Sentences with phrase «running for mayor before»

Ulrich, who seriously pursued running for mayor before opting to run for a third and final term on the City Council, has endorsed Bo Dietl for mayor and Dietl returned the favor appearing at Ulrich's fundraiser.

Nicoletti has made several unsuccessful attempts at running for mayor before, but he has insisted that just shows his commitment to Syracuse.

A March 2008 Quinnipiac poll even had black voters favoring Markowitz over Thompson, who, unlike Markowitz, eventually ran for mayor before losing to Bloomberg in 2009.

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I went and toured the place before I was even thinking of running [for mayor] and they now have two computers over there because the number of traffic signals have expanded dramatically.

During his time at City Hall, where he sat back to back with the mayor, he says, they discussed the company for a total of perhaps one hour before Mike asked him to run it.

Mayor Bill Smith had only run for elected office once before his win and Mayor Mandel served only one - term on Council before being elected as mayor in 2004.

Both Boris and Ken before him were big household names long before they ran for mayor.

Bloomberg, before becoming an Independent in 2007, ran as a Republican for New York City mayor.

She was honored as «Woman of the Year» at the Club's Lincoln Day Dinner in March, before any public mention of running for mayor.

«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.

At noon, Mike Tolkin, a Democrat running for NYC mayor on the independent «Smart Cities» ballot line, holds a press conference before he goes homeless for a week to bring awareness to the city's homelessness crisis, City Hall Park, Manhattan.

CHINATOWN — Embattled City Comptroller John Liu all but officially declared he will run for mayor Tuesday night — just weeks before federal fraud cases against his former campaign treasurer and a top fundraiser are set to head to trial.

The state contended that before running for mayor of North Tonawanda, the Army veteran who won a Bronze Star in Afghanistan participated in an illegal scheme to pad his taxpayer - funded salary.

In 2002, long before he ran for mayor, he changed his name (for a second time) from Warren de Blasio - Wilhelm to his mother's more voter - friendly maiden name.

De Blasio ran Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign in 2000, and then ran for City Council and public advocate, before emerging from a crowded field to win the Democratic primary for mayor in September.

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.

A Democrat before seeking elective office, Bloomberg switched his party registration in 2001 to run for mayor as a Republican.

Hawkins ran for mayor twice before, in 1997 and 2005, in addition to a run for city auditor in 2015 against former mayoral candidate, Marty Masterpole.

He ran for mayor of Syracuse twice before, losing both times to Miner.

«I said it before, I'll say it again, I was running for one thing, which was mayor of New York City,» he said.

Before Mr. Schneiderman's resignation, Ms. James's political future was squarely focused on running for mayor in 2021.

For the record, Auerbach, who ran a hardware store with his father in Ellenville before being elected village mayor, had no formal training in accounting before taking office in January 2009.

On transit, he said the next mayor must start a public conversation about how to improve the current funding scheme for the cash - strapped Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he ran for a little less than a year before stepping down to campaign for mayor.

She seemed determined to run for mayor again before bowing out and letting Jim Gordon take the lead role.

Sheehan says before deciding to run for mayor, she ran the idea by friends.

Mr. Stringer explored a campaign for mayor in 2012, before opting to run for comptroller instead.

In 2008, before she ran for mayor, party leaders approached Miner to run for Congress, she said.

How did Michael Allegretti, a failed one - time congressional candidate with zero experience in campaign management, grassroots organization, modern media or political consulting, land a cushy gig running Carrion's million dollar campaign for mayor — before anyone knew he was running?

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Juanita Perez Williams wants to know she has public support before deciding whether to run for mayor.

New York (CNN)- Anthony Weiner was running almost an hour late for his final campaign appearance of the weekend, two days before he faces all - but - certain political doom in Tuesday's Democratic primary for New York mayor.

Those donations were made in April, a few days before Grant announced she was running for mayor.

The weekend before the November election, Assemblyman Sam Roberts told about 80 people at the NAACP's life membership brunch that he plans to run for mayor in four years, according to guests in the audience.

Nicoletti has been a cog in city politics since the 1970s and run for mayor four times before.

In running for mayor, Vallas is seeking to return to the city government where he worked before being plucked to enter the world of education.

And he laughed and said that uh, many years before he had run for mayor of New York --

Pat McCrory worked for Duke Energy for 29 years and served as Charlotte's longest - running mayor before retiring in 2008 to run for Governor of North Carolina.