Sentences with phrase «like public advocate»

Williams wants to see the Lt. Governor have a more active role in state policy and advocacy, more like a public advocate...

Mr. de Blasio, along with prominent administration and elected officials like Public Advocate Letitia James and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, took turns rejecting the entire premise of Comptroller Scott Stringer's analysis, which tarred the mayor's Department of Education for not submitting for review more than 70 percent of the city's contracts with pre-K providers.

While we all appreciate the need to cut the city budget, we should not balance our books by weakening important city government watchdogs like the public advocate.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

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The WFP has also run its own candidates like Public Advocate Letitia James.

The 50 - inch statue has attracted crowds and was praised by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - Manhattan), who was among leaders like Public Advocate Letitia James who called for the artwork to stay in its spot at the Bowling Green Plaza off Broadway.

Parents were split on the decision to open city schools, which had drawn some ire from local leaders like Public Advocate Tish James and state Senator Jose Peralta.

Not exact matches

While terms like «patent protection» and «public domain» were clearly part of the IPR debate, it also stretched to the cost of drugs and the availability of medicines, encompassing terms like «health advocates» and «pharmaceutical companies.»

Advocates of a new public philosophy for black Americans, men like Clarence Thomas, are drawing on an old wisdom, well suited for our times.

To give you an idea of what the new Bible - based order would be like, Dr. North advocates public execution of women who undergo abortions, and a similar fate for those who advise them to do so.

Now advocates have a new tool to help achieve just such a lofty goal: It's called the Good Food Purchasing Policy and after its successful passage in 2012 by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the city of LA, school districts and cities across the country are exploring its possibilities for shaping how public food, like school lunch, is procured.

I'd like to encourage food bloggers, public health advocates, lunch reformers, etc to enlist parents to make good choices (without guilt) but to also recognize that the deck is stacked against parents.

MIKAEL SOLAGE: Greetings, my name is Mikael Solage, I am a new mother I have a 11 month old son, I'm a pumping mom on the go and you know, I like to nurse at home as well but most importantly I am a law maker in New York state and I'm advocating for a family friendly policy which include lactation rooms in airport and in public buildings.

It's not exactly something we absolutely needed, but being an advocate of breastfeeding in public like my wife is, more knowledge and ideas are very helpful and can go a long ways when you are advocating breastfeeding in public.

Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big public event like this (and the #SOTU hashtag...

More interesting will be what the top tier candidates like NYC Council Speaker Chris Quinn, Bill Thompson and NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio say.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

Now that the internet has shrunk our rapid response cycles from hours to seconds, advocates use a big public event like this (and the #SOTU hashtag associated with it) to reach activists, journalists, bloggers and other influencers with messages designed to shape the online commentary around their particular issues.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

The 2017 New York City elections are for the three citywide posts of Mayor, Public Advocate and Comptroller; the five Borough President positions; all 51 City Council seats; the Brooklyn and Manhattan District Attorney posts; and other down ballot offices like some civil court judges and some district leader positions.

If you are, or plan to be, a Republican candidate for Public Advocate, please let us know — we would like to talk with you.

This, they said, will create a more level playing field for potential candidates like Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Comptroller John Liu (D - Queens) and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio (D - Brooklyn).

Your political proposals, both here and in other works like The Return of the Public, advocate maximising the scope and substance of popular rule.

The Bronx lawmaker, himself a child of NYCHA, said he would like to see New York's developments take part in the program — which is seen as a major step toward the privatization of public housing — even though he acknowledged that it is «controversial» among liberal advocates.

Simon, who has served as Democratic District Leader and State Committeewoman with extensive experience on issues like Atlantic Yards and the Gowanus Expressway, scored the endorsement of the New York Times as well as NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Assemblymember Joan Millman, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and many others.

It got a second chance after folks like then - Public Advocate Bill de Blasio fought to keep it open — clearly to protect staff from consequences.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rev. Al Sharpton, Public Advocate Letitia James and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez will join the likes of Michael Moore and Mark Ruffalo at the «We Stand United — NYC Rally on Night Before Trump's Inauguration!»

«I think that's a great fit for her, and I think she would do a great job as she has been as the public advocate representing a very diverse city, and I think she has inspired other women of color to take on large roles like that,» Bichotte said.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

In a statement, the Public Advocate and Democratic mayoral candidate said, «Companies like Cerberus profit from the sale of deadly assault weapons and the NRA's obstruction of commonsense gun control — all while our communities are victimized.

Recently I was joined by Health Commissioner Burstein, Legislator Peter Savage and public health advocates to announce a proposed local law to ban the sale of these products at grocery stores and pharmacies, a move that has already been implemented successfully locally at national retailers like Wegmans, Target and CVS.

Vincent D'Onofrio, star of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, is making a rare public appearance in a Citizens Crime Commission Web video that advocates for Long Island Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's bill banning large - capacity ammunition magazines like those used the LIRR and Tucson shootings.

«A few weeks ago, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio looked like an also - ran.

Others have said that a city - wide office like mayor or public advocate is reaching for the stars, adding that if he wants back into to public life, Weiner should set his sights lower.

I would also like to thank Congressman Jerry Nadler, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, NYC Public Advocate Letitia James, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and Manhattan County Leader Keith Wright for their incredible support.

Mr. Clinton headlined the election rally for Mr. Cuomo, the star attraction in a night that also drew a wide array of elected officials like Congressman Charles Rangel, Public Advocate Letitia James, Comptroller Scott Stringer and Mr. Cuomo's running mate, former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul.

«I'm not advocating all the state's functions to be taken over... There is fairly obviously nothing like the capacity in the voluntary and independent sectors to do that,» he said, but added: «I'm calling for much greater pluralism and a mixed economy of public service provision.

Groups like 1199 SEIU, DC37, 32BJ SEIU, and the New York State Nurses, spent $ 297,000 on behalf of Letitia James in the Democratic run - off for Public Advocate.

At 1 p.m., Real Affordability for All, top elected officials (like NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James), union leaders, workers, and local residents, will call on de Blasio to make substantial changes to his housing plan to ensure real affordability and good union jobs for residents who live in neighborhoods that will be rezoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

But the power of the political establishment in the area — many elected officials, like retiring Assemblywoman Joan Millman, Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James, sided with Ms. Simon — and Ms. Simon's longer record in the district won out.

A liberal Democrat like Mr. de Blasio, the public advocate - turned - mayor, Ms. James has not warred with City Hall like her predecessors, who were Democrats charged with serving as ombudsmen in the shadows of two imposing Republican mayors.

«I hope she'll evolve and do more oversight of and investigations into city services and corporate misconduct rather than coming across like merely a vice president or deputy mayor,» said Mark Green, the city's first public advocate and an endorser of one of Ms. James» rivals last year.

She has not only gotten the support from Uptown officials like Espaillat and Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, but also previous Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and Public Advocate Letitia James.

The public advocate continued by offering up plenty of her own policy ideas on how to address the city's diversity issues, in what sounded a bit like a preview of a Letitia James mayoralty might look like.

Glenn Martin, Vice President of Development and Public Affairs at the Fortune Society, said, «Commissioner Brian Fischer has built enormous respect and trust among advocates and reentry service providers like The Fortune Society because of his commitment to increasing the likelihood that people released from prison have the tools necessary to be productive and contributing members of their communities.

«Our teamwork is made possible by public servants who are true advocates like Speaker Mark - Viverito and Councilmember Menchaca.

Joseph Strasburg, president of the Rent Stabilization Association, an industry group representing landlords, said Quinn — like Stringer and public advocate Bill de Blasio — has sought to strike a balance between prodevelopment and antidevelopment statements.

It's a rite of passage, and today it is Bill de Blasio's turn: All of a sudden neck - and - neck with Christine Quinn for front - runner status, the public advocate is featured on the front page of the New York Times in an article meant to reveal what he's really like to work with, and how he gets — or doesn't get — things done.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.