Sentences with phrase «bradley tusk»
At least $ 1 million went to New York City consultant Bradley Tusk to manage a «community engagement campaign.»
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In Dale Russakoff's book about Newark, the communications effort outsourced to consultant Bradley Tusk and others is described as a half - completed boondoggle:
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They were helped by a lobbying blitzkrieg led by Joe Williams and former Bloomberg campaign manager Bradley Tusk, who put together, with ample funds from Wall Street, Education Reform Now (ERN), a group with a single purpose: to bring the state legislature into the RttT reform fold.
A dozen would - be mayors have since met with the consultant, Bradley Tusk, a millionaire former adviser to Mr. de Blasio's predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.
Bradley Tusk, who took the unusual step of forming NYC Deserves Better to find a 2017 challenger against de Blasio, said the mayor needs to answer «whether he has ever solicited or procured favors and preferable treatment... on behalf of Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz.»
Bradley Tusk, a former aide to Mayor Michael Bloomberg who advises startups, told reporters last week that the company's sky - high valuation may not hold up if its illegal listings in New York and San Francisco are purged.
He also had an assist from Chris Coffey, a consultant and lobbyist who works for former Mayor Bloomberg aide and Cuomo friend Bradley Tusk.
Bradley Tusk, a political strategist who served as campaign manager for the previous mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, said Mr. Cuomo «is giving Nixon a taste of what she might be in for» — with her ally, Mr. de Blasio, acting as a proxy.
NYC Deserves Better, the campaign to unseat de Blasio launched by political operative Bradley Tusk, quickly released a supportive statement.
«No, not really, but look, we were talking about this earlier today — being a good actor is probably a really good proxy for being a good political candidate,» consultant Bradley Tusk said.
Bradley Tusk, a former Bloomberg adviser who had been openly seeking a Democratic challenger to Mr. de Blasio, said Thursday that he would stop.
«While anything can happen in politics, the people best positioned to succeed in a Democratic primary are now unlikely to run,» said Bradley Tusk, who had been searching for a Democratic challenger for mayor.
Bradley Tusk, a personal friend of Uber C.E.O. Travis Kalanick, helped lead the multi-million-dollar offensive.
«I heard it three times in the two days I was on the Hill,» said Bradley Tusk, a former top aide to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who has been actively courting potential challengers to Mr. de Blasio.
Bradley Tusk, a former aide to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg, founded the organization NYC Deserves Better largely for the purpose of drafting Stringer to challenge de Blasio.
The anti-de Blasio campaign, called NYC Deserves Better, is being run by Bradley Tusk, who helped run former mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2009 mayoral campaign.
The Transport Workers Union and venture capitalist and consultant Bradley Tusk spent $ 205,181 in opposition to the mayor through September 22; $ 71,156 of it by Tusk very early in the cycle when he was bashing the mayor and trying to recruit a strong challenger, a mission he eventually abandoned.
Donovan has hired an outside campaign team that includes strategists Bradley Tusk and Menashe Shapiro and spokeswoman Virginia Lam, all veterans of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's operation.
Stringer's conclusion may excite a surge of hope in Bradley Tusk, the former aide to ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg who founded the group NYC Deserves Better to try and dislodge de Blasio.
The PAC is using a pollster and political consultant, Doug Schoen and Bradley Tusk, connected to former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, once the Senate Republicans» biggest individual donor and a charter school champion when he was in office.
Bradley Tusk, a political consultant and former campaign manager for Michael Bloomberg, helped organize REBNY's past alliance with the charter school group known as StudentsFirst, which also wanted the GOP in control of the Senate.
«It's an embarrassment that we have a mayor under massive federal investigation,» said Bradley Tusk, who helped orchestrate former Mayor Bloomberg's 2009 third - term victory.
The following day, Ragone had a conference call with another former Bloomberg aide who now works for the charter sector, Bradley Tusk.
Donovan's camp recently hired Bradley Tusk, a former campaign aide to Bloomberg who once worked for Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, to help with strategy.
You're being advised by Bradley Tusk, the mayor's former campaign manager.
Bradley Tusk, a former campaign manager for New York's last mayor, Mike Bloomberg, is starting Tusk Ventures, a political consulting business geared toward helping startups work with — and in some cases, beat back — government regulators.
According to the sources, who described the makeup of the proto - campaign on condition of anonymity, Bloomberg's former City Hall deputy Howard Wolfson is helping to lead the exploratory effort, along with Bradley Tusk, who managed Bloomberg's last re-election campaign, and Kevin Sheekey, a former deputy mayor who has all but made it his life's mission to get Bloomberg on the presidential ticket.
«Stringer's the most politically active guy of the group looking to run next year,» said Bradley Tusk, who managed Michael Bloomberg's 2009 reelection bid.
Bradley Tusk, a former Michael Bloomberg aide, considered asking Bharara to run for mayor.
«It's brutal,» said Bradley Tusk, who ran Mike Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign and who commissioned the poll.
Bradley Tusk is helping startups navigate politics — in exchange for a piece of the pie when they go public.
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which represents about 24,000 cops, hired the consulting firm Tusk Strategies (run by Bradley Tusk, 2009 campaign manager for ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg) to take on Mayor Bill de Blasio over raises and pensions for city cops in the future.
«(W) hile anything can happen in politics, the people best positioned to succeed in a Democratic primary are now unlikely to run... unless someone unexpected steps up or something unusual happens, we should expect four more years of Bill de Blasio,» said Bradley Tusk, a former aide to ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg who has been unsuccessfully seeking a de Blasio challenger.
-- $ 27,500 to campaign manager Bradley Tusk (the first payment of $ 13,750 came on Jan. 15 — the same day the last filing was due and two months after the November election).
De Blasio is «extremely vulnerable» to a challenge next year, and is already running virtually even with his strongest Democratic rival, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, according to a poll released yesterday by Bradley Tusk, a consultant focused on ousting the mayor.
Bloomberg is a supporter of former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's NY Uprising PAC (which had a number of Bloomberg - connected individuals working for it, including his 2009 campaign manager, Bradley Tusk).
Bradley Tusk helped Mike Bloomberg win a third mayoral term and worked with Travis Kalanick to defeat a proposal to cap the number of Uber drivers in New York City.
A new poll conducted by Bradley Tusk, a former Bloomberg aide who has vowed to oust de Blasio next year, found voters aren't quite ready to kick the mayor to the curb.
Michael Bloomberg's former campaign manager Bradley Tusk talks to FOXBusiness.com's Jade Scipioni about this year's election and why he's investing in startups.
Consultant Bradley Tusk says Airbnb's political maneuvering and battles with governments in California and New York will become a «cautionary tale» to companies in the future, motivating them to start slow and take regulation seriously.
Political consultant Bradley Tusk, who helped Uber beat NC Mayor Bill de Blasio and is now working for FanDuel, honestly believed his former boss, ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, was going to run for president, and was disappointed when he didn't.
Former Bloomberg aide Bradley Tusk, who has made it his mission to unseat de Blasio in next years elections, is challenging him to answer questions about his relationship with the two campaign donors at the center of the cop corruption scandal.
Two sources have told the Advance that the Donovan camp has hired Bradley Tusk, a campaign aide to Mayor Michael Bloomberg who once worked for Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, to serve as a strategist.
«What we've seen historically — albeit in the general elections — is that when Staten Island feels like there's a mayor that either they really don't like or a candidate they do like if they have potential, they do turn out and vote,» said Bradley Tusk, an entrepreneur and former adviser to the mayor's predecessor Michael Bloomberg, who plans to work against de Blasio with or without a candidate to support using the group «NYC Deserves Better.»
«NYC Deserves Better» was launched this week by Bradley Tusk, an entrepreneur and former adviser to de Blasio's predecessor Michael Bloomberg.
«If Mr. Carter refuses to step down, Mayor de Blasio must remove him,» said Bradley Tusk, who recently launched NYC Deserves Better to unseat de Blasio.
«While Mike Bloomberg isn't a likely candidate, a weak incumbent and a highly politicized, polarized opposition certainly opens the path for an independent centrist to actually reflect the views of most voters and win their support,» Bradley Tusk, the former campaign manager of Bloomberg's third mayoral campaign in 2009, told me.
And it didn't help matters that Bloomberg's 2009 campaign manager Bradley Tusk and pollster Doug Schoen met with and advised former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. while he was mulling a never - realized primary challenge to Gillibrand.
Dan Donovan «fell in love» with former Bloomberg campaign manager Bradley Tusk, who is now working for the Staten Island DA's AG campaign.