Sentences with phrase «in citywide elections»

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.

Keep an eye on some of the councilors who have run for at - large seats, which means they have already been successful in a citywide election.

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The City Council has consistently advocated for voting and election reform in its annual state legislative agenda, including early voting, instant runoff voting for citywide primaries, and public campaign financing at the state level.

NYC Public Financing System Kept Focus on Constituents Although outside spending played a role in New York City's first citywide election since the Citizens United decision, Mark Schmitt argues in the New Republic that public financing helped keep the focus on small donors.

The NYC Council has identified instant runoff voting — and the end of citywide runoff election — as one of several dozen budget and legislative priorities in Albany.

The Board also voted on enforcement matters for four campaigns involved in the 2013 citywide election cycle.

Cat's campaign manager, Eben Bronfman, despite working on non-competitive elections with District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, was somehow hired to manage a citywide election that could have taken off in the right direction but never did because Bronfman's strategy emphasized media outreach and press events instead of organizing boots on the ground for a grassroots GOTV operation.

That would be a nice start towards a citywide run in a special election.

The next citywide election is three years away, but in the first campaign filing of the 2017 election cycle, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. is sitting on the largest campaign war chest of any politician in the city.

«It would've been a full citywide runoff,» he said, «and considering the paucity of actual enrollees in the Reform Party, its very easy to field candidates when you need such a small number of signatures and then open the Board up to significant elections responsibilities and a potential runoff.»

Several prominent Democratic elected officials and voting reform advocates on Tuesday assembled outside City Hall to call for instant runoff voting in citywide primary elections.

Other major elements include a $ 500,000 investment to protect against election hacking, a $ 4.3 million investment to finance a campaign to increase citywide participation in the 2020 U.S. Census and a new requirement that all commissioners and individuals who report to the mayor disclose all of their meetings with lobbyists.

NEW YORK - Election Night in the city played out mostly as predicted with Mayor Bill de Blasio easily cruising to another four years in office and many citywide incumbents following suit.

In announcing the postponement in a statement, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, «After reviewing concerns raised by parents and public officials about this year's Citywide and Community Education Council elections, I have concluded that the process could and should have been handled better.&raquIn announcing the postponement in a statement, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, «After reviewing concerns raised by parents and public officials about this year's Citywide and Community Education Council elections, I have concluded that the process could and should have been handled better.&raquin a statement, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, «After reviewing concerns raised by parents and public officials about this year's Citywide and Community Education Council elections, I have concluded that the process could and should have been handled better.»

«Having the ability to participate in elections would create a lot more civic engagement and, on a political level, I don't think communities like the community that I represent, which is 68 percent immigrant, would ever be able to be ignored again by anybody running for major citywide office in New York City.»

Eric Schneiderman's resignation has triggered what could be a domino effect in New York politics, potentially creating vacancies in local offices and perhaps leading to New York City's first citywide special election.

Under the current system for the city's three citywide primaries — mayor, comptroller and public advocate races — if no candidate receives 40 percent of the vote, then the top two candidates face off in a runoff election, as mandated by state law.

Turnout in the 2013 mayoral election was very low for a citywide election.

In a letter sent to the City's Campaign Finance Board Wednesday, NYC Deserves Better and Tusk argue that the millions of dollars the Campaign for One New York has already spent were «used to further [de Blasio's] political agenda,» and therefore «should count toward the board's 2017 Citywide election spending limits.»

The Democratic nominee in the 2009 general election, John Liu won 76 % of the citywide vote on Tuesday, November 3.

Also, in a year without any citywide or statewide races, the city's Board of Elections would be accused of ineptitude no more than four or five times.

Political action committees affiliated with prominent unions in the city invested heavily in the 2017 municipal election cycle, contributing to candidates in races for City Council, borough - wide and citywide positions.

Other New York peculiarities include a requirement that voters register their party affiliation by Friday in order to vote in the primaries for next year's citywide elections.

The investigation is also said to have cost two current committee members their seats in the recent citywide elections.

In 2009 he won a bruising citywide election for Gotham's second - ranked public official (after the mayor), the public advocate, which Manhattan Institute fellow Sol Stern says, «is a campaign office» for mayor.

Results of a Survey of All Candidates for Citywide Office In a survey conducted by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Junior Board, candidates in the 2009 New York City elections for Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller provided answers to questions covering a variety of controversial issues that affect local public schools..In a survey conducted by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)'s Junior Board, candidates in the 2009 New York City elections for Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller provided answers to questions covering a variety of controversial issues that affect local public schools..in the 2009 New York City elections for Mayor, Public Advocate, and Comptroller provided answers to questions covering a variety of controversial issues that affect local public schools....

Ahead of city elections in May, the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools has released a powerful platform uniting their call for equal opportunities in the classroom with citywide demands for economic and racial justice.