Sentences with phrase «dig at mayor»

Comptroller Scott Stringer, in what was perhaps a dig at the mayor, praised Johnson for his potential to make the Council a «Council of Independence.»

And in what appears to be a dig at the mayor for a variety of investigations into his fundraising, the bill includes a new provision that PEP members can not be lobbyists or clients of lobbyists.

Not exact matches

He wrote: «Dig around in the figures and what becomes swiftly apparent is that if you look at trade deals in terms of the size of the economies they're signed with (rather than just counting them, as the EU seem to prefer) Europe's numbers stop looking quite so rosy,» Sunak stated in his first mayor intervention in the debate.

He also added a dig of his own at the de Blasio administration's already - underway effort to construct new affordable housing at the development, a crucial part of the mayor's ambitious plan to create or preserve 200,000 below - market rate apartments.

A running dig at Roger Ebert — the stocky, silver - haired, bespackled mayor (Michael Lerner) is also named Ebert, and an upturned thumb is his big campaign gesture — grows old quickly.