Sentences with phrase «than the mayor»

For example, a top manager in a large corporation can earn significantly more than the mayor of a small town.
A second union official said it's more likely the governor will see a challenge from the left in 2018 than the mayor in 2017.
There are no two people better equipped to work through tough issues than the mayor and myself.
More likely than mayor, but a borough president?
The governor has more carrots and sticks than the mayor.
And it expects nearly $ 800 billion more than the mayor's office anticipated in fiscal year 2012.
The NYT determines there is «near - universal agreement,» that though de Blasio is «on more of a glide path to re-election in New York City than any mayor in a generation, he is still struggling to project his political voice in a job that has long produced towering national figures.»
The Times dissects the buzz that has elected officials, including Latino politicians in the Bronx, encouraging Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion to run for comptroller rather than mayor.
«We often comment that the theater managers in smaller towns where we operate often know the families in the city better than the mayor.
But the Procurement Policy Board, an obscure agency if ever there was one, has decreed that the competitive bidding rules «shall not apply to contract awards made from line item appropriations and / or discretionary funds to community - based not - for - profit organizations or other public service organizations identified by elected city officials other than the mayor and the controller.»
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said the community boards may have more power than the mayor thinks.
At the time, Baruch's Doug Muzzio posed this question: should members of the City Council serve longer than the mayor?
Cuomo delivered a shot at City Hall, claiming he and state lawmakers have done more to aid New York City schools than the mayor and the City Council.
StreetsPAC's Endorsement Announcement: No one has greater influence over the safety and design of New York City's streets than its mayor.
Real estate executive Paul Massey, who hopes to mount a Republican challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio in this year's election, announced Monday his campaign has raised $ 555,786 in the most recent filing period, slightly less than the mayor's $ 669,174 during that same time.
The governor remains more popular than the mayor in New York City according to some surveys, and while the city has nearly half of the state's population, it's actually not a crucial component of his electoral base.
The Council expects the city to bring in more tax revenue than the mayor estimates and projects lower costs for other city programs, saying the budget will still have a $ 258 million surplus even with its additions.
Bill de Blasio's fundraising may be all over the news, but another New York City politician has quietly raised more cash than the mayor in the 2017 campaign cycle: Scott Stringer.
In 1963 he moved to Denver, where he announced, «I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.»
The city is a creature of the state, meaning that Albany has far more power over the city than mayors often like to acknowledge.
He also suggested that there was a better way than the mayor's much - criticized approach to rezoning.
The media - savvy police commissioner about town was at the top of this last year and with good reason: Mr. Bratton is many ways a better politician than the mayor who hired him.
Mr. Cuomo has historically been a more moderate Democrat than the mayor, especially on fiscal issues, but he's raised the minimum wage in the past and over the last year he has heavily leaned into the $ 15 movement, a major priority of the progressive wing of the Democratic party that he has locally named for his late father, Gov. Mario Cuomo.
Meanwhile, during a radio interview Monday, de Blasio's police commissioner Bill Bratton evinced more familiarity with the beloved franchise than the mayor did.
«The council speaker will be from a different borough than the mayor and of a different ethnic background,» Sherrill said.
«The NYPD is much more powerful politically than the mayor will ever be and I think that their pull will create some space between him and them in the sense that they may want even more resources or they may come to another position that's even more terrible than his,» Trujillo continued.
MANHATTAN — More New Yorkers trust the teachers» union than the mayor when it comes to education, according to a poll released Wednesday.
Civil rights groups, including the Legal Aid Society and tghe New York Civil Liberties Union, have criticized de Blasio, a Democrat, for interpreting the state's decades - old police - officer - secrecy law, known as 50 - a of the Civil Rights Law, more strictly than any mayor in history.
The final budget is $ 100 million lower than the mayor's executive budget (but almost the exact amount of the preliminary budget proposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in January).
Engquist then asked me to contact the City Council — no less proud than the mayor of its progressive credentials — to see whether it pays the young people who join its staff for a few months each year.
Faced with the labor talks, the administration tried to portray a tight fiscal situation - even as outside watchers said the city has more money than the mayor is letting on.
The Independent Budget Office projects $ 300 million more in revenue this year and $ 1 billion more next year than the mayor has projected, according to its testimony Wednesday.
Aldermen, who have even less authority than the mayor over the water board — he appoints its members — do vote on departmental bond issues.
He said it regretfully; even though Bloomberg has long played politics far more than the mayor admits, the balance was shifting.
There are also a few top elected officials with a lower approval rating than the mayor: Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, whom the poll found only 29 percent of New Yorkers support (and 23 percent oppose), a new low for her as well.
«There's no more authentic audience than the mayor,» Wettrick says, «when it comes to getting things done.»
It is clear that the union had more public support than the mayor anticipated, probably because parents want, more than anything, a predictable place for their children to go when they leave for work in the morning.
Virtually all of the city's top Democrats (Cuomo, AG Schneiderman, Public Advocate Tish James, Comptroller Scott Stringer, etc.) were at Espaillat's event other than the mayor.
She praised the 90 - day review underway of the city's homeless services, being led by Human Resources Commissioner Steven Banks — the former head of Legal Aid Society who she said she's known even longer than the mayor — and said she'd offer her own input.
The battle between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio rages on, with the governor delivering a shot at City Hall by claiming he and state lawmakers have done more to aid Big Apple schools than the mayor and the NYC Council.
No one has greater influence over the safety and design of New York City's streets than its mayor.
There are no two people better equipped to work through tough issues than the mayor and myself, and that's what you'll see,» Cuomo added.
Even before the ad was released, Kaminsky spokesman Evan Thies was telling the Daily News that Kaminsky's ideology is closer to the more moderate Gov. Cuomo, who also happens to be more popular than the mayor in Nassau County.
IBO says that the current fiscal year will end with a $ 2 billion surplus, $ 244 million more than the mayor estimates.
Bill de Blasio's fundraising may be all over the news, but another New York City politician has quietly raised more cash than the mayor...
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