Sentences with phrase «james mayoralty»
The public advocate continued by offering up plenty of her own policy ideas on how to address the city's diversity issues, in what sounded a bit like a preview of a Letitia James mayoralty might look like.
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New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has, as James Fallows amusingly notes, taken the opposite of the Washington approach to terrorism: He's downplayed the Times Square incident, mocked the attacker as an «amateur,» and insisted on the quality of the existing security apparatus, all with a total lack of sentimentalism that's the hallmark of his mayoralty.
It's still unclear whether Bill de Blasio will be able to stave off a runoff tonight, but in the race for public advocate — an almost entirely powerless position that is nevertheless first in the line of succession for the mayoralty, for some reason — state Senator Daniel Squadron and city Councilwoman Letitia James are locked in at around 33 percent to 35 percent each, and will face each other for the championship on October 1, according to the AP.
While it's true that, as Public Advocate, James stands first in the line of succession to New York's mayoralty, we didn't realize that it was on the forefront of her mind.