Sentences with phrase «blasio ran for mayor»

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Former NYPD detective, media personality, business owner (and Nassau County resident) Bo Dietl wants to run for NYC mayor next year, challenging incumbent Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio.

This strikes me as a smart issue for de Blasio as he tries to position himself for a likely run for mayor in 2013.

Thompson placed second in the Democratic primary for mayor this year, his second run for mayor since 2009, but did not qualify for the runoff against the eventual winner, Bill de Blasio.

He's also giving to Democrats, including $ 1,000 to NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who's likely to run for NYC mayor in 2013; $ 1,000 to NYC Councilman Mark Weprin; and $ 500 to his local DA, Kathleen Rice.

De Blasio, who served as Clinton's campaign manager for her 2000 Senate race, ran for New York City mayor on a progressive platform and has been working to bring progressive issues to the attention of the national Democratic Party.

When asked about Nixon's potential run for governor earlier in March, Cuomo had suggested that de Blasio may be involved: «I think it was probably either the mayor of New York or Vladimir Putin... I'm going to leave it to you great investigative reporters to follow the facts and find the truth.»

Last week, Ulrich said that if he were to run for mayor and be elected, he would immediately fire de Blasio's Department of Social Services Commissioner Steve Banks, who oversees homeless operations.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich has not decided whether to run for mayor, but he certainly hopes someone gives Mayor Bill de Blasio a real race, he said during a radio interview Tuesday.

«Cuomo has seethed about what he believes is Mr. de Blasio's hidden hand in her run, and has signaled to allies that he intends to punish the mayor for it, even against the counsel of his advisers,» the Times reported.

At noon Wednesday, Riders Alliance will hold a rally on the City Hall Steps calling on Mayor de Blasio to be the «bus mayor,» and to «make buses run faster on our streets for 2.5 million riders.»

The city's argument is in part based on a ruling from the city's Conflict of Interests Board that granted waivers to two de Blasio advisers to continue working with the mayor after leaving City Hall to go work for Hilltop, which ran the Campaign for One New York and associated groups, despite a one - year ban on doing so.

This is a particularly interesting development because it differentiates Liu from NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, against whom the comptroller might be running for mayor in 2013.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

A top Cuomo aide appeared over the weekend to endorse his wife's «thanking» of Bloomberg for having «just elected Bill de Blasio as mayor» by claiming in a newly published interview that de Blasio was running a «racist» campaign.

Quinn, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2013, is still smarting from Nixon's endorsement of eventual winner Bill de Blasio.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, another Democrat running for mayor who already called on Weiner to drop out, predicted there would be more sordid revelations.

But Peebles, a Democrat who's considering running for de Blasio's job in the next election, said it was a mistake for the mayor to target developers eager for access to City Hall.

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

One day after de Blasio won reelection as mayor, and with Cuomo preparing to run for reelection next year, there is speculation that both want to call 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. home.

As de Blasio greeted supporters, his son Dante, 15, who helped introduced his father, began to ask whether there was a minimum age for running for mayor.

Adams is a longtime rival to Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, an outspoken de Blasio critic who recently said he has not ruled out a run for mayor.

Sources tell NY1 that Nixon is consulting veteran campaign operatives Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers, both of whom successfully ran Bill de Blasio's first campaign for New York City mayor in 2013.

For the mayor, the national ramifications are larger — de Blasio is trying hard to lead a broad progressive movement, and to show that an ideologically driven mayor can efficiently run and reform a major city.

Sal Albanese, a Democrat running for mayor, says the deal is part of a pattern for his opponent, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Although Diaz Jr. would not say whether he is running for mayor for sure, the borough president did not hesitate to take jabs at de Blasio and his administration during the forum.

She also bundled some $ 100,000 to de Blasio's 2013 run for mayor.

Harlem pastor Calvin Butts says he's considering running for mayor — and would consider forming an alliance with the Republican Party against Mayor de Blasio.

Both LICH and Interfaith became magnets for «Shame on Cuomo» chants, and rallying cries for de Blasio, who was then running for mayor.

In 2002, long before he ran for mayor, he changed his name (for a second time) from Warren de Blasio - Wilhelm to his mother's more voter - friendly maiden name.

Malliotakis previously sued de Blasio to preserve IDNYC records, vowed she would fight for taxpayers who are against many of de Blasio's policies when she announced her run for mayor in the Republican primary and has asked for money to oust de Blasio.

Malpass also said that if, as expected, the «Stop de Blasio» line draws a large number of voters, its use will be extended citywide next year to back the Republican Party's candidate for mayor — assuming de Blasio is running for re-election.

«It was not my grand plan to run for mayor of New York, but I don't see a circumstance where I could support Bill de Blasio for re-election,» Peebles said during an interview in the David Adjaye - designed Fifth Avenue office of his company The Peebles Corporation.

«I intend to run for re-election as mayor of New York City, that's the only thing I'm running for,» de Blasio said.

As for de Blasio not running: Keep in mind being mayor of New York City is no launchpad to the Executive Mansion in Albany.

These days, however, Peebles is so disappointed in de Blasio, he's putting out feelers about his own possible run for mayor in 2017.

Among the questions: what is working, and not working, in the Build it Back program, the mayor's reaction to a report that a family he visited in the Arverne section of Rockaway is «getting close» to losing faith in the mayor, the scope / number of people still directly affected by Sandy, whether his weekend trip to Pennsylvania involved a meeting with the consultants running the Build it Back program, whether he stands by statements he made during a September visit to Far Rockaway's St. Mary Star of the Sea, whether the Bloomberg administration allocated enough money to housing from the first tranch of federal assistance, whether he agrees with Oddo's idea of acquiring land for redevelopment, the role of Michael DeLoach in Build it Back, whether New Yorkers should be concerned that they may lose desirable options under Build it Back after de Blasio completes his review and issues on elevation of existing structures v. new construction.

De Blasio ran Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000, and then ran for City Council and public advocate, before emerging from a crowded field to win the Democratic primary for mayor in September.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Republican from Queens who is considering mounting a challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio, said Thursday he will make an announcement next week about whether or not he will run for mayor.

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.»

Ulrich, a Council Member from Queens who's running for mayor and long a critic of Mayor de Blasio, organized the rally and press conference to «protest Mayor de Blasio's failed homeless policies.»

As Mayor Bill de Blasio runs for a second term, New Yorkers tell us what they think are the best and worst things that have happened in the city on his watch, and whether the mayor deserves credit or blame for them.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Ask Rep. Hakeem Jeffries if he's running for mayor against Bill de Blasio in 2017 and his answer couldn't be any more final.

On the Republican side, the candidate closest to de Blasio in fundraising is Paul Massey, a real estate executive who recently moved from Larchmont, Westchester to the city to run for mayor.

The questions included favorable / unfavorable feelings for Weiner as well as for the five Democrats already running or assumed to be running for mayor — NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, NYC Comptroller John Liu and former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson.

«The mayor's comments today were completely disingenuous, knowing that the MTA is set to present its 30 - day overhaul plan this week,» said Lhota, who ran against de Blasio in the 2013 race for mayor and was re-appointed to the chairmanship this June by Cuomo.

When Bill de Blasio was running for mayor on a starkly liberal platform in 2013, some of New York's business leaders feared the city's economic well - being was doomed.

Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Republican from Queens who is considering mounting a challenge to de Blasio, said he will make an announcement next week about whether or not he will run for mayor.

Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Republican, has not decided whether to run for mayor, but he certainly hopes someone gives the Democratic incumbent, Mayor Bill de Blasio, a real race.

Back when he was running for mayor, Mr. de Blasio promised to ban the horse - carriage trade «on day one» as mayor.

Nicole Malliotakis, who is currently suing de Blasio and the city to preserve IDNYC records after the mayor threatened to destroy them to shield immigrants from Trump's administration, is working on getting a team together and plans to officially announce her run to get the GOP nomination for November's election.