Sentences with phrase «city mayor just»
Weiner is running for New York City mayor just a few years after a sexting scandal prompted him to resign his congressional seat.
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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.
Just weeks after settling a dispute with New York City's mayor over limiting new drivers, Uber is once again making headlines but this time in Asia, where the controversial ride - sharing app is facing fresh legal accusations.
Just days after the capital of Iceland declared that it would be boycotting Israeli products, the mayor of Reykjavík, Dagur B. Eggertsson, announced that the city council has withdrawn its decision, Iceland Magazine reports.
«I've just seen cities everywhere and have found that mayors and city governments are far more focused on progress in their cities here in China than I've seen elsewhere, and it makes me incredibly optimistic.»
Brad Wall, the premier of the Western Canadian province of Saskatchewan, called the Montreal mayor hypocritical and said he leads a city that just two years ago used a pipeline to dump 2,000 Olympic - sized swimming pools of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence Seaway.
@chancetherapper demanding #nocopacademy, testifying at city council: «I guess the mayor had to step out when I walked in... but it's fine, I'll just speak to you: what are you doing?
Just two more rows in front of us is the Hon. Seth Low, former mayor of New York City and formerly president of Columbia University.
Holy cities are not just divided by religion and politics, but, as the distinguished Israeli urbanist and former Jerusalem deputy mayor Meron Benvenisti noted, are polarized by religion and politics.
Yes, the citizens of Saratoga Springs elected a token black woman to be their mayor just to have a token minority in their city government.
Just as the new mayor of Turin launches a drive to make the city meat free, so a new Communist - led coalition government in the Indian state of Kerala is attempting to make its dietary mark — this time by introducing a fat tax.
Just yesterday, Abedin — vice chairwoman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign — announced that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 and lost a bid to be mayor of New York City in 2013, both times because of sexting scandals.
«This race is just too important for folks in Central New York and I couldn't sit on the sidelines,» said Perez, a former corporation counsel for the city of Syracuse and candidate for mayor last year.
«We have seen the office of the mayor enter onto a new level of political terrain in using a nonprofit to advance his political agenda — with a nonprofit that also was raising money from people who do business before the city, which amounts to more or less being a political committee, and not just a nonprofit organization.»
The governor's potential support comes during a battle between Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio over funding subway improvements and just as the mayor unveiled his own plan to create a new funding source for the MTA: a millionaires tax to fund MTA operations and half - fare MetroCards for low - income city residents.
In an unusual move, the mayor sat alone at a table behind a microphone and answered questions about Danner's death for just over 48 minutes inside City Hall's Blue Room.
The mayor defended his statement about running the city so well «you'd assume they'd be having parades out in the streets,» insisting he was misinterpreted and just wanted to draw attention to all the «good news» going on in the Big Apple.
The mayor called for tougher penalties under the city's right of way law after a Staten Island woman was fined just $ 250 for running down a pedestrian in a crosswalk, killing her.
Given the city's overwhelming Democratic voter enrollment edge, Brown is headed toward an all - but - certain victory in the November election, which will make him just the second mayor in Buffalo history to win a fourth four - year term.
Weiner is running for mayor and Spitzer just announced a bid for city comptroller.
Turnout was low - just 26.1 % of voters cast a ballot to choose the first Liverpool City Region metro mayor, while 28.93 % turned out for the contest in Greater Manchester.
A veteran member of Mr. de Blasio's inner circle, Ms. Wolfe is the mayor's political fixer and his liaison to the groups outside City Hall with which he must work — the governor's office, unions, the City Council and just about everyone in Albany.
«I make this final call to you to engage personally in assisting TfL and the bus operating companies in finding a just settlement to this matter; as the mayor of our city, chair of Transport for London and our host for the games.
Recent polls have shown that the city is just getting to know Joe Lhota and we are confident that once the city gets to know Joe and contrasts him with the alternative, he may just be our next mayor.
Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, said, «Though deputy mayor is not just a City Hall desk job, it doesn't look good to taxpayers when she is too often at another job location, and with other staffers who didn't get Conflicts of Interest Board clearance.»
Just a month prior, Cuomo maintained the city's homelessness crisis was continuing to worsen due to the mayor's «mismanagement,» despite de Blasio's insistence that the city made progress.
CHINATOWN — Embattled City Comptroller John Liu all but officially declared he will run for mayor Tuesday night — just weeks before federal fraud cases against his former campaign treasurer and a top fundraiser are set to head to trial.
«Our administration and the city of New York have been incredibly lucky to have Dan in City Hall for the past six years, and I've personally been very lucky to have him sitting just six feet away from me,» the mayor said in a hastily scheduled news conference in the Blue Room of City Hcity of New York have been incredibly lucky to have Dan in City Hall for the past six years, and I've personally been very lucky to have him sitting just six feet away from me,» the mayor said in a hastily scheduled news conference in the Blue Room of City HCity Hall for the past six years, and I've personally been very lucky to have him sitting just six feet away from me,» the mayor said in a hastily scheduled news conference in the Blue Room of City HCity Hall.
The announcement of Ms. Wiley's departure from City Hall followed that of a recently hired director of social media, Scott Kleinberg, who resigned on Saturday, just eight weeks after being hired to bring greater personality to the Twitter, Facebook and other online accounts associated with the mayor's office.
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A determined group of advocates held sit - ins by the mayor's office and just outside City Hall on Thursday over the issue of supervised injection sites — forcing the mayor to...
«In the face of a more reasonable solution, they're saying, we've got a handshake, we're going ahead with it, and I think [City Council Speaker] Christine Quinn is just doing the mayor's bidding.
«Our charter gives, not just this mayor, but the mayor in general, has the strongest power in the country in terms of how it relates to the City Council and I think that's unfortunate.»
With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.
Just as Mayor Bill de Blasio is to meet with federal prosecutors to talk possible pay - to - play with the city's teachers union, that same union fulsomely endorses the mayor for a second term.
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has gone from contributing $ 1.34 million in 2012 to just $ 20,900 over the past two years.
In just a few months, the city of Syracuse will have a new mayor.
The mayor says he just found out driverless cars will be tested in the city by reading the press release about it.
While studies find the president's job approval ratings on a downward curve, a just - released poll by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion finds that Obama would decisively defeat Palin in a hypothetical race between the two and independent New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer stopped just short of ruling out a run for mayor in 2017 during a radio interview Thursday, saying «it's safe to assume that I will continue to be doing the job that I truly love, which is serving as comptroller.»
Were his many years in the State Assembly, failed run for mayor, and years as city comptroller all part of a plot to reach a perch just high enough to do evil but just low enough that no one would notice?
Just last week, the mayor spent three days in Salt Lake City at a symposium on urban issues.
After meeting with the mayor and several tenants, Mr. Heastie told reporters he had made the trip «just to let the tenants here know, and the mayor of the City of New York know, that this is going to be our No. 1 priority, to extend and strengthen rent regulation in the City of New York — to partner with the mayor in his vision for affordable housing.»
It's not just that he forced the mayor to cough up $ 2.7 billion more for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority capital plan and then saddled the city with half the cost of the $ 436 million emergency effort to fix problems created by his own neglect of the MTA.
David Weprin: Well, clearly when you're dealing with an opponent that is not part of the system, who has unlimited funds, as the recent election we just went through with the mayor of the city of New York, I would remove the individual cap on contributions for donors and go to a much higher cap similar to the one that's at the state level for the governor of the state of New York.
A Schenectady woman says she and a friend were just collecting recyclables from trash bins last week when the city's mayor, Gary McCarthy, began drunkenly chasing them in his pickup truck.
A conservative watchdog group sued the city and de Blasio, demanding more information about the mayor's communications with his long - time friend Patrick Gaspard, who just quit this month as U.S. Ambassador to South Africa.
The #Newsnight London mayor debate probably just helped boost the «no» vote in the 10 cities with mayoral referendums on 3 May.
Fifty - eight percent of city residents approve of the job the mayor is doing, while just 22 percent disapprove, and 20 percent were unsure.
Despite the low approval rating, just 5 percent of voters called Bloomberg one of the city's worst mayors.