Sentences with phrase «job as the mayor of»

In addition, the Democrats lost two members of their conference: Mark Schroeder's seat (145th AD) out in Western NY up for grabs, as the WNY Democrat (and thorn in Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's side) stepped down to run for Buffalo comptroller; and Republican - turned - Democrat Mike Spano (93rd AD) will be giving up his seat to start his new job as mayor of Yonkers.

Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy, who has emerged as the leading defender of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's mandate relief proposals for struggling upstate cities, told Alan Chartock in an interview to air Friday that he would more than pleased with the pension smoothing proposal if he held his old job as the mayor of Rochester.

Newly - minted LG Bob Duffy gave an impromptu press gaggle after the Cuomo administration's first cabinet meeting and pledged to continue to act as a champion of upstate interests in his new role — much as he did in his old job as mayor of Rochester.

«I've been joking with Ralph that I see his new job as mayor of the firm's Boston office,» Bingham Chairman Jay S. Zimmerman told the Globe.

Not exact matches

As mayor of Calgary it's Naheed Nenshi's job to know what's going on with his constituents.

But if Brexit succeeds, «he'd have to step down as Prime Minister, and the job would go to someone from the «leave» camp, probably former London mayor Boris Johnson,» says Raoul Ruparel, co-director of Open Europe, a London think tank that's neutral on the issue.

As evidenced by recent events, there appear to be plenty of job openings for mayors who ignore the rules and then refuse to admit any wrongdoing when caught.

Stephen Mandel Oft - talked about as a potential premier, the retired mayor of Edmonton has not shown any signs he is actually interested in the job.

Duffy, a former mayor of Rochester, said his job as the chairman of the governor's regional economic councils was that of a «convener» who nonetheless was able to establish contacts with the state's business community.

Lhota, who served as a deputy mayor under Giuliani at City Hall, chastised David from the podium, saying it was inappropriate for him to «disparage the 107th mayor of the city of New York with the words that you used when you look at what he did during those eight years in office where you saw, you actually saw the economy expanding, jobs expanding, I imagine even... the number of Crain's subscriptions actually increased very nicely in that period of time.»

«I'm still the mayor of the City of Albany, which is a job that I wanted I pledged myself to; it was an honor, Liz, being mentioned as an potential lieutenant governor, but I'm happy for Bob Duffy.»

But Sergio Rodriquez, Buffalo's Republican candidate for mayor, said in a televised interview taped March 18 that unnamed GOP operatives dangled a job offer in front of him as an enticement for bowing out of the campaign.

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.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran, quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by more than seven to one.

The mayor personally offered Harris a job as a recreational aide that would have required him to work weekdays from 2 to 10 p.m., preventing him from attending Board of Education meetings.

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, «If 421 - a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

De Blasio shouldn't get taxpayer money to pay his legal bills until the city controller certifies he racked them up as part of his job as mayor, according to civil rights attorney Norman Siegel.

A majority of voters by a margin of 51 percent to 42 percent disapprove of his job as mayor, while half of voters, 50 percent to 42 percent, do not believe he deserves to be re-elected.

It's a less stressful job than in years past, now that the city has inked contracts with most of the municipal workforce and with a budget the mayor himself has admitted isn't exactly as exciting as his previous ones.

2 * How would you rate the job Michael Bloomberg has been doing as mayor... do you strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, or strongly disapprove of the job he's been doing?

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly may never have expressed interest in the job, but he tops the list of city officials New Yorkers would like to see as the next mayor in a new poll.

But Sergio Rodriquez, running for mayor of Buffalo as a Republican, said in a televised interview taped March 18 that unnamed GOP operatives dangled a job offer in front of him as an enticement for bowing out of the campaign.

State senators in favor of this bill made a three - pronged argument: property taxes have become too burdensome for middle - class homeowners; the property tax caps for municipalities outside the city have been — according to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — «a tremendous success,» as well as a job creator; and that the city had benefitted so much from uncapped property tax collections that the mayor shouldn't be surprised about the governor's proposal to shift Medicaid cost to the city.

With full understanding of ridership and revenues4 on different routes (through better data collection) the metro mayor should seek to offer services to connect people more quickly and affordably to job and training opportunities across the city region, as well boosting health, environmental and social outcomes.

The mayor personally offered Harris a job as a recreational aide that would have required him to work weekdays from 2 to 10 p.m., preventing him from attending Board of Education business meetings.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a Quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by a more than seven to one.

Yet Marist recorded a mediocre 39 percent of city residents rating the mayor's job performance as good or excellent.

Miner has often used the job of mayor as a bully pulpit, advocating for causes beyond the scope of City Hall.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer stopped just short of ruling out a run for mayor in 2017 during a radio interview Thursday, saying «it's safe to assume that I will continue to be doing the job that I truly love, which is serving as comptroller.»

During former mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure, the state cut what was known as the Advantage Program, which allowed the city to spend its Department of Homeless Services budget on rental assistance for families leaving shelters, as long as they were employed or actively seeking jobs.

Already tipped as favourite for the job, Edouard Philippe, mayor of the northern port city of Le Havre, has long been close to Alain Juppé, who was runner - up in the race for the Republican presidential nomination in November 2016.

The 48 - year - old - whose job included planning Labour's campaign for the next general election - rose to prominence as chief of staff to Ken Livingstone when the left - winger was mayor of London.

Ortt is accused of having his wife receive payments through a no - show job after his own pay as mayor of North Tonawanda in western New York was reduced by $ 5,000.

The de Blasio administration is looking for vendors to take over the job of finding hotel rooms in bulk for homeless New Yorkers, even as the mayor says he views hotels as a temporary, less - than - desirable solution to the city's homelessness crisis.

Former mayor Ken Livingstone added: «Whether Boris Johnson is an MP, in the House of Lords or wherever it will make no difference as he doesn't do the day job as it stands, he leaves it to all his deputies.»

Fuentes got a $ 55,000 - a-year job as head of the city's community development program, replacing Mike Murphy, a crony of former mayor Jim Sottile.

Tony Sinagra, an old hand at city politics who recently stepped down as chairman of Kingston's Republican Committee, said the problem was less with mayors handing out existing jobs to supporters, but with mayors creating new positions in city government as a means of increasing their patronage powers.

Just 40 % of Democrats citywide think Weiner would do an excellent or good job as mayor.

Though he ran as an outsider bent on shaking city government out of lassitude and cronyism, Gallo, son of a former Common Council president and brother of the late mayor T.R. Gallo, came to the job with intimate knowledge of the city's political and municipal infrastructure.

Meanwhile, the mayor managed to anger local Dems as he aggressively pushed a California candidate for one of three vice-chair slots — pointedly ignoring two New Yorkers, Rep. Grace Meng of Queens and Assemblyman Michael Blake of The Bronx, who were also vying for the job.

In promising to veto the measure last week — as well as following through a veto of the related prevailing wage bill, which that would apply to certain building workers in properties where the city leases a large percentage of space — the mayor argued that the legislation would kill jobs and undermine progress the city had made recovering from the recession.

-- De Blasio tries to pivot from social, to economic issues — NYT's J. David Goodman: «As his administration struggles on some of the issues the mayor cares most deeply about, like homelessness and child welfare, he has found success on others — job creation, economic development — that can appear at times to be rhetorical afterthoughts.

Forty - seven percent of Queens residents said they disapproved of how de Blasio is handling his job in a recent Quinnipiac poll, and opponents have played up her connection to de Blasio, casting her as the «handpicked» candidate of the mayor.

Nearly 8,000 applicants are expected to apply for jobs as pre-kindergarten teachers, quadruple the number needed for the first two years of Bill de Blasio's plan to expand pre-K, the mayor said on Tuesday afternoon.

More than half a dozen Indiana mayors will be out of job next year as voters went to the polls this primary and voted for...

58 % of respondents think he is doing a good job as mayor, with 34 % thinking he is doing a bad job.

To conduct his review, Mr. Cuomo brought in Mr. Schwartz, who served as chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's office under Mr. Giuliani during the 1980s, when the future mayor held Mr. Bharara's job.

As Uber has aggressively pushed back at the mayor, running slick ads accusing Mr. de Blasio of killing jobs for poor minorities, City Hall has expanded their criticism, flaying Uber for their lax workplace protections and regulatory fights with cities across the world.

Boris Johnson is «seriously considering» standing for a third term as mayor of London, he has told friends, despite promising only to serve two terms in the job.

The City Council now has to review the mayor's budget and propose increasing property taxes as high as 4 percent, and perhaps raise other revenues to try and restore some of the proposed job cuts — or it can abide by the mayor's spending plan.