State Senate Republicans, who have been at
war with de Blasio, plan this week to unveil a resolution outlining their budget priorities that does not include a provision for an extension of the NYC mayoral control law that expires in June.
Several senior Democrats said they believe that Cuomo, who has been
warring with de Blasio for more than two years, has only about three more months before it's too late to find a candidate with a real chance of defeating de Blasio, who polls show has lost the confidence of a majority of voters.
It also hasn't helped that the Senate GOP is also
warring with de Blasio, leaving the Assembly as the mayor's only true ally in Albany — even though many Democratic lawmakers have their own problems with the mayor.
While the Senate Republicans, who have been
warring with de Blasio, have sought to link mayoral control to pro-charter school initiatives and other issues, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie insists he will not wheel - and - deal on the issue.
The bill by the Senate GOP, which has been
warring with de Blasio, would create a new position of New York City education inspector that would be appointed not by the mayor, but the governor, with consent from the Senate.
The kicker came in the form of a nod to Uber, the taxi app that has
warred with de Blasio, to explain how Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Cuomo and even Santa were getting around.
Not exact matches
He engaged in a notorious
war of words
with the government of President Cristina Fernandez
de Kirchner, which supported the measure.
But when the Berrigan brothers made opposition to the Vietnam
war a cause célèbre for the Catholic left, Wills began a journey that started
with Bare Ruined Choirs (a book praising the Berrigans) and concluded
with his appointment as the
de facto lone Catholic voice on the secular - liberal New York Review of Books, where his articles jostle those by atheist Darwinians and defenders of Roe v. Wade.
«What's Up,» the El Paso entertainment blog, commented: «The drug
war in Mexico has taken 800 lives so far this year (2010) along
with another casualty: the Avenida
de Juarez.
Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino last night accused NYC Mayor Bill
de Blasio of making an already bad situation «worse»
with his «rhetoric» in an ongoing
war of words
with the NYC police unions following the Eric Garner grand jury decision.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's failure to choose a new state Democratic chairman has undermined party unity, allowed his
war with Mayor Bill
de Blasio to worsen and left New York without a top cheerleader for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, party activists have told The Post.
-- Political columnist Errol Louis reviews Sheldon Silver's «other offenses» — Advocates want changes in the city's proposed e-bike rules; «In case it isn't obvious by now: Mayor
de Blasio should have talked
with delivery workers about electric bikes rather than declaring
war on them.»
Tomorrow, dozens of Labour MPs are likely to vote in favour of Britain's involvement in one of the most complex, volatile and risky
wars in recent decades and they will do so
with Corbyn's
de facto blessing.
By the time of Uber's meeting
with Cuomo, the company's
war machine had already cranked into gear, currying the support of the Rev. Al Sharpton and mounting an ad campaign opposing City Council support for the
de Blasio - backed legislation.
New York City Mayor Bill
de Blasio, armed
with a $ 4.9 million campaign
war chest and a double - digit polling lead over his nearest Democratic primary rival, is expected to cruise to victory on Tuesday, but not without a fight from four long - shot candidates.
Besides his highly publicized tug - of -
war with Mayor Bill
de Blasio, Cuomo has also spatted
with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and
with numerous other state legislators from his own party.
Mr.
de Blasio is locked in a bitter
war with Uber over a pair of City Council bills aimed at curtailing the growth of e-hail companies.
New York Mayor Bill
de Blasio is getting ready to ramp up fundraising for his re-election campaign, trying to signal would - be challengers that he is a strong incumbent
with a big
war chest.
Hilltop's Rebecca Katz and Bill Hyers, who have both worked for
de Blasio, who has been at
war with Cuomo, have been serving as key advisers to Nixon from the time she began seriously exploring a run.
Prominent state Democrats are accusing Gov. Andrew Cuomo of directly contradicting Hillary Clinton's message of party unity by bringing his escalating
war with Mayor Bill
de Blasio to the Democratic...
Mayor
de Blasio, who has been
warring with Cuomo, also opposes the measure, while John Banks, head of the powerful Real Estate Board of New York, was in Albany last week lobbying against it.
After an opening statement on his own family's experience in dealing
with his father's physical and emotional wounds from World
War II combat and the broader shortfalls in government aid for veterans,
de Blasio answered questions.
Mayor
de Blasio has found an ally in Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner for his
war with Gov. Cuomo over education funds.
Faso — who has been
warring with Gov. Cuomo over healthcare — says the first step toward solving the transit problems is for the governor to stop pointing fingers at Mayor
de Blasio and accept responsibility for control over the MTA.
Cuomo, of course, has some counter examples of what happens when a Democratic politician who needs to govern — Bill
de Blasio and Eliot Spitzer chief among them — try to go to
war with Senate Republicans.
NYC Mayor Bill
de Blasio is getting ready to ramp up fundraising for his 2017 re-election campaign, trying to signal would - be challengers that he is a strong incumbent
with a big
war chest.
The government struck back as
de Blasio vowed to take action against a city worker who equated Albany
with «Star
Wars» evil Empire on an official Web site.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's failure to choose a new state Democratic chairman has undermined party unity, allowed his
war with Mayor Bill
de Blasio to worsen and left New York without...
During the bill signing ceremony,
de Blasio invoked the memory of his father Warren Wilhem, a World
War II veteran who lost a leg in Okinawa and came home
with mental health issues.
A liberal Democrat like Mr.
de Blasio, the public advocate - turned - mayor, Ms. James has not
warred with City Hall like her predecessors, who were Democrats charged
with serving as ombudsmen in the shadows of two imposing Republican mayors.
The metaphors were clear and painful for Mayor Bill
de Blasio's first budget
war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a master of Albany's byzantine backrooms — Mr. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, had schooled the upstart Mr.
de Blasio this year, securing new and unprecedented protections for charter schools, denying Mr.
de Blasio a tax hike to fund his universal prekindergarten expansion and swatting away a demand for a municipal minimum wage increase barely after the words had left the mayor's mouth at his maiden State of the City address.
The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members,
with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas
de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam
War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.
NEW YORK CITY — Mayor Bill
de Blasio's approval rating has held steady even after a bruising
war of words
with the city's police unions — bolstered by overwhelming support from black and Latino voters as well as successes on key policy issues, according to a new poll and experts.
Also Tuesday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton took a shot at Lynch over the
war of words
with de Blasio, which Bratton called «unfortunate» and «inappropriate.»
Mayoral hopeful Bill
de Blasio's estranged father, a World
War II hero whose life careened out of control because of alcohol, took his own life after being diagnosed
with terminal cancer, public records reveal.
So far, few influential Democrats have publicly backed
de Blasio in his
war with Cuomo, although the mayor has received what a source close to him called «strong words of support» from other prominent figures in his party.
ALBANY — In his ongoing
war with Mayor
de Blasio, the head of the city police union is seeking help from another of the mayor's foes — Gov. Cuomo.
A high stakes tug - of -
war took place between
de Blasio, who was eager to tout his contract deal
with the UFT, and NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer, who found basic accounting problems
with the agreement.
Mr. Stringer joined another prominent Manhattan Democrat, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, in opposing Mr.
de Blasio in his increasingly high profile
war with Uber.
The government struck back Monday as Mayor
de Blasio vowed to take action against a city worker who equated Albany
with «Star
Wars» evil Empire on an official Web site.
Mr.
de Blasio has endured a series of setbacks and slip - ups during the past few months, including a bruising public relations
war with Uber.
As
de Blasio is locked in an escalating
war with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, he has been less critical recently of Bloomberg, whom he scolded in his 2014 inauguration speech as the former mayor stood nearby.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is sending in reinforcements in his
war with Mayor Bill
de Blasio, planning to double the number of state troopers in the Big Apple, sources told The Post.
But
de Blasio has kept his popularity, especially
with voters of color, and used his platform at the helm of America's biggest city to declare
war on Trump's agenda.
With de Blasio and the UFT - financed Working Families Party as allies, the union is hijacking the very language of movement politics, annexing left journalism to defend its narrowest interests and even recruiting progressives to join its
war against charter schools that work for kids.
In December, Lynch led a contentious
war of words
with the mayor, accusing
de Blasio of having «blood» on his hands after two officers were executed while sitting in their patrol car.
During his second day under cross-examination at the corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, Harendra Singh said
de Blasio was fully aware the eatery owner was funneling cash into his political
war chest
with the help of others who took credit for the donations.
Off topic questions included a reported plan to remove some portraits currently displayed in City Hall, the recent installation of additional fencing around Gracie Mansion, whether the CUNY adjunct professor charged
with the Saturday attack on two NYPD lieutenants should be fired, a report that a commercial flight to Puerto Rico was delayed because of Mayor
de Blasio's late arrival to the airport, his ongoing
war of words
with PBA president Pat Lynch and Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins and Cardinal Dolan's related op - ed, Gracie Mansion tours and the expected course of the NYPD response to further protests.
The second half of the Assembly's legislation wades into a political tug - of -
war between Mayor Bill
de Blasio and a pair of Republican state lawmakers over New York City's policy towards undocumented immigrants and what will become of the data associated
with New York City's municipal identification program (IDNYC).
So far, Jeremy Corbyn has been incredibly cautious about triggering a full - on civil
war with his MPs over this, but if Theresa May presses ahead
with the parliamentary boundary changes for the next election, Labour MPs will,
de facto, face mandatory reselection.