Sentences with phrase «citywide election for»

In 2009 he won a bruising citywide election for Gotham's second - ranked public official (after the mayor), the public advocate, which Manhattan Institute fellow Sol Stern says, «is a campaign office» for mayor.

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(It was attached to Sen. Marty Golden's bill allowing NYC to return to the old lever machines for the upcoming citywide elections).

The 2017 New York City elections are for the three citywide posts of Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller; the five Borough President positions; all 51 City Council seats; the Brooklyn and Manhattan District Attorney posts; and other down ballot offices like some civil court judges and some district leader positions.

The City Council has consistently advocated for voting and election reform in its annual state legislative agenda, including early voting, instant runoff voting for citywide primaries, and public campaign financing at the state level.

The Board also voted on enforcement matters for four campaigns involved in the 2013 citywide election cycle.

Doubting that will happen, Sliwa said the state Reform Party and its allies are prepared to try to collect the necessary signatures needed to put it up for a citywide election.

Cat's campaign manager, Eben Bronfman, despite working on non-competitive elections with District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, was somehow hired to manage a citywide election that could have taken off in the right direction but never did because Bronfman's strategy emphasized media outreach and press events instead of organizing boots on the ground for a grassroots GOTV operation.

For the three citywide positions of Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, New York City's charter instead provides for a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollaFor the three citywide positions of Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller, New York City's charter instead provides for a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollafor a runoff to be held two weeks after a primary, burdening local election administrators and costing millions of dollars.

Several prominent Democratic elected officials and voting reform advocates on Tuesday assembled outside City Hall to call for instant runoff voting in citywide primary elections.

The offices up for election are the three citywide posts of mayor, comptroller, and public advocate; the five borough president positions; all 51 City Council seats; and two district attorneys (Manhattan and Brooklyn).

Since some panels — the Citywide Council on High Schools for one — attracted lots of candidates, other community boards did not have enough candidates to fill the available slots — let alone hold a competitive election.

There are no other citywide primary debates, with not enough competition for any of the Republican citywide nominations or for the Democratic nominations for Comptroller or Public Advocate, where the two incumbents are set to cruise into the general election.

«Having the ability to participate in elections would create a lot more civic engagement and, on a political level, I don't think communities like the community that I represent, which is 68 percent immigrant, would ever be able to be ignored again by anybody running for major citywide office in New York City.»

Under the current system for the city's three citywide primaries — mayor, comptroller and public advocate races — if no candidate receives 40 percent of the vote, then the top two candidates face off in a runoff election, as mandated by state law.

There was also no Republican primary for the other citywide positions of Public Advocate and Comptroller — the general election GOP nominees will be J.C. Polanco and Michel Faulkner, respectively.

Democrat Adam Baumel has filed with the state Board of Elections to challenge Malliotakis for the 64th Assembly District, alleging the Republican has been neglecting the constituents who elected her as she runs for citywide office.

Turnout in the 2013 mayoral election was very low for a citywide election.

In a letter sent to the City's Campaign Finance Board Wednesday, NYC Deserves Better and Tusk argue that the millions of dollars the Campaign for One New York has already spent were «used to further [de Blasio's] political agenda,» and therefore «should count toward the board's 2017 Citywide election spending limits.»

The New York City Campaign Finance Board announced the debate schedule and sponsors for the 2017 citywide elections on Thursday afternoon.

Keep an eye on some of the councilors who have run for at - large seats, which means they have already been successful in a citywide election.

The stickers will be rolled out to city polling places on Tuesday, September 12 for citywide primary elections for local offices such as City Council, Comptroller and Mayor.

Political action committees affiliated with prominent unions in the city invested heavily in the 2017 municipal election cycle, contributing to candidates in races for City Council, borough - wide and citywide positions.

Other New York peculiarities include a requirement that voters register their party affiliation by Friday in order to vote in the primaries for next year's citywide elections.

Results of a Survey of All Candidates for Citywide Office In a survey conducted by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Junior Board, candidates in the 2009 New York City elections for Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller provided answers to questions covering a variety of controversial issues that affect local public schools....

Ahead of city elections in May, the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools has released a powerful platform uniting their call for equal opportunities in the classroom with citywide demands for economic and racial justice.