Sentences with phrase «other mayoral»

Doug Ford, now running in lieu of his brother Rob, who's been felled by illness, has pledged to cut the tax by 60 per cent over his four - year term if elected, while other mayoral frontrunners John Tory and Olivia Chow have countered that it can not be done.

But he did so from a broad array of New Yorkers, collecting contributions from 3,261 individuals, more than any other mayoral candidate during a single filing period in recent years.

The other mayoral candidates, like former comptroller Bill Thompson and current comptroller John Liu have their fair share of celebrity supporters.

He hasn't gone so far as to change his enrollment, however, like two other mayoral contenders — Doe Fund founder George McDonald and Manhattan Media CEO Tom Allon (who took a page from the old Rudy Giuliani playbook and has also allied with the Liberal Party, though it doesn't have an automatic ballot line, thanks, oddly to now - Gov.

Four other mayoral candidate who will be on the November ballot were not at the debate: Sal Albanese, of the Reform Party; Mike Tolkin, running on his Smart Cities ballot line; Green Party nominee Akeem Browder; and Libertarian nominee Aaron Commey.

Some other mayoral candidates also have weighed in on whether stopping the subways was the right decision.

Perhaps he was responding to a critical review of other mayoral candidates campaign logo's.

EAST HARLEM — Christine Quinn went on the attack against her competition during a campaign address Monday morning, saying that other mayoral hopefuls «pander to residents of the Upper East Side» by opposing the controversial marine transfer station.

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.

Campaign Finance records show that Ahmad and HAKS employees spread their wealth around to other mayoral candidates in 2013.

Knight will join six other mayoral appointees on the City Planning Commission, as well as one appointee from each borough president, and one appointee by the public advocate.

The only primary will be in London, not much consolation for Londoners, but reassuring for those who might otherwise have faced a primary for other mayoral elections or for parliamentary candidates.

She was looking for an internship and, after hearing from the other mayoral candidates, decided Perez Williams fit the bill.

Malliotakis regularly offers harsh criticism of the mayor, but unlike some of the other mayoral candidates virtually always focuses on his job performance and policies.

Last month Alfonso Davis attended a public forum along with the other mayoral candidates to discuss issues relevant to Syracuse.

In other mayoral votes, Peter Soulsby was re-elected for Labour in Leicester, Gordon Oliver for the Conservatives in Torbay, and Mansfield's three - term Independent Tony Egginton was succeeded by his Mansfield Independent Forum colleague, Kate Allsop.

Not exact matches

The real reason the video was kept under lock and key, his critics claimed, was that Emanuel was battling a strong challenger for his mayoral reelection and did not want his campaign to be tainted by the kind of protests that had engulfed Ferguson, Mo. and other cities where police were accused of unnecessarily shooting civilians.

However, unlike other museums, the Lucas museum would not receive taxpayer subsidies to cover a portion of its operations, said senior mayoral adviser David Spielfogel.

The WFP sent out a press release yesterday touting its successes in the NYC races other than the mayoral contest, which included 12 NYC Council candidates, including Carlos Menchaca, who defeated incumbent Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez and is poised to become the Council's first Mexican - American member, and Antonio Reynoso, who defeated former Assemblyman Vito Lopez and the remnants of his Brooklyn political machine.

«Ken Livingstone is far from perfect, but we know from his last time as mayor that we can work with him to make positive changes in a way that would be impossible with either Boris Johnson or many other senior Labour politicians,» Green party mayoral candidate Jenny Jones said.

Cuomo in his joint State of the State and budget presentation last month called for a re-approval of mayoral control for New York City schools as well as extending to schools in other cities, including Rochester and Yonkers.

The Assembly last month approved a two - year extension for mayoral control packaged with an extension of sales tax and other local tax provisions that impact upstate and suburban counties.

«Senator Marcellino and the members of the education committee will seek information about what is being done to fix underperforming schools and other specific plans to improve and strengthen the city school system so that the state's examination of mayoral control is as comprehensive as possible.»

«There are still issues of housing and mayoral control out there and other legislation,» Heastie said.

Anyway, it looks like both sides are calling in the big guns in advance of tonight's Wednesday's dueling chairmanship votes — one that will see Ragusa re-elected to another two - year term, the other resulting in the election of former NYC Council Minority Leader / 2005 NYC mayoral contender and 2010 LG candidate Tom Ognibene.

All systems have strengths and weaknesses, and whilst the executive arrangements proposed for the Greater Manchester mayoral model are strong in that veto powers are given to the 10 leaders, there are other parts of the design which now need to be developed to get the right checks and balances.

Stringer, who is preparing for a likely 2013 NYC mayoral bid, actually opened a federal committee to explore a run against Gillibrand, backed off after other, more high - profile, Democrats got calls from the White House to cease and desist.

While other measures lacked the same urgency or drama as mayoral control, which did not get done this session, lawmakers did approve scores of bills in recent days, like a provision that would make it easier for cancer patients to sue for malpractice, and a ban on e-cigarettes in bars and restaurants.

Other potential Democratic mayoral candidates include city Comptroller John Liu, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson.

Other Syracuse - area names on the jury questionnaire include: Juanita Perez Williams, a former Syracuse mayoral candidate and state labor department employee; Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO; Andrew Breuer, president of Hueber - Breuer Construction; James Fayle, regional director for Empire State Development; and several employees or Cor Development.

Other noteworthy previous mayoral performances included Rudolph Giuliani donning drag and Ed Koch stepping out of the mouth of a man - eating plant.

The finance chairman and a finance committee member of Gene Locke's mayoral campaign helped bankroll the conservative political action committee that sent out an anti-gay mailer targeting City Controller Annise Parker and other municipal candidates earlier this month, according to Texas Ethics Commission documents.

Smith — one of the state's top Democrats — was busted last year in a failed scheme to secure a spot on the Republican line for the mayoral race allegedly through the bribery of Halloran and two other GOP leaders.

He may rely on others to enforce discipline: Ken Livingstone's old backroom team from his London mayoral days; constituency parties threatening to de-select rebellious MPs; the major union leaders moving back into frontline Labour politics.

Senate Republicans could very well try to jam the Assembly and pass both of their mayoral control bills and leave, forcing the other chamber to pick one.

«It's a real head - scratcher» as to why Republicans backed the legislation, which also included an extension of mayoral control of New York City schools, the re-approval of local sales tax measures and several other measures aimed at upstate communities for flood relief.

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the presumptive GOP NYC mayoral candidate, isn't the most beloved among other Staten Island elected officials, no matter what's said in the coming months on the campaign trail.

Senate Republicans had previously supported another 12 - month extension of mayoral control, but on Monday night submitted changes that would provide a three - year deadline, along with the education tax credit, which is geared toward private schools, as well as a range of other provisions.

In a dramatic turnaround from the bribery and fraud charges leveled three years ago, a former high - ranking NYPD police chief pleaded guilty in federal court to dispatching police resources without permission for the benefit of a mayoral donor and other residents of Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis was critical of Mayor Bill de Blasio's intention to create a commission to consider removing statues and other public art honoring Confederate soldiers and other public figures whose actions are regarded as dishonorable.

Mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis, a grocery store tycoon, opened a campaign office in Whitestone Sunday with a large barbecue that drew in Republican Party regulars and other supporters from across the borough.

Mr. Cuomo has kept lawmakers in Albany in hopes of reaching a deal on rent regulations and other matters, including expiring laws governing mayoral control of city schools and the 421a real estate tax credit, but so far there has been no movement on those issues.

Virginia's Republican nominee for governor Bob McDonnell and New York City mayoral candidate Mike Bloomberg are both running Google blasts, where their geo - targeted ads pop up on blogs, other websites, and Gmail.

While there are two Long Island races still being counted that could change things, it appears that Republicans will continue their hold on the state Senate, putting a dent in de Blasio's hopes for voting reform and other priorities, like a lengthy extension of mayoral control of city schools.

Three aides to GOP power brokers are vying for the nomination on the other side of the aisle: Liam McCabe, a former aide to Congressman Daniel Donovan; John Quaglione, an aide to State Senator Martin Golden; and Bob Capano, an aide to billionaire supermarket mogul and possible mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.

Stringer, the only other presumptive mayoral candidate who attended the speech, also praised Liu.

Not one of the questioners during the nearly four - hour hearing seemed to indicate that they would vote against a mayoral control extension, even though a few senators asked de Blasio pointed questions about the various investigations circling his administration and other disparate education issues.

Last night, Union Settlement Association and several other groups hosted an East Harlem Mayoral Forum.

Following Ken Livingstone's defeat in the mayoral contest in London there have been a range of attacks on him from the usual quarters claiming that he underperformed the Labour Party and that on this basis that with «any other candidate» Labour might have won.

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.