Sentences with phrase «way than the mayor»

He also suggested that there was a better way than the mayor's much - criticized approach to rezoning.

Not exact matches

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 strongly believed that the only way to make sure the funding was permanent was through a dedicated tax on those earning more than $ 500,000 per year to fully fund pre-K for roughly 50,000 New York City children.

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.»

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.

«I don't see how [city Comptroller] Bill Thompson, whom I respect, or I could have come out of a hard fought primary and still be able to win against the mayor, who's on his way to spending more money than any other municipal candidate in history.»

Koch stopped by the CapTon studio on his way out of town after meeting with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who used to be lukewarm on redistricting reform and now — at least according to the former mayor — is more on board than Skelos.

«I would love nothing more than to find a way to recoup what has been done to the community,» added the mayor.

The 2013 race for mayor has been under way for more than a year, but here was a first: This afternoon the six declared or likely candidates were all on one stage at the same time.

With just three days to go before the petitioning deadline, Mr. Spitzer's jump into the race is perhaps, in some ways, more audacious than Anthony Weiner's decision to enter the mayor's race six weeks ago.

A recent Quinnipiac poll showed that de Blasio has lower approval ratings in New York City than Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with 56 percent of city voters approving of how the governor is handling his job and 41 percent feeling that way about the mayor.

The mayor was at the State of the State — but probably didn't like the parts where Cuomo said that New York City would have to put more money toward CUNY and Medicaid than it has had to in the past, one of the ways Cuomo plans to save money and pay for his proposals.

«What resulted was overly broad legislation that would prevent the county from reimbursing any municipality in the county for any fees that are on their tax warrants, and so the response from not just myself, but the mayors of Cohoes and Watervliet and Supervisor Paula Mahan was that this legislation changing a decades - old way of making municipalities whole for their tax levies was really thrown in to complete and utter confusion and disarray, with legislative leaders saying that the legislation or the resolution meant something different than the letter of the resolution, and all of it really could have been addressed if the leadership of the county legislature had simply reached out, sent us a letter, picked up the phone to have a conversation about their concerns with respect to the trash fee.»

In a three - or four - way race with a high - profile, well - funded third party candidate like Walsh, it may take less than 10,000 votes to become this city's next mayor.

Donald Trump's unexpected electoral victory has put Cuomo in play as a possible national candidate, and observers say his administration these past few months has devoted more time to laying 2020 foundation blocks than concocting ways to torture the mayor.

But White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas said such evidence would confuse the jury because, if true, it's a «completely different scheme» than for what Smith will be on trial beginning Jan. 5 when he faces corruption charges for allegedly trying to buy his way onto the Republican line for mayor last year.

Overall, the mayor's ratings are highest in Manhattan, where more than half of voters — 56 percent — approve of the way he's handling his job.

Asked about recent polls showing her down by more than 40 points to the mayor, Malliotakis said her internal polls had shown her down by 16 points in September when measured for a four - way race.

The Mind Trust and the outside experts it hired to craft its plan say they found no better way to actually implement the sweeping overhaul it has proposed than to put IPS in the control of the mayor.

More important: Its theory may be one better carried out by city governments than by the state; certainly any such plan should find a way to give mayors and municipal officials the flexibility to respond to local conditions.