Sentences with phrase «city voters also»

City voters also stand strong in their opposition to Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to reinstate the city's sales tax on clothing.

New York City voters also put Albany on notice that inaction will not reflect well on them.

Not exact matches

Voters will also choose nominees for city clerk and treasurer.

I spent almost 4 years of my life trying to get the funding for that Point of Sale system — we applied for grants, we looked for a private funder, we approached the city — until finally we were able to get it funded through a parcel tax which was sold to the voters as a pay increase for our hard working and underpaid teachers, but which also contained a small portion vaguely dexcribed as «technology.»

Balls has also run three marathons and learned to play the piano while on the Labour frontbench, as well as becoming chairman of Norwich City FC and turning his hand to writing about cooking since rejection by the voters of Morley & Outwood.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — who endorsed Hillary Clinton in October 2015 — also issued a statement Tuesday condemning the purge of voters from voting lists and added his support for the comptroller's audit.

«Buffalo voters also give the mayor a high positive job rating on each specific major issue facing the city.»

Also at noon, the LeFrak City Tenants» Association, the Black Leadership Action Coalition and The Black Institute file a legal complaint regarding voter suppression efforts by the Board of Elections in New York City, 60 Center St., Manhattan.

Also at 2 p.m., Dietl greets voters and discusses issues on City Island, Lickitidy Split, 295 City Island Ave., the Bronx.

The poll also showed majority support from New York City voters for Cuomo, with 56 % approving of his performance and 37 % disapproving.

This whole discussion might be moot anyway, because in order to build a casino in New York City — or anywhere in the state on non-Indian land — the constitutional amendment expanding gambling would have to be passed for a second time by the Legislature and also pass muster with the voters in a public referendum.

Voters in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens will also be looking to select new borough president nominees, and all 52 of the city's council districts are up for grabs.

Forty - nine percent of voters in New York disapproved of how Gov. Andrew Cuomo is handling mass transit in the state, while a plurality also disapproved of a proposed congestion pricing plan that is aimed at raising money for trains and buses in New York City, according to a Quinnipiac University poll on Thursday.

Voters were also split on whether Mr. de Blasio's involvement in national affairs, including his trips this week to Washington, D.C. and California, are distracting from his duties at City Hall.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

The governor's support is also buoyed by likely voters in New York City where seven in ten say they will support Mr. Cuomo.

I'm now working at City Hall on the policing and crime agenda across London, but I'll also be drawing on experiences I gained working for a South London Council and as a Londoner to make sure I deliver an exciting campaign that engages new voters and retains our core Tory vote in Lewisham.»

Sliwa, who also hosts a daily radio talk show, is set to call Wednesday for a public referendum to eliminate the advocate position and have the City Council speaker elected by voters, not the council members.

The ex-Giuliani aide who also served as MTA chairman under Gov. Andrew Cuomo firmly believes New York City voters will continue a two - decade - long tradition of putting the GOP in Gracie Mansion.

The poll also found that New York City voters know very little about the Republican candidates for mayor: Former MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph Lhota, businessman John Catsimatidis, publisher Tom Allon, former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion and Doe Fund founder George McDonald.

In upcoming releases leading up to the September 10 primary and the November general election, voters will be able to make contributions to the candidates using the system, and the tool will also indicate how much that contribution is worth through the city's public financing program.

And a Marist poll released Tuesday also indicates that a majority of New York City voters say Weiner deserves a second chance.

The poll also asked voters «what are the top issues» facing the city: they are economic development and taxes.

«It will also highlight the «trick» the referendum is playing on voters with slanted language, as well as the strong possibility that passage of the amendment could lead to authorization of several New York City casinos.»

The poll found voters in New York City by a margin of 62 percent to 36 percent oppose the tax, with even a narrow majority in Manhattan — 50 percent to 49 percent — also opposing it.

Also at 11 a.m., members of 24 social justice and immigrants» rights groups, community - based organizations and good government groups call for improved voting systems and a more transparent Board of Elections in light voter roll purges that affected the presidential primary elections, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 6 p.m., the four candidates running in the special election for the seat vacated by former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver participate in a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the City of New York, The Villager, The Downtown Express and the Downtown Alliance, LMHQ, 150 Broadway, Manhattan.

New York City's primaries are also organized by party affiliation — sorry independent voters.

Kellner, who also floated the option of a charter amendment petition, which would go to the voters, said if the city failed to implement runoff voting, then it should abolish runoff elections entirely.

It was also a significant year for voters in the Kingston City School District.

Using online media also helps parties to connect with voters once considered hard to reach, such as young people and those living outside cities.

He also said that turning out a good percentage of Republican voters in New York City would also be key to his prospects of being elected Governor.

Probably the highest profile mayoral race is in New York City, but voters will also be choosing candidates for mayor in Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Watertown and Syracuse.

The poll also asked voters about the city's efforts to ban churches from renting space in public schools.

He also spoke with voters on the street — kind of retail campaigning that defined his bid for City Hall four years ago but has not played as large a role this time around.

The proposed Senate maps also split several upstate counties into numerous districts, for example, Monroe County, which contains the City of Rochester, is split among four Senators, and St. Lawrence, Tompkins and Cayuga Counties are divided into three Senate districts The League of Women Voters called the new lines an «incumbency protection plan».

Most New York City voters participating in a new Q poll said de Blasio doesn't deserve to be re-elected in 2017 but they also don't believe the current crop of would - be challengers are any better.

There's a genuine difference of opinion between the Cuomo and de Blasio administration on charters, but the move also stands to benefit Cuomo politically: Along with his opposition to the pre-K tax hike, it cements the governor's position as a moderate bulwark against the more liberal de Blasio on education, appealing to voters outside the city and preemptively shutting down a potential area of attack by his Republican challenger as he runs for re-election.

«(Consolidation is) unlikely to reach the voters at this point, given the strong push - back against it, coming not only from communities in the city, but also much of the suburbs,» said Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a political science professor in Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in an email.

Quinn also came under fire Tuesday for allowing Mayor Michael Bloomberg and members of the City Council — herself included — to serve third terms despite the fact that voters had approved limiting terms to two.

The Quinnipiac University survey, conducted entirely after Weiner admitted in a news conference last week to lewd chats a year after such sexting forced him to resign from Congress, also indicates that the Democratic New York City mayoral candidate's support among likely voters has dropped significantly.

New York City voters are also decidedly against de Blasio's promised push to ban horse carriages in the city, with 61 percent saying it's a bad iCity voters are also decidedly against de Blasio's promised push to ban horse carriages in the city, with 61 percent saying it's a bad icity, with 61 percent saying it's a bad idea.

The poll also found that a majority of New York City voters — 53 percent — believe Weiner deserves «a second chance» after the sexting scandal that forced him to resign from the House of Representatives in 2011, though 40 percent do not believe he has «the character to be mayor» and 8 percent are unsure.

In Erie, Pennsylvania, voters chose Tyler Titus, a transgender man, for the School Board, a post won by trans woman Gerri Cannon in Somersworth, New Hampshire, while Raven Matherne, a transgender woman, was elected to the Stamford, Connecticut Board of Representatives, Stephe Koontz, a trans woman, was elected to Doraville, Georgia's City Council and Lisa Middleton, also transgender, was elected to the Palm Springs City Council in California.

Hartzog also said that funding for DemocracyNYC, a voter engagement program announced by the mayor in his State of the City speech last month, would be included in the executive budget which is released after the Council has held weeks of hearings and had an opportunity to respond to the preliminary spending plan.

The poll also showed just 44 percent of New York City voters approve of his job performance, while 40 percent disapproved.

He also said some voters may have done so because Monserrate helped them during his time in office, either in the Senate or City Council, which he was a part of from 2002 - 08.

He said the commission will also be directed to consider possible reforms to the city's Board of Elections and to find ways to promote greater voter participation.

Cuomo lost the most support among New York City voters, who also side against the governor in his public fight with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Klein will also be able to point to his role in helping to secure money for universal pre-kindergarten in New York City, both as a means of demonstrating to liberal voters his usefulness as a co-leader of the Senate, and of keeping supporters of Mayor Bill de Blasio from supporting a challenge to him.