Sentences with phrase «mayor met president»

Osborne told the story of how he and the London mayor met President Bush — and the president noticed that Johnson was wearing a watch adorned with Che Guevara's face.

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From where I stood at Woodward and Adelaide, Martin Luther King Jr. — accompanied by then - Detroit mayor, Jerome Cavanaugh, Rev. C. L. Franklin (father of hometown legend and goddess Aretha Franklin), United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther, Rev. Albert Cleage, and more than 125,000 people — walked to where Woodward meets Jefferson Ave., and turned right.

The batting order is as follows: London mayor Boris Johnson and deputy mayor Kit Malthouse, in just a few minutes; then acting Met commissioner Tim Godwin and assistant commissioner Lynne Owens at 11:00; followed by Sir Hugh «Outspoken» Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, at 11:30.

At 9 a.m., Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican nominee in the NYC race for mayor, will conduct a nine - stop listening tour of NYCHA housing on Monday accompanied by community activist Tony Herbert, starting by meeting Dr.Cindi Ashley (NYCHA - NAACP) and presidents of the Ft. Greene Houses Tenants Association, Mike's Diner, 328 Dekalb Ave., Brooklyn.

The officials, including Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Comptroller William Thompson, are asking for a meeting with the mayor's office to express concerns about the Bellevue development, and to address the shortage of nursing home and assisted - living housing in the area.

At 2:15 p.m., NYC Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio is in Washington, D.C. with fellow incoming mayors from around the country (including Rochester's Lovely Warren) to meet with President Obama and VP Joe Biden.

De Blasio gave up a chance to push New York City's agenda directly with Trump by pulling out of what would have been his first White House meeting with the president, citing a Justice Department notice about a crackdown on sanctuary cities as the reason for skipping the 100 - plus mayor sit - down, where infrastructure and the opioid crisis were on the agenda.

The D.O.E.'s Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - member body appointed by the mayor and the city's borough presidents, will vote on the plan at a March 18 meeting before it is submitted to the mayor and City Council for a vote in June as part of the overall budget.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

The meeting — which was not on the mayor's public schedule — lasted for 45 minutes, and included talks about the «future of progressive politics» and «their shared interest in electing Secretary Clinton President,» according to a readout of the meeting provided by the mayor's office.

The mayor of San Juan continued her war of words with the president, slamming him as America's «miscommunicator - in - chief» following a brief meeting with him in Puerto Rico.

Moskowitz sardonically asked reporters to imagine what her first meeting with UFT president Michael Mulgrew would be like if she was elected mayor.

Adams said the five borough presidents spoke with one another Thursday and are seeking a meeting with the mayor.

During a closed - door meeting with Mayor Bill de Blasio last week, the city's police union leaders asked the mayor to denounce what they perceived as anti-police actions by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, according to Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association.

There's been some chattering this week in cyberspace over a comment that Schenectady City Council President Gary McCarthy — the man some Democrats want to be the city's next mayor — made at Monday night's meeting about a member of the public's mental health issues.

«When I was mayor, I hosted a meeting with then - President Porter and a delegation from the Seneca Nation in my office.

On June 24, the assembled mayors at the 85th annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) in Miami passed a series of resolutions related to climate change and green energy, including resolutions urging President Donald Trump's administration to reverse its decision to pull the United States out of the Paris agreement and to -LSB-...]