Sentences with phrase «city candidate so»

Nixon has been cast as a bit of a New York City candidate so far but says she's aware of the problems facing cities like Rochester.

Not exact matches

Many are now urging Lhota to run for mayor, and it seems that Lhota is seriously preparing for a mayoral campaign — he stepped down as MTA boss just two days ago, so he can legally be a candidate under City law.

As a middle - class twentysomething living in a city, I breathe cynicism like it's oxygen — so mocking both candidates for superficiality comes as a thoughtless response to me.

Supposedly Wenger's preferred candidate to succeed him, Mikel Arteta has impressed as part of the Manchester City coaching staff and has a connection with Arsenal, so he's a decent shout at 10/1.

Without saying so, the calculus there has been to show not all members of the mainline conference — i.e., the socially conservative Sen. Ruben Diaz, a city Council candidate — aren't on board.

So let's take a look at New York City's own paramilitary, quasi-religious and City Council funded neighborhood watch groups, the founder of one of which is currently a leading candidate for City Council.

«As leaders of unions representing over half a million working New Yorkers, we held a conversation with the Speaker candidates so they could hear our members» concerns and share their own plans for the future of working people in our city.

With that said, and although the decision was made, one which must have been difficult for the Board of Elections; I must state that the negative influences internally and externally within the Republican party of those such as John Haggerty and Bart Haggerty (employees, supporters, friends, and colleagues of New York City Councilman Eric Ulrich); and the ever so trivial personal and territorial egos of Myrna Littlewort and Gigi Salvador has caused the results of the disqualifying the nomination and designation of the only candidate seeking ballot, a Hispanic Republican in the 35th Assembly District, Eric M. Mingott.

Graeme Cleugh asks: What steps would the candidates take to rebalance the British economy so that manufacturing and the regions become as important to the economy as the City of London's financial sector?

«The city is lucky to have so many qualified candidates running for citywide office this year, but there is no one more qualified than Melinda -LSB-...]

All three of the candidates agreed that the Urstadt Law, which allows Albany to set standards for rent stabilization in New York City, should be repealed, though it might be difficult to do so.

So far, the following candidates have confirmed: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Comptroller John Liu, former Comptroller Bill Thompson and former Councilman Sal Albanese.

Dana: So then your only option was to embrace her status as the Bloomberg continuity candidate and bet that the city wanted that?

If so, the CFB could count those against the $ 182,000 spending cap for the Democratic primary, should Abbate participate in the city's public matching funds program, a program which effectively lets candidates multiply sevenfold every donation under $ 175 they receive from a resident of the five boroughs.

So I start off my day today with an angry Facebook messenger message from Mount Vernon City Council candidate Lisa A. Copeland that read: «Did you call me a puppet in this article?»

Following the address, City Comptroller John Liu, another likely candidate for mayor, said the «pay - as - you - go» idea is always a lofty goal, but with the budget so far in the red, there is little money to set aside.

But Dr. Starr is a candidate to be New York City's next schools chancellor, and so his visit to a Crown Heights restaurant and the Brooklyn Museum — which he documented on Twitter — left people in education circles chattering.

The primaries knocked the more, umm, vivid candidates out of the race, so while a pretty good bunch of picks await the electorate next Tuesday, the hopefuls have not really expressed a great deal of differing viewpoints about city affairs.

In keeping with the area's mirror - image of the New York city norm, the Democratic Party on the South Shore is so negligible it didn't even field a candidate against either man.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, stumping for Rivera before heading off to help the campaign of District 4 candidate Keith Powers, remarked that he had been retail campaigning so long he could still remember when the Sony Walkman disrupted efforts to woo voters near subway stops.

The area, with a large Jewish and Russian population, has reliably leaned Republican, so candidates are smart in assuming that they might get more milage out of their meet - and - greets out there — Assembly District 45, encompassing Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay, was, along with Borough Park's Assembly District 48, one of the few parts of the city where Mitt Romney won more votes than Barack Obama in 2012.

The maximum donation an individual can make to a city candidate's election campaign is $ 4,950, so the de Blasio team later reimbursed Zepeda $ 50, records show.

Bill deBlasio: If we organize a campaign so that the public of this city ensures that every candidate for Governor, for Assembly, for State Senate, this is a litmus test in their races, then we can get a commuter tax.

Republican NYC mayoral candidate Paul Massey, in his first news conference, accused de Blasio of being «so distracted by corruption charges that he has no time to actually run the city.»

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he heard reports about people cheering the 9/11 terror attacks, but didn't — unlike 2016 Republican candidate Donald Trump (or so he claims)-- see it for himself.

As part of the effort, talking points are being distributed so Republican candidates can stress that de Blasio, his wife Chirlane McCray, and the City Council's progressive caucus have been raising money for Democratic Senate candidates, and that the Council supports expanding rights for undocumented immigrants,.

Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, a staunch ally of Mayor Bill de Blasio who is challenging his frequent - foe Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says New York City can do «so much better» in the areas of mass incarceration, marijuana enforcement and police accountability — the latest sign that she is moving further to distance herself from her old bud.

Antonio Reynoso, the chief of staff for Ms. Reyna, has already secured important endorsements, including from most Democratic mayoral candidates and the city's biggest unions, and he has raised more than $ 85,000 so far in contributions.

So long as voters sit out elections, the Democrats fail to recruit qualified candidates and the Republicans sit out city elections altogether, we're stuck with the current state of affairs.

The Green Party candidate also wants to start a community hiring hall so Syracuse residents can get jobs working for the city.

When it finally came time to tallying the votes late Tuesday night, New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg's victory over Democratic challenger and city comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filiCity mayor Mike Bloomberg's victory over Democratic challenger and city comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filicity comptroller Bill Thompson turned out to be remarkably narrow — and surprisingly so, in part because of the gap the size of the Hudson between what the candidates spent on this race, some $ 81 million from Bloomberg's pocket to the $ 6.6 million Thompson dropped according to recent filings.

The order requires Mayor de Blasio, the city council and a tenant leader group to pick a monitor by June 2, but so far de Blasio has expressed reservations about the order and 45 days in no potential candidates have emerged.

The program, meant to help candidates compete without raising money just from wealthy donors, matches donations under $ 175 from New York City voters six - to - one, so that a $ 10 contribution is matched with $ 60.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate, said the city needs to implement a public power utility so Syracuse has the «power to choose 100 percent clean energy.»

If enough people gave $ 50 so the participation rate equaled the city's, then the small donors would be worth 55 percent of the candidates» money.

Pointed out that GOP mayoral candidates Paul Massey and Michel Faulkner have fundraising and name recognition advantage so far, she said if she does run, to make up for lost time, «I'm going to ask everyone I know to give me $ 178» and get matching funds from the city.

Blake, who is African - American, told Gay City News, «I never endorsed anyone» in the Council race and does not anticipate doing so, though he said it was possible for an out gay candidate to be elected there.

A City Council candidate is accusing his opponent of shaking him down so he'd drop his bid for the Bronx seat, sparking an NYPD probe into possible criminal coercion.

Stringer's ad also touts the candidate's positive attributes, using the endorsement of the city's three major newspapers to do so.

I suppose the organization, KACF is to bear some of the blame for not sending an email out, as the Mayor's response implied, however The Times Ledger was there and so was Republican Operative, and former City Council Candidate Kevin Kim.

Jaron Benjamin, the executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a New York City tenants» rights organization, said it's harder to make a dent in the mayoral race because there's so much more money being spent: «In a City Council race you... blow the other candidate out of the water.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio's claim that average New Yorkers don't care about pay - to - play allegations against City Hall is «so insulting to the people of New York City,» GOP mayoral candidate...

So maybe it's not such a surprise that Mr. Avella did not endorse the Queens Democratic Party's candidate for an open City Council seat vacated by Mark Weprin.

For instance, in a City Council race, for those participating in the matching system, the 2017 spending limit is $ 182,000 each in the primary and general election, so a candidate could receive up to $ 100,100 in public funds by raising about $ 16,800.

So far, the group has doled out $ 1.34 million to candidates in 14 City Council races, data from the New York City Campaign Finance Board reveals.

Local groups and politicians, from Community Board 5 to Borough President and mayoral candidate Scott Stringer, saw the renewal process as an opportunity to force Madison Square Garden to find a new location in New York City — and, in so doing, allow Penn Station to build above - ground and expand its capacity.

«The city is lucky to have so many qualified candidates running for citywide office this year, but there is no one more qualified than Melinda Katz,» said Vallone in a statement.

Albany attorney and former City Court Judge Thomas Keefe, who has been working on Balarin's campaign, said in the primary and now for the general election, he's seen candidates and their supporters target people who don't typically vote to encourage them to vote absentee — without necessarily having a valid reason to do so.

So far as one can tell, the big choice program sketched during the campaign was intended to signal that Trump, like Republican candidates before him, cared about inner - city kids and was willing to disrupt an education system rigged against them.

We have a well - known nonprofit group in our area whose mission is to sustain the large local river that runs through our city, and so they proved an ideal candidate to work with.