Sentences with phrase «from running for mayor»

He must resign from the MTA because city law prohibits him from running for mayor while holding the position of chairman at the transit agency.

Additional Note: Comptroller candidate Michel Faulkner endorsed Paul Massey for mayor shortly after Faulkner switched from running for mayor to running for comptroller.

She's prevented by term limits from running for mayor again.

Not exact matches

And this is coming from a Baby Boomer who ran for town mayor.»

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).

Mia Love has been a mayor and I'm quite sure she didn't ask anyone from the LDS church for their approval for her run for congress.

Laura Lavine, the Republican candidate for Syracuse mayor, split with her local campaign manager, Danny Fitzpatrick, and is bringing in a consultant from New York City, Michael Lawler, who ran Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's 2014 gubernatorial bid.

It's also worth noting here that the HRC's effort to push for marriage equality in NY is headed by a former Bloomberg aide, Brian Ellner, who removed his name from the running to become head of the Empire State Pride Agenda after some LGBT advocates protested his close ties to the mayor.

Spano is term limited from running for re-election as mayor.

The lawmaker, though, has been eyeing the exit from the chamber for the last several years, having run unsuccessfully last year in a Democratic primary for mayor of Mount Vernon.

It seems a long time ago since Diane Abbott was in the running to become the Labour candidate for mayor of London, but in the top spot this week is our report from last year on comments she made during her campaign in which she suggested the capital didn't need another white middle - aged man in charge.

The mayor, running for a second term, for now faces a relatively easy path to the Democratic nod amid speculation he would be challenged from rival Democrats, including Comptroller Scott Stringer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz or Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.

Miner is term limited from running again for mayor, but has not ruled out running for another office one day.

Eliot Spitzer's resurrection — from the disgraced gov ernor better known as Cli ent 9 to CNN talk - show host — has the political class buzzing about him running for mayor in 2013.

Rodriguez served two years as deputy director of the Erie County Veterans Service Agency, then worked as coordinator of the Office of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille, a job he recently resigned from to run full - time for mayor.

Two of the three candidates running in the Democratic primary for Albany mayor sought support Saturday from the union for city blue collar workers, but incumbent Mayor Kathy Sheehan passed, claiming the union already backs an opponent.

Actor Kelsey Grammer — one of showbiz's most outspoken conservatives — has flirted with the idea of running for public offices ranging from mayor of New York to president.

The city's argument is in part based on a ruling from the city's Conflict of Interests Board that granted waivers to two de Blasio advisers to continue working with the mayor after leaving City Hall to go work for Hilltop, which ran the Campaign for One New York and associated groups, despite a one - year ban on doing so.

This is a particularly interesting development because it differentiates Liu from NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, against whom the comptroller might be running for mayor in 2013.

Quinn, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2013, is still smarting from Nixon's endorsement of eventual winner Bill de Blasio.

And the mayor indeed did get pushback from state Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R - Staten Island), who is running for mayor him.

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.

He said he was continuing to run for mayor while disputing the Onondaga County Board of Election's decision to boot him from the race.

He said it should serve as an inspiration that he came from that lifestyle and is now a role model and someone running for mayor.

Ognibene, as you'll recall, ran unsuccessfully for NYC mayor on the Conservative line in 2005 after Mayor Bloomberg successfully bounced him from the GOP primary (that was back when the mayor was still a Republican).

Hogan, with support from Denno and Joy, ran against Miner for mayor in 2013.

After a criminal referral to prosecutors from the state Board of Elections office, other subpoenas sought records related to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations solicited by the mayor's campaign that were rerouted to upstate Democrats running for the state Senate.

ALBANY — Two of the three candidates running in the Democratic primary for Albany mayor sought support Saturday from the union for city blue collar workers, but incumbent Mayor Sheehan passed, claiming the union already backs an opponent.

In 2002, long before he ran for mayor, he changed his name (for a second time) from Warren de Blasio - Wilhelm to his mother's more voter - friendly maiden name.

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.

When the mayor ran for office, he and his rivals were prohibited from raising more than $ 4,950 from individuals.

De Blasio ran Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000, and then ran for City Council and public advocate, before emerging from a crowded field to win the Democratic primary for mayor in September.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Republican from Queens who is considering mounting a challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio, said Thursday he will make an announcement next week about whether or not he will run for mayor.

Ulrich, a Council Member from Queens who's running for mayor and long a critic of Mayor de Blasio, organized the rally and press conference to «protest Mayor de Blasio's failed homeless policies.»

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

On the Republican side, the candidate closest to de Blasio in fundraising is Paul Massey, a real estate executive who recently moved from Larchmont, Westchester to the city to run for mayor.

The mayor is now accused of stealing more than $ 12,000 from Friends of Richard Thomas, his campaign committee when he ran for mayor three years ago.

I've gotten to know Kearns from his time on the Council and running for mayor against Brown in 2009.

Today's kicker, from Sen. Malcolm Smith, who is reportedly mulling a run for NYC mayor in 2013: ««People think that I'm a crook and a thief, and I'm absolutely not.»

(The spending analysis comes from a report by the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, who may run for mayor.)

Democrats in Syracuse are choosing from a long list of potential candidates to nominate someone to run for mayor, replacing term limited incumbent Stephanie Miner.

Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Republican from Queens who is considering mounting a challenge to de Blasio, said he will make an announcement next week about whether or not he will run for mayor.

Nicole Malliotakis, who is currently suing de Blasio and the city to preserve IDNYC records after the mayor threatened to destroy them to shield immigrants from Trump's administration, is working on getting a team together and plans to officially announce her run to get the GOP nomination for November's election.

He suggested the Quinn, who is hoping to run for mayor in 2013 with at least tacit support from Michael Bloomberg, saw the bill through to win favor with the adminisration.

This year, after relocating from Long Island to the Upper East Side, Dietl had hoped to run for mayor as a Democrat.

STATEN ISLAND — A Republican Assemblywoman from Staten Island said she's «all in» to run for mayor against Bill de Blasio after John Catsimatidis announced he won't enter the race.

It would bar the mayor and department heads from holding positions in any political party or soliciting subordinates for campaign contributions for anyone running for a city office.

Two veteran Democrats are challenging Mr. de Blasio in the primary: Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens who has challenged the mayor's approach to homelessness and fought for a Staten Island family trying to keep a large pig as a pet; and Sal Albanese, an Italian - born lawyer and former City Councilman from southwestern Brooklyn who, in his third mayoral run, has argued for a new tax on nonprimary residences — a «pied - à - terre» tax — to help fund affordable housing.

There is former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, running for mayor two years after resigning from Congress because he had sent lewd pictures to women on the Internet and lied about it.