Sentences with phrase «win against the mayor»

«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.»

Not exact matches

Despite winning both major party nominations — the first New York City mayor to do so — Mayor Ed Koch announced that he would wage a full - scale campaign for re-election against minor - party opposition during this week in 1981.

«The mayor, since the beginning of his career, has been a steadfast champion in the fight against inequality, and recently the governor has been using his executive power and his pulpit to win real victories,» Working Families Party New York State Director Bill Lipton told the Observer.

In the meantime, DiPietro put together a memo explaining how Trump could win mostly by going hard after a new gun - control law pushed by Cuomo, which he wrote could provide 300,00 to 500,000 new voters, and by running against Bill de Blasio, New York's «first truly radical mayor, a man who still reveres the Sandinistas, honeymooned in Havana, and self - describes as a believer in liberation theology (i.e., Marxism).»

Assemblyman Bill Nojay, who committed suicide on Friday, won his primary against Honeoye Falls mayor Rick Milne by a convincing margin.

«A win for me is making the case that de Blasio has not been a good mayor and making the case that I can be a good mayor,» Sal Albanese, putting it simply, told Gotham Gazette on Monday, a little more than 48 hours before he was to take the stage against Mayor Bill de Blasio in the first of two Democratic primary debates.

The mayor's campaign promise to ban horse carriages won him support from animal rights groups including NYCLASS, which ran a massive independent expenditure against his primary opponent Christine Quinn that helped Mr. de Blasio.

On the stand, the mayor — who narrowly won the 2009 race against then - city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is black — said he believed the ballot security effort was meant to ensure that voters didn't encounter problems at the polls, and paying for it through the party was simply standard procedure.

De Blasio won the mayor's race campaigning against intrusive police tactics such as stop - and - frisk, where hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were frisked by the police each year, and other elements of the «Broken Windows» philosophy, where police crack down on minor offenses to prevent more serious crime.

Republican candidate for mayor Joe Lhota won both districts by double digits against Mayor Bill de Blasio in the 2013 mayoral election.

The prospect has an obvious, novelistic allure: A run for mayor of New York this year would pit Mrs. Clinton against Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat who managed her Senate campaign in 2000, and, should she win, would put her in charge of President - elect Donald J. Trump's hometown, ensuring years of potential clashes between bitter rivals.

The letter, which was sent to the State Board of Elections, sought to rebuff the latest series of accusations against the administration: that Mr. de Blasio's team in City Hall had committed flagrant violations of campaign finance laws during the mayor's unsuccessful push in 2014 to win a Democratic majority in the State Senate.

Cuomo's challenger, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, managed to win over one - third of the vote against the incumbent governor, despite Cuomo's multi-million dollar war chest and near unanimous support from the state's Democratic political establishment, from Hillary Clinton to local mayors.

The move is a payback by Republicans still fuming that the mayor supported candidates against them in 2014 in an attempt to win Democratic control of the Senate.

Local deputy mayor Janet Daby won the candidacy in the strongly pro-Remain area after promising to fight to keep the UK in the single market and customs union - both of which are against Labour policy.

(New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who issued a statement in support of Paterson on Sunday, said much the same thing; «A lot of people start out with the odds against them and win,» said the mayor.)

Cuomo's challenger, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, managed to win over a third of the vote against the incumbent governor, despite Cuomo's multimillion dollar war chest and near unanimous support from the state's Democratic political establishment from Hillary Clinton to local mayors.

Labour would not be mad enough to let Diane Abbott run for London mayor, unless they want an even worse candidate than Ken Livingstone to let the Tories win against the odds yet again.

With rare exceptions, mayors of New York (or of any state, for that matter) do not win important fights against their governors.

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