Sentences with phrase «our outgoing mayor»

She did talk about the need to return to «bread and butter issues,» and was overly cautious not to criticize the outgoing mayor, vaguely responding that she only wanted to do better on some issues.

Fernandez de Kirchner left office in December 2015 after completing maximum term limits, while opposition candidate Mauricio Macri, the staunchly pro-business outgoing mayor of Buenos Aires, won the presidency.

And of course, British politics is also now dominated by an «old boys» network»: the cliques of Etonions and Bullingdon club members, personified by the prime minister, David Cameron, the chancellor, George Osborne — and indeed London's outgoing mayor, Boris Johnson.

In 2008, the VVD chose a new party chairman, Ivo Opstelten, the outgoing mayor of Rotterdam.

City Council Majority Leader Matthew Dunn was miffed as to why the outgoing mayor would veto the spending plan.

The outgoing mayor also vetoed a council resolution to place an additional assessment on commercial taxpayers in the Uptown Business District to cover the costs of repairing and upgrading the canopy.

Other potential gubernatorial candidates in 2018 include Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, a Republican; former Democratic state Sen. Terry Gipson of Rhinebeck; Democrat Stephanie Miner, the outgoing mayor of Syracuse; Republican businessman Harry Wilson; and Republican state Sen. John DeFrancisco of Syracuse.

«Sadly the New York City Campaign Finance System was once hailed as a nationwide model, but it has devolved into a nitpicking, imperious bureaucracy, now chaired by a political appointee who was illegally installed by the outgoing mayor,» the suit says.

With just three weeks left in his term, the outgoing mayor has vetoed the 2016 budget approved by the Common Council and replaced it with his own spending plan — one his successor, Mayor - elect Steve Noble, says will make it nearly impossible carry out some basic functions of city government.

After five years of complaints about the vehicles, the outgoing mayor finally relented and agreed to install openable windows on the buses at significant cost.

But it seemed that outgoing mayor Gallo dropped at least a couple of bombs in his final budget, released last week.

OUR outgoing mayor Mike gave a party for our ongoing senator Hillary.

A fiery rally in support of NYPD reform legislation was the latest stage in the heated dispute between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council, only one hour before the outgoing mayor held his own press conference condemning the measures.

The New York Post recently quoted people close to Bloomberg, who was an albatross in the Democratic primary to his preferred candidate, Quinn, as saying the outgoing mayor would oppose de Blasio, whom he loathes, if the Democrat emerged as the nominee.

Outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg announced last week that he handed de Blasio a balanced budget for the next fiscal year — but critics have pointed to the 152 outstanding contracts and back pay demands the new mayor will inherit as a massive budget gap that could await the new administration.

The outgoing mayor also recommended a new centralized cleaning position, which he said would save the city $ 66,600 annually.

Beginning with outgoing mayor Richard Daley, community leaders fell all over the Chinese as part of their multifaceted effort to transform Chicago from a city of meat packers and rail yards into the hub of Sino - American commercial activity of every sort.

Anish Kapoor was railroaded by outgoing mayor Boris Johnson into adding a slide to his Olympic sculpture.

The city's outgoing mayor said, «I never envisioned a new steel mill in Youngstown.»

Not exact matches

There's less than three weeks until Londoners elect their next mayor and the latest poll released by ComRes says Labour candidate Sadiq Khan remains on course to replace the outgoing Boris Johnson on May 5.

A thoughtful reader wrote in to note the individuals to whom Mayor Bloomberg reached out recently to discuss potential replacements for outgoing Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler have strong Albany ties and wondered if this is a sign that the mayor is re-thinking his traditionally combative relationship with the Legislature.

There is chatter that Chris Ward, the outgoing executive director of the Port Authority, might run for mayor of New York City.

Sen. Marty Golden, who, along with outgoing Sen. Frank Padavan, is arguably closest to Bloomberg than any other GOP conference member, professed complete and total ignorance about the mayor's contribution (s).

Cuomo says he looks forward to working with Ben Walsh, Syracuse's incoming mayor, to get things done in the city, and thanked outgoing Mayor Stephanie Miner, despite the fact that he has had a rocky relationship with her in recent years.

Outgoing New York City Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor lost influence as criticism mounted of the mayor's handling of homelessness, but a program he started called HomeStat will live on in name.

Outgoing Mayor Primeau pushed through the Common Council a 25 percent salary increase for the mayor's job, to take place Jan. 1, the day Mr. Morse took office.

Another surprise occurred in the Syracuse mayor's race, where four candidates were vying to replace outgoing Democrat Stephanie Miner, who was barred by term limits from seeking re-election.

«Senator DeFrancisco and I clearly have different political philosophies but where we find common ground is the desperate need for intellectually honest dialogue in New York,» said Miner, the outgoing Syracuse mayor.

His decision comes just six weeks after Anthony Weiner, who also fell from grace amid scandal, declared his candidacy for mayor to replace outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Outgoing Mayor Jerry Jennings seemed to recognize a changing of the guard was afoot, with some wondering if the five - term mayor would even show up.

They would replace outgoing Speaker Christine Quinn — the first female and first openly gay leader of the body — who recently lost her bid to become mayor.

Troy is facing a 9.3 percent property tax increase under the municipal budget proposed by outgoing Democratic mayor Lou Rosamilia, who's not seeking another term.

In his campaign for mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio positioned himself as the candidate most determined to break with the legacy of the outgoing Michael Bloomberg administration.

Republican Pete Wilson, a former San Diego mayor and U.S. senator, succeeded outgoing two - term Republican Gov. George Deukmejian.

They call him the mayor at his school because he's really outgoing.