Sentences with phrase «run for higher office after»

With her youth and history - making run, her candidacy captures the most unmitigated example of a new kind of woman driven to run for higher office after Hillary Clinton's loss.

Not exact matches

It wasn't long after the meeting at the Tompkins County GOP headquarters that Lee, who also was the chairman of the Tompkins County Board of Representatives at the time, decided to run for higher office.

The current county executive is, of course, Republican Chris Collins, who himself passed up an opportunity to run for higher office (governor) last year after a number of verbal gaffes hampered his ability to gain traction for a statewide bid.

Four years after asking Dave Walker to join him on his ticket for governor and lieutenant governor, former state Senate GOP Leader John McKinney has endorsed Tim Herbst for the state's highest office over his one - time running mate.

It's kind of funny, in an ironic sense, that George Pataki is getting more media awareness and publicity (albeit on social media platforms like Twitter he's being ridiculed for being «irrelevant» in the first place) after announcing the suspension of his campaign than he ever did while running for the highest office in the «democratic» free world.

Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky of Westchester County, above, and State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman have assailed her in recent weeks, saying that Ms. Rice had opposed the overhaul last year and had changed her views only recently, after she decided to run for higher office.

After many long conversations and much soul searching I concluded that it wasn't the right time to run for higher office — and I removed my name from consideration.

The change of heart came after Mr. Wright, someone who has sought promotions for higher office before, ran for Assembly speaker against Mr. Heastie last year.

Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino students» «urban culture.»