Sentences with phrase «win over the mayor»

After a final, unsuccessful attempt to win over the mayor during a Jan. 3 meeting, Mahoney abandoned the Kennedy Square proposal, at least for this year, Mahoney said.

School space conflicts have also provided charter leaders with their biggest win over the mayor — the sector roundly defeated de Blasio in a months - long battle over space sharing agreements for New York's largest charter network, Success Academy, in early 2014.

Not exact matches

Broda's decision to keep his trustee seat while he ran for mayor was criticized by former Mayor Ron Ghilardi during the campaign, which ended last month when Broda won a resounding victory over the three - term mayor.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo rolled out 42 city mayors from around the state who support his plan to crack down on college sexual assault, but failed to win over the woman who leads the state's fifth largest city: Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

In third place is a report on a new poll which showed that the Labour candidate for mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, was on course for a landslide win over his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith.

What the governor is saying, what the mayor is saying, all of that is accurate, because if we don't win some of these battles in Washington, then we're going to be back home fighting each other over a diminished pot.»

Here's my suggestion: Zac Goldsmith, who won a stonking majority of over 23,000 in the once - marginal Richmond Park, for Tory candidate for London mayor and then, if he wins, Esther into Richmond Park in a by - election.

«The generosity of Irish Americans - which is wonderful for us back in Ireland — and also the ability of the Irish to make connections, to win people over, those are great qualities in a mayor.

Mayor Bill de Blasio got the endorsement of Sen. Chuck Schumer Monday morning even as pay - to - play allegations and controversy over donor access continue to swirl around the mayor, just a week away from what is expected to be an easy reelection win.

When Rudy Giuliani and Bloomberg were both first elected mayor, in 1993 and 2001 respectively, they each won the general contest as fusion Republicans with key margins over their opponents on Staten Island.

Herbert won a 2010 special election to complete the rest of Huntsman's term and received 64 percent of the vote over Peter Corroon, the mayor of Salt Lake County.

«David and I were just over at a senior center, and I said to the seniors there, I really wish actually I could go to bed tonight and say, whoever wins tomorrow, I'd rather it be David, but whoever wins it will be OK,» said Quinn, who is contemplating a run for mayor.

Savino is one of the five Republican county leaders Smith would have had to win over in order to run for mayor on the Republican line because he is a Democrat.

That sowed the seeds for a number of policy battles, the biggest of which was over the re-approval of mayoral control — a fight the mayor eventually won.

If the London mayor was hoping to win over scores of eurosceptic MPs by backing Brexit then he have miscalculated.

An off - the - books charter school deal between de Blasio and State Senate Republicans paved the way for the mayor to win control over city schools for another two years.

The mayor sided with Mr. Dorancy after the WFP and 1199 SEIU — the union most instrumental in his win a year ago — chose the upstart attorney over Mr. Hamilton.

(He noted that he was not comfortable paraphrasing the mayor's remarks, but after Republicans won control over the State Senate, the mayor told reporters he will still try to achieve his left - leaning goals, such as increasing the minimum wage in New York City above the state level and passing the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for immigrant children.)

With Mark - Viverito leaving and the next speaker's race underway, the mayor is poised to win reelection — but the honeymoon is over and many City Council members want a speaker who can stand up to him.

As the Times» David Chen and Megan Thee - Brenan put it, the latest survey «suggests that Mr. de Blasio could win the most sweeping victory in a mayor's race since 1985, when Edward I. Koch was re-elected to a third term with a crushing 68 - point margin of victory over his opponents.»

The mayor, who won in a landslide last year, fared far worse in his push to help Democrats take over the State Senate, but insisted the outcome was not a repudiation of his brand of left - of - center politics.

Quinn also said that WIN is «very grateful to Governor Cuomo» — her return to public service after her failed bid for mayor was as an advisor to Cuomo and she serves on a state homelessness task force — and she praised him for finally giving his OK to release $ 2 billion in funding for the creation of more than 100,000 affordable and supportive housing units in the state over the next five years.

A win for Kaminsky, he said, would turn «the entire mechanism of state government over to the [New York City mayor] Bill de Blasio far - left wing New York City Democrats.»

I found Steve Noble's 548 - vote win over Ron Polacco for Kingston mayor less than impressive.

Those two factors — combined with a better than 20 - point lead heading into the final days and little movement by the electorate over the last month — position Brown to be in a very strong position to win the nomination for a fourth term as Buffalo mayor,» Greenberg said.

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.

In the San Francisco mayor's race in 2003, for example, Green mayoral candidate Matt Gonzalez actually won the election day vote, but ultimately lost, as his opponent had banked over 60,000 vote - by - mail votes well in advance of election day.

When the life - long Democrat turned Republican first ran for mayor in 2001, he spent $ 74 million on what ended up being a narrow win over Democrat Mark Green.

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.

The new program checks some key political boxes for the mayor: it effectively allows de Blasio to highlight and expand the cleanest political win of his administration repeatedly over the election cycle, while still being able to claim that he's rolled out new education plans since the November 2015 announcement of his equity and excellence agenda.

The mayor's surprisingly close five - point win over Thompson only compounds his daunting third - term problems.

Then we have Jeremy Renner, who, despite not getting as much material as everyone else, wins us over as the charming and friendly mayor, who doesn't realise he is being set up.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

The examples of mayors Richard Daley in Chicago and Michael Bloomberg in New York City» both of whom sought and won direct control over their city's school systems — have inspired other mayors, such as Anthony Williams in Washington, D.C., to press for the power to appoint the school board's members or dissolve the board altogether.

It was a position that won them considerable public sympathy and, ultimately, with the help of a large and successful rally in Albany, won them both private space for all three Success schools and a clear victory over the mayor, who appeared utterly unprepared to handle the consequences of the fight he started with the sector.

After scoring a number of clean political wins over the de Blasio administration early in the mayor's term, Moskowitz and her pro-charter allies at Families for Excellent Schools have more recently absorbed a series of setbacks, from an attempt to re-negotiate a pre-Kindergarten contract to an ongoing but little - noticed dispute over school space for Success middle schoolers.