Sentences with phrase «running gubernatorial campaigns»

Aside from raising the millions of dollars needed for campaign advertising in one of the nation's most expensive television markets, Bharara, as an independent, would need to pull together a statewide organization of paid staff and volunteers that could compete with get - out - the - vote efforts run by the Democratic and Republican Parties, particularly in a year when they'll be running gubernatorial campaigns.

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) has caved and signed a ban on private on gun sales after running a gubernatorial campaign in which he rejected the need for more gun control.

Stone is running the gubernatorial campaign of «Manhattan Madam» Kristin Davis, who is running on the Anti-Prohibition Party line (an independent line of her own creation).

Unlike in 2010, when Percoco took a formal leave of absence while working for Cuomo in the attorney general's office to run his gubernatorial campaign, Percoco in April 2014 actually put in his resignation papers, payroll records show.

Not exact matches

But they didn't love the idea of losing control over who gets to run on their ballot line, which they — through gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins — worked so hard to secure in the 2010 campaign.

Laura Lavine, the Republican candidate for Syracuse mayor, split with her local campaign manager, Danny Fitzpatrick, and is bringing in a consultant from New York City, Michael Lawler, who ran Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's 2014 gubernatorial bid.

Cuomo has been calling for campaign finance reform since his 2010 gubernatorial run, and reiterated that call in his recent State of the State address.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo's hand - picked LG running mate, Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy, was relentlessly on message following his comments at the Business Council's annual meeting yesterday, stressing repeatedly that the campaign needs to «get back to the issues.»

Susan Del Percio, who handled media for Faso and was part of the team that helped him become the party's gubernatorial nominee at the convention four years ago, has signed on as a consultant to Levy's campaign in the run - up to this year's GOP confab, a source familiar with her hiring confirmed.

Caputo, Stone's protégé, ran Paladino's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

The 145th AD special election has turned into a redux of sorts of the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, pitting a Democrat backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo against a fellow Democrat (running on the GOP line) supported by Cuomo's defeated foe, Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino.

Bill Samuels formally kicked off his LG campaign this morning, pledging to fight in a Democratic primary battle against the running mate of presumptive gubernatorial contender, AG Andrew Cuomo, if necessary.

After all, King goes waaaaaaay back with Cuomo, serving under him at HUD, running as his LG in his ill - fated 2002 gubernatorial campaign and then, at then candidate - Cuomo's request, serving as the official party attack dog during the 2010 campaign.

Before abruptly calling off his gubernatorial campaign, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb's weekend schedule was jam - packed with events related to his run.

At 9:30 a.m., Dutchess County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Marc Molinaro and Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo will provide an update on his campaign's search for an LG running mate, East Ridge Diner and Steakhouse, 765 Ridge Rd., Rochester.

After casting his ballot in Buffalo today (presumably for himself and his running mate, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards), gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino said he found his first political campaign «treacherous, very confusing in many respects,» but insisted he had no regrets.

Ventura was the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a low - budget campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that urged citizens not to «vote for politics as usual».

Molinaro opened a campaign account with the state Board of Elections in November for a potential gubernatorial bid but said at the time that he had not made a decision about running.

Rockland County Executive Scot Vanderhoef, for whom Basile worked during the 2006 campaign when Vanderhoef was gubernatorial candidate John Faso's running mate, is now the GOP candidate in the 38th SD.

After toying with the idea of his own gubernatorial campaign in 2014, then trying to draft Trump to run, Paladino ultimately got behind the endorsed GOP candidate Rob Astorino.

It was forwarded to me this morning by GOP consultant Roger Stone, who is closely allied with Paladino through his campaign manager, Michael Caputo, but is technically running the campaign of another gubernatorial hopful, Manhattan Madam Kristin Davis.

«I would say Cuomo is the one I am most nervous about,» said Michael Caputo, a longtime adviser to Trump who helped put together an aborted Trump gubernatorial run against Cuomo in 2014, and helped lead the campaign for Carl Paladino, Cuomo's 2010 Republican opponent.

She was a driving force — albeit as an advisor and not as a paid campaign member — behind his political comeback in 2006 when he ran a successful statewide campaign for AG just four years after a disastrous and short - lived gubernatorial primary challenge against then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

On the eve of the first — and it appears only — gubernatorial debate, which will take place tomorrow night in Buffalo, the state GOP has released a new TV ad trashing Gov. Andrew Cuomo for running a «mean - spirited» campaign and being «afraid» to debate his Republican opponent, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine and running mate Jon Husted met with 13 local business leaders and Mayor Lydia Mihalik on Wednesday in a campaign stop in Findlay.

While three Republicans — former assemblyman and failed gubernatorial candidate John Faso of Columbia County, Dutchess businessman Andrew Heaney and Schoharie County assemblyman Pete Lopez — have announced their campaign, so far the only Democrat who's in the race (or at least filed papers to run in it) is Dutchess» John Patrick Kehoe.

A quick recap of Trump's first year in office: an airstrike on a Syrian airbase, FBI Director James Comey's firing, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appointment to investigate possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the GOP healthcare fiasco, U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, North Korea's ongoing threats of nuclear annihilation, «Crazy Mika «tweets, the Mooch, Charlottesville, #MeToo, Democratic gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Roy Moore's Alabama Senate run, Paul Manafort's indictment, Mike Flynn's plea deal, an ongoing battle over the Consumer Financial Bureau, the annihilation of ISIS, a resurgence of al - Qaeda terrorist networks, the repeal of net neutrality, the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Republican tax reform, Steve Bannon's fall from grace, «shithole» countries and continuing Fire and Fury fallout.

Then, Percoco told them about money he allegedly got from two Syracuse - area entities, including one whose two top executives are on trial with Percoco, during a period in 2014 when Percoco had left the state payroll — temporarily, as it turned out, to run Cuomo's gubernatorial re-election campaign.

Topics in a post-announcement press Q&A included whether Cuomo will support Bronx Borough President, and Cuomo ally, Ruben Diaz Jr. in a 2017 mayoral run against Bill de Blasio, details on a state program to fund the green card application fees of 2,000 applicants, delays in the Cuomo administration response to the still unfolding Hoosick Falls drinking water catastrophe, whether Cuomo will work to turn control of the state senate to the Democrats, whether Cuomo will sign recently - passed AirBnB legislation, the State's response to increasingly severe occurrences of K2 / spice overdoses and whether he will support 2014 gubernatorial opponent Zephyr Teachout in her congressional campaign.

Bill O'Reilly, who was once del Percio's business partner, is now running Astorino's gubernatorial campaign.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro has opened a campaign account with the state Board of Elections for a potential gubernatorial bid, but he said Wednesday that he still hasn't decided whether to run for the job next year.

Cappuccilli got the job from Republican Gov. George Pataki in 1995 after he ran Pataki's gubernatorial campaign in Central New York the year before.

ANDREW CUOMO, WHO will turn 53 in December, ran his first political campaign — his father's original gubernatorial bid against Ed Koch — almost 30 years ago and has been a fixture of the national media almost ever since.

«If taxpayers throughout the state want me to consider running for higher office, I will,» said Molinaro, who has not formed a gubernatorial campaign committee or declared himself a candidate.

So of all the candidates in the Republican gubernatorial primary in the Lone Star State, it would be fair to think of him as the least likely to run an unconventional campaign.

Caputo managed Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's unsuccessful campaign against Cuomo in 2010 and was later part of efforts to recruit Trump to run against the governor in 2014.

Deputy Senate Majority John DeFrancisco has hired a veteran New York Republican consultant, Michael Lawler, who ran ex-Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's failed 2014 gubernatorial campaign, to run his 2018 campaign for governor.

Perry was not at all shy about confirming the fact that he's plotting another presidential run in 2016 when he visited New York last week to raise campaign cash for GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino.

Fresh off their anointment at the state GOP convention in Westchester today, gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino and his hand - picked running mate, Chris Moss, will hit the campaign trail together, heading back upstate.

That is what Gov. Rod Blagojevich said in television ads when he ran his 2002 gubernatorial campaign.

Democrats must target to hold Connectiuct, Washington (Rossi has alot of negatives from running 2 losing gubernatorial campaigns) and WV to make sure Manchin keeps that seat for them.

Pete: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Philip Levine will discuss his campaign run and why he is willing to spend whatever it takes to win.

The party first ran someone in a statewide campaign in 1998, fielding Al Lewis, the actor who played Grandpa Munster, as its gubernatorial candidate.

Murphy, who will likely run against Fulop for the North and Central Jersey vote in a crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary, is accusing him of using his mayoral campaign as a war chest for that race.

Yet Democratic operatives say Margolies has run an astonishingly poor campaign in the 13th District, an open seat thanks to Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz's gubernatorial bid in the Keystone State.

Their gubernatorial nominee, Fred DuVal, has run a quality campaign that has attracted cross-over endorsements, such as former state Attorney General Grant Woods.

ALBANY — One of the many Republicans considering a run for governor in 2018 has taken the first official step toward doing so: registering a gubernatorial campaign committee.

The Republican race for the gubernatorial nomination is a potentially crowded one next year: The party's 2014 nominee Rob Astorino is expected to run and businessman Harry Wilson, a 2010 candidate for state comptroller, is also weighing a campaign for governor.

Here in New York, vibrant movements opposing fracking and the growing corporate attacks on our public school system helped spur the Green Party gubernatorial campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones, which received almost 5 percent of the vote running against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the best any independent third party campaign has done statewide in more than 80 years.

Green Party activist Howie Hawkins is set to make a gubernatorial run after his 2010 campaign netted him 59,906 votes, enough to keep the party on the ballot for the coming election.