Sentences with phrase «by women mayors»

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«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

London hosted a more peaceful women's march on Sunday that was attended by the mayor, Sadiq Khan.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

I heard of a woman today who got attacked by a dog, climbed a telephone pole, fell out of a tree, was yelled at by a police officer on a 911 call, got patched in to the State Police in New York, was almost arrested and sent to jail, trespassed on several people's property, hurtled fences and hedges in a mad dash through a neighborhood, and even convinced a former mayor of our town to call in some favors to the local power company.

By the novel's end, even Eleanor Jane, the white mayor's daughter, has begun to enter this woman - centered community as an equal, contributing member.

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.

For the second straight day, Gillibrand declined to weigh in on the mayor's race, which has been upended (again) by Anthony Weiner's disclosure that he sexted with women after resigning from office in 2011.

BY PAULINE PARK Christine Quinn would have been the first woman and the first member of the LGBT community elected mayor of New York City had she won this year's mayoral race.

Miner, the first woman to serve as mayor of any of the so - called «Big Five» cities, cruised to re-election in 2013, (without Cuomo's endorsement), but is barred by term limits from running again.

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.

The letter is signed by a wide variety of women — including a number with ties to Mayor Bloomberg, like NARAL Pro-Choice NY's Kelli Conlin, whose organization has endorsed the mayor; US Sen. Chuck Schumer's wife, Iris Weinshall, who served as DOT commissioner under Bloomberg and his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani; and actress Whoopi Goldberg, who was one of the mayor's many celebrity endorsers in 2009.

A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.

The mayor also says that by the end of the year, more than 280,000 men, women and children will rise out of poverty since he took office — five years ahead of schedule on the city's goal to lift 800,000 people out of poverty by 2025.

By Joe Anuta The political action committee of the National Organization for Women's Brooklyn - Queens Chapter endorsed city Comptroller John Liu for mayor Monday.

«There's a young girl out there who was inspired by the thought of New York's first woman mayor and said to herself, «You know what?

«I love the idea of a gay woman as mayor, but... she's been bought and managed by special interests,» he said.

As for the presence of women in government, the mayors say they bring a different perspective to the table: «I didn't go into government so that I could play by the same rules.

As well as the public order problems caused by an advert that can be seen by minors, this site is an offence against women,» deputy mayor helene bidard told afp.

Published in the newspaper Libération, on March 8, International Women's Day, the letter raises concerns regarding comments made by Bordeaux's deputy mayor for culture, Fabien Robert, about the state of contemporary art, and his involvement in determining the direction of the museum.

Ofili seemed to thrive on controversy around his work: in 1999, the New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani was appalled up by the «sacrilegious content» of Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary posed pregnant against a backdrop interspersed with close - ups of women's genitalia cut from men's porn magazines, and he blocked the planned exhibition at Brooklyn Art Museum.

The resolution passed by the mayors highlights the importance of women's health and reproductive rights, urges legislators to pursue a positive women's health agenda and strongly supports continued federal funding for Planned Parenthood health centers to provide preventive health services to nearly three million people a year.