Sentences with phrase «mayor against bill»

Recent news reports say that Cuomo has encouraged Jeffries to consider running for mayor against Bill de Blasio.

Although he was rumored as a possible candidate to run for mayor against Bill de Blasio this year, he is still only registered to run for reelection as borough president.

Famous fringe candidate Jimmy McMillan, founder of the Rent is Too Damn High party, is running for mayor against Bill de Blasio next year, he said Sunday.

George McDonald, who ran for mayor against Bill de Blasio in 2013 and co-founded the Doe Fund, also is on Cuomo's short list, according to two knowledgeable sources.

STATEN ISLAND — A Republican Assemblywoman from Staten Island said she's «all in» to run for mayor against Bill de Blasio after John Catsimatidis announced he won't enter the race.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Ask Rep. Hakeem Jeffries if he's running for mayor against Bill de Blasio in 2017 and his answer couldn't be any more final.

Not exact matches

Thompson placed second in the Democratic primary for mayor this year, his second run for mayor since 2009, but did not qualify for the runoff against the eventual winner, Bill de Blasio.

They are considered potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor, though are yet to launch a campaign against incumbent Bill de Blasio.

This is a particularly interesting development because it differentiates Liu from NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, against whom the comptroller might be running for mayor in 2013.

In 2014, Bill de Blasio was one of the first mayors of a major city to come out strongly against fracking.

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his record against Sal Albanese, the former city councilman, in the first Democratic primary debate in the race for mayor, which NY1 hosted, with partners NYC Votes, WNYC, POLITICO New York, the Citizens Union, the Latino Leadership Institute, Civic Hall, and Intelligence Squared US.

Among those mayors backing Cuomo's push against the law is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who has feuded with the governor on a variety of issues.

CIVIC CENTER — Democratic party leaders in The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn are rallying behind City Councilman Dan Garodnick in his bid to be speaker — going against mayor - elect Bill de Blasio's choice, sources said.

«We believe that we can defend against any sort of attempts to access these documents that are a fishing expedition,» Nisha Agarwal, the mayor's Immigrant Affairs Commissioner, said at the bill - signing ceremony outside the Brooklyn Public Library's main branch.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today went on a tirade against claims that he and his allies participated in «willful and flagrant» violations of state election law in 2014 — and against the «motivations» of Cuomo - picked Board of Elections counsel who recommended bringing a criminal case against the mayor.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is ramping up his attacks against the Trump administration, but he is taking a different approach when it comes to the Republicans in the race for mayor.

NEW YORK CITY — Bill de Blasio and other leaders will march in a parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday to honor Christopher Columbus amid backlash against over the mayor's review of city monuments that some call as symbols of hate, including statues of the Italian explorer.

«The mayor, since the beginning of his career, has been a steadfast champion in the fight against inequality, and recently the governor has been using his executive power and his pulpit to win real victories,» Working Families Party New York State Director Bill Lipton told the Observer.

In the meantime, DiPietro put together a memo explaining how Trump could win mostly by going hard after a new gun - control law pushed by Cuomo, which he wrote could provide 300,00 to 500,000 new voters, and by running against Bill de Blasio, New York's «first truly radical mayor, a man who still reveres the Sandinistas, honeymooned in Havana, and self - describes as a believer in liberation theology (i.e., Marxism).»

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

«I don't see how [city Comptroller] Bill Thompson, whom I respect, or I could have come out of a hard fought primary and still be able to win against the mayor, who's on his way to spending more money than any other municipal candidate in history.»

Assemblyman Bill Nojay, who committed suicide on Friday, won his primary against Honeoye Falls mayor Rick Milne by a convincing margin.

PHILADELPHIA — The arena wasn't quite full, and it was hours before that other New York City mayor was slated to speak, but Mayor Bill de Blasio made his seven - minute pitch for Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump with gusto.

BRIDGEPORT — In the bare - knuckle Democratic primary in a tough city, Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch clashed sharply Wednesday night in his first debate against Joseph Ganim, the convicted former mayor who served time in federal prison for corruption in city hall.

Mayor Bill de Blasio didn't need to see the Assembly and Senate one - house budgets to know where he stands with each chamber - Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is a close ally of the mayor, his fellow New York City Democrat, while Senate Republicans hold a major grudge against de Blasio for leading a failed effort to boot them from the majority two years ago.

According to the widely reported narrative, Christie's top two appointees at the Port Authority, Bill Baroni and David Wildstein, had shut down access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee as part of a half - cocked revenge scheme against Fort Lee's mayor for failing to endorse Christie for re-election.

Trump's firing of Bharara is unlikely to significantly derail the ongoing investigation into NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's fund - raising — or the political calculations of those considering running against the mayor in November, experts say.

Now that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is in the clear, his former campaign manager, Bill Hyers, speaks out against the probes into the mayor's fundraising and the many leaks to the media about them.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a lawsuit against five major oil companies, but records show cars used by the mayor's office are buying gas from the same companies.

NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Mayor Bill de Blasio's frustration with Albany was behind the stinging criticism the mayor issued against him last week.

«A win for me is making the case that de Blasio has not been a good mayor and making the case that I can be a good mayor,» Sal Albanese, putting it simply, told Gotham Gazette on Monday, a little more than 48 hours before he was to take the stage against Mayor Bill de Blasio in the first of two Democratic primary debates.

Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., the only Democrat in the New York State Senate who voted against the marriage equality bill in 2011, has been busy lately supporting evangelical minister Erick Salgado in his long - shot bid to become the next mayor of NYC.

Yet, on Monday, with his political compass apparently spinning in his never - ending feud with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took the extraordinary step of including the New York Police Department in his regularly scheduled fulmination against the mayor, specifically for failing to assist a sleeping homeless man in the city's subways.

Lhota, a deputy mayor under former GOP Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former head of the city transit authority, faced off against his Democratic opponent, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, in the first of three debates leading up to the November mayoral election.

Mayor Giuliani launched an all - out offensive yesterday against Bill Bratton, warning he would «do everything» in his power to stop his former police commissioner from becoming mayor.

«The mayor's jihad against [President Barack] Obama and Schumer and the Dodd bill [is] a curious strategy,» said a person close to Schumer.

Speaking at separate events over a two - day span, both Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito acknowledged significant community pushback against the mayor's rezoning proposals and said that those plans will be tweaked before the Council votes on them.

(CNN)-- The New York City showdown for mayor Wednesday night was Republican Joe Lhota's last chance to turn the tide against his Democrat opponent Bill de Blasio.

And to illustrate that point further, 45 percent of those polled said they do not know enough about Bill Thompson, who ran against Bloomberg for mayor in 2009, to have an opinion.

Nicole Malliotakis, 37, is focused solely on her steep, uphill race for New York City mayor against Democratic incumbent Bill de Blasio.

Off - topic questions included efforts at combating sex trafficking on Roosevelt Avenue, reports of criminal charges against a defunct arm of the Working Families Party, whether the mayor will veto proposed bills criminalizing police use of chokeholds and requiring police to advise people of a right to refuse before asking to search them, whether the mayor plans to see the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge when they visit New York, whether his message is getting lost in critical news coverage and his view of the Astoria Cove development deal.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio attended a state dinner at the White House in Washington last night, leaving him absent at a time - honored tradition for New York City mayors: the National Night Out Against Crime.

NY1 News and the New York Post filed a lawsuit against NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio today over the administration's refusal to release messages exchanged between the mayor, his top aides, and an outside consultant, Jonathan Rosen

Cuomo has taken an increasingly aggressive tone toward the IDC of late, using the «co-conspirator» line during a political rally this weekend and meeting with presumptive next mayor Bill de Blasio to discuss primary challenges against IDC senators.

On the stand, the mayor — who narrowly won the 2009 race against then - city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is black — said he believed the ballot security effort was meant to ensure that voters didn't encounter problems at the polls, and paying for it through the party was simply standard procedure.

For mayor, Democrat Bill de Blasio is running against Republican Nicole Malliotakis and independents Bo Dietl and Sal Albanese.

When prosecutors announced on Thursday morning that they would not bring criminal charges against Mayor Bill de Blasio or his aides, following a series of overlapping investigations into his fundraising, they did not entirely clear the mayor from blame.

It's bad enough that some of our senators are acting out of petty vengeance and self - interested power struggles, but today the Post reveals that Senator John Sampson, the Democratic caucus leader who is a foe of the schools bill supported by the mayor, is actually working as a trial lawyer in a lawsuit against Joel Klein.

President Trump appeared to deliver a blistering attack on Mayor Bill de Blasio during a speech about the MS - 13 gang on Long Island on Friday, railing against a «pathetic mayor» who won't let cops do their jobs.

While it cleared the field, the move may have created a different kind of hurdle for the presumptive GOP nominee, who expects to face off against the winner of the September 12 Democratic primary, likely incumbent mayor Bill de Blasio.