Sentences with phrase «in mayoral»

TH: What do you think is the highest potential that New York can aspire to, not even necessarily in this mayoral term, but further into the future?

Yes, in a mayoral control model, a supe needs to make sure he or she is on the same page as the mayor.

The future of Chicago's public education system is a divisive issue in the Mayoral runoff election between Mayor Rahm Emanuel and County Commissioner Jesús «Chuy» García on April 7.

These closings no doubt contributed to end of her leadership in the district and may also have played a part Adrian Fenty's loss in the mayoral election.

Every time Newark shows up on the national radar — from Cory Booker's celebrity turn to Mark Zuckerberg's $ 100 million gift to Ras Baraka's victory in the mayoral race earlier this month — its schools have been in the spotlight.

It also became a major issue in the mayoral election, even though the Denver mayor holds no legal authority over the school district.

Looking for her parents and getting swept up in the mayoral race of tech billionaire Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), Annie looks for her parents while getting to know Mr. Stacks and his assistant Grace (Rose Byrne).

So, not only were the odds against me in terms of growing from a skinny kid into a healthy adult, but also in terms of being African - American... in a mayoral [race].

«But now there's a little life in the mayoral race as Comptroller Bill Thompson gains some ground on Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Chelsea residents had until Feb. 4 to join the club in order to vote at its March 21 meeting, which will determine who it endorses in the mayoral election.

Mulgrew kicked off the debate by saying that the UFT could follow one of four paths in the mayoral race: endorse in the primary, wait to endorse in the likely event of a runoff between the top two primary vote - getters, endorse only in the general election, or don't endorse at all.

The forum — sponsored by WNED - TV, days before Tuesday's Democratic primary in the mayoral race — was, at times, a tense affair.

Mark - Viverito explains what she sees as her legacy and jokes that she is relieved she didn't really have the option to run for mayor this year, given her closeness with Mayor de Blasio and how past speakers have faired in their mayoral pursuits.

In addition to a dodgy showing in the Mayoral here, Greens have been shedding council seats to Labour in Oxford and Norwich.

Of those three, one, Joseph J. Savino, then the Bronx Republican Party chairman, has pleaded guilty to three counts of bribery, conspiracy and wire fraud for accepting $ 15,000 in the mayoral nomination scheme.

We have recommended a series of changes in the mayoral control law that would help restore a system of checks and balances to the system.

Just a couple of hours after participating in a mayoral debate, Republican candidate Paul Massey suddenly announced Wednesday that he's dropping out of the race for City Hall.

In a message posted to his Facebook account at 6:55 PM Commisso trumpeted the percentage of votes he captured compared to challengers in Mayoral races across the state.

State Assembly members Edward Braunstein (D - Bayside), Michael DenDekker (D - Jackson Heights), Andrew Hevesi (D - Forest Hills), Margaret Markey (D - Masspeth), Michael Miller (D - Woodhaven), Francisco Moya (D - Jackson Heights), Catherine Nolan (D - Ridgewood), Michael Simanowitz (D - Electchester), Aravella Simotas (D - Astoria) and David Weprin (D - Fresh Meadows) followed the lead of the Queens Democratic Party Friday and endorsed Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) in the mayoral race.

The only district on the Island de Blasio won in the mayoral election was on the North Shore, which leans more liberal than the rest of the «red borough.»

Halloran was arrested April 2 and indicted on charges of using bribery and corruption to secure a spot for state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis) on the ballot's GOP line in the mayoral race.

Thompson, the only black person in the mayoral race, has previously said that they way stop - and - frisk is conducted is akin to institutionalized bias.

As 1010 WINS» Gene Michaels reported, Weiner said the future, and not the past, are what is relevant in the mayoral contest.

In the mayoral race Weiner is ahead of his nearest competition, Christine Quinn, by just three points, but among black voters Weiner has 31 percent, Quinn has 16 percent, and Bill Thompson, who is black, is third with 14, John Liu has 11 and Bill de Blasio has 8.

Edison Research exit polls showed that primary voters were disproportionately female (54 percent), which should have helped the only woman in the mayoral primary.

Mr. Green talks about his proposed agenda as attorney general, losing to Michael Bloomberg in his mayoral run, and the prospect of facing Andrew Cuomo, the son of former governor Mario Cuomo, who is also seeking the office.

In 1985, he ran against Edward I. Koch in the mayoral primary, winning just 13 percent of the vote.

In fact, Quinn's status as the only woman and the only LGBT candidate in the mayoral race arguably provided two of her biggest assets.

The trash station has become a hot issue in the mayoral race, with Pledge 2 Protect vowing to make the issue a deal breaker by trying to keep any candidate who supports the project out of elected office.

The percentage of registered New Yorkers voting in the mayoral Democratic primary election has dropped from 49 % in 1989 to 10 % in 2009.

In the mayoral primary battle, Weiner has the backing of 31 % of black voters, far ahead of Quinn at 16 %, with Thompson, the only major black candidate in the mayoral field, at 14 %.

Jaron Benjamin, the executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a New York City tenants» rights organization, said it's harder to make a dent in the mayoral race because there's so much more money being spent: «In a City Council race you... blow the other candidate out of the water.»

This may be aided by the fact that more women vote than men, and low voter turnout — just 14 percent of New York Democrats voted in the mayoral primary happening the same day as the other primary elections.

Barnhart released a statement saying it's important for voters to have a choice in the mayoral election, and she says voters «will be able to choose new ideas or no ideas, positive change or status quo and the interests of residents or the interests of corporations.»

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the onetime frontrunner in the mayoral race, was at 11 % in Friday's poll.

So far in the mayoral race, REBNY has taken a less aggressive approach, likely holding off until after the primary when the field of candidates is narrowed and its PAC can have more influence.

In the mayoral contest, de Blasio was at 32 % among likely Democratic primary voters.

Galloway is the latest of a line that includes Alex Salmond of the SNP in last year's Scottish elections and independents (including a self - styled monkey) in mayoral contests, as well as the Greens, BNP and UKIP in proportional - voting elections to the European Parliament and Greater London Assembly.

Cuomo previously had said he wouldn't make an endorsement in the mayoral primary because he is a Westchester County resident and can't vote in the city.

Carroll said «there's a little life in the mayoral race as Comptroller Bill Thompson gains some ground on Mayor Michael Bloomberg.»

Richard Thomas Just Pulls It Out In Mayoral Race, Andre Wallace and Delia Farquharson Top Two City Council Choices in BW Straw Poll

Pedicab drivers, for their part, held a protest at City Hall accusing de Blasio of sacrificing them and their jobs as a concession to carriage drivers in his effort to deliver on a campaign promise to a group that helped bankroll an attack campaign against one of his rivals in the mayoral race.

In further contrast to 2013, this year, IEs in City Council races, where some primary races were highly competitive, were higher than IEs in the mayoral primary, where Mayor Bill de Blasio has been seen as a heavy favorite all along, more so since evading an indictment for public corruption in March.

Voting intention in the mayoral election stands at Boris 48 %, Ken 40 %, Brian Paddick 7 %, Others on 4 %.

Like him or not, his voice would have mattered in this mayoral race.

Schumacher said he talked to several other city officials who aren't sure who they will support in the mayoral race.

Gallo, with one of the shortest fuses in mayoral history, promptly blew his stack and called the DA.

One example of such an arrangement which actually happened was Ken Livingstone's deal with the Green Party, exchanging second preferences in the mayoral election — obviously sensible but not sanctioned by the national party.

But that dynamic was blunted somewhat by Democrat Bill de Blasio's loss here in the mayoral election.

Democrat Bill de Blasio and Republican Joe Lhota were primed for an Election Day clash in November after both breezed to easy victories Tuesday night in the mayoral primaries.