Sentences with phrase «running the city council»

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

When it comes to running the City Council, the mayor and the speaker disagree.

Is he hoping to end - run the City Council?

All these machines will need to shake the rust off if they hope to run the City Council after next year.

What does sexual preference have to do with running the City Council for private gain and blind ambition - nothing.

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After an unsuccessful run for Calgary's city council in 2011, he decided to embark on a far more unlikely venture — to help bring manufacturing back to Detroit.

Uber hosted a «jobs event» for prospective and current drivers to showcase how many New York residents» jobs would be cut if the vehicle cut were to take effect, and also ran TV ads, bought banner ads on websites, sent out direct mailers to constituents of City Council members who are proponents of the proposed legislation, and even reportedly tried to persuade the Rev. Al Sharpton to oppose the for - hire - vehicle cap.

His previously electoral experience includes running a generously self - financed campaign for St. Albert City Council at the age of 19 (he was unsuccessful in that bid).

Coral also ran for Calgary's City Council in the 2017 municipal election, nearly unseating an incumbent with a...

He ran for mayor, county supervisor, Congress and City Council.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

Actually, many of the public shelters are run by a church group or a council of churches on contract to the city.

«We are talking to the city council about how much money they spend on prison, schools, hospitals — places the city runs — and how much money it spends on food in those areas.

As well as hospitals and health centres, more than a hundred restaurants in Israel now offer a Meat Free Monday, including the Café Café chain, while lunches in council - run nurseries in the cities of Petah Tikva dn Modi'inl are now also meat - free.

Council - run ECS is by far the biggest school meal provider in the city, delivering over 18,000 meals daily.

City of Readers is a project run by Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Learning Partnership and the Reader Organisation.

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 CCity Council and Park District Board, park commissioners called on the city to give up running the city - owned Highland Park Country Ccity to give up running the city - owned Highland Park Country Ccity - owned Highland Park Country Club.

The Oakbrook Terrace City Council will begin discussions this week with the Oakbrook Terrace Park District about possible cost - cutting moves that could result in the transfer of some, if not all, of the functions of the city - run Butterfield Road youth cenCity Council will begin discussions this week with the Oakbrook Terrace Park District about possible cost - cutting moves that could result in the transfer of some, if not all, of the functions of the city - run Butterfield Road youth cencity - run Butterfield Road youth center.

Assuming the deal is approved by the City Council and the Park District board, Morgan Stanley's Investment Management Division will pay $ 563 million for the right to run the Grant Park North, Grant Park South, East Monroe Street and Millennium Park Garages for 99 years.

Allies of convicted felon and former state senator Hiram Monserrate, who is now running for the NYC Council, say they will file a lawsuit against NYC Board of Elections for moving polling sites from his stronghold in LeFrak City in Queens.

Last year Politics.co.uk followed the long - running legal battle between Manchester city council and rough sleepers who were camping out in the city centre.

Democratic Sen. Ruben Diaz on Tuesday announced he will run for the New York City Council, making him the latest in a string of Albany lawmakers looking for work that is closer to home and with better pay.

A Lackawana businessman is running for City Council even though he did five years in federal prison after he and two family members were convicted 11 years ago for illegally sending $ 5.5 million to Yemen.

In 2014, I ran for Austin City Council with the slogan «Flannigan Can Fix It» and now Jeb Bush is trying to steal my slogan!

Kellner lost his Democratic primary for city council last year and did not run for re-election to the state Assembly this year.

Democrat Robert Jackson, a former city Council member, continued to fundraise to run against IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

Concannon was thought to have been courted by the Bloomberg administration to run for City Council — part of the mayor's attack on the community safety act.

The leader of Liverpool City Council has said the multi-million pound regeneration plan for Liverpool's run down areas isfailing and has left communities like a «war zone».

Rochester City Council President Lovely Warren is seeking the Democratic nomination to run for Mayor, but her bid did not get off to a good start Wednesday night.

The IDC has pointed out, too, that its members are supportive of abortion rights while the mainline Democrats have at least one member staunchly opposed, Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx lawmaker running for city Council.

The latest state legislator who appears to be eyeing a run for the New York City Council is Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a Brooklyn Democrat and high - ranking member of his chamber.

When he ran for City Council, he misled them with a racially - charged mailer about his opponent.

Adam McFadden, a Democrat who currently serves as the vice president for the Rochester City Council, has announced his plans to run for the NY - 25 seat formerly occupied by the late Rep. Louise Slaughter.

Read a little bit into the federal investigation into how she ran slush funds in the city council.

«I read that he is against marriage equality and that he is against a woman's right to choose, and as a progressive Democrat that troubles me tremendously,» said Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to the governor, in response to a question in an interview on WCNY's The Capitol Pressroom, while also noting Williams unsuccessfully ran for City Council president.

Ydanis Rodriguez, Council District 10, Manhattan (Incumbent)-- Rodriguez, who has distinguished himself as the outspoken chair of the City Council's Committee on Transportation, is running for his third term.

In 2014, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party with help from former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul as he was running for reelection.

Brad was elected to the City Council in 2009, and reelected in 2013, running on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, to represent the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, and Kensington.

«I'm running for the City Council because I feel I'm the right candidate for right now in this district,» he said.

She is also considering a run for City Council speaker.

Lander was elected to the City Council in 2009, and reelected in 2013, running on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, to represent the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Columbia Waterfront, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, and Kensington.

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).

State Assemblymember Robert Rodriguez, a Democrat from East Harlem running for the City Council, has a second job at an asset management and financial consulting firm that has earned him hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last few years.

Three people have stepped forward to run for the remaining months of Arce's term, which ends in January: City Council Majority Leader Julio Concepcion; Jessica Inacio, Concepcion's former aide; and Bryan Nelson, a Hartford police detective.

This council operated in a similar vein under the «progressive partnership» the Conservative and Liberal democrat coalition that ran the city before Sir Albert Bore wrestled control of the authority from Mike Whitby and Paul Tilsley in 2012.

Her son, James Wu, has also taken a foray into politics, running unsuccessfully for the Flushing City Council seat in 2009.

The idea of community was a theme that ran strong through all of the speakers, which included several Rochester City Council members, local activists and Mayor Lovely Warren.

City Council candidate Mujib Rahman, a Democrat running on the Republican, Conservative and Independence lines, speaks to reporters in Jackson Heights.

Antonio Reynoso, Council District 34, Brooklyn / Queens (Incumbent)-- Reynoso, who's established himself as a leader in the City Council on matters of pedestrian and cyclist safety, is running for a second term.

City Council candidates Dan Halloran (l.) and Kevin Kim (r.) are running to replace Councilman Tony Avella.