As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, it is clear that the last thing Cuomo wanted to do was
run for reelection at a time when his constituents are being asked to pay higher taxes — even if the federal government is the culprit.
Not exact matches
, seen here speaking to reporters recently
at the Capitol, has decided not to
run for reelection.
When asked
at a Wednesday event in Rochester, Hochul said she is focused on
running for reelection.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican best known
for his handling of multiple investigations into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, announced he will not
run for reelection when his current term concludes
at the end of 2018.
With Liu's recent endorsement of Grace Meng, Congress was out of the question and Peter Koo easily won
reelection, so a Council
run won't happen,
at least not
for another four years.
He is
at pains to demonstrate he is serious about improving the failing subway system that he has controlled since 2011, but also faces a $ 4.4 billion budget deficit and says he plans to
run for reelection in November.
Democratic newcomer Rita Worthington also is also looking
at an unopposed
run for the Fourth Ward seat being vacated by incumbent Democrat Nina Dawson, who is not seeking
reelection.
Cuomo has made it clear that his goal
for reelection is to
at least equal the landslide, 64 percent victory margin won by his father, Mario Cuomo, when he first
ran for re-election in 1986.
It started with a poll showing that most New Yorkers think he shouldn't
run for reelection; by midweek, the head of a state - employees union, angry over threatened layoffs, said Paterson «needs a good psychiatrist, or
at least he should share the drugs he's on.»
But the end of the trial isn't the end of trouble
for Cuomo, who's
running for reelection this year and reportedly looking
at a presidential bid in 2020.
Mayor de Blasio, who is
running for reelection, votes in the 2017 primary election on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017,
at the Park Slope Library in Brooklyn.
After volunteering on various local political campaigns, such as her mother's, Ms. Shorenstein went national: volunteering on Bill Clinton's
reelection campaign and working
for Al Gore's presidential
run at age 21 (by 29, she had attended five Democratic National Conventions).
During his club pitch to D.I.D., he said he chose not to
run for reelection as city comptroller four years ago because he thought it would have been wrong — in an unstated but obvious dig
at opponent Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who backed Bloomberg's push to extend term limits on city officials.
But in the Senate, Republicans are trying to kick out
at least 10 Senate Democrats
running for reelection in Trump states.
It's definitely not
for reelection to his current office, according to a Post source, who told the paper that «he's either
running for mayor or not
at all.»
De Blasio, who is
running for reelection this fall against Republican Nicole Malliotakis and a string of third - party candidates, told churchgoers: «It takes a lot of gall to tweet negative things about people recovering from a hurricane while you're
at your golf course playing golf.»
A new face joined the Rosendale Town Board
at its first meeting of 2016, on January 6: Stacy Lipari, a professional educator and currently director of the Creative Co-Op, took the seat formerly held by Bob Ryan, who did not
run for reelection.
Still, he did not formally commit to the idea of a
run for governor, saying
at the end of the meeting that he would think over the possibility of taking on Cuomo in his
reelection bid.
«We're all here because it is our hope,» he said and hinted
at a
run for Assembly or Congress, or a
reelection to City Council pending on how the district lines are redrawn.
After speaking on the radio, De Blasio, who is
running for reelection, held several campaign events later Sunday, delivering remarks
at Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem and greeting voters in Harlem and the Bronx.
At a press briefing in the Red Room, Council Speaker Christine Quinn said she would
run for reelection to her Chelsea - based council seat, not
for mayor, if the council approved legislation extending term limits.
At least one Democrat
running for reelection has expressed concern about the ban (Representative Ed Perlmutter (CO)-RRB-.
Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote to Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator had decided not to
run for reelection because he'd been diagnosed with cancer: «No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time
at the office.»
Any new tax or fee could be a lightning rod
for opposition from Republican and Democratic senators, especially those
running for reelection this year and
at a time when domestic gasoline prices already are rising in a difficult economy.