Sentences with phrase «mayoral election against»

Indeed, even though de Blasio campaigned in the mayoral election against the NYPD's heavy reliance on stop - and - frisk, Bratton expanded its use while he headed the Los Angeles Police Department from 2002 to 2009.

The catch - phrase harkens back to a campaign slogan used by some supporters of Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo's father, in the 1977 New York mayoral election against Ed Koch: «Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.»

Not exact matches

His London mayoral election campaign, where he was widely accused of running a racist «dog - whistle» campaign against Sadiq Khan, appeared to have hurt his support among left and liberal - leaning voters.

And now, one of his biggest potential rivals is thinking about running against him in the next mayoral election.

The last time the party used such disgraceful tactics to prevent local members» choice of Mayoral candidate standing in the election was against Ken Livingstone.

Pretty much all the left press other than Solidarity [Workers Liberty's paper] has denounced the election court decision against Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in East London, and most of the left has backed Rabina Khan, Rahman's ally, for the new mayoral election on 11 June.

Labour point to the dog - whistle campaign against Sadiq Khan in the London mayoral race and the emphasis placed on Diane Abbott during the general election campaign.

De Blasio argued that his unsuccessful campaign against Senate Republicans during last fall's legislative elections should not interfere with the push for mayoral control.

Murray's complaint cites an account in City & State, a political news blog, that claimed Gaspard helped broker peace between de Blasio and Democratic rival Bill Thompson after the bitter mayoral primary — to solidify party unity for the general election against Republican Joe Lhota.

In a rallying cry ahead of this May's mayoral and local elections, Grayling said the Tories had to guard against complacency.

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.

-- Not helping Joe Brennan properly file petitions when he tried to challenge Chris St. Lawrence for Ramapo Town Supervisor in 2005, leading to his failure to get on the ballot — Not actively supporting Anthony Mele when he ran against St. Lawrence in 2007, and instead horse - trading for «bloc vote» support in another election — Chairman Dolan supporting Democrat Carl Wright instead of Republican Marino Fontana in 2008 Sloatsburg mayoral election — Dolan and Reda not supporting Republican Bob Romanowski in his 2009 campaign against St. Lawrence — Reda appearing to support Alex Gromack instead of GOP candidate Ralph Sabatini in 2011 Clarkstown Supervisor race — Helping Bronx County Republican Chairman Jay Savino get a «patronage job» in the Town of Clarsktown

Republican candidate for mayor Joe Lhota won both districts by double digits against Mayor Bill de Blasio in the 2013 mayoral election.

In 2009, Paladino got involved in the campaign on behalf of South Buffalo councilman Michael Kearns in Buffalo's Democratic primary mayoral election, campaigning against incumbent Byron Brown.

But McCluskey and Diane Abbott, the shadow international development secretary, accused the Conservatives of a smear campaign against Labour before the local, mayoral and assembly elections.

We are fighting against the Alternative Vote hard; we have excellent candidates in the local elections, a superb mayoral candidate in popular local councillor Ross Grant, and a brilliant parliamentary candidate shortlist.

Representative Anthony D. Weiner conceded the 2005 Democratic mayoral nomination yesterday to Fernando Ferrer, the top vote - getter in the race, in hopes of averting a potentially destructive runoff election and strengthening Mr. Ferrer's hand as he begins the final eight - week campaign against Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas formally launched his mayoral bid Wednesday with an unsparing attack against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, foreshadowing the type of no - holds - barred campaign expected ahead of the February 2019 city election.