Sentences with phrase «run for governor this year while»

Many Democratic voters statewide — 60 % — do not want Paterson to run for governor this year while only one - third does.

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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.

Last year, Hawkins earned the most votes for a Green Party candidate in any statewide office while running for governor.

While he insists he's only focused on re-election in 2018, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has taken steps to prepare for a run for governor — and a possible Democratic primary challenge to Cuomo — in two years, said a source close to DiNapoli.

In a shot directly at Mayor Bill de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.

State Supreme Court Justice Edgar Walker rejected arguments that Teachout didn't meet the five - year residency requirement to run for governor, finding she maintained a «physical presence» in New York since 2009 even while driving with a Vermont license until last May.

While O'Malley has said he's focused on his last year as governor, he's also weighing a presidential run and has said he's preparing the «ground work» for a potential campaign.

ALBANY — In a shot directly at Mayor de Blasio, the state Senate Republicans on Friday quietly introduced a bill that would extend New York city mayoral control over the schools for just a year while at the same time giving the governor a role in how the city system is run.

Once heralded by the governor as a transformative way to bring down energy costs for consumers while increasing jobs at upstate power producers, the plan announced more than three years ago has produced little progress on a core initiative: a nearly $ 1 billion project to run AC transmission lines around Utica or the Catskills and down the Hudson Valley to meet downstate's growing power needs.

Collins, who briefly contemplated a run for governor while serving as Erie County executive in 2010, said he was «absolutely not» planning to run against Cuomo next year.

But while Cuomo maintains a positive favorable - unfavorable rating, 49 percent of voters say they would prefer a different governor if he runs for re-election two years from now.

Perry, who ran for president in the past two election cycles, is likely to shift the department away from renewable energy and toward fossil fuels, whose production he championed while serving as governor for 14 years... «During his time in office, Perry embodied the type of «all of the above» approach to U.S. energy production that many have advocated on both sides of the aisle,» Zelermyer said.