Sentences with phrase «for mayor of the city»

It's a curious statement for a mayor of city where WEDC has provided some $ 186 million in tax breaks and other help for 184 projects by companies including Danisco, a subsidiary of DuPont, which reported $ 25 billion in net sales in 2015.

Blanco is a candidate for mayor of the city of Cuernavaca, 96 miles from Puebla.

And London Breed, who served as acting mayor of San Francisco following the death of Ed Lee, is running for mayor of the City by the Bay.

Avella called the mayor's characterization of the VSF as «Christmas bonuses» disgraceful, adding: «Your attacks in this regard on the city's uniformed personnel, who put their lives at on the line every day throughout their careers, is unbecoming for a mayor of the City of New York.»

Miner spokesman Kyle Madden said he finds it bizarre that Dadey would put his name on petitions for mayor of a city he intended to leave.

«She's running for mayor of the city of New York.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York City Comptroller John Liu officially tossed his hat into the ring for mayor of the city of New York Sunday.

«I have no interest in running for mayor of the City of New York.

The revelation came in response to a question about Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who said during a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night that he might want to run for mayor of the city one day.

That set off a four - way race for mayor of a city that has seen a booming downtown but also persistent problems with crime and poverty in other neighborhoods.

«I think that all of the candidates that are running for mayor of the City of New York have their different styles of doing things.

For two generations, the name Walsh has been synonymous with Republican politics in Syracuse, now Ben Wlash, son of ex-GOP Rep. Jim Walsh, is waking a political tightrope by running for mayor of the city as an independent.

«Today I'm announcing, making it official, that I'm running for mayor of the city of New York,» Quinn said in the video.

Mark Schroeder walks to the stage through his supporters to officially announce his candidacy for mayor of the city of Buffalo at the Historic Lodge in South Buffalo Sunday, March 5, 2017.

Reeher: Welcome to the special, hour - long edition of the Campbell Conversations, a debate among the four candidates for mayor of the City of Syracuse.

ABC's upcoming comedy The Mayor is about a rapper who runs for mayor of his city as a way to promote his music career and accidentally ends up winning.

September 30, 2010 • White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will announce his resignation from the Obama administration tomorrow, to run for mayor of the city of Chicago, NPR has confirmed.

In 1933, he ran for mayor of his city on a write - in ticket with a cultural platform, and he maintained a keen awareness of such modern horrors as Nazism and the atomic bomb.

Not exact matches

Paradoxically, the city's latent racism hasn't affected mayor Aboutaleb's popularity among supporters of the Party for Freedom (PVV)- the Dutch nationalist rightwing party led by Wilders, who, on 9 December last year, was convicted of inciting discrimination.

Netflix description: «The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.»

«There's a massive level of excitement about what it represents as a symbol of urban renewal, ambition for our city and recommitment to our downtown as the heart of it all,» says the 37 - year - old mayor.

Last year Calgary's superstar mayor Naheed Nenshi suggested to Maclean's last year that municipal government is the most crucial level for most citizens, and it seems that with startups it's the absence of city engagement that causes problems.

Bill de Blasio and Fred Wilson mayor of New York City (de Blasio), cofounder of Union Square Ventures Computer Science for All

Early reports suggest retailers are continuing to charge 5 cents for plastic bags in the meantime, following city council's lead of completely ignoring the mayor.

New York City Comptroller John Liu, trying to gain traction for his campaign for mayor, has come out as the latest advocate for the legalization of marijuana.

Michael Bloomberg, the self - made billionaire and former Republican mayor of New York City, on Wednesday night told the Democratic National Convention that Hillary Clinton must be elected for the good of the country.

Bloomberg maintained high approval ratings for nearly all of his 12 years as New York City's mayor (2002 - 14), winning his first reelection by a 20 - point margin, the largest ever for a Republican in the heavily Democratic cCity's mayor (2002 - 14), winning his first reelection by a 20 - point margin, the largest ever for a Republican in the heavily Democratic citycity.

Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor from 2002 until 2008, was convicted this week of two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery for a scheme to collect kickbacks on city contracts for himself and associates.

During his time at City Hall, where he sat back to back with the mayor, he says, they discussed the company for a total of perhaps one hour before Mike asked him to run it.

The reporter asked how de Blasio could «justify spending an hour and a half at the gym» considering he was the mayor of a city «famous for its work ethic.»

The mayor says it's unclear yet if the tax has increased rental accommodation, and better data collection methods are being developed for the city to monitor the impact of initiates like the tax more closely.

The mayor of Tucson sent Musk a city building permit, good for a $ 3 billion, 5 - million - square - foot building at an Arizona address «to be determined.»

The mayor became the proactive poster boy for the health program after he called a press conference at the city zoo, posed in front of the elephants and announced that he, and the whole city, would be going on a diet.

As he points out, when a review of the city finances under Mayor David Miller called for improved economic development, Toronto created Build Toronto and Invest Toronto, arms - lengths organizations with a «mandate from the mayor and council... that the city is indeed open for business.»

Two years later, in the midst of Weiner's second run for New York City mayor, screenshots of an explicit conversation between Weiner and a 22 - year - old woman surfaced on a gossip website.

«I remember during the local elections, they told me that there was the glass ceiling and that I would not be able to win, but we won,» David Rachline, mayor of the southern city of Fréjus and the election campaign manager for the National Front, told CNBC.

Kelly was commissioner of the New York City Police Department for more than a decade, serving two mayors.

Over the weekend, San Francisco and Seattle mayors announced executive orders banning the use of city funds for employee travel to Indiana.

Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding cities already: He is a former New York City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson YaCity deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yacity for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.

The former mayor, who spent $ 261 million on his campaigns for New York City office, says he'd spend as much as $ 1 billion of his own money on a presidential run.

This summer, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a bill requiring for - hire vehicle companies that have bases with 500 cars or more — which includes Uber — to increase their number of vehicles by only 1 % every year.

With Hartford on edge about the future of Aetna here, CVS Health Corp. chief executive Larry Merlo traveled to the city in January for high - profile meetings with the governor and the city's mayor.

Payment Pains: Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is now a member of President Trump's legal team, told Fox News that Trump had reimbursed his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $ 130,000 payment made to the adult - film actress Stormy Daniels.

Duggan, at the same news conference, took issue with Rhodes» concern that it is a possible conflict of interest for the mayor and a member of the city council to have a seat on a nine - member, state - created oversight board for a post-bankruptcy Detroit.

And after years of public battles and a very messy public separation from his second wife — which resulted in him moving out of Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence — his poll numbers sank and many New Yorkers were eager for a change at City Hall.

Bradley Tusk has long been known in political circles, including for managing the third campaign of former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The mayor of Lafayette, Louisiana has proposed the city create its own cryptocurrency to raise money for public finance, taking a cue from Berkeley, California, according to The Acadia Advocate.

Unfortunately, with Christy Clark playing endless transit funding games with the mayors of Metro Vancouver, at this rate commuters in other cities will wait for years before they see the buses and trains required to reduce gridlock and traffic.»

We have presidential elections coming up in Mexico where there is a surge of populism for the current, or the former Mexico City mayor and dissatisfaction with the incumbent president.