who is running for ag in new york
New York Attorney General election, 2018 Four Democrats are running for Attorney General in 2018. They are: Leecia Eve, former senior policy advisor to U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton; party nominee Letitia James, New York City Public Advocate; Sean Patrick Maloney, U.S. Representative for New York's 18th congressional district; and Zephyr Teachout, professor at Fordham University School of Law. The Republican Party has nominated Manhattan bankruptcy attorney Keith Wofford.
George Pataki George Elmer Pataki (/pəˈtɑːki/; born June 24, 1945) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New York (1995–2006). An attorney by profession, Pataki was elected mayor of his hometown of Peekskill, New York and went on to be elected to the State Assembly and the State Senate. In 1994, Pataki ran for Governor of New York against three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo, defeating him by a margin of more than three points as part of the Republican Revolution of 1994. Pataki would himself be elected to three consecutive terms, and was the third Republican Governor of New York elected since 1923 (the other two were Govs. Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller). As of 2018, Pataki is the most recent Republican to serve as Governor of New York and the most recent Republican to hold statewide office in New York.