Sentences with phrase «former city council member»

There is little, if any, primary competition for the three, though de Blasio does face several Democratic opponents, most notably former City Council Member Sal Albanese and police reform activist Bob Gangi.

In the state Senate primary set for September 13, she is facing former City Council Member Robert Jackson; Micah Lasher, former chief of staff to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; and Luis Tejada, a community activist.

For example, during the 2011 federal trial of former City Council member Larry Seabrook, it was discovered that he had used the Northeast Bronx Democratic Club as his personal ATM.

Other Democratic names mentioned to be in the running include former City Council members Eric Gioia and Melinda Katz, City Councilmen Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens) and Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria), Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck), former Borough President Claire Shulman and former Congresswoman and city Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman of Brooklyn.

Jenny Sedlis, who helped former City Council Member Eva Moskowitz build Success Academy Charter Schools, will start in September as the new executive director, the group plans to announce Friday.

Success Academy was founded by former City Council Member Eva Moskowitz in 2006.

Other candidates for the nomination include former City Council member Alan Gerson, LMCC executive Diego Segalini and former Brooklyn prosecutor Eileen Naples.

It doesn't seem to have come up on the record in the heated race between incumbent Queens Republican Frank Padavan, who voted against the MTA rescue, and former City Council member Tony Avella.

«So, remember if you want real reform in Albany, support Mark Levine, Democrat for state Senate on September 14 Also, Mark Levine is endorsed by former Borough President Ruth Messinger, former City Council Member Ronnie Eldridge and City Council Member Robert Jackson.

The committee passed over former City Council member Corey Ellis, who ran against Mayor Jennings four years ago fir the Democratic nomination.

Former City Council member John Liu, who faces State Senator Tony Avella in a Democratic primary, did not ask Wu for his endorsement and press reports quote Liu as emphatically rejecting it.

An integral part of the project team was Herbert L. Bellamy, Jr., a son of late former City Council Member Herbert L. Bellamy, for whom the development is named.

Indeed, public records show that the politically active Capoccia also doled out campaign contributions — $ 13,000 in a citywide election cycle — to a range of politicians, including former city council member Melinda Katz, who headed the council's influential land - use committee.

Fifteen current and former City Council members promised to donate their annual taxpayer - funded bonuses to charity in recent years — ...

De Blasio was facing four challengers, most prominently former City Council Member Sal Albanese.

In Queens, Avella, a 62 - year - old former City Council member, is also facing a well - known challenger — former City Comptroller John Liu, who served on the Council during the same years the incumbent did.

Squaring off against former City Council member and challenger Oliver Koppell in a televised debate yesterday, Klein balked at a question about whether he would vote to repeal the Urstadt Law, which passed in 1971.

The incumbent mayor trounced little - known former City Council member Sal Albanese and other long - shot hopefuls in a race that was never competitive.

A Primary is expected against Senator David Valesky, former City Council Member Robert Jackson is challenging Senator Marisol Alcanatara in a rematch of 2016 minus Micah Lasher, and Attorney Zellnor Myrie is forging ahead with his challenge of Senator Jesse Hamilton.

A Democrat who took office in 2014 after a contentious 2013 primary and landslide general election, de Blasio is consolidating organized party support ahead of this September's primary, for which his main opposition is former City Council Member Sal Albanese and police reform leader Robert Gangi.

In New York City, the Harlem - based Success Academy Charter Schools, headed by former city council member Eva Moskowitz, attracted opposition when it opened charter schools in affluent neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Besides Newell, DID heard from State Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, former City Council member Alan Gerson and Diego Segalini, a Lower East Side resident who's executive vice president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

At 3:30 p.m., Mark - Viverito and the New York City Council host the inaugural alumni gathering of former City Council members, City Hall, Red Room, Manhattan.

«We have a housing crisis now, and all this would do is throw gasoline on the fire,» says John Summers, a former city council member who leads the Coalition for Nashville Neighborhoods.

Democrat Robert Jackson, a former city Council member, continued to fundraise to run against IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

Only 1 of the 15 members on the commission, Stephen J. Fiala, a former City Council member and the Richmond County clerk, is from Staten Island.

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

Albanese, a former City Council member who is running as a Democrat, was officially endorsed by the Reform Party of New York and is counting on winning the line to be included in the November 7 general.

Perkins, a former City Council member from Harlem, stood at the Schomburg Plaza on Fifth Avenue surrounded by about fifty supporters, nearly all of whom he appeared to know personally.

Now, with two months before the primary, the mayor faces two main Democratic challengers, former City Council Member Sal Albanese and police reform activist Bob Gangi.

Moskowitz, a former City Council member who ran for Manhattan Borough President in 2005, has long had an interest in being mayor and she's been deeply engaged with New York City and State government in her current role.

In an only in the Bronx happening, Bronx City Council candidate Rafael Salamanca scored the endorsement of the mother of the former City Council Member he is running to replace.

Two of the candidates are relatively known quantities - Sal Albanese, a former City Council member and a mayoral candidate in the 2013 race; and Bob Gangi, a veteran police reform advocate.

SCN was founded in 2006 by Eva Moskowitz, a former city council member who served as the outspoken chair of the Council's education committee.

Holding the number two post in New York City government, the former City Council member and assistant attorney general said she seeks the office without any preconceived notions about the Trump administration — the target of a slew of Schneiderman actions.

A former City Council member and Public Advocate, de Blasio has participated in his share of debates, and, Klein pointed out, he is familiar and comfortable with those who will be asking him questions Wednesday night: Louis, the moderator, and panelists Juan Manuel Benitez and Grace Rauh of NY1, Brian Lehrer of WNYC, and Laura Nahmias of Politico New York.

At the bottom of the pack was City Comptroller John Liu (6 %) and Sal Albanese (1 %), a former City Council Member.

Dem mayoral candidate Sal Albanese, a former City Council member, criticized Quinn's controversial comment that opposition to the MTS constituted «environmental racism» — and panned Thompson's demand that she «apologize to all New Yorkers of color» for the remark.

Oddo, a former City Council member, and de Blasio asserted that as an «executive branch» employee Oddo was eligible for the Mayor's team.

«It must be Jewish people,» Richardson responded, according to Lew Fidler, a former City Council member who is Jewish and attended the meeting as a representative of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.

Also running are former city council member Sal Albanese — who just qualified to appear in CFB - mandated debates with de Blasio — and Robert Gangi, a police - reform activist.

Labor leaders from across the city rallied on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Sept. 9 in support of Robert Jackson, a longtime education advocate and former City Council member running for the Democratic nomination to represent the 31st District in the state Senate.

Earlier today, a Republican candidate for governor, Rick Lazio, called on Cuomo to investigate the Senate's hiring of Espada's son, Pedro G. Espada, a former City Council member and assemblyman, as «deputy director of intergovernmental relations.»

Beloin - Saavedra, a former city council member, said she'd consider scrapping some appointed state jobs to save money.

The other known anti-IDC hopeful is former City Council member Robert Jackson, who will challenge incumbent Marisol Alcantara in Upper Manhattan.

Moskowitz, a former City Council member, founded the Success Academy network in 2006 after a failed run for Manhattan Borough President.

A former City Council Member, Addabbo was elected in 2008 to represent the district, which covers areas of Maspeth and Woodhaven.

Former City Council member — and current Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Diana Reyna called the price «outrageous.»

On Wednesday, August 23, Mayor Bill de Blasio and former City Council Member Sal Albanese will meet for the first debate of the 2017 Democratic mayoral primary.