Sentences with phrase «woman mayor in»

Miner, 42, was elected Syracuse's first woman mayor in 2009.

Despite the fact that there has not been a woman president yet or woman mayor in New York City, she says there is hope.

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Two years later, in the midst of Weiner's second run for New York City mayor, screenshots of an explicit conversation between Weiner and a 22 - year - old woman surfaced on a gossip website.

In 1997, she became mayor of Maribyrnong, a suburb of Melbourne, becoming the first Vietnamese woman to be elected mayor anywhere outside of Vietnam.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.&raquIn a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.&raquin the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

I heard of a woman today who got attacked by a dog, climbed a telephone pole, fell out of a tree, was yelled at by a police officer on a 911 call, got patched in to the State Police in New York, was almost arrested and sent to jail, trespassed on several people's property, hurtled fences and hedges in a mad dash through a neighborhood, and even convinced a former mayor of our town to call in some favors to the local power company.

Yes, the citizens of Saratoga Springs elected a token black woman to be their mayor just to have a token minority in their city government.

Meyersson [4] claims that electing islamic mayors in Turkish villages lead to broader education of women.

The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York City comptroller, as some of her fellow female elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.

For the second straight day, Gillibrand declined to weigh in on the mayor's race, which has been upended (again) by Anthony Weiner's disclosure that he sexted with women after resigning from office in 2011.

It comes as no surprise that Quinn, the only female in the mayor's race, has cornered the endorsements of the city's major women's groups.

But the junior senator is not about to make an endorsement in the mayor's race, even though she's a fan of the leading Democratic candidate, who also happens to be a woman.

Amid a sexting controversy involving women, the New York Democrat resigned his U.S. House seat in 2011 only to have new allegations doom his 2013 run for mayor.

She was honored as «Woman of the Year» at the Club's Lincoln Day Dinner in March, before any public mention of running for mayor.

The mayor called for tougher penalties under the city's right of way law after a Staten Island woman was fined just $ 250 for running down a pedestrian in a crosswalk, killing her.

Taylor endorsed Malpass back in June at a «Women for Malpass» event, and she also made it clear that she had indeed given serious thought to challenging Gillibrand herself, but her relationship with the mayor made that too complicated.

In 2014, there was only one black woman mayor nationwide: Stephanie Rawlings - Blake, then - mayor of Baltimore.

Miner, 43, of 102 Woodside Drive, was elected the first woman mayor of Syracuse in 2009.

Ms. Quinn is now the president and CEO of Win, or Women in Need, a nonprofit that provides shelter to homeless women and families, and was hosting the mayor today at a Win shelter in East New Women in Need, a nonprofit that provides shelter to homeless women and families, and was hosting the mayor today at a Win shelter in East New women and families, and was hosting the mayor today at a Win shelter in East New York.

A city - government blogger conjectured that Mateo's interest in courting the mayor was tied to the efforts of Mateo's wife, Stella, to establish a women - only livery service — and the couple sought information about licensing in March, according to the Taxi & Limousine Commission.

But the mayor, a progressive Democrat, went on to say that in his judgement, it was not appropriate for women to be «display themselves that way.»

So far, the largest city in the country to have elected a woman mayor is Chicago, where Jane Byrne served as mayor from 1979 until 1983.

«I interpret his remarks to say that an extremist attitude that continues the reality of violence in our communities or an extremist attitude that denies the rights of women does not represent the views of the people of New York State,» said the mayor.

Miner, the first woman to serve as mayor of any of the so - called «Big Five» cities, cruised to re-election in 2013, (without Cuomo's endorsement), but is barred by term limits from running again.

«In her short time here, the Fearless Girl has fueled powerful conversations about women in leadership and inspired so many,» the mayor said in a written statemenIn her short time here, the Fearless Girl has fueled powerful conversations about women in leadership and inspired so many,» the mayor said in a written statemenin leadership and inspired so many,» the mayor said in a written statemenin a written statement.

Former Mayor David Dinkins, New York City's first and only African - American mayor, said he might back Public Advocate Letitia James — the first African - American woman elected to a citywide position — if she decides to run for mayor in 2021.

In January 2008, she became the first woman to hold the post of Onondaga County executive after losing the 2005 race for mayor of Syracuse.

«There are lots of barriers to women entering politics and that's seen in the number of women mayors there are,» Sophie Walker, who is standing as the Women's Equality Party candidate for London mayor, tellwomen entering politics and that's seen in the number of women mayors there are,» Sophie Walker, who is standing as the Women's Equality Party candidate for London mayor, tellwomen mayors there are,» Sophie Walker, who is standing as the Women's Equality Party candidate for London mayor, tellWomen's Equality Party candidate for London mayor, tells me.

Of the 18 directly - elected mayors in England and Wales, just four are women.

The leader of the Women's Equality Party sets out why she is running for mayor of London and the changes she wants to see in the capital.

A Schenectady woman says she and a friend were just collecting recyclables from trash bins last week when the city's mayor, Gary McCarthy, began drunkenly chasing them in his pickup truck.

The letter is signed by a wide variety of women — including a number with ties to Mayor Bloomberg, like NARAL Pro-Choice NY's Kelli Conlin, whose organization has endorsed the mayor; US Sen. Chuck Schumer's wife, Iris Weinshall, who served as DOT commissioner under Bloomberg and his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani; and actress Whoopi Goldberg, who was one of the mayor's many celebrity endorsers in 2009.

A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.

Furthermore, the mayor said in this day and age, a man calling a woman «naive» is not acceptable.

«Three strong women mayors have now been elected in their own right, again.

Just hours before her swearing in as Rochester's first woman mayor, Lovely Warren released a statement regarding the criminal history of her husband, Timothy Granison, was he was a teenager.

Alicia Glen, de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development and the woman charged with spearheading his affordable housing plan, has more than $ 3.7 million in holdings.

In her final State of the City speech, Mark - Viverito unveiled a slew of proposals, including blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from most spaces on city property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationalIn her final State of the City speech, Mark - Viverito unveiled a slew of proposals, including blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from most spaces on city property, free birth control for all women, a significant expansion of the mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and prohibiting local law enforcement from coordinating with the federal government in crackdowns on foreign nationalin crackdowns on foreign nationals.

If Democratic mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams is elected, she will be only the second woman elected as mayor of Syracuse and the first Latina mayor in the state.

She was most animated in responding to a question premised on the notion that New York is «apparently incapable of electing a woman mayor.»

In 2009, Miner was the first woman to be elected as Syracuse mayor.

The mayor of London got into hot water last week after suggesting women only go to university in order to meet rich husbands.

«The first possible woman mayor has just turned her back on a critical but modest lifeline that families around the city need — a stunning abandonment of working mothers and parents and the progressive women who have supported her from day one,» the NYS Paid Leave Coalition said in a statement.

If elected, Perez Williams would be the first Latina mayor in New York state and the first woman of color elected mayor of Syracuse.

Weiner's compulsion to send semi-nude photos to unknown women over the Internet wrecked his career in Congress, his 2013 bid for mayor and his marriage.

McCray now holds the title of first lady, which appears on releases from the mayor's office, but as I remember from my days in the gay movement of the mid-1970s, calling a woman a «lady» constituted fighting words, particularly in Salsa Soul Sisters, a group of lesbians of color McCray said «stamped my membership card «forever.

Senator Hassell - Thompson is a former Mount Vernon City Council president and acting Mount Vernon mayor, the founding president of The Gathering, a women's center in the city, and once served as CEO of Whart Development, a real estate development firm.

And Christine Quinn — the former council speaker who served as an advisor to Mr. Cuomo, ran against Mr. de Blasio for mayor and now leads for Women In Need, a nonprofit that helps homeless women and families — was quick to praise the governor's Women In Need, a nonprofit that helps homeless women and families — was quick to praise the governor's women and families — was quick to praise the governor's plan.

Seattle elected Jenny Durkan as its first lesbian mayor — and the only woman in that post since the 1920s.

MANHATTAN — On the Friday night after Thanksgiving, a dozen men and women gathered in the second - floor living room of a modern townhouse at the edge of Houston's River Oaks neighborhood for a fireside chat with an up - and - coming politician they hope will soon be mayor.