Sentences with phrase «city voters think»

Not exact matches

«But I can't imagine more than two - thirds of voters in San Francisco thinking that our city government should be introducing measures that will cost local jobs and spitefully target one industry.»

«I think because it is in New York City and because we are in the process of the budget hearings, the budget negotiations are overshadowing this trial by a longshot,» said League of Women Voters Legislative Director Jennifer Wilson.

«I think it sends a signal to voters that some of the rhetoric aside, Lovely Warren has been City Council President.

«While a bare majority of Democrats think the country is on the right track, as do a plurality of New York City voters, more than three quarters of Republicans and roughly six in ten independents, downstate suburbanites and upstaters say the country is headed in the wrong direction.»

Here's an interesting approach to contacting voters by email, via Charles Lenchner of DemocracyInAction, who thought of it while doing volunteer work for a city council candidate in NYC.

Joined onstage by surrogates and her parents, Malliotakis said she ran because she thought that not all voters were being represented in City Hall and she saw the quality of life going downhill.

Overall, 43 % of voters in New York City, up from 37 % previously, think Mayor de Blasio is changing New York City for the better.

Fewer voters in New York City (57 % down from 64 %) and Upstate (37 % down from 43 %) now think Cuomo represents the entire state.

«I think the voters have sent a message — that working well together is better for the city than working apart,» Masterpole said tonight.

The former reality - star's surprise win is a message from voters who think the country is headed in the wrong direction, said Antoniello, the first party chairman in the city who gave him support.

«Only Perez Williams voters think the city is on the right track,» said Greenberg, «Walsh voters overwhelmingly think the city is headed in the wrong direction.

«However important one thinks corruption is or should be, and however many times voters tell pollsters they care, what happens — partticularly in suburban communities — is that the voters fall back to what they care most about: property taxes, schools and crime on the streets, not in City Hall or the Capitol,» Levy said.

Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women's New York City chapter, said Wednesday that voters need to think about Spitzer's business with the sex trade, which she said enslaves and abuses women.

DeFrancisco, like Holland, thinks even New York City voters have acquired a «Cuomo fatigue» that may work to the Republican Party's advantage.

(CNN)- Nearly half of New York City voters don't think Anthony Weiner should run for mayor this year, according to a new poll.

«I don't think that pushing (for mayoral control) in the last eight weeks of session, disenfranchising the voters of the city of Buffalo, and disempowering nine elected members of the board makes sense,» the senator said, adding that he hoped an additional two board members selected by the mayor would «help to reduce the acrimony» among existing members.

An assistant to John Catsimatidis, the supermarket mogul who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for New York City mayor in 2013, sent a quasi-anonymous email poll asking voters their thoughts on Mayor Bill de Blasio and his potential rivals, a possible prelude to a second try at Gracie Mansion for the businessman.

A whopping 77 percent of voters thought that Mr. Lynch's remarks about City Hall having «blood» on its hands were «too extreme.»

«If Michael Bloomberg starts thinking presidential, there will be no great send - off from New York City voters,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

«The quality of life in New York City isn't good and it's getting worse, many voters think,» said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll.

Given her track record of work, both as first lady and as a US senator, and how she is seen by people in the African - American community across the nation, I think Hillary will overwhelmingly win African - American voters across the country,» said Bill Thompson, the former New York City comptroller.

Some 57 percent of voters believe the feud is bad for the city while 46 percent think it's bad for the state.

Asked whether making arrests for low level offenses improves quality of life in the city's neighborhood, 56 percent of voters said yes versus 35 percent who thought it adds tension.

55 % of registered voters in New York City think the Big Apple is moving in the right direction.

The proportion of voters who think the city is on track is at its highest point since March 2014 when 53 % had this view.

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However, a recent Quinnipiac University poll found that many voters still did not think the city was doing enough to help the homeless, and Diaz will recommend in his speech that the city start mandating that certain apartments in new developments go to working people who currently live in the shelter system, arguing that compassion must replace NIMBYism.

When it comes to the direction of New York City, nearly half of voters, 49 %, think New York City is moving in the right direction.

When it comes to the national stage, nearly six in ten voters, 57 %, do not think the mayor is spending too much time speaking out against President Donald Trump at the expense of the problems facing the city.

Voters think the city is cleaner.

«If Michael Bloomberg starts thinking presidential, there will be no great send - off from New York City voters,» Marist College Institute for Public Opinion director Dr. Lee M. Miringoff said in a statement releasing the findings.

Compared with four years ago, more voters today think the city is cleaner.

(CNN)-- The day before New York City's mayoral primary, embattled Democratic candidate Anthony Weiner still thinks he has a good chance of winning, maintaining that voters are far more interested in his policies than his personal history.

When asked, he didn't express much concern after a Quinnipiac University poll released August 1 showed that 51 percent of New York City voters don't think he deserves to be re-elected in

This is the first time since September 2011 that the proportion of voters citywide who think the city is on the right course has fallen below 50 %.