there on horseback,» he said.

Former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, who is seeking to run for governor as an independent, is calling on his fellow Republicans in the state Senate to pass the Child Victims Act this year.

«With Donald Trump as president, it's no surprise Nicole Malliotakis has emerged as the Republican candidate to take on Mayor de Blasio — after all, it was only four years ago she talked to Trump about running for Governor of New York,» the email states.

Antonacci this week announced he would run for the seat held by Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Republican who plans to retire at the end of the year as he suspends his campaign for governor.

Tim Wu, a Columbia Law professor credited with coining the term «net neutrality,» is considering a run for state attorney general, four years after he unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor as Teachout's running mate.

Billionaire businessman Donald Trump will be in the Buffalo area Friday night as he continues to explore a run for governor this year.

However, Mr. Barron may benefit from his increased name recognition coming from his previous campaign for the seat, as well as his third party run for governor last year.

Former Rep. James Walsh, R - Onondaga, once accused Cuomo of pandering to the media — a claim that, years later, resurfaced as Cuomo crisscrossed the state for months talking about sex offenders and phony travel vouchers while refusing to say whether he would run for governor or answer tough questions about the state.

If Cuomo is serious about running for president in 2020, maybe not seeking a third term as governor next year would be smart?

DeFrancisco, who has never been shy in his criticism of Cuomo, said he won't run in a GOP primary for governor, should one materialize, nor is he particularly interested in facing off against Democratic Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, whom he counts as a friend, and whose name surfaced this week as a potential primary challenger to the governor next year.

Astorino was the Republican nominee for governor in 2014 and is considering a second run statewide in 2018, but is also running for a third term as county executive this year.

ALBANY — As he gets ready to roll out his agenda for 2017, Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to introduce a proposal for tuition - free two - year college — a move that will make a splash in state education policy and could draw wider attention, with the governor seemingly considering a national run in 2020.

The Working Families Party has had a tough time getting many of their key issues, such as paid family and medical leave, across the finish line in the General Assembly but most of the Democrats running for governor this year have come out strongly in favor of those types of progressive policies.

The pragmatists in the WFP argue the party needs to run as high a profile a candidate for governor as possible to ensure receiving 50,000 votes in that race this fall and preserving its ballot line for another four years.

Two years later, Trump briefly explored running for governor of New York as a springboard to the White House.

ALBANY — Governor Andrew Cuomo's running mate for lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, earned between $ 150,000 and $ 250,000 a year in her job as a vice president at M&T Bank, according to financial disclosure records filed with the state's ethics comGovernor Andrew Cuomo's running mate for lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, earned between $ 150,000 and $ 250,000 a year in her job as a vice president at M&T Bank, according to financial disclosure records filed with the state's ethics comgovernor, Kathy Hochul, earned between $ 150,000 and $ 250,000 a year in her job as a vice president at M&T Bank, according to financial disclosure records filed with the state's ethics commission.

But as to whether he makes another run for governor the following year, in 2018, is another question, he said.

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling, who was elected as a Republican in 2009, and who seriously considered running for Governor as an independent this year, now has some feelings of regret that he didn't run as an independent this year.

New York's expected budget gap is growing larger — a more than $ 4 billion deficit heading into the next fiscal year now poses a challenge for Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers as they prepare to run for re-election.

Kean Jr., who may very well be running for governor himself in 2017, hasn't always had the smoothest relationship with Christie, who tried to take him out as minority leader two years ago.

Cuomo this month sidestepped a question on whether he'd run for president, saying he's planning to seek a third term as governor next year.

Astorino was re-elected to his second term as Westchester's county executive in 2013 and would need to run again in 2017 — a year before the next race for governor.

«My choice is to continue on as lieutenant governor and to run for re-election with the governor and not be distracted by individuals who would like me to consider beating Chris Collins this year,» Hochul said in an interview with The Buffalo News.

In a federal lawsuit filed today, the party claimed that Rob Astorino, the Republican Westchester county executive and candidate for governor, threatened to «decapitate» party leadership in a bid to win the Independence Party's support as he ran for re-election in Westchester last year.

Brian Fitzherbert and Robert Turkavage are running on the Republican side, and politics blogger David Wildstein reports that Hirsh Singh, a Republican and a software engineer who ran for governor last year, will jump in the 2nd District race as well.

A new poll in California indicates that the Golden State governor's approval rating is soaring and that he's far ahead of his Republican challengers as he runs this year for an unprecedented fourth term in office.

Disenchanted members of Gov. Cuomo's administration, embarrassed by the worsening government scandals and convinced that Cuomo won't be president, will soon leave their jobs — just as the governor is stepping up plans to run for re-election next year.

The governor also said involvement by millennials — either as volunteers or candidates — is going to be crucial to outcomes in the mid-term elections this November, before plugging one of his 29 - year - old staffers who is running for U.S. House, Gareth Rhodes.

Better known as «Not Too Young to Run» bill, it seeks to reduce the age qualification for presidential aspirants to 35 years and governors, 30 years.

(CNN)- Beau Biden said Thursday he won't seek re-election this year as Delaware attorney general and plans instead to run for governor in 2016.

He ran for lieutenant governor alongside Tom Foley in 2010, and this year chose his running mate early, naming former Groton Mayor Heather Somers as his lieutenant governor pick.

Most recently he ran for state Senate and before that lieutenant governor, solidifying Vanderhoef as the most prominent politician in Rockland County over the last 30 years.

Cuomo's long flirtation with running for president proved to be as much his undoing as his belief that no one else was suitable to serve as governor, even after he had given 12 years to the job.

Marcus Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive who's considering running for governor in two years, met with Onondaga County Republican Committee leaders today as he tries to build name recognition throughout the state.

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Davis criticized CNN for giving Spitzer a platform to give others advice: «In the first 10 seconds, he tells Obama to fire Tim Geithner — who is he to tell the president how to run the country when he couldn't get through four years as governor?»

She informally advised Andrew Cuomo as he positioned himself for a successful gubernatorial run last year, and it was because of her close ties to the governor that the coalition of gay rights groups fighting for marriage equality hired her this spring.

Cuomo last year did campaign with and endorse Democratic candidates, but his coattails were — as usual for any governor who runs in a non-presidential election year — strikingly short for down - ballot candidates.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's running mate for lieutenant governor, former Rep. Kathy Hochul, earned between $ 150,000 and $ 250,000 a year in her job as a vice president at M&T Bank.

The jobs agenda from the state Republicans comes as the GOP is publicly trying to woo Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino to run for governor against Demcorat Andrew Cuomo next year.

Vanderhoef, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor as John Faso's running mate in 2006, recently announced he won't seek a fifth four year term in 2013.

Republican Rockland County Executive Ed Day, who won re-election to a second term as county exec earlier this month, won't be challenging Cuomo next year, but might run for governor in 2022.

LG Kathy Hochul said she plans to run for re-election this year and dismissed the notion that she would instead challenge Republican Rep. Chris Collins as «political fodder of the chattering class,» but she refused to say whether the governor has actually asked her to be his running mate again.

And Cuomo received a combined $ 63,625 from the couple over the last three years as he was gearing up to run for governor.

Collins, meanwhile, earned his share of detractors within party ranks during his four - year tenure as Erie County executive, his short - lived, gaffe - filled run for governor and his support of Edward Cox over Henry Wojtaszek of Niagara County for state party chairman a few years back.