Sentences with phrase «west side democrat»

Stringer is sometimes mentioned as a possible challenger to de Blasio in 2017, though the Upper West Side Democrat has said he intends to run for reelection.

Supporters of the SOCE measure, who also pressed for a vote, voiced strong confidence they would have won on the Senate floor, with sponsor Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, pointing to public support for the measure from Republicans.

«He's a soft - spoken, gentle, easygoing guy,» said Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, an Upper West Side Democrat, who led the corrections committee and visited prisons with then - staffer Agostini.

Garcia has been endorsed by Dromm as well as State Assemblymember Daniel O'Donnell, an out gay West Side Democrat, who said, «We need new lifeblood in the Democratic Party — energetic young talent that want to serve — and Elvin is a smart, thoughtful guy.

In the view of Senator Brad Hoylman, a West Side Democrat who is his chamber's only out LGBT member, at least 10 seats are in play, with nine of them currently held by Republicans.

The Upper West Side Democrat said he would tackle everything from gun control to mortgage fraud to political and social interests.

The legislation's chief Albany sponsors, VOCAL - NY, and other advocates held a press conference on June 4 to signal their intention to keep fighting until the end of session, but out gay State Senator Brad Hoylman, a West Side Democrat, told Gay City News, «Mayor Bloomberg's opposition makes Senate passage this session very challenging given his strong ties to GOP leadership.

UPDATE: Shortly after I hit «publish» on this post, I received a fall from an Upper West Side Democrat who said he received a polling call tonight that appeared to gauge support for Weiner for mayor.

Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, an Upper West Side Democrat, said «we won't know if the slings and arrows have been effective until the budget process.»

As the forum was set to start, Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, circulated a letter he had sent to Cuomo urging that the state reverse course and double its Runaway and Homeless Youth expenditure from $ 2.35 million to $ 4.75 million.

Contacted shortly before ESPA made its announcement official, Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay West Side Democrat, said he was «certainly not» giving up on the effort to enact GENDA.

Liberals dream of the Upper West Side Democrat running against Mr. Cuomo in 2018.

An indivudal contribution of note came from NYC Councilwoman Gale Brewer, a West Side Democrat, who sent Tkaczyk $ 100.

Not exact matches

McIver lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is a registered Democrat.

The Three Parks Independent Democrats, a party club based on the Upper West Side, voted on a resolution on Wednesday that bars IDC members from speaking at their meetings or attending club events.

The Broadway Democrats, a party club on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, voted last night by a wide margin to endorse insurgent gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon against her primary target, incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

How likely is it that the bloc would vote for a Lesbian Democrat from the West Side of Manhattan, anyway?

We spoke with them at a candidate forum hosted by the Community Free Democrats, an Upper West Side political club.

But though he has been in the public eye since he was elected to the State Senate in 1998, the progressive Jewish Democrat from Manhattan's Upper West Side has always been more or less a background player, and something of a cipher.

Schneiderman joined the Community Free Democrats, Nadler's Upper West Side club, and began hanging around with the slightly older Nadler and the slightly younger Scott Stringer, now Manhattan borough president, who took Nadler's assembly seat in 1993, when Nadler went to Congress.

The Community Free Democrats, an Upper West Side political club, hosted a candidate forum for the four Democratic candidates for Public Advocate.

If you are a registered Democrat and live or work on the Upper West Side, then you should join Three Parks Independent Democrats.

Bloomberg has long had a rocky relationship with the powers that be in Albany, and has seen a number of his signature issues rejected as a result — from the West Side Stadium to congestion pricing (both killed by the Assembly Democrats, led by Speaker Sheldon Silver).

Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell, the only Democrat to vote no, lambasted language in the 421 - a renewal that he said was written in such a way as to recreate an old racial red - line along W. 96th St. — the middle of his Upper West Side district.

Lawyer David Gerstein, 78, who cast his vote on the Upper West Side Tuesday, said he didn't pay attention to party when he picked Democrat Andrew Cuomo for governor and Republican Harry Wilson for comptroller.

At 7:30 p.m., AG Eric Schneiderman speaks at the Upper West Side Democratic club where he began his political career, Community Free Democrats membership meeting, Goddard Riverside Community Center, 593 Columbus Ave., Manhattan.

Nine Democrats are running to replace the prominent legislator in the district which includes Harlem, Morningside Heights, a small portion of the Upper West Side, Washington Heights, Inwood and several neighborhoods in the The Bronx.

Yet instead of uniting with us to resist this assault, our State Senator Marisol Alcantara — elected as a Democrat to represent much of Upper Manhattan and the Upper West Side — has turned on us by joining the IDC, a coalition that empowers Trump - supporting Albany Republicans and stymies efforts to pass truly progressive legislation.»

Linda Rosenthal represents District 67 as a Democrat in the New York State Assembly which includes parts of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Clinton neighborhoods.

Later in the debate, State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan's West Side, grilled Young on investments contained in the budget resolution that, he argued, acknowledged the human role in causing climate change.

Last week, one of the Upper West Side's most prominent political clubs, the Three Parks Independent Democrats, offered its endorsement, giving her 72 votes, versus 20 for the man seen as her chief opponent, State Sen. Dan Squadron.

A bill sponsored by Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side, would increase the penalty for violating the law from the existing range of $ 1,600 to $ 25,000 to between $ 10,000 and $ 50,000.

Among the lawmakers on hand for the announcement was Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat who represents Manhattan's West Side.

Almost immediately after news of the arrest was reported, the speaker's regular Republican critics were joined by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and State Senator Brad Hoylman, a reformist Democrat from the West Side of Manhattan, in calls to step down.

Stringer's allies say a road map to defeating de Blasio begins with winning over as many disenchanted whites as possible, particularly affluent Democrats in Brownstone Brooklyn and the Upper West Side.

To see the mayor praise so many Democrats — particularly Silver, who has killed some of Bloomberg's big legacy projects like the West Side Stadium and congestion pricing — is very interesting, especially since he spent so many years being the Senate GOP's single biggest individual contributor.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Democrat Marjorie Velázquez, candidate in the race for the Bronx 13th Council District, has earned the overwhelming support of city government's women elected officials with the endorsement Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and nine members of the City Council, including Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, and Council Women's Caucus co-chairs Elizabeth Crowley (D — Maspeth) and Helen Rosenthal (D — Upper West Side).

The tensions reached a boiling point when State Senator Thomas K. Duane, a Democrat who represents the West Side, went over to talk with the stadium opponents.

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].

O'Donnell, a Democrat from the Upper West Side, questioned how the deleted emails might affect Freedom of Information Laws and future litigation.

Kavanagh has the support of Downtown Progressive Democrats, a club on the west side of the district.

She's the sweetest, most adorable, delicious little girl,» said Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat from the Upper West Side.

The hopefuls — six declared Democrats and an independent who is just entering the race — made their case at a forum Thursday night hosted by the West Side Federation of Neighborhood & Block Associations.

In an hour - long interview at City Diner on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Faulkner, 60, explained his decision to run for Comptroller and how he believes his experience in the private sector trumps what incumbent Comptroller Scott Stringer, a Democrat, has brought to the office.

Assembly Member Daniel O'Donnell, a Democrat who represents Manhattan's Upper West Side, has been one of the legislators pushing for amending or repealing 50 (a).

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat from Manhattan's Upper West Side, said her colleagues would consider a bill that would ban the advertisement of illegal short - term rentals on sites like Airbnb.

Democrats view the seventh district, which includes Rice University and affluent neighborhoods on Houston's west side, as a ripe target because it went narrowly for Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 after previously supporting Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain by large margins in the 2012 and 2008 presidential contests, respectively.

LA's west side was full of proud Democrats and Melvoin was endorsed by Obama's Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.