In the June 2010 Republican primary, attorney Matthew Berry narrowly lost to retired U.S. Army Colonel J. Patrick Murray, after a last-minute mailing attacking Berry's homosexuality.
Maye's other primary attorney is Abe Pafford, who also started the case while at Covington, but also remained with Maye after moving on to start his own practice.
But the odds are against Wilson because of the predicted Democratic blowout for governor and the two Senate seats, and because the public is even less aware of the Comptroller race than the primary for Attorney General, where five candidates are competing to oppose Daniel Donovan, District Attorney of Staten Island, the Republican nominee.
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And indeed, he has a background in politics, having once run in the Democratic primary for attorney general in Washington State.
"We'll see," he said, adding that he was interested in the campaign of Charlie King, another candidate in the Democratic primary for attorney general.
Accordingly, the candidates in this year's primary for attorney general have spent much of their time seeking votes in New York City and its suburbs.
The editorial board of The New York Times has endorsed State Senator Eric T. Schneiderman, who represents parts of Manhattan and the Bronx, in the Democratic primary for attorney general of New York.
"The problem is more about appearance than law or ethics, strictly," said Mr. Green, who lost to Mr. Cuomo in the Democratic primary for attorney general in 2006.
IF STEVE COOLEY wins the Republican primary for attorney general, on almost every issue — most visibly the death penalty — he'll run to the right of his probable Democratic opponent, the San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris.
Nor did it matter that he lost the 2001 mayor's race, and declared after losing the 2006 primary for attorney general that he was through with electoral politics.
