Sentences with phrase «blasio fights every day»

Not exact matches

Over the past days, Cuomo and de Blasio have pledged to fight discrimination and bolster anti-discrimination measures in the city and state.

The de Blasio Administration is fighting to ensure every vote counts this Election Day by streamlining the process, engaging voters and making it simpler for voters of all languages to register.

Indeed, de Blasio's campaign Twitter account pledged a fight for election reform: «We're going to reform NYS» voting access laws, because lack of early voting & same day registration is disenfranchisement, plain and simple,» read a tweet from the account sent out Tuesday morning.

Fighting for more federal homeland security money, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spent the day in Washington, D.C. making his case to Congress.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, headed to Iowa for a four - day trip to stump for Hillary Clinton ahead of Monday's caucus, hopes he can convince progressive Democrats in the state still on the fence about Clinton that she's long been at the leading edge of the fight against income inequality and knows how Washington works better than her primary challenger, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.

And in what appeared to be a critique of Bill Thompson, who re-emerged recently after running for mayor four years ago, de Blasio said there were others candidates «who practice a politics of the moment, who are heroic in election years but not engaged in the day to day fight to save our neighborhoods when their names aren't on the ballot.»

«Today, in a sign of the campaign's continued momentum, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed Hillary Clinton for President citing her progressive record and vision to be a president to fight every day to rebuild the middle class,» the press release said.

«From universal pre-kindergarten to bringing police and community closer together to fighting income inequality, the de Blasio administration has since Day One focused... on implementing... policy reforms that will... make a real difference in the lives of everyday New Yorkers,» a spokesperson said.

«The fight is over this real estate program, but really it comes to something deeper, which is that the forever - fraught relationship between de Blasio and Cuomo — and indeed the fraught relationship between any mayor of New York City and any governor of New York really is at a low point with just nine days left in Albany's legislation session and with several items on the mayor's agenda sitting in Albany's lap,» Jimmy Vielkind, who covers the state government for Capital New York, told WCBS 880.

Last year, poorly paid fast food workers throughout New York City also fighting for a $ 15 an minimum wage staged one - day walkouts on several occasions - and even attracted the outspoken support of then mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in the process.

Mayor de Blasio quickly came out swinging after Election Day, vowing to fight the incoming President on immigration issues and other contentious policy points.

One day after a judge smacked down Mayor Bill de Blasio's claims that his emails with a powerful political and real estate consultant were exempt from Freedom of Information Law requests, the liberal Democrat vowed to continue his fight to make sure the people of New York City never get to see them.