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  • Perhaps the most dramatic non-candidacy occurred on December 21, 1991, when Governor Mario Cuomo, whose staff had chartered two planes to fly him and the press corps to Concord, New Hampshire - where he would have paid a $1,000 filing fee and announced his candidacy in the Democratic Presidential primary in front of the State House - unexpectedly left the aircraft waiting on the tarmac when he decided not to take flight.

    Henry J. Stern: The Governor's Speech Henry J. Stern 2011

  • Perhaps the most dramatic non-candidacy occurred on December 21, 1991, when Governor Mario Cuomo, whose staff had chartered two planes to fly him and the press corps to Concord, New Hampshire - where he would have paid a $1,000 filing fee and announced his candidacy in the Democratic Presidential primary in front of the State House - unexpectedly left the aircraft waiting on the tarmac when he decided not to take flight.

    Henry J. Stern: The Governor's Speech Henry J. Stern 2011

  • You loved him then, highlighted his campaign and did nothing but insult Jody about her non-candidacy before she resigned her State position.

    Bowerbank responds to my Wagner report 2008

  • And then the next cover, 1971, was then on the non-candidacy of Edward Moore Kennedy the following year, though they noted, still, his young age.

    CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009 2009

  • With the non-candidacy of Gore and the knocking off of Edwards, the two remaining candidates for the Democratic nomination have fallen back onto an older style of electoral politics: pandering.

    Larry Abrams: The Conventional Wisdom: Gore, More Than Before - Part II 2008

  • Francis Maude issued this statement tonight on the Greg Dyke non-candidacy...

    Fallout From the London Nightmayor 2007

  • Do it today and then call the press conference I prescribed earlier to announce your non-candidacy for 2008.

    Dear Hillary, Drop Out of the 2008 Race 2006

  • Of course, there's no guarantee that these same media cynics will take a principled action from an avowed non-candidate any more seriously –or will help the American people understand the enormously important moral drama that America needs to enact to purge itself of the evils of these Bushites-but that non-candidacy may well help.

    The Good News Implied in Feingold's Decision Not to Run 2006

  • Russ Feingold will officially not announce his interested non-candidacy for the the Vice Presidency of the United States.

    2006 BBA Predictions 2006

  • Dear Hillary, Drop Out of the 2008 Race yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Dear Hillary, Drop Out of the 2008 Race'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Hillary Clinton can heal millions by announcing her non-candidacy for 2008.'

    Dear Hillary, Drop Out of the 2008 Race 2006

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