Sentences with phrase «failed mayoral»

Lever, 29, started in Cuomo's press shop in 2014 after serving as press secretary for former city Controller Bill Thompson's failed mayoral campaign.
The former city comptroller and failed mayoral candidate, who faces a bruising Democratic primary battle Tuesday against...
He was a policeman and a failed Mayoral candidate.
Two key players in embattled city Comptroller John Liu's failed mayoral bid dodged lengthy prison terms for campaign fraud on Thursday.
Three days after Grieco was cut free from the punishment levied last year for a series of self - inflicted campaign finance and ethics gaffes during his failed mayoral bid, the disgraced former Miami Beach commissioner announced his campaign for a coastal state House seat.
Failed mayoral candidate Mark Baker stands in front to the City Center, which he led for 33 years.
Still, members were looking forward to a political reunion with Thompson, whom they endorsed in his failed mayoral bid in 2009, Feist added.
Clinton suggested that former NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn suffered from sexist treatment during her failed mayoral bid.
The decision comes after days of several people calling for Grimm's resignation, including failed mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.
The consulting firm, which spearheaded the anti-Quinn group, drew information from the Voter Activation Network databases of other campaigns they managed or advised last year and gave the data to the crusade to discourage New Yorkers from supporting ex-Council Speaker Christine Quinn's failed mayoral bid, a former operative for ABQ confirmed to the Observer.
The ex-campaign treasurer and a former fundraiser for embattled NYC Comptroller John Liu's failed mayoral bid dodged lengthy prison terms, each getting less than a year for trying to scam thousands of dollars in matching funds from the Campaign Finance Board.
Mr. Catsimatidis, who said he self - funded his failed mayoral campaign, said he's never gotten anything in return for his giving, or really made any requests.
MANHATTAN - Former city comptroller and failed mayoral candidate Bill Thompson has officially tossed his hat in the ring once again to run for city's highest office.
UPDATE II: In a public letter announcing the end of his failed mayoral run, Ricciazzi identified as bisexual.

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In 2011, Peter Navarro, a failed San Diego mayoral candidate and business professor at the University of California - Irvine, published «Death by China.»
NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl has habitually failed to pay his New York taxes, and the state is chasing him for nearly a half - million dollars.
Failed Syracuse mayoral candidate Democrat Juanita Perez Williams has changed her mind and plans to run for Congress in NY - 24 challenging Republican Rep. John Katko, according to the Democratic Party chairman, though she has to make it through a primary first.
The primary purpose of today's extraordinary session in Albany is to address the looming lapse of mayoral control of New York City's public schools, an issue that failed to gain consensus before the Legislature's scheduled session ended last week.
One of the co-founders of PCCC took national Democrats to task for failing to join local party leaders in backing Balter, a university professor in Syracuse, instead choosing to woo attorney Juanita Perez Williams, a failed Syracuse mayoral candidate, into the race and setting up a primary fight for the Democratic line.
Mayoral control isn't proven to be the ideal solution for failing school districts.
Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — was busted last year in a failed scheme to secure a spot on the Republican line for the mayoral race allegedly through the bribery of Halloran and two other GOP leaders.
The legislative session was due to end the following week, but state leaders failed to reach agreements on any of the big - ticket items: extending rent protections to 2.5 million tenants, extending mayoral control of city schools and renewing 421 - a.
This is the second time Fowler has failed to file required paperwork with the Board of Elections during the 2017 mayoral race.
That was Republican mayoral candidate Paul Massey as he offered a harsh analysis of the «current mayor» and displayed supreme self - confidence in his ability to correct those perceived failings.
So far, de Blasio's only opponents for September's Democratic primary are Queens State Senator Tony Avella and former Brooklyn Councilman Sal Albanese, both extreme longshots who have failed to gain traction in past mayoral campaigns.
It has also been highlighted that, as Chancellor, Osborne failed to tackle the advantageous tax status for so - called non-doms, which Lebedev is understood to benefit from, while Lebedev's paper strongly supported the Conservative Party in the 2015 general election and the Conservatives» candidate Zac Goldsmith in the 2016 London mayoral election.
A federal court ruling today found supermarket magnate and Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimitidis violated labor law by failing to pay his employees overtime, upholding an earlier court's decision that the businessman was responsible for the failing to properly compensate employees.
Mayoral control is commonly proposed as a solution for failing school districts like Syracuse's, which faces low graduation rates and test scores.
Then, in 2009, the party failed to field any mayoral candidate for the first time since 1855, when good old Lewis L. Hodges appeared on the brand - new line.
Halloran was found guilty last year of masterminding a failed $ 200,000 bribery scheme to get Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith the Republican line in 2013's mayoral election.
Booze, self - worship and Rivera were the evening's unifiers, creating an umbrella housing Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter, O.J. Simpson's former legal counsel Alan Dershowitz and billionaire - turned - failed NYC mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.
He succeeded Ken Livingstone, the maverick who failed to win the Labour nomination for the first Mayoral race in 2000, but won as an independent.
Halloran — who was found guilty last year of masterminding a failed $ 200,000 bribery scheme to get Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith on the Republican line in 2013's mayoral election — was scheduled to surrender Monday to authorities.
Mayor Bill de Blasio today said the tentative state budget deal will bring additional millions in school aid to New York City and allow him first crack at fixing failing schools — but lamented the absence of an extension of mayoral control and legislation to fund tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants.
Rivals of City Council Speaker and mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn released their second attack ad Wednesday morning, this time slamming Ms. Quinn for failing to halt the closure of St. Vincent's Hospital.
She had helped get out the vote for de Blasio's Democratic primary victory in the 2013 mayoral race and supported his failed bid to become City Council speaker a decade ago.
State lawmakers where able to agree on $ 52 million in pork - barrel grants, but failed to renew mayoral control of city schools.
Testifying on the fiscal 2016 budget in the state capital Wednesday, de Blasio pushed for making mayoral control of city schools permanent, rather than just extending it for three years, as sought by Cuomo — a move he argued would make state takeover of failing schools unnecessary.
«I don't want to belabor this one incident, because stuff happens, but I do think — as someone who has had his own share of tension with local media about, ahem, different subjects — I may have something to add to the conversation,» said Weiner, a failed Democratic mayoral candidate who resigned from Congress in June 2011 after lying about sending lewd photos and messages to multiple women.
And, he suggested, if lawmakers failed to act, they might feel the consequences at the ballot box, from the millions of voters affected by mayoral control and rent regulations.
ALBANY — State lawmakers failed to renew mayoral control of city schools this week but they did find time to dole out $ 52 million in pork - barrel grants before they left the Capitol.
Rivals of NYC Council Speaker and mayoral frontrunner Christine Quinn released their second attack ad, this time slamming her for failing to halt the closure of St. Vincent's Hospital.
For nearly an hour on Thursday, Governor Andrew Cuomo defended the accomplishments of the legislative session and blamed the Legislature for high - profile disagreements over extending mayoral control of New York City and failing to achieve ethics reform
Weiner laid out the rationale for his mayoral candidacy in a DN OpEd, and also said: «(I) f some citizens want to ask me questions about my private failings rather than public policy, I understand.»
First Lady Melania Trump and first daughter Ivanka Trump's 2017 New York mayoral election votes did not count after the two reportedly failed to follow absentee ballot instructions.
The ruling, by the Appellate Division, First Department, in Manhattan, upheld a lower court finding that the city's Education Department did not comply with the 2009 state law on mayoral control of the city schools because it failed to adequately notify the public about the ramifications of the closings.
Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — made the failed bid to secure the 2013 Republican mayoral primary line by bribing Halloran, Tabone and then - Bronx Republican Chairman Joseph «Jay» Savino, prosecutors allege.
Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — was busted last year in a failed scheme to secure a spot on the Republican primary line for the 2013 mayoral race allegedly through the bribery of former Queens Councilman Dan Halloran, then - Bronx Republican Chairman Joseph «Jay» Savino and then - Queens GOP Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone.
Former City Councilman Dan Halloran was found guilty Tuesday of masterminding a failed $ 200,000 bribery scheme to get Democratic state Sen. Malcolm Smith the Republican line in last year's mayoral...
In the past, Mr. Bloomberg had no problem renewing mayoral control for as long as seven years — but Senate Republicans, still enraged at Mr. de Blasio's failed attempt to drive them from the majority last year, never backed off from their demand for a single - year extension.
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