Sentences with phrase «who runs for mayor»

ABC's upcoming comedy The Mayor is about a rapper who runs for mayor of his city as a way to promote his music career and accidentally ends up winning.

A number of top - tier Democrats have opted not to challenge de Blasio in the September primary, so far leaving him to face State Sen. Tony Avella of Queens, who handedly lost the Democratic mayoral primary in 2009 to then - comptroller Bill Thompson and Sal Albanese, a former City Council member from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who ran for mayor in 1997 and 2013.

But John, a Republican who ran for mayor and now hosts a radio show, is said to be hoping his daughter reconciles with Cox, the grandson of President Richard Nixon and son of New York state GOP Chairman Ed Cox.

Portelli, 62, is a former Albany City School Board member who ran for mayor of the upstate city last year, also on the Green Party line.

Meanwhile, Hartford Republicans have put forth Theodore «Ted» Cannon, 62, a West End resident who ran for mayor in 2015 with a background in municipal finance.

Kownack, Cummings and Bissember ran unsuccessfully in 2015 on the Team Troy slate supporting former Council President Rodney Wiltshire, who ran for mayor, losing the Democratic primary and then the general election to Mayor Patrick Madden.

George McDonald, who ran for mayor against Bill de Blasio in 2013 and co-founded the Doe Fund, also is on Cuomo's short list, according to two knowledgeable sources.

Not exact matches

It's a cause that Perry, a former L.A. councilwoman who has served in leadership positions with the city for nearly 25 years and ran for mayor in 2013, has long championed.

The author, who served as a member of the British Parliament and once ran for mayor of London, was convicted in 2001 of committing perjury during a 1987 libel trial.

Prosecutors said Weiner, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2005 and 2013, acknowledged to the evaluator an interest in legal, adult, teen - themed pornography.

And this is coming from a Baby Boomer who ran for town mayor.»

The former mayor, who spent $ 261 million on his campaigns for New York City office, says he'd spend as much as $ 1 billion of his own money on a presidential run.

Mr. Navalny, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Moscow in 2013, has been under house arrest since February.

Ms. Notley's candidacy has received a number of high profile endorsements, including those of fellow NDP MLA Deron Bilous, former NDP MLAs Barrie Chivers, Bob Hawkesworth and Jim Gurnett, former Red Deer mayor Morris Flewwelling (who ran for the PCs in the 1997 federal election), former PC MLA Tom Sindlinger and former Edmonton Public School Board trustee Dave Colburn.

(Mello was a Catholic state legislator running for mayor of Omaha who, despite making the local Planned Parenthood folks happy with his evolving voting record, was deemed insufficiently pro-abortion.)

Laura Lavine, the Republican candidate for Syracuse mayor, split with her local campaign manager, Danny Fitzpatrick, and is bringing in a consultant from New York City, Michael Lawler, who ran Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's 2014 gubernatorial bid.

It's also worth noting here that the HRC's effort to push for marriage equality in NY is headed by a former Bloomberg aide, Brian Ellner, who removed his name from the running to become head of the Empire State Pride Agenda after some LGBT advocates protested his close ties to the mayor.

Tomorrow sees the announcement of who will run against Boris Johnson for the position of mayor of London - Ken Livingstone or Oona King.

Barnhart, a former TV reporter who has run for the Assembly and mayor of Rochester, took a different view of the governor in an interview.

The mayor of Muttontown, LI — who ran in the past on the slate of the Concerned Taxpayers Party — and her physician husband surrendered this morning to prosecutors to face criminal charges for allegedly failing to file tax returns for five years.

Gov. David Paterson this morning gave a big shout - out to Bob Duffy, who is running for the lieutenant governor post Paterson himself once held, saying the Rochester mayor is ready to step in and lead the state if necessary.

Andrea Catsimatidis has never held elected office, but she grew up around politics, thanks to her father, a Democrat - turned - Republican who regularly contributes to elected officials on both sides of the aisle, and has unsuccessfully run himself for mayor of NYC.

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.»

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins will make his third run for mayor of Syracuse this fall, bringing the field of candidates ting to replace incumbent Stephanie Miner, who is term limited out of office, to 10.

We know this because Doe Fund founder George McDonald, a Democrat - turned - Republican who is running for NYC mayor next year, tweeted a photo of the governor with said cake, and a message that he had «a wonderful time» celebrating with Cuomo last night.

At noon, Queens Republican Councilman Eric Ulrich, who considered — but decided against — a run for NYC mayor, will endorse Bob Dietl's run for that office, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

During his visit, he was introduced to Klein for the first time by the IDC's newest member, Sen. Malcolm Smith, a Queens Democrat who just so happens to be spending a lot of time with the NYC GOP leaders as he courts them in his long - shot bid to run on their ballot line in the upcoming mayor's race.

He's also giving to Democrats, including $ 1,000 to NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who's likely to run for NYC mayor in 2013; $ 1,000 to NYC Councilman Mark Weprin; and $ 500 to his local DA, Kathleen Rice.

De Blasio, who served as Clinton's campaign manager for her 2000 Senate race, ran for New York City mayor on a progressive platform and has been working to bring progressive issues to the attention of the national Democratic Party.

«Is it any surprise that they would give money to a candidate who ran against me two years ago for mayor?

UPDATE: Buffalo - area bloggers and writers have been commenting about the anti-Grisanti machinations of «The Committee to Save the Eric County Republican Party» for a few months now, with multiple people connecting the «committee» to Matthew Ricchiazzi, a Cornell University graduate who ran a failed campaign for Buffalo mayor.

A March 2008 Quinnipiac poll even had black voters favoring Markowitz over Thompson, who, unlike Markowitz, eventually ran for mayor before losing to Bloomberg in 2009.

As for Masterpole, the state party needed no help recognizing that she would support Masterpole over Republican Steve Kimatian, who ran against Miner for mayor in 2009 and chairs the Syracuse GOP committee.

The only other politician who's announced that he's running for mayor is Rep. Anthony Weiner, who has been embroiled in a sexting scandal for the past couple of weeks.

Last week, Ulrich said that if he were to run for mayor and be elected, he would immediately fire de Blasio's Department of Social Services Commissioner Steve Banks, who oversees homeless operations.

The 73 - year - old financial information industry billionaire, who earned a reputation as a social liberal with strong Wall Street ties during his time as New York City mayor, has considered a White House run for years.

«The election will not be taken for granted by me,» said Koch, who had been elected mayor four years earlier by defeating incumbent Mayor Abe Beame, colorful congresswoman Bella Abzug, and Secretary of State Mario Cuomo in a crowded and bitterly contested Democratic primary and runoff before whipping Republican Roy M. Goodman and Cuomo, who was running on the Liberal Party ticket, in the general election.

Others who announced candidacies to run for mayor include former NYPD detective Bo Dietl, who raised $ 282,656 since mid-July; former New York Jet - turned - minister Michel Faulkner, who raised $ 206,591; and state Sen. Tony Avella, who raised $ 750 after kicking off his candidacy last month.

The comments are in response to the DCCC's apparent effort to get Perez Williams, who ran unsuccessfully for Syracuse mayor last year, on the Democratic congressional primary ballot.

However, he was outraised and outspent over the past six months by deep - pocketed developer Paul Massey, a political novice running as a Republican for mayor who raised $ 2.9 million.

Mr. Kelly, who never held elected office, has maintained in past interviews he doesn't want to run for mayor.

The winner of the Nov. 3 general election will replace Councilman Tony Avella (D - Bayside), who was first elected in 2001 and opted to run in the Democratic primary for mayor against city Comptroller William Thompson, who defeated him.

The former mayor, who ran for president in 2008, gave a fiery address at the convention on Monday and has garnered controversy in recent weeks for his remarks critical of the Black Lives Matter movement.

But Lujan said Friday that Perez Williams, who lost November's election for Syracuse mayor, had earned the right to run for the 24th Congressional District seat.

Quinn, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2013, is still smarting from Nixon's endorsement of eventual winner Bill de Blasio.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, another Democrat running for mayor who already called on Weiner to drop out, predicted there would be more sordid revelations.

«Dan is a perceptive politician who knows of some of the private conversations John has had recently,» Liu's campaign spokesman, George Arzt, said in a statement Tuesday afternoon, referring to recent reports that Liu is planning a run for mayor, or nothing.

And the mayor indeed did get pushback from state Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R - Staten Island), who is running for mayor him.

«We've been thinking about reaching out to her,» said Bob Gangi, a police reform activist who is running a long - shot campaign for mayor.

Hawkins, who is running on a Green Party progressive platform, has never been elected to office after more than 20 campaigns, including three tries for mayor since 2004.