Sentences with phrase «council race enters»

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Commisso Jr., 27, who works for the state comptroller's office and is serving his first term representing the 15th Ward on the Common Council, became the fifth Democrat to officially enter the race.

The council speaker, who has been locked in a tight battle for the top slot since Weiner entered the race, said the election has to be about ways to improve the city.

The race to become the next City Council speaker entered its final stages on Wednesday with leaders from the two most powerful Democratic county organizations, in the Bronx and in Queens, solidifying support behind a Manhattan councilman, Corey Johnson, according to four people with direct knowledge of the discussions, who spoke anonymously because they did not have permission to disclose the choice.

The race to succeed termed - out Republican Jim Love in Jacksonville City Council District 14 got more crowded Tuesday, with Democrat Jimmy Peluso entering the scrum.

Assemblyman Joe Borelli will run unopposed for the 51st Council seat, which serves the South Shore of Staten Island, as nobody else had entered the race by the Monday deadline, according to the Board of Elections.

National security consultant John Godwin is entering the race for Tampa City Council District 2, the citywide seat currently held by Councilmember Charlie Miranda.

The council's Finance Chair Domenic Recchia, Jr. is also expected to enter the race.

Queens Council Member Eric Ulrich is an obvious possibility and the NY Post reports that 2013 candidate John Catsimatidis is likely to enter the race.

Mr. Borelli would be an instant front - runner if he entered the open race and a favorite to win the endorsement of the Staten Island Republican Party, though Council special elections are nonpartisan.

A number of credible Democrats are considering entering the race, or have already declared: City Council members Jessica Lappin of the East Side and Gale Brewer of the West Side and Julie Menin, who chairs a community board in lower Manhattan and lives in Tribecca [corrected].

A week before Council members vote for the next speaker of the City Council, Brooklyn Councilwoman Inez Barron is entering the race because she thinks it is time for a black speaker.