Sentences with phrase «not run for mayor»

Ms. Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman who recently announced she would not run for mayor in 2017, was speaking at New York Law School, part of their CityLaw breakfast series, and gave what was mostly a typical Success Academy stump speech: save for an introduction that was more of a defense against recent lawsuits and media stories, and for a conclusion that saw parents of former Success students livening up the typically staid CityLaw audience to demand apologies or answers from Ms. Moskowitz.

But Ms. Moskowitz on Thursday dashed speculation of her own candidacy, walking unaccompanied to the steps of City Hall to announce that she would not run for mayor in 2017.

Or, maybe just as likely, announce that she will not run for mayor.

Eva Moskowitz, the charter schools titan and bête noire of the de Blasio administration, recently announced she would not run for mayor — an acknowledgment, perhaps, of how difficult internecine warfare against Mr. de Blasio could be.

In announcing Thursday she would not run for mayor in 2017 — a race few thought she could win — Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz can now turn her attention to education campaigns at home and across the country that are more easily attainable.

62 % of registered voters in New York City say they would prefer former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer not run for mayor.

Earlier this year, Buffalo Grove Trustee Brian N. Rubin had said he wouldn't run for mayor if Mathias decided to seek re-election.

Talk to Democrats, and most speak with affection for Hogan - although many quietly wish he weren't running for mayor.

Scott Stringer made it official yesterday evening: He's not running for mayor in 2013, and instead will try to become city comptroller.

No, John DeFrancisco said, he won't run for mayor.

«I am not running for mayor in 2017.

Mr. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, has been candid about his own mayoral ambitions; only Mr. Jeffries, a Brooklyn congressman and consistent de Blasio critic, has said definitively he is not running for mayor in 2017.

Of course, there are plenty of possible political announcements beyond just «I am running for mayor» or «I am not running for mayor.»

Not running for mayor of New York, and having feuds with Starbucks and the New York Post, Baldwin is heading back to the movies.

So let's put the politics of the mayoral election this way: Some 20,000 black and Hispanic parents and their kids would not have traveled from their neighborhoods — 77 % of the city's charters are in Harlem, the South Bronx and Central Brooklyn — to march across that famous bridge if Bill de Blasio were not running for mayor.

Not exact matches

If the friendship between these men — a black Christian mayor, a rabbi running for Congress and a Mormon university president — wasn't so real, this would sound like a bad joke.

Mia Love has been a mayor and I'm quite sure she didn't ask anyone from the LDS church for their approval for her run for congress.

Of course we're talking about campaigns of a certain size — someone running for mayor in a small town likely won't have staff at all, just family and volunteers.

It seems a long time ago since Diane Abbott was in the running to become the Labour candidate for mayor of London, but in the top spot this week is our report from last year on comments she made during her campaign in which she suggested the capital didn't need another white middle - aged man in charge.

Thompson placed second in the Democratic primary for mayor this year, his second run for mayor since 2009, but did not qualify for the runoff against the eventual winner, Bill de Blasio.

Activist Akeem Browder, whose younger brother Kalief committed suicide at age 22 in 2015 after being locked for years on Rikers Island for a crime he didn't commit, it running for mayor of NYC on the Green Party line.

«This isn't about the Brown administration; this isn't about Bernie Tolbert running for mayor.

Public Advocate Tish James has told people in recent days that she intends to run for New York City mayor in 2021, though her potentially running wouldn't be a shocking development in New York City politics.

Miner is term limited from running again for mayor, but has not ruled out running for another office one day.

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.

Sergio Rodriguez isn't daunted by the odds of running for mayor as a Republican in a city where Democrats hold a seven - to - one enrollment edge.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

It's been widely reported in the press that the Erie County Republican Party is not happy with the prospect of having a Republican running for mayor in November.

City Councilman Eric Ulrich has not decided whether to run for mayor, but he certainly hopes someone gives Mayor Bill de Blasio a real race, he said during a radio interview Tuesday.

Mr. Kelly, who never held elected office, has maintained in past interviews he doesn't want to run for mayor.

Eliot Spitzer describes his own dodge of a question about running for mayor as «not Shermanesque.»

The mayor said he's running the city so well that «you'd assume they'd be having parades out in the streets,» and insisted he'd be more popular if it weren't for «the time in history.»

But in his run for mayor, he isn't following his own advice.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand likes the woman running for mayor of New York, but won't endorse her, or anyone else, until after the primary.

«The general feeling is that you can't text pictures of your penis to a girl, then lie about it, then get kicked out of the House and then run for mayor right after,» said a political consultant.

Eight in ten voters, 80 %, say they do not want Donald Trump, Jr. to run for mayor.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, former Rochester mayor and police chief, has decided not to run for a second term.

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.

Jeffries said Thursday he doesn't «really envision a circumstance» where he runs for mayor.

Adams is a longtime rival to Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, an outspoken de Blasio critic who recently said he has not ruled out a run for mayor.

On a conference call with reporters, Cuomo had this to say: «And on people who may not — mayor or may not run for governor, on both sides of the aisle, that's up to them, and we'll deal with it as the campaign progresses,» said Cuomo.

Although she has not indicated whether she is running for mayor, she seemed to position herself for a possible bid at her inauguration ceremony in January, where she gave a long speech outlining her achievements while in office.

Markowitz has not expressed interest in running for mayor.

Although Diaz Jr. would not say whether he is running for mayor for sure, the borough president did not hesitate to take jabs at de Blasio and his administration during the forum.

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday night that he still has not ruled out a run for New York City mayor in 2017, though he sees a campaign as unlikely.

The mayor is even being floated as a potential LG running mate for Cuomo, although he has conveniently been out of town and not answering his phone since his name was first floated late last night.

After lunching today with NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, former Staten Island BP Guy Molinari says the so - called GOP «dream» candidate for NYC mayor won't be running in 2013, explaining: «He has been in the public sector for a very long time.

Quinn, a front - runner among the handful of Democrats running for mayor, said that the revelations about her previous struggles were not part of a campaign to soften her image.

If Ray Kelly is making plans to run for mayor in 2013, he hasn't told his boss, Mayor Bloomberg.

The Republicans are not running a candidate for mayor but the Green Party is hold a primary between Bryan Jimenez and Dan Plaat.