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Jim Heaney handicaps Buffalo's upcoming race for mayor with Susan Arbetter on The Capitol Pressroom.

Quinn rival Anthony Weiner, who entered the race for mayor with a hefty campaign war chest to begin with, plans to hold two fundraisers next week.

Not exact matches

For the second straight day, Gillibrand declined to weigh in on the mayor's race, which has been upended (again) by Anthony Weiner's disclosure that he sexted with women after resigning from office in 2011.

During his visit, he was introduced to Klein for the first time by the IDC's newest member, Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Queens Democrat who just so happens to be spending a lot of time with the NYC GOP leaders as he courts them in his long - shot bid to run on their ballot line in the upcoming mayor's race.

An attorney with the Reform Party, Richard Luthmann, said he plans to file an objection to the WFP's endorsements in races for mayor, public advocate and city comptroller.

Continuing on the theme of the race for London mayor, we have a story from last month on a poll which showed the Labour candidate begins with a hefty lead in the capital.

A surprising flash point — animal rights — has erupted in the early weeks of the race for New York City mayor, complete with boldface endorsers, voluble protests, and a generously financed attack ad.

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his record against Sal Albanese, the former city councilman, in the first Democratic primary debate in the race for mayor, which NY1 hosted, with partners NYC Votes, WNYC, POLITICO New York, the Citizens Union, the Latino Leadership Institute, Civic Hall, and Intelligence Squared US.

Rep. Charles Rangel will sit down with Bill Thompson tonight in New York City to discuss whether there is a path forward for the former NYC comptroller in the mayor's race.

The departures come at the end of a heated election season, during which the firm, which is headed by Scott Levenson, worked for a host of campaigns, including the «Anybody But Quinn» effort on behalf of New Yorkers for Clean Livable And Safe Streets and other donors, which has been credited with helping to bring down former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the mayor's race.

With Anthony Weiner about to pop into the race for mayor, one of his Democratic rivals demanded yesterday that he pony up $ 350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated congressional seat two years ago.

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Long presented her with the award and praised her for «challenging the status quo of New York City politics by adhering to her conservative values throughout last year's mayor race.»

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The Democratic field for New York City mayor got a little more crowded Wednesday with the announcement that Anthony Weiner is entering the race, but his fellow candidates didn't seem too concerned.

Weiner, who previously ran for mayor in 2005, entered the race less than four months before the Democratic primary and with a $ 4.8 million campaign war chest.

With U.S. Rep Anthony Weiner out of the race, Councilman Tony Avella (l.) and city Comptroller Bill Thompson are the last two men standing in the Democratic primary race for mayor.

But, after careful consideration and consultation with my family, friends an advisers, I have decided the 2017 race for mayor of New York will not be it.»

He has endorsed both Republicans and Democrats in House and Senate races across the country this cycle, with an apolitical litmus test that depends on whether they fought for either his own city's interests or for the mayor's own pet causes, such as gun restrictions or education reform.

Last week, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced his office, working with the FBI, had brought charges against state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Hollis), City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) and Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vince Tabone, alleging they had orchestrated a plot to bribe Smith's way onto the GOP ticket in the race for mayor.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The race for Syracuse mayor is virtually tied with just two days until Syracuse voters go to the polls.

That set off a four - way race for mayor of a city that has seen a booming downtown but also persistent problems with crime and poverty in other neighborhoods.

De Blasio is holding sit - downs with several candidates vying to be the next City Council speaker this week, in a race where there is still no clear front - runner, and hopefuls for the position are striving to show their independence from the mayor.

«I'm hopeful there will be forgiveness, I am asking for it,» Mr. Spitzer told the Times in a telephone interview, echoing another unexpected candidate, Anthony Weiner, who has upended the mayors race with his unlikely jump into the fray two years after he was forced to resign from Congress after a sexting scandal.

The comptroller's race had been a sideshow compared to the main event of the New York City mayor's race, with Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer the only major candidate for the Democratic nomination.

Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis is planning to run for mayor of New York City, with at least the short - term goal of injecting a little bit of «excitement» into a mayoral race that she says sorely needs it.

«With six weeks to go, anything can happen, but it looks like former Congressman Anthony Weiner may have sexted himself right out of the race for New York City mayor,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

Dadey said he is still actively recruiting candidates for the mayor's race and has not had serious talks with anyone, including former Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, about running for the congressional seat.

The Republican field for the mayor's race has winnowed down to two major candidates — real estate executive Paul Massey and state Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis — and a few longshot contenders with a minimal presence on the campaign trail.

(CNN)- With just over six weeks until November's general election, a new poll indicates that Democrat Bill de Blasio has a commanding 43 percentage point lead over Republican Joe Lhota in the race for mayor of New York City.

But there's a big opening for mayor of New York City in 2013, and with the presumed departure of Anthony Weiner from the race, that opening just got... more... open.

(CNN)- With just over a week to go until Election Day, Democrat Bill DeBlasio maintains his overwhelming lead in the race for New York City mayor.

When Democratic Shawn Wooden withdrew from the Hartford mayor's race last June 30 and said that he would instead run for city council, he said that Malloy had urged him to put his «differences aside» with Democratic incumbent Mayor Pedro Segarra.

With his father in position to become the Democratic candidate for mayor as soon as tonight, Dante and his mixed - race family have become some of the most recognizable New Yorkers of the moment, and Gracie Mansion could be next.

Smith, if you'll recall, was caught trying to bribe anyone he could get a meeting with in hopes of securing the Republican Party line for last year's NYC mayor's race.

The race for Syracuse mayor is virtually tied with just two days until Syracuse voters go to the polls.

Also, will the WEA get the 50,000 votes necessary to become an official party for the next four years — potentially providing its chief champion, former NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, with a comeback vehicle after losing the NYC mayor's race to Bill de Blasio?

State Rep. Liz Linehan had been running for lieutenant governor, but she dropped out of the race, along with her running mate, Middletown mayor Dan Drew.

De Blasio's outreach effort Monday came amid a firestorm of criticism from police unions about the mayor's treatment of the NYPD, attacking him for calling the protesters «peaceful» and saying that he warned his son, Dante, who is mixed race, about the dangers of interacting with police.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In the mayor's race for almost two weeks, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis has raised few of the myriad issues that Staten Islanders deal with on a daily basis, but she plans to do so, she said, while trying to appeal to a broader citywide voter pool.

On VTDigger.org, Greg Guma takes a look at how people and groups ranging from outright independents to Vermont's independent, democratic socialist, close - with - the - Progressive - Party Senator Bernie Sanders to a former Green Party candidate are playing a role in the race for Burlington mayor.

Carrion was raising campaign cash for a potential run in 2009 for NYC mayor, but then dropped down to the comptroller's race to avoid a head - on collision with then - NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson.

Mike Morey, a Democratic consultant who worked for one of Mr. de Blasio's rivals in the 2013 mayoral race, said it was always ill - advised to pick a fight with Uber, and the liberal mayor should just look elsewhere.

Carrion, who took a pass on a run for mayor back in 2009, dropping down to the comptroller's race and then abandoning the city altogether for a job with the Obama administration, returned to the private sector last January.

A GOP political activist filed a complaint with the Campaign Finance Board accusing Bill de Blasio and key allies of illegally operating a super PAC that spent more than $ 1 million attacking Christine Quinn in the Democratic primary race for mayor, The Post has learned.

At a candidate forum last night in Coney Island we spoke briefly with Bill de Blasio for his perspective on the current state of the race for mayor.

As with the other groups, for the primaries the PBA avoided spending on the mayor's race and focused on the City Council.

The four - person race for Syracuse mayor enters its final days with two candidates in a dead heat — independent Ben Walsh and Democrat Juanita Perez Williams, according to a new Spectrum News / Syracuse.

While a Democratic primary in the race for mayor of Syracuse features a full field, Republicans in the city have yet to come up with a candidate.

As of now she's the only candidate in the race for Rochester mayor with an actual platform.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A lawyer for Mayor Bill de Blasio is firing back at the state Board of Elections for seeking a criminal probe in connection with a scathing report on the mayor's efforts to influence the 2014 Senate races.