Sentences with phrase «city candidates whose»
Spitzer and Weiner make two current New York City candidates whose sexual improprieties led to falls from power.
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The county, whose largest city is Wilkes - Barre and whose overall population is more than 320,000, voted for Trump in larger numbers than it did for any Republican presidential candidate since President Richard Nixon in 1972.
In races throughout the state, Republicans indicate they will try to link Democratic candidates to Mr. Cuomo, a second - term Democrat who is thought to have national ambitions, but whose approval ratings have been hurt by New York City's failing subway system.
And the party sent $ 4,000 to Martin Masterpole, a candidate for city auditor whose opponent has said Masterpole's friendship with Miner would prevent him from being an aggressive watchdog.
A candidate like Spitzer — whose name is known throughout the city because of the prostitution scandal that ousted him from office five years ago — would typically have no trouble gathering signatures.
But Skyler — whose own name was at one point bandied around as a potential mayoral candidate — warned that the mayor - elect faces a huge challenge in overseeing a workforce of 300,000 city employees and a $ 70 billion budget.
Charter advocates, who feel they have gotten short - shrifted by the city and state, say they would look to run candidates to grab control of the community boards, whose elections would be held in May 2018.
Anthony Weiner, a one - time frontrunner in the mayoral contest whose bid was kneecapped after a lewd - messaging scandal, was given less time to speak than the candidates currently leading the field, though he did manage to insert jabs at both Quinn and de Blasio, as well as current New York City Mayor Bloomberg.
Fellow GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, whose aide and vice chair of the Queens Democratic party, Vincent Tabone, was arrested in the sting as well, blasted the «culture of corruption that permeates our city and state.»
Republican New York City mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, whose daughter is married to the son of state Republican Chairman Ed Cox, has given Cuomo a combined $ 79,665.46, while his wife Margo has given $ 46,396.21.
Mayoral control turned controversial primarily due to the political enmity between the Senate GOP and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose efforts to end the chamber's Republican majority have angered that conference and led to multiple investigations into his past practice of directing large sums of money into the campaign coffers of Democratic Senate candidates.
A pro-charter Super PAC, New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, has spent $ 3.9 million on Senate Republican candidates, with Julian Robertson, a city - based retired hedge fund manger whose son runs a Red Hook, Brooklyn, charter, and hedgefunder Daniel Loeb each giving $ 1 million.
At last night's mayoral candidate forum at Queens College, four Democratic candidates were asked about the City's post-Sandy rebuilding plans, how they «would get the job done» and about options for «people whose insurance and FEMA support will not cover the expense of a new home and for whom rebuilding is not an option.»
Some of the possible candidates whose names have been floated as among the front runners in the most recent polls — including Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and financial frontrunner City Council Speaker Christine Quinn — were not present at Wednesday's event.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The city teachers union won't consider supporting the mayoral candidate whose campaign is built around schools.
By contrast, the Democratic machine has cleared the field for its own legacy candidate, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has only to avoid stumbling over a socialist from Vermont and a governor from Maryland whose home city was in flames just months ago.
Carlo Scissura, president of the New York Building Congress, a group whose members include firms involved in the city's construction industry, hailed Torres - Springer as an «ideal candidate» and Lago as «the perfect choice.»
The only other candidate now expected to run for comptroller is City Council Finance Chairman Domenic Recchia, whose Coney Island district was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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.
The model was previously unknown to the artist, but struck him — perhaps by the strong cut of his jaw, perhaps by his leonine confidence — as a fitting candidate for the elaborate and sophisticated impersonation in which he was hired to participate.The model, who remains unnamed, is from Harlem (New York City), as was the original subject, Willem van Heythuysen, a Dutch wool merchant from Haarlem (the Netherlands), whose portrait was painted by Frans Hals in 1625.
Tongues were a-wagging this week in Portland over speculation that Barack Obama's primary appearance, whose 75,000 - strong crowd drew over 8,000 cyclists, was also meant to serve as a tacit endorsement of mayoral candidate — and erstwhile city
Other speakers on the agenda include Utah Attorney General (and 2010 Senate candidate) Mark Shurtleff, whose topic is vaguely described as «Utah's Approach»; Kirk Torgenson, Utah's chief deputy attorney general, speaking on criminal prosecution of polygamy; Utah Legal Clinic attorney Brian M. Barnard on the constitutionality of laws banning polygamy; Salt Lake City criminal - defense lawyer Grant W.P. Morrison on family law and polygamy; and Ken D. Driggs, an Atlanta lawyer and polygamy historian, on legal case histories involving polygamy.