Sentences with phrase «back against the mayor»
On the other side of those battles is a new class of power brokers pushing back against the mayor's lefty agenda.
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The AG's race could pit Cuomo and Bloomberg against one another, with the AG quietly supporting Rice and the mayor backing GOP Staten Island DA Dan Donovan.
The mayor pushed back against Cuomo's proposal to lift a regional charter - expansion cap, arguing that there are enough slots already in place.
The AFL - CIO has been pushing back hard in particular against the mayor's plan as well, while a rally of labor groups was held at the Capitol today to back the prevailing wage component.
It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the Board's $ 450 million lawsuit against Lou Ciminelli, for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.
Pretty much all the left press other than Solidarity [Workers Liberty's paper] has denounced the election court decision against Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in East London, and most of the left has backed Rabina Khan, Rahman's ally, for the new mayoral election on 11 June.
Among those mayors backing Cuomo's push against the law is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who has feuded with the governor on a variety of issues.
«It is certainly not an illustration of courage or leadership on the part of the council members, legislators, mayor or county executive, who have joined in the chorus of racist and incompetent Board of Ed members seeking my removal, so as to push back on me to not disclose their culpability in rigging the recent teacher's contract, or their complicity in trying to unfairly settling the board's $ 450 million lawsuit against (developer) Lou Ciminelli for fleecing the citizens and children of Buffalo.
Lovely Warren is mounting a Democratic Primary against party - backed Tom Richards for mayor of Rochester.
Levitan also slammed Lhota for his role as a a deputy mayor under Rudy Giuliani, saying, «Lhota is right that we can't go back: we shouldn't return to the days when Republicans like Giuliani used fear tactics to divide New Yorkers against each other.»
A Brooklyn city councilwoman is pushing back against a plan backed by the de Blasio administration that would redevelopment the Bedford Armory, a major component of the mayor's affordable housing plan.
Asked if he thinks the mayor will ever come back again, Schwartz said, «He might hold a grudge now against him, or all rodents in general,» joking, «I hope that's not going to affect the future funding of my zoo.»
Amidst a rash of recent overdoses in the village of Mamaroneck, the mayor, Police Department, schools and concerned residents have begun to galvanize in an attempt to fight back against a sweeping opiate epidemic.
But the mayor has branched out in recent years to help certain Democrats (backing Sen. Dan Squadron in a primary against former Minority Leader Marty Connor, for example, and also supporting ex-NYC Councilman Simcha Felder's failed primary challenge to Sen. Kevin Parker).
«I believe, if de Blasio survives, you'll see a reinvigorated mayor seeking retribution against the governor and he'll do so by backing Schneiderman or [state Comptroller Tom] DiNapoli, or maybe even running himself against Cuomo in the primary,» said McLaughlin.
He held a press conference savaging the mayor and his correction commissioner on the steps of City Hall after a correction officer was badly slashed in the face, and has pushed back hard against many of de Blasio's efforts to bring reforms to Rikers Island to overcome what Bharara deemed, in a separate investigation, a culture of violence by guards against inmates.
UPPER EAST SIDE — The candidates vying to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg are striking back against the billionaire mayor's edict that his successor should follow his lead by not living in Gracie Mansion.
But back to the mayor's wife and the opposing chief of staff: Though they weren't sleeping together, they were plotting against her husband, who is involved in a crooked land deal involving the sale of community housing for billions of dollars.
While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.
While DeVos» group, the Great Lakes Education Project, supported most of the changes, it pushed back hard against a proposed Detroit commission focused on improving both charters and traditional schools, contending it would be beholden to the city's mayor and school - district officials.
Allegations against the judge date back to the 1997 municipal election campaign in Blainville, Que., when Déziel was a lawyer and organizer for the sitting mayor.