Sentences with phrase «who ran for governor»

In the recent election, three of four sitting attorneys general who ran for governor were elected, and six governors and seven U.S. senators are former state attorneys general.

Mrs. Clinton, who explicitly courted Republicans at last week's convention, has already picked up a few telling Republican endorsements: Meg Whitman, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise executive who ran for governor of California as a Republican, backed Mrs. Clinton on Tuesday, as did Representative Richard Hanna of New York, a moderate Republican.

Democrat Zephyr Teachout, who ran for governor in 2014 and the Mid-Hudson Valley's congressional seat in 2016, has formed an exploratory committee regarding a possible run for state attorney general, she said Monday.

It includes Kathleen Rice, a United States representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Mr. Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Alphonso David, Mr. Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the corruption trial of the former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver; Representative Sean Patrick Maloney; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

Astorino, who ran for governor in 2014, has won decisively in a county where Democratic voters outnumber Republicans 2 - to - 1.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins, who ran for governor on an anti-fracking platform against Cuomo in the November election, praised the announcement.

Last year, he worked in the campaign of Nassau County district attorney Denis Dillon, who ran for governor on the Right to Life ticket.

«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.

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.

Teachout, who ran for governor in 2014 and Congress in 2016, said Monday that she would form an exploratory committee as she considers a run.

Astorino, who ran for governor in 2014 and has not ruled out a run in 2018, says he is focused solely on the race for county executive.

The Democrat who ran for Governor in 2008 will now head Indiana's economic development efforts.

They included Kathleen Rice, a U.S. representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from Manhattan; Alphonso David, Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Letitia James, the New York City public advocate; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - N.Y.; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

Brian Fitzherbert and Robert Turkavage are running on the Republican side, and politics blogger David Wildstein reports that Hirsh Singh, a Republican and a software engineer who ran for governor last year, will jump in the 2nd District race as well.

One high - profile contest was won by state Sen. George Latimer, a Democrat, over incumbent Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican who ran for governor in 2014.

Large portions of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke's jobs plan for Wisconsin appear to be copied directly from the plans of three Democratic candidates who ran for governor in previous election cycles.

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.

Donald Trump, left, and Carl Paladino, who ran for governor of New York as a Republican in 2010, speak during a gun rights rally at the Empire State Plaza in April 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Paladino told New York's Republican members of Congress and the state legislature on Monday, March 14, 2016, that they should endorse Trump to salvage their «pathetic careers» in government.

With James out of the running, one likely candidate for the WFP nomination for AG is law professor Zephyr Teachout, who ran for governor against Cuomo in 2014.

A reporter in Rochester asked Golisano, who ran for governor on the Independence line in 1994, 1998 and 2002, if he would ever consider getting back into politics.

Not exact matches

In response, Trump went around the room and asked what he should do about Cordray, who has three months until the Feb. 1 filing deadline to run for governor of Ohio.

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.»

Daniel Bliss, an Illinois Senator who is running for governor, has introduced a bill that would tax investment gains and close the carried interest loophole.

And she saw another son run and lose: Jeb Bush, who was governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, lost his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination ultimately won by Donald Trump.

Nixon may be taking cues from the success of New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who successfully ran for governor on a platform to legalize marijuana in the state.

Georgia Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, a Republican who is running for governor, on Monday threatened to kill tax legislation that would benefit Delta unless it reinstates its relationship with Governor Casey Cagle, a Republican who is running for governor, on Monday threatened to kill tax legislation that would benefit Delta unless it reinstates its relationship with governor, on Monday threatened to kill tax legislation that would benefit Delta unless it reinstates its relationship with the NRA.

State Treasurer John Chiang, who is running for governor, has asked President Donald Trump for guidance on how the state's marijuana industry can participate in the nation's banking system, while pot remains illegal under U.S. law.

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.

Former governor Kathleen Kennedy, who won a seat in the Producers Branch, defeated longtime governor Mark Johnson, who was running for re-election.

Of the governors who lost seats, the Academy does not announce which had run for re-election and which opted not to run or had reached their limit.

California's state treasurer, John Chiang, who is also running for governor there, traveled to the meeting to call for a shakeup in the executive ranks.

Lisa Fritsch, who ran against Greg Abbott in the Republican Primary for Governor of Texas in 2014, discussed the importance -LSB-...]

Mid-decade activism by CalPERS, for example, reportedly was «fueled partly by the political ambitions of Phil Angelides, California's state treasurer and a CalPERS board member,» who planned on running for governor of California in 2006.

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

Sen. Daniel Biss, a Democrat who is one of the bill's sponsors, is running for governor.

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.

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.

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.

Out of curiosity, I Googled Catholic political leaders recently and found only the great Al Smith, the governor of New York who ran for president in 1928 (and lost, alas!).

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.

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.

Bill O'Reilly, a prominent political consultant who is advising Astorino's run for governor, has blasted Senate Republicans in recent days.

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.

«He won't get any numbers higher than the former Madam who used to provide prostitutes to Eliot Spitzer, who's also running for governor.

On Thursday, Astorino will be in the Bronx and later Buffalo, where he'll appear alongside Rep. Chris Collins, who at one point considered running for governor himself.

Lazio's trouble raising money was one of the chief concerns cited by state GOP Chairman Ed Cox when he wooed Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, who had $ 4 million in the bank, to switch parties and run for governor.

Anyone still think Gov. Andrew Cuomo who terminated his own, «Moreland Commision» when its anti-corruption investigation, started getting close to the Governor's Mansion in Albany, NY should still run for President in 2020?

Golisano, who spent some $ 93 million on three unsuccessful campaigns for governor (1994, 1998 and 2002), switched his enrollment in October 2005, sparking speculation that he would try to run a fourth time to challenge Democrat Eliot Spitzer, with whom the Paychex billionaire didn't get along.

«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.

Paladino has still not ruled out another run for Governor on the Conservative line if the GOP doesn't nominate a candidate who will call for a change in Republican Leadership in the State Legislature.