Sentences with phrase «mayoral election by»

Tabone — who was tried with Smith for plotting to rig the 2013 mayoral election by getting Smith on the ticket — claims he didn't have a «fiduciary duty» to his party that would've barred him from accepting bribes from Smith.

Halloran, Smith and former Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone are accused of trying to get Smith, a Democrat, on the ballot as a Republican for last year's mayoral election by bribing GOP bosses.

Not exact matches

Critics have accused the government of attempting to «bury bad news» by announcing the major U-turn just hours before the result of the London Mayoral election (follow our live coverage of the election here).

Labour's candidate Christian Wolmar reported that Goldsmith's behaviour during the mayoral election was regularly raised by voters on the doorstep.

Ken Livingstone has raised a storm by seemingly endorsing the independent candidate in East London's Tower Hamlets Mayoral elections.

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.»

Following the mayoral election, Ringel was hired by the de Blasio administration in various positions until his new appointment.

On 5 May 2016, a spokesperson for Burnham confirmed that he had been approached by party officials in Greater Manchester, asking him to consider resigning from the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn in order to run in the upcoming mayoral election in 2017.

Speaking by phone a few days before the first scheduled debate in the general election, mayoral candidate...

Ultimately, the contest may be decided by turnout, which tends to be low in London mayoral elections — between 35 % and 45 %.

Below, you'll find all of the 2017 election coverage from Gotham Gazette, along with key additions from coverage by City Limits and WNYC radio, including some crossoever and collaboration among the three outlets, and also videos of debates for Manhattan City Council districts and the Democratic mayoral primary aired by Manhattan Neighborhood Network.

May's mayoral election will surely be Ken's last electoral hurrah; he'll be over 70 by the time of the next one in 2016.

Labour's failure to nominate any female candidates for the upcoming mayoral elections has been mocked by one its most prominent female backbenchers.

Rahman won the 2010 mayoral election as an independent although Tower Hamlets is by no means a majority Muslim borough, less than 40 % are Muslims but they do constitute the bulk of Labour's electoral base and once Rahman was able to win this no - one could beat him.

«This is the great X-factor in this election,» said Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, who broke ground by launching one of his campaign videos entirely in Spanish.

The intention is that the # 40m (which would be in addition to the # 8m already provided to political parties) would be financed by ending the free election post for general and european elections, and instead circulating a booklet including statements from each candidate (as happened in the last London Mayoral election).

«I'm determined to repay your faith by winning the Mayoral election next May and making a real difference to Londoners» lives,» the Tooting MP said.

In December, Douglas Kellner, the Democratic co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections, testified before the City Council on the 2017 elections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform PaElections, testified before the City Council on the 2017 elections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform Paelections and warned them that they had «dodged a bullet» by narrowly avoiding a runoff in the mayoral primary for the Reform Party line.

The Mayoral elections in May 2017 were overshadowed by the general election called for a month later, and had rather low turnouts.

Three of the four Republican mayoral candidates appeared together Thursday night, with Bo Dietl seeking to address the contretemps generated by his Wednesday night comment equating two African - American women, Chirlane McCray, Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, and a judge hearing Dietl's election related lawsuit, based on their physical appearance.

For the mayoral elections in Portland and San Francisco, Fairvote has graphs that show the breakdown of votes round by round until someone takes a majority (in Portland, Greens David Marshall and John Eder finished 4th and 12th of 15; in SF, Green Terry Baum finished 11th of 16).

As such, he has announced his intention to resign as an MP to concentrate on the mayoral campaign and it is strongly expected that the by - election will take place on May 5th, coinciding with local elections and the AV referendum.

Despite Boris's much - reported commitment at the mayoral election to «bear down on transport costs», from January, fares will go up by an average of 4.2 %.

I am determined to repay that trust by winning the Mayoral election next May, and making a real difference to Londoners lives.

«Opportunity to ballot» races in the Independence and Conservative parties, where challengers won the right to hold a write - in election for those parties» mayoral lines by filing petitions, will also be finalized.

GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis said she was still raising campaign issues with Mayor Bill de Blasio when they spoke by phone Wednesday morning after her election loss to him.

Boris was Boris — the paltry link between his electoral success and that of his nominal party underlined by the voting figures at the last mayoral election.

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.

The Sheffield City region mayoral election is unique, having been delayed by 12 months because of disagreements over the geography of the city regions, while six other mayoral elections took place.

NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill de Blasio was fined almost $ 48,000 by the New York City Campaign Finance Board on Thursday for hiring a makeup artist for his family on election night, paying airfare for his son, Dante, to attend an Al Sharpton rally in Washington, D.C. and paying Hilltop Public Solutions, a firm owned by close mayoral adviser Nicholas Baldick, $ 168,000 in improper post-election spending.

Malliotakis, de Blasio and independent mayoral candidate Bo Dietl will all participate Wednesday a third and final pre-general election debate, sanctioned by the Campaign Finance Board and sponsored by media outlets including CBS2 News and the Daily News.

Galloway, who lost his Bradford West parliamentary seat in last year's general election, has said he will stand to be MP for Tooting if Labour incumbent and mayoral frontrunner Sadiq Khan wins the contest and calls a by - election.

At 12:30 p.m., Syracuse Democratic mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams will be joined by local elected officials to talk about moving the city forward and what is at stake in this election, Delaware Elementary School, 900 S. Geddes St., Syracuse.

Donors can give as much money as they want to a group supporting Republican NYC mayoral nominee Joe Lhota, following a ruling by a federal appeals court that could pave the way for increased outside spending in New York elections.

A decision by a state Supreme Court judge could be all that stands between Kingston Democratic mayoral hopeful Hayes Clement's elimination from November's general election.

You may remember that a few days before the mayoral election Boris was endorsed by the respected Chairman of London TravelWatch, Brian Cooke.

If a Mayoral by - election is held on general election day it will be a lot cheaper.

In April 2013, Smith was arrested by the FBI for allegedly attempting to rig last year's mayoral election.

His percentage,.56 %, is not as high as the percentage received by the Socialist Workers nominee in the 2009 Mayoral election.

New York is currently preparing for a mayoral election in November, but Dromm said he doesn't «anticipate it being in effect» by then.

But that dynamic was blunted somewhat by Democrat Bill de Blasio's loss here in the mayoral election.

In 2011, the one - time Ward 6 alderman pulled off an upset victory over party favorite Andi Turco - Levin in the GOP mayoral primary before going on to getting trounced by Gallo in the general election.

One example of such an arrangement which actually happened was Ken Livingstone's deal with the Green Party, exchanging second preferences in the mayoral election — obviously sensible but not sanctioned by the national party.

Livingstone and Johnson have been reselected by their respective parties unusually early with 20 to go until the Mayoral election - too say it is early days yet is an understatement!

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

By most accounts, the first general election mayoral debate was at best minimally helpful in providing voters a substantive exchange of ideas among the three candidates on stage, each competing to lead the city of 8.5 million people and an $ 85 billion budget for the next four years.

Albany, N.Y. (WBEN)- With just two days to go before the Buffalo Democratic Mayoral primary election, longtime incumbant Mayor Byron Brown holds a commanding lead in the latest polling released Sunday by Siena College.

In his piece trumpeting the election as proof that «a different kind of progressive politics can capture the imagination of a public ground down by economic crisis», Ed Miliband's strategy adviser, Stewart Wood, admitted that «New York City is not the UK, and a mayoral race is not the same as a British general election».

«It is a disgrace and the prime minister has debased his office, not only by allowing a culture of division to be fostered in the London mayoral election campaign but to use the House of Commons as the platform for his hateful brand of dog - whistle politics.