Sentences with phrase «ran the council up»

She said there had been no discussions with the Lib Dems, who ran the council up until 2014, with whom she remains «diametrically opposed».

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One of Facebook's prominent advertisers, Swiss food and drink company Nestle SA, is already on board, Everson said, and the council should be up and running by early 2017.

The Christian Council of Korea's decision to put up a Christmas tree near the border with the North is an «intolerable insult», North Korea's state - run media has said.

Highland Park — At an unusual joint meeting this week of the City Council and Park District Board, park commissioners called on the city to give up running the city - owned Highland Park Country Club.

Now comes word — confirmed by multiple GOP sources — that the Republicans are interested in finding a woman to run, perhaps thinking that's their best bet to go up against the Democratic frontrunner, NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

The Tooting MP tells me that in 2013, in the run - up to the European and councils elections, Labour spoke to a million people in London.

The Labour - run council applied for the injunction after a small camp of around ten tents sprung up in a local park back in April.

They will be doing so during the run - up to May's country council and other elections, many of which will take place in the Tory shire heartlands.

A spokesman for the Republican Conference, Scott Reif, dismissed Fife's explanation, telling POLITICO New York, «If Senator Perkins wants to run for the City Council and fail to show up in Albany to do the work he was elected to do, that's between him and his constituents.»

Bryan Block (clockwise from top l.), Manny Caughman, Joan Flowers, Joseph Marthone, I. Daneek Miller and Sondra Peeden are lining up to run for City Council in southeast Queens.

MANHATTAN — Now that Dan Garodnick has officially declared his plans to run for city comptroller, challengers are lining up to vie for his City Council seat.

While the councilman has not yet officially declared his candidacy for any position, sources close to him said he's eyeing a run for comptroller if Liu leaves the post, setting up a potential challenge with fellow Councilman Domenic Recchia Jr., who currently heads the Council's powerful Finance Committee.

(He was gearing up for a New York City Council run in 2013).

In the run - up to the Scottish parliamentary elections due to be held in 2016, The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) is calling on Scotland's political parties to prioritise the four tax principles of Adam Smith: equality, certainty, convenience and economy, in their design of a new council tax system.

And as you may have it, the stakeholders approved it and the three senatorial districts of the state gave consent to the endorsement for him to go and constitute caretaker committees that will run the affairs of the Local Government councils in the state pending when the elections will be conducted, and that prompted the decision to set up the caretaker committees.

It will, however, be the first time since the early 1970s that the Assembly chamber will be Weprin-less, since David Weprin replaced his brother, Mark, (the sibilings switched seats, with the later taking the former's NYC Council slot after he gave it up to run a failed bid for NYC comptroller in 2009).

The Democrat ratcheted up long - running conflicts with Mayor Bill de Blasio, the National Rifle Association, the federal government and upstate GOP Rep. John Faso — and initiated a bizarre new dispute with City Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

Other speakers included Michel Faulkner, a former mayoral candidate now running for comptroller, Harry Wilson, a past New York State comptroller candidate who is gearing up to run for governor, and Council Member Eric Ulrich.

«Council Speaker Christine Quinn is edging up toward that magic 40 percent that would make her the Democratic nominee without a primary run - off,» said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Metrocard dust up between candidates In an email to supporters and reporters, Elvin Garcia, a Democrat running for City Council in District 18, accused rival Sen. Rev. Rubén Díaz of being AWOL on the deteriorating subway service experienced by Bronx commuters.

Brown, a ward activist for years before stepping up to run for Common Council, worries that Shaut lacks the experience to be an effective representative.

The Coming Council Seth Barron In considering the run - up to the 2018 Speaker election, we have to remember that the next council will have a different composition from the current one... though not bCouncil Seth Barron In considering the run - up to the 2018 Speaker election, we have to remember that the next council will have a different composition from the current one... though not bcouncil will have a different composition from the current one... though not by much.

The Constitutional Research Council's chairman set up a business in 2013 with the former head of Saudi intelligence and a Danish «private banker» who has previously admitted to openDemocracy that he was involved in the Purulia Arms drop, which was a major Indian gun - running plot in 1995.

The state campaign account has received thousands in cash from real estate companies right up until this past January, when Greenfield decided to forgo a shot at the state level and run for re-election to Council instead.

Following his arrest for charges of bribery, District 19 Council Member Dan Halloran decided not to run for re-election, and opened the field up to a number of well - connected contenders hoping to take his seat.

In considering the run - up to the 2018 Speaker election, we have to remember that the next council will have a different composition from the current one... though not by much.

Prominent Staten Island Republicans, including Borough President James Oddo, Assemblyman Joseph Borelli and Council members Vincent Ignizio and Steven Matteo, all lined up behind Donovan's candidacy, even though others are considering a run, too.

A large crowd turned out in Chinatown last night to size up the four candidates running against incumbent City Council member Alan Gerson.

While not close to the 65 Queens candidates who ran for Council when the entire delegation was term limited, we see real races shaping up in a handful of seats where no incumbent is standing for election and one challenge to an incumbent that is certainly worth focus and ink.

According to the British Election Study at Essex University, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, had the 2010 election been run on AV, the results would have been — Tories — 283 (down 22) Labour — 248 (down 10) Lib Dems — 89 (up 32)

These are the «open» seats, as are those in three other races: District 21 Council Member Julissa Ferreras - Copeland announced she would not be running for reelection, opening up her seat for a competitive battle; in District 44, Council Member David Greenfield made a relatively late announcement that he will not seek reelection, but he is expected to be replaced by his chosen successor and close ally Kalman Yeger; and in District 28, Ruben Wills was recently removed from office when he was convicted on federal public corruption charges — there is a crowded competition to replace him.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's running mate this fall, former Buffalo - area Rep. Kathy Hochul, says the governor's initiatives, including Start - Up NY and the establishment of ten regional economic development councils, have helped spur additional growth in all areas, particularly upstate.

A majority of the City Council is behind the bill, but Ms. Quinn remained neutral on a delicate issue as she gears up for a 2013 mayoral run.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of Manhattan is investigating a former Public Employees Federation council leader who was accused of using a union debit card to run up thousands of dollars in questionable purchases at stores and restaurants.

Mayor de Blasio's ties to the Brooklyn Democratic boss he teamed up with to anoint the next City Council speaker run all the way to Hizzoner's doorstep, The Post has...

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

CITY HALL — During her eight - year reign as City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn has been accused of running the group with an iron fist — doling out cash to supporters while stripping the same from dissenters, and holding back broadly popular bills from coming up for a vote.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said if the Syracuse Common Council cooperates, the city could have the bureau up and running this year.

In 2005, when she gave up her seat on the City Council to run for Manhattan borough president, the New York Times editorial board praised her as «smart and driven and an expert on education issues,» but ultimately concluded «her style — often described by those who have worked with her as abrasive — would not be well suited to this office.»

Mark - Viverito had the support of the vast majority of elected officials, including three of the six out gay members of the Council: Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, despite the fact that it is a direct subsidy to schools mostly run by anti-gay religious groups that made up the bulk of those lobbying for it.

The lifelong Queens resident, who has served in the city council since 2010, won re-election last November but will not be able to run again when his term is up in 2021 due to term limits.

Lopez can pay up using his campaign funds, though, so while the fine won't hurt his personal finances, it should at least make it harder for him to run for City Council, as he's threatened.

A fired - up Christine Quinn returned to City Hall eight months after leaving office as City Council speaker to campaign for Governor Andrew Cuomo's running mate, Kathy Hochul, and tout the emergence of a third - party dedicated to women's issues.

With Democratic endorsed council incumbents Fred Costello and Leeanne Thornton's terms up in two years, Tucker may have to patiently wait to run against them.

Lappin, who grew up in the city and currently chairs the council's Aging Committee, had previously suggested she might run for public advocate, but she made her intentions clear in a January email to supporters announcing she had raised more than $ 600,000 for a run «for borough - wide office in Manhattan.»

According to the Texas Legislative Council, Republican candidates running for statewide office in 2004 won an average of 53 percent of the vote in that areas that make up what is now the 23rd District, while Democrats took 47 percent.

After receiving an award for his decades of dedication to the Business Council, Roger Hannay, who runs a reel - manufacturing company in rural Albany County, drew a peel of chortles when he noted, «Most of us probably have no access to the tax benefits of Start - UP NY?

Carrion ended up not running for comptroller, opting instead to become director of the newly created White House Office of Urban Affairs with the White House Domestic Policy Council.

FYI, during Mr. Koo's run for City Council in 2009, Dennis Gallagher worked on his campaign setting up stanchions that were emblazoned with «property of Mike Riccatto» in downtown Flushing.