44 Facts About Rob Astorino

Robert Patrick Astorino was born on May 3,1967 and is an American politician, radio producer, and television host who was the county executive of Westchester County, New York from 2010 to 2017.

Rob Astorino was the Republican nominee for Governor of New York in 2014.

Rob Astorino served on the Westchester County Board of Legislators from 2003 to 2005, when he launched an unsuccessful bid to unseat then-Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano.

Rob Astorino was re-elected in 2013, defeating Democratic challenger Noam Bramson.

Rob Astorino was defeated by incumbent New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the 2014 gubernatorial election.

In 2017, Rob Astorino ran for a third term as Westchester County Executive, but was defeated by Democratic challenger George Latimer.

Rob Astorino unsuccessfully ran for the New York State Senate in 2020 and for the Republican nomination for the governorship in 2022.

Rob Astorino attended Westlake High School, and enrolled in Fordham University where he received a bachelor's degree in communications in 1989.

Rob Astorino later attended the Enforex School in Barcelona, Spain where he became fluent in Spanish.

At the time, the senior Rob Astorino was the Chief of Detectives for the Mt.

Rob Astorino has been an anchorman for the MSG Network program Talk of our Town.

Rob Astorino is the recipient of the Associated Press award for Best Spot News Coverage and award for Best News Program, and the Metro New York Achievement in Radio award.

Rob Astorino is a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

In 2001, Rob Astorino was one of the founders of 1050 ESPN Radio in New York.

Rob Astorino directed the rebranding of New York's WEVD-AM 1050 from a talk radio station to an all sports format.

Rob Astorino became the station's Senior Producer, and worked as Executive Producer of The Michael Kay Show.

Rob Astorino was promoted to Station Executive Producer and served until 2005, when he resigned to run for Westchester County Executive.

Rob Astorino's accomplishments include securing broadcast rights for the New York Knicks and New York Rangers, at the expense of WFAN.

In 2007, Rob Astorino was hired as the first program director for Sirius Satellite Radio's "The Catholic Channel".

Rob Astorino hosted a Thursday night program with Cardinal Edward Egan, the Archbishop of New York.

Rob Astorino was hesitant at first to work on religious radio, but he changed his mind when he found out "The Catholic Channel" would be different.

At the age of 21, while attending college, Rob Astorino was elected to the Mount Pleasant School Board.

In 1991, Rob Astorino defeated an incumbent town councilman in Mount Pleasant and was elected to the town board.

Rob Astorino was reappointed by O'Rourke's successor, Andy Spano in 1999.

In 2003, Rob Astorino announced he was a candidate to replace retiring County Legislator Sue Swanson, who represented a district encompassing Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, North Castle, West Harrison, and portions of northern Greenburgh.

Rob Astorino defeated his challenger with an aggressive campaign, which according to the Journal News, "raised the bar" for candidacies to the Board of Legislators.

Rob Astorino helped the board stop Westchester's payments of a "franchise fee" to their bus operator, Liberty Lines Transit, after drawing attention that the contract with the company did not provide for such a payment.

On March 21,2009, Rob Astorino announced that he would run again for Westchester County Executive.

Rob Astorino sought a third term in 2017, despite his statement during the 2014 campaign that "eight years is enough for anyone" in office.

Additionally, Astorino was the beneficiary of over $1 million spent in the last two weeks of the race by a super PAC funded by Robert Mercer.

Towards the end of the campaign, on October 27,2017, Rob Astorino was damaged by revelations from testimony in the Norman Seabrook trial.

Rob Astorino, who had previously supported preserving the building five years earlier as a member of the legislature, vetoed the measure, saying it should be supported by private funds.

On March 5,2014, Rob Astorino announced that he would run for New York State Governor against incumbent Democrat Andrew Cuomo.

Rob Astorino called for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to resign as chairman of the Republican Governors Association due to his unwillingness to support Rob Astorino's campaign.

Rob Astorino claimed that Christie's decision not to support him was made in deference to Cuomo.

In June 2020, Rob Astorino announced his campaign for New York's 40th State Senate district against incumbent first-term Democrat Peter Harckham.

Rob Astorino conceded the race to Harckham three weeks after Election Day.

Rob Astorino ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for governor 2022 New York gubernatorial election, losing to Congressman Lee Zeldin In addition to Zeldin, he faced two other candidates in the 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary.

Rob Astorino used Westchester County funds to pay $279,391 in legal fees for his defense rather than having his campaign pay for them.

In 2016, Rob Astorino's office received subpoenas from US Attorney Preet Bharara in conjunction with an investigation into Jonah Rechnitz.

Rob Astorino in turn made Rechnitz and friend Jeremy Reichberg county police chaplains and provided both with special parking permits despite the fact that neither man was a member of the clergy.

Rob Astorino denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he went jewelry shopping with Rechnitz because they were meeting next door.

Rob Astorino claimed that he paid for the watch in full, but the FBI entered into evidence a $5,790 check with the memo line "ROLEX" cut by Rechnitz to Daniela Diamonds, which sold Rob Astorino the watch.

An investigation by Andrew Whitman of FiOS1 showed that the $1,960 Rob Astorino paid for the watch was unrealistically low, but that the cumulative total of $7,750 paid by Rob Astorino and Rechnitz combined would be a typical price for a watch of that age and model.