Sentences with phrase «running for public advocate»

She is running for Public Advocate on a progressive platform of leveling the playing field for women and creating better opportunities for all New Yorkers.

JC Polanco, a Republican running for Public Advocate, joined Max & Murphy to discuss his candidacy, explaining a variety of policy proposals and his overall mission to reform the position itself to give it more power, funding, and teeth.

Since then, he's mulled running for public advocate and has been gabbed about in political circles as someone who could one day be the city's first Hispanic mayor.

In 2009, Bill de Blasio and Mark Green, both Democrats running for public advocate, were asked to name the most interesting New Yorker they knew.

When running for public advocate, he campaigned to preserve and strengthen state laws that protect rent - stabilized tenants from evictions and rent increases.

They were separated from another hopeful, Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, by a seat occupied by State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, who is running for public advocate.

«I'm running for public advocate.

As long as they keep talking about me, then I'm a winner... Thank you for your vote of confidence, I'm running for public advocate.»

Cathy Guerriero is a first - time candidate who says she's been thinking about running for Public Advocate for 20 years, essentially since the office was created.

After the debate, we asked her several questions, including: how she viewed her debate performance, what she expects the remaining three weeks of the campaign to focus on, for a more detailed discussion of her unexpected answer that she doesn't see herself as prepared to be mayor and for more about her statement that she's thought about running for Public Advocate for the past 20 years.

State Senator Daniel Squadron, now running for Public Advocate, has doggedly advocated on behalf of a little - known cause in each of his three terms.

Cathy Guerriero was a first - time candidate running for Public Advocate, and as with most first - time candidates, jump - starting her fundraising was difficult.

Both State Senator Eric Adams and City Councilman Charles Barron have expressed interest in a run, although Adams is said to be considering a run for Public Advocate, and Barron has expressed interest in running for a number of different city, state and federal offices.

Stringer ran for public advocate in 2001.

Polanco donated $ 50 to Malliotakis» mayoral campaign and is exploring a run for public advocate himself.

Late Wednesday, a spokesperson for Diaz insisted he will not run for public advocate.

Tonight's vote is poof that Polanco is making serious moves to pin down support as he puts together a run for Public Advocate.

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.»

During Mr. de Blasio's run for public advocate four years ago, Ms. McCray sat in on focus groups in which minority voters talked about the strong appeal of the family's racial diversity — images of which Mr. de Blasio featured prominently in campaign brochures and mailers.

One of those Brooklyn neighborhoods is in the district of Letitia James, a city councilwoman who is exploring a run for public advocate next year.

«I had been asked by many people over the course of years to consider running, and when Public Advocate Letitia James decided that she was going to run for Public Advocate, she encouraged me to do it.»

«I have never been as well known as some of the people I've run against, whether that's when I first ran for City Council, when I ran for public advocate or today,» de Blasio said in Brooklyn.

Five Democrats are vying for the party's nomination to replace de Blasio, who is vacating his seat to run for public advocate.

Not exact matches

Reshma Saujani is a former hedge fund lawyer, New York City deputy public advocate and the first Indian - American woman to run for Congress (she lost a primary race in 2010).

Several labor groups, including CWA and 32BJ SEIU, left the WFP ahead of its vote on Saturday to back Nixon, an actress and public education advocate, over Cuomo, a two - term incumbent running for re-election.

NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is helping Sen. Eric Schneiderman raise campaign cash for his AG run.

UPDATE: Another reaction to Spitzer's news — and reiteration of support for Stringer — was sent out by Sen. Daniel Squadron, a Brooklyn Democrat who is running in a primary for the public advocate post that de Blasio is vacating.

Also at 2 p.m., women leaders and activists will gather at City Hall to condemn Cuomo's «bullying of elected officials and community organizations» in response to his reported effort to get NYC Public Advocate Tish James not to accept the WFP endorsement to run for AG, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Now that she has taken herself out of the running to be considered as an interim replacement for Schneiderman, NYC Public Advocate Tish James is seen as a front - runner heading into the May 23 - 24 state Democratic nominating convention that will choose candidates to appear on the ballot for a full four - year term.

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.

He's also giving to Democrats, including $ 1,000 to NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who's likely to run for NYC mayor in 2013; $ 1,000 to NYC Councilman Mark Weprin; and $ 500 to his local DA, Kathleen Rice.

And yet, by the time he threw himself into the crowded field of candidates running for mayor of New York in 2013, he had spent more than a decade honing his political skills, serving two terms on the City Council and one as public advocate, and he managed to outmaneuver higher - profile opponents like Christine Quinn, the New York City Council speaker (and Mayor Bloomberg's all - but - anointed successor).

In most races, incumbents, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, Public Advocate Letitia James and all five borough presidents, are running for re-election.

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.

Those variable aside, a range of names have surfaced within the last 12 hours of potential candidates who could run for attorney general, including former New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick, Sens. Michael Gianaris and Todd Kaminsky, New York City Public Advocate Tish James, Cuomo counsel Alphonso David, ex-Financial Services Superintendent Ben Lawsky, former gubernatorial and congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

The charismatic Rev. Michel Faulkner of Harlem, a former NFL player, has scrapped his own mayoral bid to run for controller, and Republican circles are buzzing about the possibility of J.C. Polanco, a Dominican - American attorney from the Bronx, launching a bid for public advocate.

Letitia «Tish» James, the public advocate for the city of New York, has told people in recent days that she intends to run for New York City mayor in 2021, according to two sources familiar with the communication.

Public Advocate Letitia James has filed papers with the state Board of Elections declaring her intention to run for attorney general in the fall.

Outside of the Legislature, former gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout may consider running for the post, as could New York City Public Advocate Tish James.

We were there to speak through the press to New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, calling publicly on her to run for New York State Attorney General.

This is a particularly interesting development because it differentiates Liu from NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, against whom the comptroller might be running for mayor in 2013.

Though he has since tempered his rhetoric, Mr. de Blasio was often hostile toward charter school expansion and Ms. Moskowitz when he served as public advocate and ran for mayor.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, another Democrat running for mayor who already called on Weiner to drop out, predicted there would be more sordid revelations.

James, the public advocate, has made moves toward a run for New York City mayor in 2021, but her name has also been floated as an attorney general candidate.

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.

In 2013 he was the Green Party candidate for New York City Public Advocate and in 2015 he ran for Congress against the Republican candidate Dan Donovan who was the District Attorney that failed to indict anyone in the killing of Eric Garner.

Billionaire Republican Ken Langone told CNBC that it would be «wonderful» if Bharara ran for either office, while New York's liberal public advocate Tish James was even less circumspect: «Run, Preet, Run» she tweeted after he announced he had been fired.

Ferrer and Lasher, who announced his run in April, sparred in 2001, when Lasher was part of the campaign team for Public Advocate Mark Green, who ran against Ferrer for the Democratic nomination for mayor.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

Attendees at Weprin's birthday party included Public Advocate Letitia James, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli (who spoke about Weprin's expertise on financial matters), Rep. Joe Crowley, chairman of the Queens County Democratic Organization, and Queens borough president Melinda Katz, who served with Weprin in the Council before running in a crowded primary against him for City Comptroller in 2009.