Sentences with phrase «bid for mayor»

He was a political novice when he launched an unlikely bid for mayor in 2001.

He's now seeking political redemption by making his third bid for mayor.

«They're two peas in the pod, I'm telling you,» Beckie Mann, who managed Navarro's unsuccessful bid for mayor of San Diego in 1992, told Politico magazine last year.

A one - term Newark city councilman who made an impressive but finally unsuccessful bid for mayor in 2002, he nevertheless had the unmistakable air and bearing of someone ready for the big time.

White ran unsuccessful bids for mayor on the Green Party line in 2011 and again in 2013.

Surrounded by a bevy of cameras, Mr. Ulrich said he wanted to avoid the fate of Mr. Weiner, a former New York City congressman, whose failed bid for mayor in 2013 was painstakingly chronicled in a feature - length documentary.

Albans) and John Liu (D - Flushing) praised Thompson's bid for mayor at Saturday's event held at the Presbyterian Church of St. Albans.

Even the memoir by the polarizing Christine Quinn, released during her failed bid for mayor last year, averaged four - and - a-half stars, though only three people reviewed the book.

The three Democrats are reportedly considering bids for mayor in 2021.

NEW YORK CITY — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will outline plans designed to strengthen and build the city's shrinking middle class in her final State of the City speech Monday, her office said, before she launches her expected bid for mayor.

Department of Environmental Protection employee Michael Post has launched a long - shot independent bid for mayor.

Bo Dietl, a retired NYPD detective and former Fox News contributor is now immersed in a sideshow - like bid for mayor of New York City, has had some high - profile private investigator clients.

Recall that when Bloomberg, a Democrat - turned - Republican - turned - blank landed the Indy line last year for his third successful bid for mayor, he vowed — yet again — to try to establish nonpartisan elections in the city, an effort at which he had failed in 2002 - 2003 after spending some $ 7 million of his own cash.

Unlike in past elections when the site was crowded with voters — including elections for de Blasio's first bid for mayor in 2013 and those during last year's presidential race — he didn't have to wait in line because there wasn't one.

Instead, he launched a longshot bid for mayor, losing the Democratic primary to then - NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, who went on to lose the general election to Bloomberg.

Former NYC Councilman Sal Albanese, whose Democratic primary bid for mayor flopped but has the Reform Party line in the general election, is suing the Campaign Finance Board and sponsors of its first mayoral debate in hopes of being admitted.

He has since gone on to garner the support of several elected officials, including his former boss, Attorney General Erich Schneiderman, Congressman Jerry Nadler, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Councilman Mark Levine and, most recently, former Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger, who previously supported Ferrer's one - time bid for mayor.

Eccentric supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis — rumored to be weighing a second bid for mayor on the Republican line — today sketched out a plan to establish a «reward fund» for people who share evidence that leads to the arrest of hate crime offenders.

Activists who supported Bill de Blasio's bid for mayor want a more receptive ear to the concerns of minorities.

But in 2009 he took a job in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, before returning to New York in 2013 to make a lackluster bid for mayor on the Independence Party line.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Tuesday unveiled a budget plan containing a glittering prize for Mayor Bill de Blasio: money for the prekindergarten classes that he had made a centerpiece of his insurgent bid for mayor.

Rants against sky high rents have fueled McMillan's repeated bids for mayor, governor, and other offices.

Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent $ 64.8 million so far on his third - term bid for mayor, according to financial reports his campaign released on Friday.

September 30, 2010 • The longtime administration official and Washington political figure plans to return to his hometown of Chicago to pursue a potential bid for mayor, sources tell NPR.

Bloomberg has far outspent his opponents with $ 18.5 million of his own money for his third bid for mayor, campaign finance records revealed.

Asked at the same press conference whether the admission will help her expected bid for mayor, Quinn instead offered her sympathy.

He can't run for his current office again due to term limits and has been casting about for something else to do for a while now, running failed bids for mayor (he dropped out of the 2005 race) and Congress and mulling a borough president run.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Ben Walsh's path to the ballot took another turn Monday as he found a backer for his independent bid for mayor.

Republican supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, who waged an unsuccessful bid for mayor in 2013, supports Malliotakis.

When faced with dwindling support in his bid for mayor in 2010, the respected alderman known for his «nice guy» image launched a blistering negative attack on Naheed Nenshi before dropping out and endorsing Barb Higgins (his name still appeared on the ballot — he earned 1,513 votes).

If she were state attorney general, however, it's unlikely that she would make a bid for mayor.

At least nine other Democrats are eyeing a bid for mayor this year.

Two days after losing her bid for mayor, Quinn promised «a ton» of Council activity in her last months.

PARK SLOPE — Public Advocate Bill de Blasio officially launched his bid for mayor Sunday, surrounded by dozens of supporters in Park Slope.

year Forest Hills resident first delved into politics at age 17, when she volunteered for women's rights advocate Bella Abzug's unsuccessful bid for mayor.

(CNN)- The man Levi Johnston may face in his bid for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska is sparing no punches when it comes to the political newcomer.

The local and regional arm of the Sierra Club is supporting Miner in her bid for mayor, citing what they say is her ambitious environmental vision for Syracuse.

24 %, however, think a bid for mayor would be a good idea.

Since kicking off her bid for mayor two weeks ago, Staten Island Assembly member Nicole Malliotakis has raised $ 94,624, the filings show.

Quinn, who is widely expected to officially launch her bid for mayor soon, described the initiative — which was one of a series designed to bolster the city's middle class — as «the biggest commitment to middle class affordability that this city has seen in two generations.»

Several candidates weighed in on the latest addition to the race Wednesday morning at the Crain's New York Business Democratic debate, just hours after Weiner released a YouTube video declaring his bid for mayor.

According to the City Hall report, a source told the publication Weiner will speak of his decision to end his bid for mayor at a news conference Wednesday in Brooklyn.

After months of mulling it over, Red Apple Group CEO John Catsimatidis released a statement Monday saying he would not make a bid for mayor in 2017.

NEW YORK CITY — City Comptroller John Liu officially launched his bid for mayor Sunday afternoon at a raucous rally with hundreds of supporters at City Hall.

Weiner's op?ed piece came after a report from City Hall News Tuesday afternoon that said he had decided to end his bid for mayor.

(CNN)-- On the day of Anthony Weiner's first official campaign stop, the governor of New York offered a scathing evaluation of the disgraced former congressman's bid for mayor.

A federal jury found two former associates of New York City Comptroller John Liu guilty Thursday of various counts of campaign - finance fraud, a setback for the comptroller who vowed to continue his bid for mayor amid renewed questions about his campaign's viability.

Bloomberg has far outspent his opponents and so far has doled out $ 18.5 million of his own money for his third bid for mayor, campaign finance records revealed.

Hosted by Abedin, the event also lists a number of other women supporting Weiner's bid for mayor, including fashion designer Reem Acra, Abedin's sister Heba, and Cheryl Saban, wife of Haim Saban, a longtime Clinton donor.