Sentences with phrase «running for governor as»

He is running for governor as a Democrat.

ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo is running for governor as an outsider, pledging to remake the much - maligned morass of state government that he has called a «disgrace.»

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, left, was criticized by Sen. John DeFrancisco, who is running for governor as a Republican.

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.

Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has told Republican officials he's running for governor as he won a straw poll of GOP leaders on Friday during a meeting in Saratoga Springs.

But he was more than willing to question many of Cox's decisions over the past few months — including the endorsement of Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to run for governor as a Republican.

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.

He says he considers public service his life's calling, and a run for governor as the next step.

He had bolted the state GOP to run for governor as an independent, and it was unclear which state politician...

RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR)-- Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling announced via email and web post on Tuesday morning that he did not plan to run for governor as an Independent candidate.

Even the chairman's one good idea — recruiting fiscal hawk and Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy to switch parties and run for governor as a Republican — failed because Cox couldn't convince party members to buy the strategy.

Cuomo's concern, as a ran for governor as an anti-partisan centrist, was that Schneiderman was too liberal.

Lazio, a former congressman from Long Island, announced Monday that he would not run for governor as the Conservative Party nominee.

He unsuccessfully ran for governor as the Republican nominee in 2006.

In 2014, she was former Gov. Charlie Crist's running mate when he ran for governor as a Democrat.

In addition to Day, Rep. Chris Gibson, who retires at the end of his current term in 2016, is considering a run for governor as is the party's 2014 nominee, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

Since then, he has run for the Senate as an independent and lost, then run for governor as a Democrat and lost.

During a press conference on Dec. 27, while announcing that the county had met the terms of its settlement with HUD to build 750 units of affordable housing before 2017, Astorino commented on Johnson's plans to run for governor as a Democrat.

At the same time, Golisano, a registered GOPer who ran for governor as an independent in 2002, was funneling millions into Responsible New York, a third - party effort that largely backed Democrats.

«He's kind of a laconic guy,» said Rick Lazio, a former congressman who ran for governor as a Republican and once visited Israel with Silver, who is now a columnist for Commercial Observer and an attorney with Jones Walker.

The Levy - King connection has since soured, and Levy, who initially said nice things about Cuomo, has switched parties and decided to run for governor as a Republican.

Oz Griebel ran for governor as a Republican in 2010 but this year is gathering signatures to run as an unaffiliated candidate in November, skipping the convention and primary process altogether.

But had Howie Hawkins run for governor as an independent in 2010 with a Green Party of New York endorsement, he would not be on the 2014 ballot now as a Green — because an endorsement legally does not create a ballot line for the party.

Bill Curry, the former state comptroller who twice ran for governor as a Democrat, said the rise of candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump has led to a flood of people running on populist platforms.

But at the start of this election year, Molinaro said he would not run for governor as he viewed an incumbent sitting on 30 million campaign dollars and sweet polling numbers.

Tom Tancredo is a former Republican Congressman and in 2010 he ran for Governor as a candidate of the American Constitution Party.

ALBANY — Fresh off an announcement that jolted the New York political world, Steve Levy, the Long Island Democrat who abandoned his party to run for governor as a Republican, is working to secure endorsements as he tries to gain an edge in the contest for the nomination.

Levy recently switched from Democrat to Republican in a failed bid to run for governor as a Republican.

Surely, if Jonathan Pelto can make the courageous decision to run for governor as a third party candidate, the rank and file of AFT and HFT can agitate to vote their leadership out?

Not exact matches

Whitman is well - known in state and national politics as well, having worked on presidential campaigns for Mitt Romney and John McCain, and having run against Jerry Brown in 2010 for the governor of California, a race she ended up losing.

Jenny Wilson, a Democratic candidate running for Senate in Utah, said this week that «Utah families deserve another Utahn as their senator, not a Massachusetts governor who thinks of our state as his vacation home.»

Excepting being so out of touch with the average American which is terminal for a presidential candidate, Romney could have been a formidable candidate if the RNC had let him run on his record as a moderate Governor of Massachusetts instead of being pushed to the far right by the primary process.

Romney has been widely criticized for running against his past - against what he did at Bain Capital and as governor of Massachusetts, and against his prior views on abortion and health care.

That is why he didn't run for re-election as governor because he had already conquered it once.

I do nt vote for liars who stand for NOTHING, hide their wealth in foreign countries to avoid paying taxes, hide their tax returns, had their financial records when running the Olympics SHREDDED and all his emails as Governor permanently DESTROYED.

Just as the governor of a state is responsible for the smooth running of a state's government without having to become personally involved in every decision» without, in other words, feeling that his office obligates him to serve as the traffic cop at every busy corner» so too the Cosmological Argument contains no implication whatever that God has become the traffic cop of cellular evolution.

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Ggovernor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant GovernorGovernor.

Back in the oil business full time as of November 3, Joe Shell is still confident about his own political future and is not discounting the possibility that he might run for governor again in 1966.

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.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, was running for governor in 2010, but still serving as state attorney general.

A guy who invested in downtown buffalo when everyone else gave up on the inner city while his opponent was carefully reinventing himself as a calm, aloof, controlled and experienced outsider, who just happened to have a former governor (a crappy one at that), married a Kennedy for her name and got cuckolded in the process, wasted billions on bad sub-prime mortgages and canal money, ran against Carl McCall earning the everlasting respect of the African - Americans in NYS, and now sounds suspiciously like Elliot Spitzer.

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.

During a recent wide - ranging interview, former Gov. David Paterson offered a new explanation for why he had agreed to run as then - gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer's lieutentant governor in 2006.

It was widely viewed as a major gaffe by Cuomo, who was at the time making a long - shot run for governor against Pataki and the Democratic Party's preferred candidate, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

Carl Paladino just fired back at Post Editor - in - Chief Col Allen, who said in a statement yesterday that the Buffalo businessman invited the scrutiny he and his family have received both by running for governor and, as Allen put it, «speaking openly about his mistress and love child.»

«I can't imagine that Eliot Spitzer wants to run for public office again after what he did while he was in the last two public offices as attorney general and as governor.»

I am of the opinion that in the event Paladino were to take another run for Governor and only were to seek the Conservative Line, that he would end up with the GOP Line as well if he were to collect signatures and force a primary.

At 11 a.m., Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro holds the first of two events at which he'll announce his run for governor, Tivoli, where he launched his political career as the youngest mayor in the US at the time.