Sentences with phrase «then lieutenant governor»

On March 10, 2008, David Paterson, then lieutenant governor, was unwrapping a curried chicken takeout lunch in the State Capitol when the governor's office called to say that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had become embroiled in a prostitution scandal.

Slaughter was the Rochester regional coordinator for Mario Cuomo when he was secretary of state, then lieutenant governor.

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The conflict, in part, is easy to see, given that Spitzer elevated Paterson from Senate minority leader to lieutenant governor, who then became the state's first black governor following the March 2008 resignation.

Hochul became lieutenant governor in 2015, added to the Democratic ticket in 2014 as Cuomo sought a second term, replacing then - incumbent Bob Duffy.

Paterson at the time was the highest - ranking black elected official in New York history, but he rose still higher when he was tapped to serve as Gov. Eliot Spitzer's lieutenant govenror, and then ascended to the governor's office in 2008 when Spitzer was forced to resign in the wake of a prostitution scandal.

Traditionally, the nominee and his nominated lieutenant governor then tour the state.

And technically, even then Christie could not appoint himself: He'd have to resign with the understanding that his lieutenant governor, Kim Guadagno, would ascend to the governorship and then send her mentor to Washington.

Newsom previously served as the mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2010 before he was then elected lieutenant governor, defeating six candidates.

«It was in 2007 when I chose him to become my chief of staff when I became lieutenant governor, it was then that he told me about his illness and his succeeding tax problems and that he was addressing them, and I think the record will show he was addressing them and that he inevitably paid off the old taxes.»

The mayor was believed to be on the short list for potential lieutenant governor running mates back in 2010, but was passed over by Cuomo in favor of then - Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy.

Cuomo served as secretary of state under Hugh Carey for two years and then as his lieutenant governor in Carey's second term.

King has been close to Cuomo for years, working with Cuomo at HUD, running for lieutenant governor in tandem with Cuomo's brief 2002 bid for the statehouse, then running against Cuomo, unsuccessfully, in the 2006 primary for state attorney general.

He was lieutenant governor under Hugh Carey, and won a Democratic primary against then - New York City Mayor Ed Koch to become governor of New York in 1982.

A video posted online shows then - gubernatorial candidate Cuomo backing the mayor of Rochester — his eventual lieutenant governor, Robert Duffy — full throttle in his 2010 bid to gain control of the school system.

Joseph J. Fauliso, the Senate leader who became lieutenant governor upon the death of his friend, Gov. Ella T. Grasso, on Dec. 31, 1980, and then held the job longer than anyone in more than a century, died Wednesday after a brief stay in hospice care.

I then got on a plane and went to Buffalo, the lieutenant governor and I were doing a second inauguration because Kathy Hochul is from Buffalo.

Quinn was lieutenant governor in 2009 when the Illniois state Senate removed then - Gov.

First, his lieutenant governor, Mario Cuomo, and then Mayor Koch proclaimed that they would seek to become the next governor of New York.

[85] He stated that he would then endorse his lieutenant governor for the 2014 gubernatorial election.

[2] Then, on Oct. 15, 2013, French announced on his Facebook page that he would pursue the office of lieutenant governor instead.

In response, Cuomo's lieutenant governor Bob Duffy shot back in a meeting with the Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board, warning Miner if she didn't agree with the governor's ideas, then control of Syracuse could be handed over to a financial control board.

A well - known Manhattan Democratic club endorsed Cynthia Nixon over Gov. Cuomo — but then proceeded to support Kathy Hochul, Cuomo's runningmate, for re-election as lieutenant governor.

He won election as lieutenant governor in the 2006 election and stepped up to the number one job in New York after then - Gov.

Paterson was lieutenant governor when a sex scandal led to then - Gov.

Paterson was lieutenant governor when a scandal led to then - Gov.

«And it is really a shame that this much energy has to be devoted to false allegations, unsubstantiated rumors and in some cases straight out lies,» said Paterson, who was lieutenant governor before assuming the governorship in March 2008 when then - Gov.

Paterson, who was lieutenant governor when a scandal led to then - Gov.

Just one day after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared George W. Bush's path to the presidency — effectively ensuring Rick Perry's promotion to governor of Texas — the then - lieutenant governor was in Dallas naming education as his «premier» concern.

Mandelbaum and Johannsen said the legislation runs counter to the Iowa Energy Plan, a policy document crafted in a process lead by Gov. Reynolds, who was then Iowa's lieutenant governor.