Sentences with phrase «citywide offices like»

Candidates for citywide offices like comptroller have to have 3,750 signatures from registered voters in their party by Thursday.

Not exact matches

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.

Ms. James, the first black woman elected to citywide office, is a natural candidate for City Hall someday — though her historically close relationship with de Blasio makes her less likely to challenge him directly in a primary than some of the other candidates bandied about, like Comptroller Scott Stringer or Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

Running as a Republican for citywide office in New York is kind of like that — only maybe more frustrating.

«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.»

In some ways, the local council member serves as a check on the power of citywide entities like the mayor's office and the City Planning Commission, which consider land use proposals as they move through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure before reaching the Council stage.

That's why we've launched Forward NY, a citywide coalition of diverse stakeholders, including women's advocacy groups like the National Organization for Women, and business leaders who won't let Eliot Spitzer buy his way back into office.

Saying issues like crime, education and affordable housing drove them to the polls Tuesday, Queens residents helped to re-elect Helen Marshall as borough president and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the city's highest office by a narrow, while sending John Liu (D - Flushing) to the comptroller's office as the first Asian American to win a citywide office.

Sullivan told Inside Politics that garnering the needed 1,000 signatures to run for the president's post, a citywide office, proved to be to cumbersome for someone like himself without a large party organization to support him.

And while he is taking additional steps — like the formation of the new Citywide Savings Unit at the Office of Management and Budget — it is not yet clear to what extent de Blasio will follow the advice of budget watchdogs like the Citizens Budget Commission and city Comptroller Scott Stringer.