"Everybody respects peace, but the Mayor should also be promoting economic development."
The Mayors and Independents focus on localism and promoting powers for municipalities.
The Mayor also promoted Bernard Kerik, a former police detective who has been executive assistant to Mr. Schembri, to First Deputy Commissioner.
This is going to work against the quality of life the Mayor has been promoting.
He said that he and residents of his district were pressing the Mayor to promote acceptable behavior by visiting students but also to come up with traffic plans to channel the car caravan rather than ban it from certain areas.
Nowadays, the Mayor promotes rose gardens and antique street lamps and wrought-iron fences, esthetic touches that appeal in a city where the lunch-bucket populace has largely given way to the gourmet coffee set.
The club should press the M.T.A. and the Mayor to promote the ease of hopping on subway lines to reach the stadium.
The Mayor promoted James F. Hanley to be Commissioner of Labor Relations, overseeing the city's negotiations with the many municipal unions.
Neither the Mayor nor any other authority may appoint or promote any person in the classified service of the city for any political reason but only for merit and fitness.
"There's no truth to the rumor that the Greek Mayor is promoting the balalaika as the official city instrument," said Scott Shafer, Mr. Agnos's press secretary.
