Sentences with phrase «mayoral primary run»

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Both Tabone and Bronx Republican Chairman Jay Savino were acccused of accepting $ 40,000 in bribes in exchange to sign a Wilson - Pakula waiver so Smith, a Democrat and member of the five - member Senate IDC, could run on the Republican line in a mayoral primary.

Halloran, a Republican, was charged with taking more than $ 20,000 in payoffs from two undercover FBI operatives posing as corrupt developers in exchange for agreeing to funnel public cash to them and to help bribe Republican NYC county leaders to allow Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith, also of Queens, to run Row B in the party's mayoral primary.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., who has repeatedly teased he might take on de Blasio in this fall's Democratic primary, is now openly raising money for re-election to his current post, ending speculation of a mayoral run this fall.

Failed Syracuse mayoral candidate Democrat Juanita Perez Williams has changed her mind and plans to run for Congress in NY - 24 challenging Republican Rep. John Katko, according to the Democratic Party chairman, though she has to make it through a primary first.

At the center of the scandal is a powerful state senator Malcolm Smith, a Democrat, who bribed Republican GOP county leaders to grant him a waiver to run as Republican in GOP mayoral primaries.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis brushed aside rival candidate Bo Dietl's recent complaints on not being granted a waiver allowing him to run in the Republican mayoral primary and his assertion that the New York State Republican chairman and New York County Republican chairwoman quashed his prospects in order to boost Malliotakis.

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

During a candidate forum Wednesday, Dietl talked about a judge who blocked him from running in the Democratic mayoral primary this year because of a paperwork error.

John Catsimatidis, who ran in the Republican Party's 2013 New York City mayoral primary, has with his family given $ 255,000 to the party between 2011 and 2014; he gave over $ 245,000 to the Democrats and their statewide candidates during this time period.

Mr. Halloran, a Queen Republican, was arrested in connection with the bizarre plot to secure State Sen. Malcom Smith, a Democrat, a slot to run in the Republican mayoral primary.

Sal Albanese is also a mayoral candidate, running on the Reform Party line after losing the Democratic primary to de Blasio.

Mayoral candidate Bo Dietl's effort at running in the Republican mayoral primary appears to be continuing, notwithstanding an adverse ruling last week by the New York Supreme Court's Appellate DiMayoral candidate Bo Dietl's effort at running in the Republican mayoral primary appears to be continuing, notwithstanding an adverse ruling last week by the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Dimayoral primary appears to be continuing, notwithstanding an adverse ruling last week by the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division.

The Post disclosed last week that former state Democratic Party Executive Director Charlie King, a Cuomo ally, was sounding out support for a mayoral run by longtime Harlem Assemblyman Keith Wright, who lost the June primary to succeed US Rep. Charles Rangel.

Topics included Kerik and how Dietl reconciles his criticism of Mayor de Blasio's «corruption», Kerik's comment that children should be specifically taught how to safely interact with police, the continuing possibility of Dietl running in the Republican primary and possible union support, the «raise the age» initiative and mayoral control of schools.

Catsimatidis did go on to run for the GOP mayoral nomination in 2013, but lost the primary to Joe Lhota, who, as you'll recall, is now Cuomo's hand - picked chair of the MTA, tasked to overhauling the beleaguered NYC subway system.

The 2015 Mt Vernon Democratic primary, can not come quick enough for some, with six Mayoral candidates — Mayor Davis, Clinton Young, Ruth Hassell - Thompson, Maureen Walker & Richard Thomas (Deborah Reynolds will appear on the Conservative line in the General Election but not appear in the Democratic primary) and seven city council candidates — Andre Wallace, Delia Farquharson, Diane Munro, Lisa Copeland, John Boykin, Janice Duarte (who is a Democrat running on the Independence Party line) and Cheryl Dennis who is running as an Independent (No party), all vying for two city council seats available.

Two months later, Lhota, the primary winner, was crushed in the general election, ending the Republicans» two - decade run of winning mayoral elections.

Two veteran Democrats are challenging Mr. de Blasio in the primary: Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens who has challenged the mayor's approach to homelessness and fought for a Staten Island family trying to keep a large pig as a pet; and Sal Albanese, an Italian - born lawyer and former City Councilman from southwestern Brooklyn who, in his third mayoral run, has argued for a new tax on nonprimary residences — a «pied - à - terre» tax — to help fund affordable housing.

Fernando Ferrer, a former Bronx borough president, endorsed Ms. Alcantara, giving her the chance to criticize Mr. Lasher for an episode in 2001 when he worked as a campaign staffer for Mark Green, who at the time was running in the Democratic mayoral primary against Mr. Ferrer.

Murphy, who will likely run against Fulop for the North and Central Jersey vote in a crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary, is accusing him of using his mayoral campaign as a war chest for that race.

It's a no - go for Bo in the Republican mayoral primary, as Bo Dietl tweeted this afternoon that he is giving up his renewed effort at obtaining a waiver which would allow him to run in the Republican mayoral primary.

If you can believe what Will Bredderman wrote in recent «Will's Watch» column in the Courier Life — and I usually do — there is a scheme afoot that would have an Evangelical minister (who is also a former mayoral candidate) run in a Democratic primary against former Councilman Domenic Recchia, who is the leading Democrat in the race to unseat Republican - Conservative U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm in November.

They were among six people reportedly charged, including Bronx GOP chair Jay Savino and Queens GOP vice-chair Vince Tabone, in an alleged bribery plot to secure Mr. Smith a slot to run in the Republican mayoral primary.

Comedian and citizen - activist Randy Credico, who recently qualified for New York's Democratic mayoral primary ballot, is looking to extend his candidacy beyond the hotly - contested September 10th Democratic primary by running in November as the nominee of the Tax Wall Street Party, a newly - organized political party -LSB-...]

«Bo Dietl is no longer seeking the endorsement of New York City's Republican party and will not run on the GOP line in the mayoral primary.

The former alderman and unsuccessful mayoral candidate in 2007 finished third in the Republican primary with 119 votes, but remains in contention in the general election, running on the Conservative Party line.

She ran unopposed for the Republican line on the mayoral ballot, but lost the Independence Party and Reform Party lines to Ben Walsh in the primaries.

It will come down to whether supermarket and oil magnate Catsimatidis, who ran in the 2013 GOP mayoral primary and won Staten Island, decides to enter the race.

Bona fide registered Republicans do not need permission to run on Row B. So, it looks like the GOP is potentially headed for a mayoral primary next year — much to the chagrin of its county leaders.

The real explanation for the catastrophic demise of Quinn's campaign was neither misogyny nor homophobia but the fact that she was a bad candidate who ran an awful campaign and that Democratic primary voters were sick and tired of 12 years of Bloomberg and the mayoral candidate most closely associated with him.

«There are people in this world who are criminals, who steal things,» said Quinn, who leads the City Council and is running against the public advocate in the Democratic mayoral primary.

If Christine Quinn didn't just disarm Bill de Blasio, as he runs against her from the left in the Democratic mayoral primary, she has at least neutralized one of the most powerful weapons in his arsenal.

In 1985, he ran against Edward I. Koch in the mayoral primary, winning just 13 percent of the vote.

One issue with the strategy at this point, though, is that at least two potential Republican mayoral candidates have not decided whether they will run or not: Queens City Council Member Eric Ulrich and businessman John Catsimatidis, who lost in the 2013 primary to Lhota.

Mr. Smith, 57, is charged by the United States attorney's office for the Southern District with taking part in a scheme to bribe three Republican county leaders to agree to let him run as a Republican in the 2013 mayoral primary.

Last week, it was revealed that actress Cynthia Nixon — who is close to de Blasio — is exploring challenging Cuomo in a Democratic primary and is in talks to hire former mayoral campaign aides for her run.

Schroeder, who is running in the Democratic party mayoral primary...