Mendoza left a position as Chicago's City Clerk and stepped into a statewide office — and into the morass of one of the longest -
running budget battles in the nation's history.
Not exact matches
Though McCall and Cuomo
ran against each other in the 2002 Democratic primary for governor — Cuomo dropped out — McCall has recently worked closely with the governor on both the tuition and
budget battles.
A sample of those that don't: - CA (R incumbent,
budget mess, strongly D state with a good couple of D candidates in Brown & Newsom)- MN (R incumbent not seeking re-election, strongly D state with a much stronger bench than the R's thanks to Coleman's legal
battle probably costing him a
run)- PA (D incumbent in swing state, with much stronger R bench with AG & / or Rep likely to
run)
Cuomo walked into a packed news conference in Albany and cited a continuing
budget battle with New York's Republicans in declining to
run.
I suspect that is a losing
battle most of the time, because
budgets are fixed in the short -
run, and many clients have long term goals that they are trying to achieve — actuarial funding targets, mortgage payments, college tuition, cost of living in retirement, endowment spending rule goals, implied cost of funds, etc..
It is not as if Motorola's
budget warrior is a bad device — it is, in fact, a very good one and keeps
running the much newer Honor 9 Lite close in many of the parameters, but at the end of the day, we really think the Honor 9 Lite wins this
battle.