Sentences with phrase «time as borough president»

Stringer, who is running for comptroller, has made reforming community boards a chief focus of his time as borough president.

And yet Gillibrand in a statement on Monday praised Stringer's time as borough president and earlier tenure as a state assemblyman.

Not exact matches

Guy Molinari, the former borough president and congressman, was knocked as a career pol when he ran unsuccessfully for district attorney, as was former - DA and now - Congressman Daniel Donovan, though he had served some time in the Manhattan DA's office before moving into the political world.

So his campaign released a television ad as rudimentary as any broadcast that political season, featuring a number of prominent politicians — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, West Side Congressman Jerry Nadler, Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer — carrying a folded copy of The New York Times, while reading from its endorsement of his candidacy.

Stringer's campaign released a letter to supporters from Gillibrand today praising the borough president's time in office and his tenure as a state lawmaker.

Fernando Ferrer, a former Bronx borough president, endorsed Ms. Alcantara, giving her the chance to criticize Mr. Lasher for an episode in 2001 when he worked as a campaign staffer for Mark Green, who at the time was running in the Democratic mayoral primary against Mr. Ferrer.

«The borough president decided it was time to part ways [ie, terminate Pinkney - Price as his deputy chief of staff in 2013],» one Bronx Democratic Party insider said.

Thomas started out as a special assistant for Comptroller Scott Stringer back when he was Manhattan borough president, then become legislative director for then - Councilmember Leroy Comrie, who was land - use chairman at that time.

And it looks like Team Spitzer does need to keep spending: While the latest numbers still have Spitzer beating Stringer by either four or twelve points (according to Quinnipiac University and Wall Street Journal / NBC Marist polls, respectively), the very recognizable former governor's lead sounds less impressive when you consider that, in the last three weeks, he has spent three times as much as the increasingly feisty but still somewhat unknown Manhattan borough president has spent on his entire campaign.

In 2005, when she gave up her seat on the City Council to run for Manhattan borough president, the New York Times editorial board praised her as «smart and driven and an expert on education issues,» but ultimately concluded «her style — often described by those who have worked with her as abrasive — would not be well suited to this office.»

The former borough president — one of Kelly's biggest boosters to get him to run for mayor in 2014 — said Kelly «indicated his plan is to serve out his time as police commissioner.

Ed Wallace, co-chair of law firm Greenberg Traurig's New York practice, said Stringer's time as Manhattan's borough president left a lasting impression on many in the industry.

He said that as borough president he dealt extensively with real estate issues, and had once been for a time a Mitchell - Lama affordable - housing activist.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the UFT at the time, described the hearings as «McCarthy - like,» and the union worked aggressively to sink her bid for Manhattan borough president in 2005.