Meanwhile, many of the 300 or so guests kept peeking over at Fossella's table, where he sat last Thursday
with gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio.
Pataki, who endorsed Rick Lazio for governor back in March, wouldn't go so far as to agree
with the gubernatorial hopeful's characterization of Cuomo as «incompetent» — «I don't use words like that,» he told me.
But Wu, along
with gubernatorial hopeful Zephyr Teachout, have criticized Hochul's record in both Washington and the Erie County clerk's office, pointing to her stances on immigration, gun control and the Affordable Care Act that aren't in line with a broader Democratic electorate.
Not exact matches
Here's another snippet from my illuminating extended interview
with GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino on «Capital Tonight» yesterday in lieu of a pre-primary debate between the Buffalo businessman and his opponent, Rick Lazio.
GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio's campaign released its top line numbers from the 32 - day pre-primary filing due at the state Board of Elections yesterday, which revealed he is still struggling to raise cash as his Sept. 14 battle
with self - funding Carl Paladino looms.
On the same day his sale of the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania oil and gas magnate Terry Pegula becomes official, Paychex founder erstwhile
gubernatorial hopeful Tom Golisano is announcing his intention to try to do away
with the Electoral College as part of the National Popular Vote campaign.
NY1's Bobby Cuza was in the Bronx today
with Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. and GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino at a meeting of local ministers and community leaders convened by the Democratic senator to discuss «issues that matter to us.»
At 10:30 a.m., Republican
gubernatorial hopeful Marc Molinaro meets
with businessman Martin Babinec, 28 Waverly Place, Little Falls.
Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos, a supporter of GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio, weighed in to express «reservations»
with state Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox's plan to establish an independent party, which has added to the perception that the idea is all - but dead.
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a reformer and
gubernatorial hopeful, lived
with an ex-con who pleaded guilty in a multimillion - dollar mortgage fraud scheme involving an S&M club and dominatrixes.
He's the second of the three GOP
gubernatorial hopefuls to be up
with a spot in advance of the state party convention in Manhattan June 1.
Two
gubernatorial hopefuls marched
with more than 1,000 climate change protesters to call on the Cuomo administration to implement more environmentally friendly policies, starting
with a new microgrid project that heats and cools the Empire State Plaza.
GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino has been holding a mirror to citizen sentiments
with his campaign mantra.
Smelling blood after a Jerry Brown associate used the word «whore» in connection
with Meg Whitman's campaign strategy, Republican sources have provided a 15 - year - old video of the Democratic
gubernatorial hopeful dismissing mammograms in an old interview.
Although the rally was fairly heavy on
gubernatorial candidates,
with Nixon, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins and Reform Party
hopeful Joel Giambra appearing, neither Andrew Cuomo or Marc Molinaro appeared or have voiced support for full legalization.
New Yorkers for Growth, the conservative political action committee that has launched a crusade against the Working Families Party, and GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio are out
with duel statements slamming AG Andrew Cuomo for agreeing today to accept the endorsement of the labor - backed party and run on its line in November.
Siena College is out
with another snapshot of the statewide races finding Democratic
gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo's lead over Republican Carl Paladino has grown.
GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino's last - minute campaign video pushes his candidacy on the independent Taxpayers Party line, and deems the Democrats a «threat» to the solvency of New York and accuses them of «playing games»
with public funds.
Now that he has secured a pledge in support of independent, nonpartisan redistricting from all four
gubernatorial hopefuls, former Mayor Ed Koch is looking for the same from New York's congressional delegation, who, along
with members of the state Legislature, would be directly impacted by that reform.
(In one of the odd, two degrees of separation situations that pervade NY politics, Turner is neighbors
with state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who opposes the mosque and is running TV ads on the subject for GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio).
The release continues along in this manner,
with the «source» noting Levy is the only
gubernatorial hopeful who has «successfully governed within the confines of a spending cap,» and adding: More >
The campaign manager of GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, who just yesterday filed enough signatures to force a primary
with the party's designee, Rick Lazio, released a statement slamming the former congressman's latest fundraising numbers.
Gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio insisted today that after the bitter primary battle between himself and Carl Paladino is over, Republicans and Conservatives will «come together» as one big happy family
with a common goal: Defeating the Democratic frontrunner, AG Andrew Cuomo.
Yet another Western NY Republican is siding
with GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino against Rick Lazio in advance of next week's primary.
It was highlighted during the 2010 campaign by failed GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino, who nearly came to blows
with Dicker; and, more recently, by the Gotham Gazette's David King; and WAMC President and CEO Alan Chartock.
The Times, which has clashed sharply
with GOP / Conservative
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio, managed to put aside its differences
with the former Long Island congressman long enough to endorse him in advance of the Sept. 14 primary.
Newly - minted
gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo hit the campaign trail
with his daughter, Cara, in tow.
GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino is scheduled to hold a joint press conference at 1 p.m. in Batavia tomorrow
with a number of Genesee County Republican leaders along
with Sen. Mike Ranzenhofer and Assemblyman Steve Hawley.
Senor has kept his finger in NY politics even though he decided against running for office, lending his name back in June, along
with state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long and 2006 GOP
gubernatorial nominee John Faso, to a joint fundraiser for six New York GOP congressional
hopefuls.
ALBANY — Republican
gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino said he only wants to engage Andrew Cuomo in one - on - one debates, and again attacked the Democratic incumbent over his dealings
with a now - defunct corruption panel.
Several hours after the Sergeants Benevolent Association and the Uniformed Fire Officers Association slammed former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio for using 9/11 images in ads, the GOP
gubernatorial hopeful's campaign is hitting back
with a politically risky statement that makes clear he's not backing off his ads.
Republican strategists are crowing that Gov. Cuomo made a major political blunder last week when, joining
with the Rev. Al Sharpton, he attacked GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino for allegedly...
With voters frustrated about the economy and angry at Albany, the
gubernatorial hopefuls are likely to be judged largely on their competence and crisis management.
On the same day in which the campaign of Steve Levy, the Democrat turned Republican
gubernatorial hopeful, sent out a press release reminding everyone of how his rival Rick Lazio upset women voters in 2000
with an ill - fated debate stunt, the Daily Politics got its hands on a photo of Levy pointing a fake gun at a woman's face.
Mr. Suozzi, a former
gubernatorial hopeful, has the most name recognition, a factor that his supporters hope will propel him in a race
with few policy differences among the candidates and expectations of low voter turnout.
The YNN crew caught up
with Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards earlier today after he voted (presumably for himself and his running mate,
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio), and, as usual, he generally did a good job of sticking to his talking points.
With the primary just six days away now, GOP / Consverative
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio is continuing to focus on the man he hopes to oust in the general election, frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, releasing a new Web ad that ties the AG to three disgraced fellow Democrats: Eliot Spitzer, Alan Hevesi and Pedro Espada Jr..
Fellow
gubernatorial hopeful Mark Lauretti of Shelton, who is Fairfield County's longest - serving mayor, said the bailout doesn't fix the underlying structural problems
with Hartford's finances.
(CNN)- In the Democrat's first television ad of the general election, South Carolina
gubernatorial hopeful Vincent Sheehen is going full steam ahead
with his message that a vote for Republican Nikki Haley is a vote for four more years of Gov. Mark Sanford.
The New York
gubernatorial hopeful wants to lead an investigation into the transaction made during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term
with a developer to turn it into condos, WCBS 880's Monica Miller reported.
The scrap added a bipartisan flavor to the fighting that's gone on in races of late,
with New York Republican
gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino and a New York Post reporter squaring off in a three - minute tangle in which the candidate said, «I'll take you out, buddy!»
Self - styled reformer and
gubernatorial hopeful Steve Levy once lived
with an ex-con who copped a guilty plea in a mortgage fraud scheme involving dominatrixes and a SoHo S&M club.
Just this year, in the run - up to the November election, Senate Republicans voted
with the majority 86.3 percent of the time — including Republican
gubernatorial hopeful Sen. John McKinney, who cast 390 of his 456 votes
with the majority (85.5 percent).
The moment, while a rare interaction between the two men this campaign, was not as electric as four years ago at the Business Council's meeting, when then - GOP candidate for governor Carl Paladino got into a shouting match
with New York Post reporter Fred Dicker over claims the
gubernatorial hopeful was making about Cuomo having had extramarital affairs.
This past election cycle, Krogh first worked for
gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio and is credited
with masterminding his GOP convention strategy that blocked his would - be primary opponents, Democrat - turned - Republican Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and Carl Paladino, from getting placed on the ballot.
CNN's Ed Lavandera tries to ask Texas GOP
gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott about his campaign appearances this week
with conservative activist Ted Nungent, who's known for making outlandish comments about President Obama.
(CNN)- Sarah Palin rallied Wednesday behind Texas attorney general Greg Abbott, endorsing the Republican
gubernatorial hopeful and defending Abbott for appearing on the campaign trail this week
with controversial rocker Ted Nugent.
Former presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader will campaign next month in Albany
with Green Party
gubernatorial hopeful Howie Hawkins.
On Saturday, LaborPress caught up
with Hawkins and his Green Party supporters at a «$ 15 Now» rally held outside a Starbucks on Fulton Street in Downtown, Brooklyn, where the
gubernatorial hopeful talked about the need for legislation guaranteeing a living wage - as well as Mayor Bill de Blasio's apparent surrender in the fight against charter school expansion.
The New York Post's Fred Dicker then took the temperature of the three
gubernatorial hopefuls and found that Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino are dead set against it, but Andrew Cuomo came out
with full - throated support.