Sentences with phrase «first ran for mayor»

When Michael Bloomberg first ran for mayor of New York City in 2001, he promised to bring an express bus system to Manhattan's east side.

When the life - long Democrat turned Republican first ran for mayor in 2001, he spent $ 74 million on what ended up being a narrow win over Democrat Mark Green.

When I first ran for mayor in 1989, I lost the race.

He said when he first ran for mayor four years ago, he called for «fundamental change in this city.»

Nicoletti made his first run for mayor in 1985, losing the Democratic primary to Tom Young.

He was one of only two city labor leaders to back Mike Bloomberg's first run for mayor in October 2001.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Common Councilor Pat Hogan supported fellow Democrat Stephanie Miner's first run for mayor, but he has crossed swords with her repeatedly since she was elected four years ago.

Not exact matches

Michael Bloomberg's decision to endorse Hillary Clinton for the presidency very much reflects his belief — first articulated in a Bloomberg View column earlier this year — that Donald Trump «has run the most divisive and demagogic presidential campaign» the former New York mayor can remember, «preying on people's prejudices and fears.»

Clark was a former Liberal, having worked as a staffer at the Legislature during Laurence Decore «s time as party leader (Clark's father, Gilbert Clark, was 823 votes away from ending Ralph Klein «s political career when the former mayor first ran for provincial office in Calgary - Elbow in 1989).

The two are recognized for putting Wheaton on the map when, in 1848, they persuaded William Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, to run a rail line through the areas that would become Wheaton and Glen Ellyn.

At 11 a.m., Duchess County Executive Marc Molinaro holds the first of two events at which he'll announce his run for governor, Tivoli, where he launched his political career as the youngest mayor in the US at the time.

When Khan first announced his decision to run for London mayor, few believed he could manage it.

During his visit, he was introduced to Klein for the first time by the IDC's newest member, Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Queens Democrat who just so happens to be spending a lot of time with the NYC GOP leaders as he courts them in his long - shot bid to run on their ballot line in the upcoming mayor's race.

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.

Laura Lavine, the Republican candidate running to be the next Syracuse mayor, condemned the ACT for America's «America First» rally planned for next month.

In his State of the City speech — the first by a City Comptroller in recent memory — Liu, who is widely expected to run for mayor despite being the subject of a federal investigation, jumped on the «Lin - sanity» bandwagon.

Sources tell NY1 that Nixon is consulting veteran campaign operatives Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers, both of whom successfully ran Bill de Blasio's first campaign for New York City mayor in 2013.

«I am running for Congress to be a bold voice on behalf of Central Valley families and local neighborhoods throughout the 21st District,» Daniel Parra — the mayor pro tem of Fowler, Calif., an Air Force veteran who had been contemplating a bid — said in a news release provided first to CQ Roll Call.

The mayor is even being floated as a potential LG running mate for Cuomo, although he has conveniently been out of town and not answering his phone since his name was first floated late last night.

He was victorious in his first run for federal office, having previously run for lieutenant governor and governor, as well as twice for mayor of Philadelphia.

Maxwell will first have to take on the other Democratic candidates running for mayor including Alfonso Davis and City Auditor Marty Masterpole for the party's nomination.

Gyory compared it to the coalition that pushed Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, to run for elected office.

Smith — who was named the leader for the Democrats after their historic takeover of the state senate for the first time in 43 years in 2008 — stunned his party and the political world last summer when he announced that he was considering a run for mayor as a Republican, according to the New York Post.

Among the questions: what is working, and not working, in the Build it Back program, the mayor's reaction to a report that a family he visited in the Arverne section of Rockaway is «getting close» to losing faith in the mayor, the scope / number of people still directly affected by Sandy, whether his weekend trip to Pennsylvania involved a meeting with the consultants running the Build it Back program, whether he stands by statements he made during a September visit to Far Rockaway's St. Mary Star of the Sea, whether the Bloomberg administration allocated enough money to housing from the first tranch of federal assistance, whether he agrees with Oddo's idea of acquiring land for redevelopment, the role of Michael DeLoach in Build it Back, whether New Yorkers should be concerned that they may lose desirable options under Build it Back after de Blasio completes his review and issues on elevation of existing structures v. new construction.

Former Mayor David Dinkins, New York City's first and only African - American mayor, said he might back Public Advocate Letitia James — the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position — if she decides to run for mayor in 2021.

In a bid to become the city's first African - American mayor, Marlon Anderson threw his hat in the ring Wednesday night, announcing at Albany public library's main branch that this will be the last time he runs for political office.

The Tory MP said he was «overwhelmed» by the mandate he had been given to run for mayor and gave a first flavour of his policy priorities.

As a result, Syracuse's mayor ran unopposed by a major party candidate for the first time in at least a century.

The three Democratic candidates running for mayor of Syracuse held their first debate Tuesday, which was broadcast by Spectrum News.

The mayor and comptroller have engaged in bitter public relations battles going back to their first year in office — giving rise to rumors that Stringer will challenge de Blasio in this September's Democratic primary instead of running for re-election.

State Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse, ran into Walsh at the executive mansion after the speech and offered to take Walsh over to meet with the governor for the first time since he was elected mayor in November.

Yes, it's a movie that was first shown in 2013, when de Blasio was running for mayor, proposing a surcharge that would fund a pre-Kindergarten program in New York City.

Bo Dietl, the businessman and former police detective who is running for mayor of New York City as an independent, began airing his first 30 - second television advertisement of the general election, in which he accuses de Blasio of «turning his back on dead cops.»

I was the first woman to receive the party's endorsement to run for mayor.

In an interview at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Washington, D.C., this weekend, Red Apple Group CEO John Catsimatidis told The Real Deal he's not ready to say whether he's running for mayor until a certain prominent Democrat makes a move first.

The most recent to toss his hat in the ring is former Councilman Sal Albanese, who ran unsuccessful bids for state Assembly in a Brooklyn district in 1978, for Congress against Susan Molinari in 1992 and for mayor twice — first in 1997, then a second time in 2013, coming in eighth place in the crowded field of nine candidates in the Democratic primary.

POUGHKEEPSIE — Mayor John Tkazyik, the Republican mayor of Poughkeepsie, has set up a campaign committee to run for the State Senate seat currently held by first - term Democrat Terry Gipson.

The four candidates running for mayor of Syracuse at their first debate with moderater Grant Reeher in early October.

their first chance to hear all four candidates running for mayor during a debate sponsored by the AARP.

Since then, he's mulled running for public advocate and has been gabbed about in political circles as someone who could one day be the city's first Hispanic mayor.

Cuomo's team claims it's all Bloomberg's fault, that the mayor has been disingenuously crusading for the end of «last in, first out» when what he really wants is the freedom to can the hundreds of teachers already rated «unsatisfactory» and the thousands drifting between schools in the reserve pool, and that Bloomberg is attempting an end run around collective bargaining.

He was the first person to announce his candidacy for mayor, and he's running without being on a major party line.

City Comptroller John Liu dismissed a question about running for mayor at the Jefferson Democratic Club's first meeting in Bayside last week.

The four candidates running for mayor of Syracuse (from left to right) Howie Hawkins (GR), Juanita Perez Williams (D), Laura Lavine (R), and Ben Walsh (Upstate Jobs, REF, IN) at their first debate with moderate Grant Reeher (foreground)

Saujani's departure, first reported by Crain's New York Business, comes as Public Advocate Bill de Blasio gears up for an expected run for mayor against a crowded field that includes City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and former City Comptroller Bill Thompson.

And for a small but well - established subgroup of political professionals, Weiner's campaign does something more than all that: It tests the proposition of whether it's necessary to run for mayor with their help in the first place.

In 1961, at the age of 55, Mr. Beame ran for office for the first time — as the candidate for city comptroller on a ticket headed by Mr. Wagner, who had been mayor for eight years and, though opposed by party leaders, was seeking a third term on a «beat the bosses» slate.

Running for mayor in 2005, after losing his first bid, Villaraigosa began talking with a variety of activists, including Maria Brenes, who runs Innercity Struggle, a group that fights for small, more rigorous high schools.

In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.

He attended Yale Law School, headed up the Children's Aid Society, taught at an orphanage in Zimbabwe, and ran Kenneth Reeves» successful campaign for mayor of Cambridge (Reeves was the first openly - gay African - American man to be mayor of any city.)