Sentences with phrase «statewide run for attorney general»

Campaign finance rules allow city funds to be easily transferred to a state account, and could help Garodnick finance a potential statewide run for attorney general or state comptroller in 2017.

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But, if Rice or Maloney does not secure the attorney general nomination at the convention, either could file petitions to run for the position statewide.

On February 17, 2010, Rice announced her candidacy for the statewide office of attorney general, the seat vacated by Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who ran for governor in November.

Gianaris said campaign finance disclosures set to be filed on Friday would show he has raised $ 350,000 in the statewide account, New Yorkers for Gianaris, that had its roots in his abortive run for attorney general in 2006, when Eliot Spitzer vacated the office to run (successfully) for governor.

ALBANY — Laying the groundwork for a possible run for attorney general, State Sen. Mike Gianaris has reactivated a long - dormant campaign account and begun raising funds for a statewide campaign in 2018.

«I'm not running for attorney general,» Katko told the editorial board of Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard after reports that he had been approached about running for the statewide post.

The long - awaited entrance of former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara onto the statewide scene with hints he may run for attorney general as an indeAttorney Preet Bharara onto the statewide scene with hints he may run for attorney general as an indeattorney general as an independent.

As he prepares to be term - limited out, Manhattan Councilman Daniel Garodnick has created a statewide campaign account with an eye toward running for attorney general or comptroller if those jobs open up in 2018.

Laying the groundwork for a possible run for attorney general, state Sen. Mike Gianaris has reactivated a long - dormant campaign account and begun raising funds for a statewide campaign in 2018.

That would suspend any NYC mayoral run for James until at least 2021, but the DA seat would also open her up for a potential statewide run for state attorney general, especially if current AG Eric Schneiderman runs for governor, sources told the NY Post.

He has also called for publicly financing the campaigns of candidates running for all four statewide offices, starting with the comptroller and attorney general in 2014.

By noon on Sunday, three churches along a single two - mile stretch of Bedford - Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, had played host to three of New York State's more prominent elected officials: the state's attorney general and comptroller, both of whom are running for statewide office, and the mayor of New York City.

McCollum has run for statewide office in Florida over and over and over again, and never managed to win until he ran for a seat no one cared about — Attorney General.

While all the bills would cover candidates running for governor, six of the individual measures would also close the loophole for different sets of statewide and legislative offices: all legislative races in one bill, Senate - only or Assembly - only in two others; the races for attorney general and comptroller in one bill, those contests individually in two others.

The new Senate Leader sees himself as a viable statewide candidate, and although he passed up the opportunity to run on the Republican ticket for Attorney General last year, he still harbors ambition to be Governor.

Unlike Crist, a telegenic sitting governor and former attorney general who first ran for statewide office in 1986, Meek entered the race last year without much of a profile beyond of his Miami - area congressional district.

FlashReport states that, assuming this ballot designation is «upheld by a judge on the invariable court challenge, it will REALLY help Eastman» as none of the other GOP candidates for Attorney General are going to have the funds necessary to run statewide television campaigns.