Sentences with phrase «issues than the mayor»

There are no two people better equipped to work through tough issues than the mayor and myself.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday shrugged off the call from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for an even either minimum wage increase than what is proposed in the state budget, saying it's up to the state Legislature to vote on the issue, not the mayor.

The former New York City mayor, who's adamant about his political independence and gives to Republicans and Democrats who align with positions he wants, comes into Election Day having donated more than $ 65 million — overwhelmingly to issue campaigns for local gun control and soda tax measures, but also to 18 individual candidates.

State Budget Director Bob Megna issued a statement yesterday rejecting the mayor's claim that the city stands to lose $ 2 billion if Cuomo's spending plan is enacted as - is by the Legislature and also insisting the mayor has more than enough stashed away to make up the difference of whatever the final aid reduction might be.

Nixon told me earlier that progressive issues like passing the Paid Sick Day bill is more important than making history by electing New York City's first female or openly gay mayor.

Mr. Cuomo has historically been a more moderate Democrat than the mayor, especially on fiscal issues, but he's raised the minimum wage in the past and over the last year he has heavily leaned into the $ 15 movement, a major priority of the progressive wing of the Democratic party that he has locally named for his late father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.

The mayor pointed to the more than 125,000 people who were kicked off the voter rolls in Brooklyn, and other issues at polls throughout the city.

De Blasio has come under fire before for trips away from New York City to promote his national agenda; an August Quinnipiac poll showed more than half of New Yorkers believe his «involvement in national issues is distracting him from his duties as mayor.»

A few days after a state audit criticized a long - used Syracuse hiring practice to get around civil service laws, the Common Council probed the issue, but councilors came down more on the side of the mayor's office than the auditors.

The mayor had promised to ban horse carriages on «day one,» but the issue proved a bit more complicated than that.

He cited homelessness, the criminal justice system and mental health care as issues that The Bronx continues to struggle with, and although he criticized the city for its handling of the homelessness issue, his overall tone was milder than in his 2016 speech, when he hinted at a run for mayor and said the city had «failed» the borough during its outbreak of Legionnaires» disease.

City Councilman James Gennaro (D - Queens), the driving force behind the higher smoking age, recalled that the mayor was hesitant about going higher than age 19 when he broached the issue with him last month.

An aide who discussed the issue with the mayor said his only remaining concern was that the smoking age would be higher than the age for joining the military, which is 18.

Rather than creating multiple new institutions to support devolution in those city regions, Labour should argue for the new mayors to be given the full range of powers and funding they need to address the issues that matter most to jobs and economic growth.»

The mayor gave comprehensive immigration reform as an example, which he said is a fundamental issue for New Yorkers given that the city has half a million undocumented immigrants, saying the reform «would do arguably more for New York City than any city in the country.»

While other elected officials rushed to the scene of the murders over the weekend, it took the mayor more than 24 hours to issue a written statement on the killings, and a full two days before he addressed the community, during funeral prayers for the two men.

«By implementing a new policy of issuing a summons rather than arresting New Yorkers for possessing small amounts of marijuana, the mayor and commissioner have taken a significant step towards ensuring fewer New Yorkers face the consequences that arrest records bring,» Mr. Torres said on November 10 in a joint statement with Councilmen Carlos Menchaca, Donovan Richards and Antonio Reynoso — all of whom came out today in support of the Right to Know Act.

The mayor has often weighed in on world issues happening much further from New York City than Albany — including weighing on international sanctions against Russia at the same press conference where he ducked Moreland questions.

As for the mayor, just 3 percent of those polled in Manhattan as well as 3 percent citywide believe his third term is going better than the first two, although a majority say that his involvement in national issues, including immigration reform and gun control, is good for the city.

Though the shelter population began to reach historic peaks before de Blasio took office — fueled, in part, by the end of the Advantage rental - subsidy program that stranded people trying to transition, or remain out of, the shelter system — the mayor got hounded (by some, more than others) for his apparent stumbling with the issue.

It took the mayor more than 24 hours to issue a written statement on the killings, and a full two days before he addressed the community, during funeral prayers for the two men on Monday.

Many were glad the mayor was giving more attention to the affordable housing issue than his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, but argued the de Blasio administration, particularly in East New York, Brooklyn, needs to slow down the rezoning process so residents in the area can have more of say in how their neighborhoods are reshaped.

Malliotakis» campaign has argued that she can manage the city better than de Blasio has — she regularly criticizes the mayor for failing schools, the homelessness crisis, crumbling subways, and other quality of life issues.

The mayor has generally distanced himself from education issues, and Boston's best - known school reform consists of «pilot» schools, which have more than usual autonomy but are still subject to the district's education - crushing collective bargaining agreement.

In addition, more than a dozen governors, along with 500 mayors and county leaders, have issued official proclamations encouraging parents to use National School Choice Week to evaluate the educational options available to their children.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, who has objected to Emanuel's plans to withhold teacher pay raises and change work rules, issued a less - than - subtle statement about the mayor's decision.