Sentences with phrase «mayoral run in»

The move marked a departure for Quinn, who is generally thought to be a close ally of the mayor but appears to be distancing herself from Bloomberg as she prepares for her own presumptive mayoral run in 2013.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out a handful of policy proposals in an address to the Association for a Better New York on Thursday, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to expand affordable housing, and offering a competing agenda for the city that could serve as a prelude to a mayoral run in 2017.

Prior to Polacco, the seat was held by Richard Cahill Jr., who gave up the seat for his own mayoral run in 2007.

The campaign of former City Comptroller John Liu was hit with more than $ 15,000 in fines Thursday by the same city board that denied matching funds to his mayoral run in 2013 — effectively derailing it.

Catsimatidis, as you might recall, was a longtime Democrat with a history of supporting Democratic candidates (he was one of Hillary Clinton's top donors), but then followed the lead of a another billionaire, Mayor Bloomberg, and switched his enrollment to the GOP in preparation for a mayoral run in 2009.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer laid out a handful of policy proposals in an ABNY address, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio's efforts to expand affordable housing and offering a competing agenda for the city that could serve as a prelude to a mayoral run in 2017.

If he can't get it overturned or reduced, Thompson faces the daunting prospect of trying to raise funds both for his next possible mayoral run in 2013 and for a settle ment with the city's Environmental Control Board, where the case was adjudicated.

Liu also did not rule out a mayoral run in the AP interview, but did say he understood why people questioned his political viability.

«The numbers are clear and compelling: there is definitely room for a second billionaire in this election,» said Luntz, who worked for Bloomberg's mayoral run in 2001.

Seifman has previously reported that MacKay's wife's firm, Government Response Inc., has received contracts from others currying favor with the Indys — notably the Senate Republicans and Manhattan BP Scott Stringer, who is eyeing a mayoral run in 2013.

If Carrion has a 2013 mayoral run in mind, he will be entering an already crowded Democratic field.

Not exact matches

With his growing platform and his past interest in pursuing the job, conservative donors approached him in 2015 about the possibility of a 2016 mayoral run.

Joseph Lhota, the former chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)-- he resigned just a few days ago in preparation for a mayoral bid — jumped into action after the storm and got the subways running again within less than three days.

His beliefs and politics: Bernard has repeatedly appeared on lists of the most influential people in New York and considered a mayoral run as a Republican in 2013, after having endorsed and worked with former mayor Michael Bloomberg.

This latest foray into the magical world of Sol Campbell's Cosvervative adventures follows the news that the ex-Arsenal man was seen as a prospective Tory candidate for the London mayoral elections in 2016 and there were even suggestions he was being vetted to run for a set in Parliament in the upcoming General Election.

And Trustee Michael O`Malley, who ran an unsuccessful mayoral bid against Mathias this year, is an attorney in downtown Chicago.

During the mayoral campaign Brondyke, who ran unopposed for the park board, was part of a shadow slate of Park District candidates backing Broda and his allies, helping in their campaigns and gathering nominating petitions.

Several possibilities have been mentioned: NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who hasn't yet shown any interest in running; and Democrat - turned - Republican supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, who gave up his mayoral aspirations in 2009 when Bloomberg successfully pushed to extend term limits and ran again himself.

«Mayor Bloomberg ran for Mayor in 2001 on a platform of Mayoral control of the school system.

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.

Democrats in the Erie County Legislature's District 2 will consider at least three candidates to run for the seat being vacated by Buffalo mayoral candidate Betty Jean Grant during a Wednesday meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Martha Mitchell Community Center on Oakwood Avenue

UPDATE II: In a public letter announcing the end of his failed mayoral run, Ricciazzi identified as bisexual.

MANHATTAN - Former city comptroller and failed mayoral candidate Bill Thompson has officially tossed his hat in the ring once again to run for city's highest office.

The probe is examining whether donors to de Blasio's mayoral run and his nonprofit, Campaign for One New York, received any favors in exchange for their contributions.

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.

A supervising investigator for Erie County Child Protective Services for the last two years, Tolbert acknowledged he was approached about running for sheriff in 2013, but opted instead for the mayoral run.

In September, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, running on a platform of taming inequality, routed his Democratic mayoral rival, Christine Quinn, known for her ties to Michael Bloomberg's finance - friendly administration.

MTA Chairman Joe Lhota, who served as a budget director under Mayor Rudy Giuliani and ran as the GOP mayoral nominee in 2013, is also sounding the alarm on the tax plan.

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.

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

Former NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks is mulling a mayoral run and meeting with potential financial backers, despite retiring in 2014 after a falling out with former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton.

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.

According to the FBI, Smith wanted to become the leader of the Senate Democrats, in an effort to raise his profile and subsequently run for the mayoral race in New York City.

A respected administrator, Lhota is credited with getting the transit system up and running quickly after the devastating flooding in 2012 from Superstorm Sandy — after which he resigned to make an unsuccessful bid for the Republican mayoral nomination.

There is speculation in Staten Island political circles that Malliotakis may be interested in running for this congressional seat, should she not win her current mayoral race.

The buzz in political circles is that the sext - happy Weiner has a better shot at public advocate — a $ 165,000 - a-year job viewed as a «cleansing» post where he could put his character issues further behind him as he prepped for a 2017 mayoral run.

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.

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Asked on Tuesday what will factor in his decision - making about a mayoral run, Jeffries replied that his «strong inclination» is that there «is a tremendous amount of work to do in Washington D.C., particularly with the rise of Donald Trump.

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.

Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota ratcheted up his attacks on de Blasio Thursday, calling him a «political hack» who «talks in great platitudes» but doesn't have the «skills or ability» to run New York City.

Laying the groundwork for a possible mayoral run, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. plans to endorse Harlem Assemblyman Keith Wright to succeed Rep. Charles Rangel in Congress.

More than four years after officially announcing his mayoral run, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio seeks another term in a political environment that could not be more different, and finds himself in an unfamiliar position: Way out in front.

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.

The tax - cutting move also seems to run counter to Democratic mayoral nominee Bill de Blasio's plans to raise income taxes in New York City to expand pre-K.

When two law enforcement investigations into behavior of the mayor and his associates resulted in no charges, several Democratic heavyweights considering a mayoral run — headlined by Comptroller Scott Stringer and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. — decided not to challenge de Blasio.

Is he hoping to tap that distrust in a future mayoral run?