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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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

According to a poll of PVV supporters in the city, Rotterdam's Muslim mayor is more popular than the prime minister.

Duggan, in office less than a year, is the fourth mayor since 2008 when Kwame Kilpatrick resigned in scandal.

He lost a presidential election in 2005 to hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the little - known mayor of Tehran at the time, a defeat that indicated resentment toward Rafsanjani as part of the elite and the perception he served few interests other than his own.

«In Austin, a city where people enjoy their libations, the mayor has resisted [Uber] more than almost any other city,» said Bill Gurley, an Uber investor and University of Texas alumnus, during a keynote interview.

«I've just seen cities everywhere and have found that mayors and city governments are far more focused on progress in their cities here in China than I've seen elsewhere, and it makes me incredibly optimistic.»

In a region where more than a 1,000 workers were recently laid - off from the coal mines, projects like this offer a much - needed economic boost that helps diversify the local economy and buffer, as the mayor of Tumbler Ridge said, the «devastating shocks» from the regular boom - bust cycle of the traditional resource sectors.

Everytown for Gun Safety, which was founded and financed by Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York mayor, proudly declared that it had doled out more than $ 1 million in grants to local organizers.

On each poll, participants indicated whether they approved or disapproved of the job performance of President Barack Obama, their state governor, senators, representative and their mayor, if they lived in a city with more than about 10,000 residents.

«We often comment that the theater managers in smaller towns where we operate often know the families in the city better than the mayor.

In 1963 he moved to Denver, where he announced, «I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.&raquIn 1963 he moved to Denver, where he announced, «I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.&raquin Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.»

«There will be more [illegal] bets taken in NewYork City on the All - Star Game,» says Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman, «than all the race and sports books in Nevada combined would be able totake.»

They are located in areas with a higher than average crime rate, said David Sinski, senior program director of After School Matters, a non-profit headed by the mayor's wife, Maggie Daley, and one of the partner groups in NeighborSports.

Mathias, the Republican mayor of Buffalo Grove, attracted more attention than most officials over the past few months, mainly because he wouldn't tell anyone whether he planned to seek re-election to his village post in 1999.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday shrugged off the call from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for an even either minimum wage increase than what is proposed in the state budget, saying it's up to the state Legislature to vote on the issue, not the mayor.

The mayor joined more than three dozen fellow billionaires in joining a campaign launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to covince the very rich to give away most of their cash.

In the weeks following his better - than - expected showing against Mayor Bloomberg last fall, the ex-comptroller announced his intention to run for mayor again in 201In the weeks following his better - than - expected showing against Mayor Bloomberg last fall, the ex-comptroller announced his intention to run for mayor again in 201in 2013.

The former mayor has weighed in — albeit a bit later than some would have liked — on the Park51 project, suggesting it would be insensitive for the backers to build it so close to Ground Zero.

The fact that politics in New York is largely dominated by Democrats these days, more so than it has been in 20 years when you had Republican governors and mayors, does not mean all is well.

In a system where the mayor has to win more than 50 % of combined first and second preferences, this recognition was a major factor in their victorieIn a system where the mayor has to win more than 50 % of combined first and second preferences, this recognition was a major factor in their victoriein their victories.

The mayor unveiled his proposed $ 84.86 billion executive budget — a plan that comes in the shadow of threatened cuts by the Trump administration and is about 3 percent higher than the $ 82.2 billion comparable budget he put out exactly a year ago.

But sources say the strongest potential candidate is the one guy who has ruled it out publicly, and that is Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a former assemblyman who told Errol Louis during an «Inside City Hall» interview on Aug. 5th: «I've got no interest in running for mayor or holding any other job other than the one I have now.»

He wrote: «Dig around in the figures and what becomes swiftly apparent is that if you look at trade deals in terms of the size of the economies they're signed with (rather than just counting them, as the EU seem to prefer) Europe's numbers stop looking quite so rosy,» Sunak stated in his first mayor intervention in the debate.

Nevertheless, it has a been a campaign of surprises, and it remains to be seen what else will surface in this bizarre local race that has become much more interesting than even the mayor's race in New York City, which is putting everyone to sleep.

Malliotakis, who has said she would work better with Cuomo than de Blasio does, turned to the mayor early in the debate: «Are you afraid of Gov. Cuomo?»

The City Council had already passed a bill consistent with what the mayor wanted, but gave some city workers benefits that were less than their counterparts in neighboring suburban departments.

One of the men, Jona Rechnitz, bundled more than $ 40,000 in donations for de Blasio when Peters was the future mayor's campaign treasurer.

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).

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Rather than the stronger executive powers and assembly scrutiny model that is used in London, most of the deals have agreed that the new metro mayors have to consult the combined authority cabinet on their strategies.

As mayors prepared to make their case, the state School Boards Association released a survey that found work force costs in schools outside the state's major cities are on track to grow an average of more than $ 1 billion annually by the 2013 - 14 school year; revenues under a tax cap, however, would grow only $ 229 million per year through 2013 - 14, on average.

In the mayor's race, Brown's $ 1.17 million was $ 335,000 less than his campaign spent in 2013 when he was challenged in the Democratic primary by Tolbert and then by Republican Sergio Rodriguez in the general electioIn the mayor's race, Brown's $ 1.17 million was $ 335,000 less than his campaign spent in 2013 when he was challenged in the Democratic primary by Tolbert and then by Republican Sergio Rodriguez in the general electioin 2013 when he was challenged in the Democratic primary by Tolbert and then by Republican Sergio Rodriguez in the general electioin the Democratic primary by Tolbert and then by Republican Sergio Rodriguez in the general electioin the general election.

They were joined by more than a dozen Democratic City Council members on the steps of City Hall in railing against the mayor's support for what amounts to a promotion of Cassano, 28, the son of former Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano.

A win is a win, and Byron Brown certainly did that Tuesday, capturing a little more than half the vote in a three - way Democratic primary for mayor.

The mayor, who returned to office in 2015 after a seven - year stint in prison on corruption charges, has raised more than $ 600,000 for his gubernatorial effort.

Rodriguez, a 32 - year old Marine veteran, quit his job as coordinator of Veterans and Military Affairs at Medaille College to launch what some consider a quixotic run for mayor in November because Democratic voters outnumber Republicans in the city by more than seven to one.

-- MOUNT VERNON MAYOR ARRESTED — Journal News» Jonathan Bandler and Jorge Fitz - Gibbons: «Mayor Richard Thomas was arrested Monday, accused of stealing more than $ 12,000 from his political campaign and diverting more than $ 45,000 from his inaugural committee in what the state Attorney General's Office called a wide - ranging scheme to use those funds as his «personal piggybanks.»

More than half of adults in the Sheffield City Region (56 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leaders, while a quarter (24 per cent) disagree.

Three in five of those living in Greater Manchester (59 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leader.

If that name doesn't ring a bell... it's the firm established by Mayor Bloomberg's former campaign manager, Bradley Tusk, in the wake of the mayor's successful (albeit closer - than - expected) election to a third term last fall.

The expectation was that the larger candidate (president is larger than Senator than Representative than state senator than state representative; other positions like governor, mayor, county commissioner, school director, and municipal commissioner fit differently depending on circumstances) would appear in support of the smaller candidate.

It was a little closer than polls predicted, but by the end of the night, incumbent Byron Brown, unofficially, had come away with a decisive 15 point victory in the Democratic primary for Buffalo mayor.

«New York City voters believe they can do better than their current mayor, and Eric is a Republican who can actually win in New York City.»

The mayor himself spoke for less than 10 minutes, and though his speech didn't include much in the way of actual policy — he wanted to keep it short for the benefit of those assembled in the cold — he did repeat his promise about making New York «the fairest big city in America.»

It «puts me in a better position to run for mayor than just being in the senate,» Smith told Stern.