Sentences with phrase «said running for governor»

Despite his years of experience in politics, he said running for governor was a completely different experience than other campaigns.

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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.»

Those discussing a possible run with the talk - show host include Ted Strickland, the former Ohio governor who ran for Senate last year, said Tim Burke, the Hamilton County Democratic Party chairman.

Soglin, who has said he is considering running for governor, said Thursday that he'll announce his decision after Labor Day.

Speaking during the debate, central bank governor Stournaras said secret witness testimonies implicating himself and his wife, who runs a communications and consultancy company specializing in the health sector, were lies, and called for the parliamentary investigative committee to be set up to look into all allegations.

Neighborhood leaders influential in Mayor Luke Bronin's political rise say he will have to win over the community again after spending four months flirting with a run for governor.

«I took this on to tackle prejudicial attitudes,» DeMoss says, explaining how he approached Romney about running for president in 2006, convinced that the then - Massachusetts governor was the most qualified man for the presidency that he'd ever seen.

«You could even argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality, way of life, a cult, whatever you want to call it,» he said during his failed run for governor.

Eric Sapp, who runs a faith - focused consulting firm with Strider, said he wasn't hired by the House and Senate Democratic campaign committees or by candidates for Congress or governor, for the first time since he started doing such work.

When running for Governor of Mass. he said he was pro-gay, pro-choice, pro-union.

«I rejected it, right now, because I'm focused on getting Donald Trump to run for governor,» Paladino said.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, who says she is considering a run for governor in 2018, called on all elected officials to return donations from billionaire Dan Loeb, who recently made headlines with racially charged comments.

Recall that Levy still hasn't ruled out an independent run for governor, which he said at the convention he was mulling, and also hasn't endorsed the man who blocked him from getting onto the GOP ballot: Former Rep. Rick Lazio.

Sources familiar with their conversation say Paladino asked Pataki for his advice in how to best unify the GOP and Conservative parties (recall that Pataki ran three times with both lines) and get Lazio, whom the former governor has endorsed, to drop out of the race.

«Rick Lazio, if he ran for governor, would be nothing but a delivery boy for Andrew Cuomo,» Caputo said.

Ad man Jim Siegel says a new book and documentary about fallen governor Eliot Spitzer are «a great steppingstone» for Spitzer's comeback, adding: «I think he will run for something in a year or two.»

Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo has fired back at state Conservative Chairman Mike Long for suggesting he should stop running for governor or resign his party post, saying Long himself should resign if his preferred gubernatorial candidate (and Lorigo's primary opponent), Rick Lazio loses.

«I've told Rob Astorino and say here to Steve McLaughlin, Ed Cox and any others who have thoughts of running for Governor to hit the road and tell the rank and file who you are and what you will do.

He urged the traders to pay the governor back with their votes when he will come out for re-election for second tenure, saying, «ou know that the politicians are greedy, they will not avoid running for second tenure, they will always stand for re-election and that is the time they should pay him in his own coin for what he did to them.»

Quinn rejected the suggestion that the governor is being motivated by politics — a desire to settle this long - running Democratic feud before he formally launches his 2018 re-eleciton bid or moves toward a 2020 White House run — saying she believes his only motivated is the «politics of getting legislation passed, and making things better for New Yorkers.»

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.»

Gov. David Paterson this morning gave a big shout - out to Bob Duffy, who is running for the lieutenant governor post Paterson himself once held, saying the Rochester mayor is ready to step in and lead the state if necessary.

After years of saying he would not consider another run for Governor, Carl Paladino is leaving the door open in 2014 even if it is just a crack.

The poll found that 36 percent of state voters want the current governor to run for president, while 39 percent say he shouldn't run.

Trump says he is considering a Republican run for governor later this year against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Joseph Holland, a Republican who served as co-chairman of former Gov. George Pataki's successful 1994 campaign, said he is formally running for governor, making his intentions clear in an email to Republican county chairmen.

«Next year, when you are running for your third term as Governor of new York, when you go to the polling place to cast your vote, promise me you will not ride there on horseback,» he said.

State GOP Chair Ed Cox said Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro is running for governor after winning a party straw poll, but a Molinaro spokesman responded that his boss had not publicly committed to running and would not be making an announcement any time soon.

Former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner says she's «seriously considering» running for governor, regardless of Nixon's entry into the race.

Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich said he's «seriously considering» a bid for lieutenant governor against Cuomo's running mate, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul, after being approached by Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who's running for governor.

Not long after that incident, Donohue was a guest on Capital Tonight, and said his union, which didn't back Cuomo during his initial run for governor in 2010, probably wouldn't be backing him when he sought a second term in 2014, either.

The anti-gun group went on to say that David's subsequent statement had provided some «comfort,» but they are now calling on the governor to provide a date for when this database will be up and running.

Bob McCarthy says the prospect of running Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro for governor against Cuomo has given New York Republicans new «optimism.»

After keeping mum for days about his plan to end his LG run and jump into the governor's race, Republican businessman M. Myers Mermel let loose with both barrels against Democratic gubernatorial contender, Andrew Cuomo, saying the AG should resign immediately because he is «responsible» for the Albany mess.

«Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon says she has a simple response to voters who question whether she has the experience necessary to run for governor of New York.

Former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said she's encouraged that Nixon will challenge Cuomo in a Democratic primary, but that Nixon's announcement will have no impact on her decision whether to run for governor.

We know this because Doe Fund founder George McDonald, a Democrat - turned - Republican who is running for NYC mayor next year, tweeted a photo of the governor with said cake, and a message that he had «a wonderful time» celebrating with Cuomo last night.

State Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco's decision to run for governor could play havoc with the upcoming budget negotiations, insiders say.

«I would have never put myself running for governor in the first place if I felt I had skeletons in the closet,» said Kolb.

By a nearly two to one margin in a NY1 / Baruch College poll, New Yorkers say they want to see the governor run for president in 2020.

As a political neophyte, Khojasteh says he recognizes what he doesn't know, and therefore hired some recognizable names to assist him in his Senate quest, including Mollie Fullington, a former Pataki administration spokeswoman, who is handling media; and Mike Lawler, an Astorino administration aide who ran the former county executive's failed 2014 run for governor, as campaign manager.

«I read that he is against marriage equality and that he is against a woman's right to choose, and as a progressive Democrat that troubles me tremendously,» said Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, in response to a question in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom, while also noting Williams unsuccessfully ran for City Council president.

As for Cuomo's campaign for governor, Lazio said it's «paid for an run by the special interest groups because he's a creature of Albany; he always will be.»

«Carl Paladino is the only candidate running for Governor who is truly pro-gun and pro-second amendment,» King said in a statement released by the Paladino campaign.

«Many people were saying that Cynthia Nixon's run for governor was a kamikaze mission,» she said.

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

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro said Thursday he will not run for governor, ending more than a year of speculation about whether the two - term leader might take on Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year for the state's top post.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra says he's dropping out of the Republican race for New York state governor and will run as an independent instead.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna said today he will consider running for governor of New York in 2018, responding to the encouragement of at least a dozen top Republicans from across the state who approached him with the idea.

Former Rep. James Walsh, R - Onondaga, once accused Cuomo of pandering to the media — a claim that, years later, resurfaced as Cuomo crisscrossed the state for months talking about sex offenders and phony travel vouchers while refusing to say whether he would run for governor or answer tough questions about the state.