Sentences with phrase «mayor ran as an independent»

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Three weeks ago I announced my intention to run as an independent candidate for mayor of Tower Hamlets.

Bloomberg, before becoming an Independent in 2007, ran as a Republican for New York City mayor.

Nowadays, a billionaire Independent can buy the election and wouldn't even need a powerful Democratic house to bolster their ranks as the Republican party is so weak former police commissioner Ray Kelly, Marty Gold, and even Dan Halloran have been rumored to run for mayor.

These days, the mayor takes care to spread the love around as he seeks to bolster his image as a post-partisan kingmaker with his eye on a potential independent White House run in 2012.

In a theoretical head - to - head match - up where Jeffries ran as an independent against de Blasio as a Democrat, Jeffries pulled support from 26 percent of city voters, to the mayor's 43 percent.

Mike Bloomberg has commissioned a second national poll to test his viability as an independent presidential candidate, following the decisive victories of Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, because the former NYC mayor is «itching» to run, sources tell the NY Post.

Former three - term mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg said Monday he will not run for president, after months of speculation that he would jump in as in independent during a campaign in which it seems anything could happen.

► Borough President Eric Adams also only trails the mayor by 35 to 34 percent if he were to run as an independent.

► Comptroller Scott Stringer, running as an independent, trails the mayor 37 to 36 percent.

Eight other independents are running for mayor as well, but most have little or no money to their name.

In the 1970s, Mr. Sanders was a perennial fringe candidate on the Liberty Union Party line, though his political career was going nowhere until he ditched the minor party and ran as an independent for mayor of Burlington in 1981.

«As someone who's a true independent and not enrolled I think it's important to talk to everybody about why I want to run for mayor, and ultimately I need to get on the ballot so I need to get an endorsement,» Walsh said today.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

It is a prominent Republican family, but Ben Walsh is running for mayor as an independent.

For two generations, the name Walsh has been synonymous with Republican politics in Syracuse, now Ben Wlash, son of ex-GOP Rep. Jim Walsh, is waking a political tightrope by running for mayor of the city as an independent.

Bo Dietl, the businessman and former police detective who is running for mayor of New York City as an independent, began airing his first 30 - second television advertisement of the general election, in which he accuses de Blasio of «turning his back on dead cops.»

Independence Party candidate Adoflo Carrión Jr., the former two - term Bronx borough president, left the Democratic Party last year to run as an independent for mayor.

Independent Presidential Bid Challenges Democrat Leaders Frank V. Vernuccio, Jr., J.D. Michael Bloomberg, who served three terms as mayor of New York City, is actively exploring a run for the presidency.

Bo Dietl campaigns for votes as he runs for mayor of New York City on his own independent line, an uphill battle to unseat Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom Mr. Dietl refers to as «Big Bird.»