Sentences with phrase «winning citywide office»

Unless that happens it's hard to imagine another Republican winning citywide office.

Background / positions: In 2009, Liu became the first Asian - American to win citywide office.

Saying issues like crime, education and affordable housing drove them to the polls Tuesday, Queens residents helped to re-elect Helen Marshall as borough president and Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the city's highest office by a narrow, while sending John Liu (D - Flushing) to the comptroller's office as the first Asian American to win a citywide office.

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The alliance represents a new frontier in relations between Puerto Rican and Dominican politicians and increases opportunities for Latinos to win more citywide and statewide offices.

City Council attorney Deirdre Feerick has won the endorsement of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, a citywide political organization named for the first openly gay man to run for elected office in New York City in the 1970s.

In 2009 he won a bruising citywide election for Gotham's second - ranked public official (after the mayor), the public advocate, which Manhattan Institute fellow Sol Stern says, «is a campaign office» for mayor.