The fund - raiser represents the latest effort
by city elected officials to insert themselves into Albany politics, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has become an increasingly relevant player.
But, despite the reverend's constant pronouncements to the contrary, same - sex marriage is now almost universally embraced
by city elected officials and for Mr. Díaz Jr. to further climb up the political ladder he may need to ensure his 2007 vote against gay marriage doesn't become a future liability.
Not exact matches
The unanimous vote
by the financial review commission, which was created as part of the
city's federal court - approved debt adjustment plan, enables Detroit's
elected officials to enact budgets and enter into contracts without first obtaining the board's approval.
Tarrant County voters are among those May 5 who will weigh in on whether to remove
elected officials or deny agreements approved
by city leaders.
Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this
city is shaped
by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters,
elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..
A wise public
official after observing politics in an American
city for a number of years said that he would prefer having the
city run
by elected officials with all the dangers which that involves to administration
by political experts; for the politicians often have a human kindness and mercy which the experts lack.
Parks and other
city buildings are usually designed
by city employees and
elected officials.
There are five pension funds in New York
City, which, unlike the state pension fund, are run
by boards of trustees comprised of
elected and appointed
officials and union representatives.
The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended
by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York
City comptroller, as some of her fellow female
elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.
At 11:15 a.m., the Bail Bond Accountability Coalition, advocates and
elected officials urge lawmakers to pass protections for consumers exploited
by the bail bond industry, outside
City Hall gates on the Broadway side, Manhattan.
At 10 a.m., NYC Councilman Mark Treyger is joined
by other
elected officials and advocates to call for free diapers for low - income families,
City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Also at 11 a.m., Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, joined
by a coalition of local and state
elected officials, community leaders, organizers, activists and supporters, makes his LG run
official,
City Hall steps, Manhattan.
De Blasio — who has resisted including the «Fair Fares» (
city - funded half - priced Metro Cards) measure in his budget — was massively outnumbered
by an army of
city elected officials, district attorneys and labor leaders who called on him to pony up $ 212 million for it in his executive budget.
Perhaps sensing growing Dominican clout, Espaillat is now backed
by a number of
elected officials, some of whom backed Rangel the last time: the
City Council speaker, who represents East Harlem and was born in Puerto Rico, and the Bronx Borough president.
BY PAUL SCHINDLER Stepping up the effort to press the Cuomo administration to provide more funding to shelter homeless youth, State Senator Brad Hoylman, an out gay Manhattan Democrat, appeared with fellow
elected officials and advocates outside of
City Hall on February 12 to make the case.
The highlight each year is the mayor's performance, which serves as a rebuttal of sorts to the reporters» show, which opens the night
by skewering the mayor and other
city and state
elected officials.
«When we allow for the editorials in New York
City to tell our story, when we allow for columnists and other individuals and
elected officials who honestly are doing a disservice to their community
by not understanding election law,... [to be] going out there and blasting the hardworking men and women at the Board of Elections, we think it's appalling,» he argued.
«She's talking about it,» a former
city Democratic
elected official admitted to Newsmax over the weekend, saying the idea has not been dismissed
by the former first lady's inner circle.
Bensonhurst Bean article on BP Adams joining local
elected officials in urging the
City's Build it Back program to extend deadlines for homeowners impacted
by Superstorm Sandy to file claims.
About His Support:... has been endorsed
by a host of LGBT organizations and
elected officials including all four major LGBT democratic clubs in New York
City, and New York
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...
BY PAUL SCHINDLER LGBT rights advocates and
elected officials gathered outside
City Hall on March 12 to press the case for enactment of the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) in Albany this spring.
Mark - Viverito was joined
by Council Member Carlos Menchaca, the first Mexican - American
elected official in New York
City.
At noon,
elected officials and advocates will stand at the
City Hall R train subway stop to rally and provide details for the «Riders Respond Transit Tour,» organized
by NYC Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and AssemblymanJeffrey Dinowitz, Manhattan.
By Madina Toure Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — the victim of a famous 2011 mass shooting — swung by City Hall to call on New Yorkers and their elected officials to «fight, fight, fight!&raqu
By Madina Toure Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — the victim of a famous 2011 mass shooting — swung
by City Hall to call on New Yorkers and their elected officials to «fight, fight, fight!&raqu
by City Hall to call on New Yorkers and their
elected officials to «fight, fight, fight!»
He then headed indoors for a news conference, where he was accompanied
by elected officials, government reform advocates, and representatives of the
city Campaign Finance Board.
(Brooklyn, NY)-- Today, a group of
elected officials including Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon,
City Comptroller Scott Stringer,
City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Senator Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblymember Robert Carroll, and Council Members Ydanis Rodriguez and Mark Treyger joined
City commissioners and community and business leaders to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to accelerate and streamline necessary construction on the BQE
by authorizing «design - build» contracting.
In a show of unity, the trio was flanked
by a swarm of
elected officials who had endorsed both candidates, including State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr.,
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, State Senators Bill Perkins and Gustavo Rivera, Assemblymembers Marcos Crespo, Mark Gjonaj and Luis Sepulveda, and Jeffrey Dinowitz, Councilmembers Ydanis Rodríguez, Inez Dickins, Mark Levine, and Andrew Cohen, and Public Advocate Letitia James.
«Between in or around 2010 and in and around September 2015, I gave and raised tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to an
elected New York
City official in exchange for efforts
by that
official... and other
City officials to obtain action from a New York
City agency that would benefit myself and restaurants I owned.»
In a letter to Tom Allon, the president of
City & State, Sen. Espaillat, joined
by a number of other Latino
elected officials, demanded that Airbnb be dropped as a SOMOS co-sponsor, claiming that the internet home - share middleman «exacerbates the housing crisis plaguing our communities... particularly the communities we represent.»
Cuomo was joined
by local
elected officials, including Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congressman Charles B. Rangel and his successor State Senator Adriano Espaillat, Assembly Keith Wright,
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Council Member Dan Garodnick.
Comptroller DiNapoli was joined
by fellow
elected officials, including
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito; State Senator José Serrano; Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez;
City Comptroller Scott Stringer; and environmental activist Peggy M. Shepard.
In an abrupt reversal, Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday dropped plans to seek a temporary cap on the growth of car - hail companies, amid growing criticism from
elected city officials and a massive opposition campaign mounted
by Uber.
He periodically visited
cities around the state to give speeches about his agenda, but in between, days could pass without a single public appearance
by the state's top
elected official.
He was joined
by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx
elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the
city and state.
The cap proposal has been criticized as faulty and flawed
by a number of New York
City and state elected officials, including city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn who is rumored to be mulling a run against de Blasio in 2
City and state
elected officials, including
city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn who is rumored to be mulling a run against de Blasio in 2
city Comptroller Scott Stringer, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn who is rumored to be mulling a run against de Blasio in 2017.
While other
elected officials, including Mayor Bill de Blasio,
City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand joined Sharpton, Cuomo participated
by phone.
«While Fernando Cabrera's a hardworking
elected official who has fought in the
City Council for his constituents, he falls short on key litmus test issues supported
by all the members of the I.D.C. and important to a coalition that accomplishes these goals.
«All decisions
by the DOE to co-locate schools are viewed
by communities as the
City giving up on the extant traditional public school,» the
elected officials wrote in a joint letter last week to Chancellor Carmen Fariña and PEP Chairperson Vanessa Leung.
Elected officials led
by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn joined together at Hudson River Park in Lower Manhattan in a show of solidarity and outrage.
BROWNSVILLE —
Elected officials and Brooklyn neighbors impacted
by the
city's previous rezoning plans showed up in full force Monday night, urging residents to vote against Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to rezone East New York.
Over 100 HIV / AIDS activists, community leaders, and
elected officials gathered outside
City Hall this past Thurs., Jun. 18th to call for New York
City to allocate $ 10 million for local HIV prevention and treatment programs that will advance New York State's Blueprint to End the AIDS Epidemic
by 2020.
Brewer,
City Councilwoman Margaret Chin, Community Board 2 Chair Tobi Bergman and Broadway Residents Coalition leader Pete Davies said that the DOB unevenly enforces the law, favoring big developers, and ignores concerns raised
by community members and
elected officials.
But another letter, signed
by «
elected officials from across Upstate New York» and supporting an increase to $ 15 upstate no later than 2021, includes signatures from several Westchester politicians, including two Yonkers
city councilmembers.
Elected officials, including Borough President Scott Stringer, New York State Senator Adrian Espaillat, and New York
City Councilmember Robert Jackson, among others, stopped
by to express their support.
Thursday at
City Hall, there will be a Student Voter Registration Day press conference held
by elected officials, advocacy groups, and school representatives.
A white paper issued
by the Community United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan
elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the
city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan communities.
Held at the National Action Network's House of Justice on 145th Street, the celebration featured appearances
by almost all of New York's statewide
elected officials and all of New York
City's citywide
elected officials.
At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow
elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited
by the center for decades of research and then abandoned,
City Hall steps, Manhattan.
Becoming The new Bronx County Democratic chair: $ 100,000 + (the 2008 campaign) Securing Endorsements from the Bronx BP, Rev. Al Sharpton, a slew of
Elected Officials and Unions to topple Nelson Castro: $ 500,000 Getting Spanked: getting yours and your cronies» asses handed to you
by the Nelson Castro community, and being called a «LOSER»
by City Hall News: Priceless!
At 11 a.m., Sen. Jose Peralta, Rep. Joseph Crowley and other
elected officials will be joined
by immigrant rights advocates and immigrants to rally in support of Peralta's bill to provide undocumented New Yorkers access to drivers licenses,
City Hall steps, Manhattan.