Sentences with phrase «less than the mayor»

Real estate executive Paul Massey, who hopes to mount a Republican challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio in this year's election, announced Monday his campaign has raised $ 555,786 in the most recent filing period, slightly less than the mayor's $ 669,174 during that same time.

Not exact matches

There's less than three weeks until Londoners elect their next mayor and the latest poll released by ComRes says Labour candidate Sadiq Khan remains on course to replace the outgoing Boris Johnson on May 5.

Duggan, in office less than a year, is the fourth mayor since 2008 when Kwame Kilpatrick resigned in scandal.

She is mayor of a new yuppie town (a little more than a decade old) and population less than 20,000.

«We spent less money on our stadium than Jean Drapeau [Montreal's mayor] spent spilling champagne at the Olympic Games,» said Godfrey.

Molinaro, a former member of the Assembly and mayor of Tivoli, is seen as a youthful and energetic candidate with less baggage than DeFrancisco.

The City Council had already passed a bill consistent with what the mayor wanted, but gave some city workers benefits that were less than their counterparts in neighboring suburban departments.

Sometimes even running the day to day of the city seems less important to the mayor than getting his message on inequality and justice across to the public.

In the mayor's race, Brown's $ 1.17 million was $ 335,000 less than his campaign spent in 2013 when he was challenged in the Democratic primary by Tolbert and then by Republican Sergio Rodriguez in the general election.

Suozzi's voice cracked as he began talking about his father, Joseph Suozzi, a former Glen Cove mayor and city court, state Supreme Court and appellate court judge who died at age 95 on Oct. 16, less than a month before his son was elected to Congress.

The mayor compared holding the marathon Sunday — less than a week after the storm hit causing widespread damage — to then - Mayor Rudy Giuliani's decision to hold the event after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The mayor himself spoke for less than 10 minutes, and though his speech didn't include much in the way of actual policy — he wanted to keep it short for the benefit of those assembled in the cold — he did repeat his promise about making New York «the fairest big city in America.»

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.

That constitutes less than 1 percent of the city's taxpayers, or about 32,000 people, according to the mayor's office, but its benefits to the community could be substantial.

«By doing that, it's actually less expensive than what Mayor Bloomberg wants to do,» said Lhota, who stepped down as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to run for mayor.

Flanagan has pushed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to release more information on how education money is spent, declaring the mayor has been less than transparent with state funding.

Less than two weeks ago, the well - known Buffalo politician officially announced she would run for mayor.

Fact is, teachers are spending less time in the classroom now than they did when de Blasio arrived, thanks to the fat - cat contract the mayor gifted them.

The state also come up a bit short on its funding for universal pre-kindergarten, providing the same $ 300 million it did last year, less than what the city had requested, though the mayor declined to provide specifics.

Weiner, who previously ran for mayor in 2005, entered the race less than four months before the Democratic primary and with a $ 4.8 million campaign war chest.

Less than three weeks from election day, the candidates vying to replace 20 - year Albany mayor Jerry Jennings met Monday evening at the main branch of the Albany Public Library.

«At the end of the day, I think it's really hard to look the mayor of the City of New York in the eye and say the people he represents who are LGBT are less than the people he represents that are heterosexual,» she said.

De Blasio and Ellison released a joint statement this morning through the mayor's campaign apparatus, less than a month after the City Council's Progressive Caucus backed the African - American Muslim lawmaker for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

The visit — his third to a development in less than two weeks — prompted the mayor's office to accuse the governor of «lying» and political opportunism at tenants» expense.

With the first Democratic primary debate for mayor less than a week away, candidate Sal Albanese is attacking Mayor Bill de Blasio for his ties to a prominent lobbyist.

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.

De Blasio's campaign expenses also show he frequented Bar Toto less often than he has in the past — the filing shows just four expenses related to the Park Slope restaurant that is said to be one of the mayor's favorite haunts.

Just about any time a mayor tried to pay police less than they thought they deserved or impose a new form of oversight or accountability, the vitriol flew — and no clash between mayors and police was quite as bitter as what the city witnessed 22 years ago, when Mr. de Blasio's old boss, Mr. Dinkins, failed to tame an actual police riot.

It is the second time in less than two weeks that the mayor has left the city with little advance notice to the media.

Ms Ward has a 1,151 majority over the Liberal Democrats (who run the council with an elected mayor), but the Conservatives are in a very strong third place - less than 1,000 votes behind the Lib Dems with 29.6 % of the vote.

The proposal would affect about 32,000 of New Yorkers filing taxes in the city, or just less than 1 percent, the mayor said.

«The world economy is a much less welcoming environment in which to rebalance the UK economy than two years ago,» Sir Mervyn told the lord mayor and guests.

Michael Powell: «The man likely to be the next mayor, Mr. de Blasio now sometimes seems less suggestive of a Nation magazine star than a savvy, even cool - eyed pol.»

Sean Coffey's campaign strategist Bruce Gyory sent out a statement earlier today, dismissing the Siena poll that showed his candidate in third place and invoking the closer - than - expected 2009 NYC mayor's race in which Bill Thompson defied predictions and came within less than 5 percentage points of ousting Mayor Bloomberg.

With less than a week to go until Londoners choose their next mayor incumbent Ken Livingstone has won a lead in the latest poll.

He quickly agreed, and then assisted the mayor in convincing the less - than eager GOP county chairs to back the mayor, who had abandoned their party to become a so - called «blank», for yet another run.

It was less than two years ago that I called for the creation of strong elected mayors to help us build a Northern Powerhouse.

More than 70 percent of voters approve of Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to not arrest people caught with 25 grams or less of marijuana, but the racial gap over the mayor's performance continues to widen, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

Cuomo, who recently said the mayor couldn't manage a homeless crisis, and de Blasio, who accused the governor of «political posturing,» have had a less than stellar working relationship, which is bound to make negotiating difficult for both sides.

Bill de Blasio was elected mayor of New York with less than 20 percent of registered voters.

On transit, he said the next mayor must start a public conversation about how to improve the current funding scheme for the cash - strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he ran for a little less than a year before stepping down to campaign for mayor.

In a three - or four - way race with a high - profile, well - funded third party candidate like Walsh, it may take less than 10,000 votes to become this city's next mayor.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg again changes promises on what votes he can provide from Senate Republicans on marriage equality: «Less than a month after defending his support for Republican state senators, saying he could get their votes for gay marriage, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said conservatives in that body will not support what the mayor termed «our number one priority» at a recent campaign event with gay supporters.

He also pointed to the 14 rezonings that have taken place in different parts of the Bronx during his six year tenure, which he argued had allowed for the construction of new affordable housing for people making both less and more than the range of incomes prescribed in the mayor's plan.

Liberal politicians who back the mayor still want to be seen as pro-police and pro-tech industry; the playbook in those scenarios is less apparent than when Republicans threaten to defund Planned Parenthood and Democrats rally to denounce anyone who's not pro-choice.

According to unofficial results from the city Board of Elections, the mayor captured more than 66 percent of the vote, with the GOP candidate garnering less than 28 percent.

I found Steve Noble's 548 - vote win over Ron Polacco for Kingston mayor less than impressive.

And the billionaire mayor said the nearly two weeks of action have actually hurt lower level workers earning less than $ 50,000 rather than the rich.

With the added funding, no school will get less than 87 percent of its «Fair Student Funding» allocation, the mayor said.

Less than two weeks later, the mayor learned of a federal corruption investigation into top Police Department officials.