Sentences with phrase «woman mayor of»

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

The DOMA decision has great personal significance for Quinn, who is aiming to be not only the first woman mayor of New York, but also the first openly gay person to hold that position.

If elected, James would be the first black woman mayor of New York City.

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«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.»

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.»

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.

People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor - elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.

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.

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.

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.

Also at 6 p.m., the League of Women Voters and the Albany NAACP hold a «meet the candidates» forum for the Albany mayor's race, Metropolitan Baptist Church, 105 Second St., Albany.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand likes the woman running for mayor of New York, but won't endorse her, or anyone else, until after the primary.

Her family hails from the wards of Albany's political machine; her grandmother was a longtime companion to legendary mayor Erastus Corning II and president of the Albany Democratic Women's Club.

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

The Green party's candidate for mayor of London, Sian Berry, warned against total prohibition, however, arguing there was «no evidence» the Swedish ban had done anything to help trafficked women.

BY PAULINE PARK Christine Quinn would have been the first woman and the first member of the LGBT community elected mayor of New York City had she won this year's mayoral race.

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.

«Because of her, we were able to have women elected to be county executive, a woman elected to be mayor, and women elected to city council,» said Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren.

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.

He took big swings at the mayor's pace of contract registration for his pre-K program, knocked him for the city's failure to work with women and minority - owned contractors enough, and questioned his plan for Wi - Fi booths around the five boroughs.

The mayor's spokeswoman, Karen Hinton, said de Blasio was focused on his agenda of affordable housing, universal pre-K, safety and «significantly increasing minority and women business contracts» with the city.»

Quinn has not formally announced her candidacy for mayor, but would become the first woman Mayor of New York City if she won.

«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.

When asked whether the city will have another mayor of color or a female mayor, Dinkins said, «Hell yea, it'd be a woman.»

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.

The mayor added «more than half of us are women.»

«It would not shock me when the next mayor [is] not only a woman but a woman of color,» he told Observer at City & State's «50 Over 50» gala on Monday night, where he received a lifetime achievement award.

The mayor also highlighted both the influence of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer — with his 48 - member Democratic conference — and direct political action, like Saturday's massive «Women's March» demonstrations.

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.

Hosted by Abedin, the event also lists a number of other women supporting Weiner's bid for mayor, including fashion designer Reem Acra, Abedin's sister Heba, and Cheryl Saban, wife of Haim Saban, a longtime Clinton donor.

And yet again, this is London's fifth election for mayor and for the fifth time we are being told this is a choice between two men, neither of whom are really putting women's needs anywhere near the centre of their manifestos.

«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.

Other measures being considered include the establishment of a website allowing women to secretly disclose their salaries, criminalising forced marriage and seeking ways to get more female mayors elected.

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.

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.

Hours later, the mayor of Rochester, Lovely Warren, an African - American woman, was floated as a potential new Cuomo running mate.

Malliotakis, a 36 - year - old Republican who represents parts of Staten Island and southern Brooklyn and is so far the only woman out of more than a dozen people registered to run for mayor, formally registered a committee to run with the state's Board of Elections on Monday.

The ex-detective credited the city's continued low crime rate to former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and the men and women of the NYPD, asserting that the mayor did not have the right to claim it as his achievement.

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 nationals.

The mayor also says that by the end of the year, more than 280,000 men, women and children will rise out of poverty since he took office — five years ahead of schedule on the city's goal to lift 800,000 people out of poverty by 2025.

But data on the percentage of women who are mayors of cities of 30,000 or more is similar to the that for other levels of government: As of September, 21 percent of the 1,362 mayors were women.