Sentences with phrase «city councilmen who»

Two incumbent city councilmen who represent other portions of the neighborhood are also seeking to defend their seats, as they are being challenged by community activists and political novices.

That would include a city councilman who said,» I've never seen any church do anything like this in the twenty years I've lived in this area.

A basketball court at a Brooklyn playground will be named after late rapper Notorious B.I.G., according to a NYC city councilman who has tried to honor the hip hop star for years.

Sal Albanese, a former city councilman who is challenging Mayor de Blasio in the Democratic primary, is struggling to gain traction.

The Democrat, Simcha Felder, a former city councilman who is a deputy to the New York City comptroller, John C. Liu, defeated a Republican incumbent, David Storobin, last week.

Dan Halloran is a Republican city councilman who is accused of working as a «quarterback» in state Sen. Malcolm Smith's bribery scheme, identifying officials who would be open to bribes and arranging meetings with them, prosecutors said.

Among those who will be watching her as she begins her job is Rafael Espinal, the Brooklyn city councilman who sponsored the law that created the position.

Mark Levine, a city councilman who represents the doctor's Manhattan neighborhood, said Thursday, before news broke of the doctor's positive test, that city health department workers were canvassing the area, distributing information on the disease door - to - door, according to CNN affiliate WABC - TV.

In Brooklyn, Quinn will likely have to contend with de Blasio, a former Brooklyn city councilman who has not been shy about advertising his wife's Caribbean descent.

His father, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., is a former city councilman who held the congressional seat for more than 20 years, before Rangel ousted him in 1970.

«We should fund these offices,» said Barron, a former New York City councilman who was succeeded by his wife, Inez, when term limits forced him from office last year.

Garrett Dennis, a Jacksonville City Councilman who has yet to file for re-election in the 2019 election, launched a statewide political committee Wednesday.

Smith was overwhelmingly re-elected last year to his State Senate seat after Republicans redrew his district and helped him avoid a potential primary from James Sanders, a term - limited city councilman who later ran a primary and ousted Shirley Huntley (who was charged and later pled guilty to an unrelated corruption probe launched by the State Attorney General).

«We haven't had that conversation yet, but we will,» said McMahon, a former city councilman who is an attorney at Herrick, Feinstein LLP.

Gordon Clapp plays a suicidal city councilman who is on the take and Mary Steenburgen is his wife, an obsessive organizer of poorly attended festivals to celebrate the town's history.

Mr. Pashall is the city councilman who sponsored the change to the city's charter and who was quoted in the article as saying «teenagers drive on public streets, pay income taxes on jobs and seek police support, which earns them a vote.

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.

On Wednesday, Seattle's city attorney, a former federal prosecutor, and a city councilman who used to be a police officer all testified in support of a bill that would legalize the sale, possession and delivery of marijuana for adults over 21 years old — and, in theory at least, generate millions of dollars from taxes on the product.

This is an actual resume example of a City Councilman who works in the Executive Directors Industry.

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True Bethel Baptist Church, led by Reverend and city Councilman Darius Pridgen, is one of the churches that agreed to pay the $ 25 application fee for the Buffalo Police Entrance Exam for those who are not able to afford it.

New York City Councilman David Greenfield has called for the resignation of the teacher, who has been placed on leave.

If there was any lingering doubt that de Blasio's mostly harmonious relationship with the NYC Council was about to change, Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, who has been chosen by new Speaker Corey Johnson to be in charge of a new investigations unit that will look into the operation of city agencies, may put that question to rest.

BTW, NYC has been doing a great job of governoring becasue it has a great leader and Councilman who care about the city.

Queens City Councilman Eric Ulrich said he's «seriously considering» a bid for lieutenant governor against Cuomo's running mate, Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul, after being approached by Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco, who's running for governor.

Enter Marisol Alcanatara, who had a good relationship with Espaillat and City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, for whom Alcantara worked as Chief of Staff.

Meanwhile, Republicans have pumped nearly $ 1.5 million into several local Senate campaigns, including that Sen. Greg Ball in the Hudson Valley, City Councilman Eric Ulrich in Queens and Assemblyman George Amedore who is vying for the newly created «63rd» Senate district in the Albany area.

At noon, Queens Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich, who considered — but decided against — a run for NYC mayor, will endorse Bob Dietl's run for that office, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Turns out Chan is politically active and served on the transition team of incoming Democratic New York City Councilman Justin Brannan, who just won a tight race in Bay Ridge Brooklyn last month.

The event included Sen. Marisol Alcantara, one of the newer members of the IDC who faces a competitive primary challenge from former City Councilman Robert Jackson next year.

Adam Clayton Powell IV, a former city councilman and assemblyman, said today he is likely to jump into the race to replace Congressman Charles Rangel, who said he is retiring from the House when his term expires in 2016.

Multiple NYC media outlets are reporting Morris Stern as the witness who was instrumental in pulling together the arrests of Senator Malcolm Smith of Queens, City Councilman Dan Halloran of Queens, Bronx GOP chairman Joseph Savino, Queens GOP vice president Vincent Tabone and Mayor Noramie Jasmin and Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret, both of Spring Valley, as previously reported on VIN News.

After the Judge ruled Phil Ragusa as the Chairman plenipotentiary of the Queens GOP, City Councilman Ulrich, who received political help from the GOP during his campaign, gives an old fashion public backstabbing to Robert Hornak and Vince Tabone.

He moved to the city in 2008, after landing a constituent - services job in the Queens office of former City Councilman Eric Gioia, a Democrat who has been critical of the city in 2008, after landing a constituent - services job in the Queens office of former City Councilman Eric Gioia, a Democrat who has been critical of the City Councilman Eric Gioia, a Democrat who has been critical of the WFP.

The councilman later went as far as to question the mayor's political philosophy, calling de Blasio an «opportunist» who doesn't serve the whole city.

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advocate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

On its face, James» declination is shocking: In 2003, she became the first candidate in New York City political history to win election running solely on the third - party ballot line of the WFP, winning an election to replace ex-Brooklyn Councilman James Davis, who months earlier had been assassinated by a political rival.

At a City Council hearing on criminal discovery practices in February chaired by Queens councilman Rory Lancman, Sergio de la Pava, a supervising attorney for New York County Defender Services who has been representing indigent defendants in Manhattan for over 20 years, described a typical experience in the borough's courtrooms: After waiting six months or a year for trial, he said, «The DA comes in with a cart and drops about six inches of material on your desk.

Councilman Ritchie Torres said the City Council is now requesting a probe into whether NYCHA staffers are intentionally targeting tenants who speak out.

Unlike most staffers who made that switch and then returned to City Hall, Botnick then went on to run David Greenfield's successful special election bid to succeed former Councilman Simcha Felder, who gave up his seat to go work for city Comptroller John City Hall, Botnick then went on to run David Greenfield's successful special election bid to succeed former Councilman Simcha Felder, who gave up his seat to go work for city Comptroller John city Comptroller John Liu.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who's also the chairman of the council's Transportation Committee, called for a «line - by - line audit» of the MTA, to see how it spends money allocated for track maintenance.

«It's a set of core values that unites us,» said City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) who spoke at a Save The Life Center rally.

In Southeast Queens, former City Councilman Leroy Comrie filed petitions with 5,800 signatures to take on Smith, who was accused of trying to bribe his way onto the 2009 mayoral ballot.

The winner of the Nov. 3 general election will replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who was first elected in 2001 and opted to run in the Democratic primary for mayor against city Comptroller William Thompson, who defeated him.

I noted recently that Shaprton has yet to weigh in on the gubernatorial race, which includes Cuomo and City Councilman Charles Barron, who created the Freedom Party minor - party line out of protest over the all - white ticket.

De Blasio had three nominees pending with the Senate to serve on the state - run authority, which manages transit — buses, subways, trains, bridges and tunnels — in New York City and surrounding areas including, Long Island: David Jones, a leader with the nonprofit Community Service Society who has advocated reduced transit fares for low - income New Yorkers; Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who chairs the chamber's Transportation Committee; and Veronica Vanterpool, director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign and a member of the MTA's «reinvention» commission.

The mailer accuses Ulrich and his wife of being «frequent dinner companions» of an openly - gay Democratic councilman (a reference to another member of the Queens delegation, Jimmy Van Bramer), and «cozying up» to New York City Council Speaker Chris Quinn, who is the first woman and first lesbian to hold her leadership post.

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advcoate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

Brooklyn City Councilman David Greenfield has tapped his ally Kalman Yeger to run for his City Council seat, in a deal criticized by good government groups who say it deprives Democrats of the chance to choose a candidate in an open primary.

Garodnick is the first pol to formally announce he'll run for comptroller, but other possible contenders for the job include City Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr., who leads the council's powerful Finance Committee.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.