Sentences with phrase «democrat leadership campaign»

Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrat leadership campaign gathered more momentum yesterday after Don Foster, the only other candidate in favour of the party's continued cooperation with Labour, stood down from the contest.

The Liberal Democrat leadership campaign last night moved into overdrive as frontrunners in the scramble to succeed Paddy Ashdown discreetly accused each other of fabricating claims to be edging into the lead in the final lap.

The dramas of the Labour and, for those who noticed, Liberal Democrat leadership campaigns are over; so are the party conferences.

Not exact matches

Rep. Tim Bishop's fellow House Democrats have contributed $ 121,800 to him either from their own campaign funds or from their leadership PACs.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

How Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the nationalists (who, in Wales, have run joint campaigns with the Greens before) react will be the test of the importance of this leadership election.

«Not only is Jerry Nadler bucking the unity agreement that Governor Cuomo, Senate Democrats and labor leaders have worked for, he is working to unseat the only Latina and first Dominican woman in the State Senate, which only demonstrates how out of touch he is with the goals of the Democratic Party and it's leadership,» said Barbara Brancaccio, spokesperson for Alcantara's campaign.

Sources Friday evening said Cuomo and the leadership of the party had reached a tentative deal for the incumbent Democrat to take the labor - backed line in exchange for pushing on key progressive issues such as the Dream Act, the public financing of political campaigns and the women's agenda.

The Labour leadership candidate, who has built his campaign on his ability to attract votes from the Liberal Democrats, said he would «make sure he is punished at the ballot box» for joining government with the Conservatives.

The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton on Monday announced the formation of a New York leadership team, an assemblage of who's who in Democratic state and city politics, save for the mayor of the state's largest city, Democrat Bill de Blasio.

- Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's leadership PAC, Democrats Win Seats PAC, contributed $ 5,000 to Maffei's campaign.

The candidate's campaigns, the DSCC, and the Senate Majority PAC (a super PAC linked to the Senate Democratic leadership) together constitute the overwhelming bulk of ad spending for Senate Democrats.

But Mr Blair may well feel less well disposed to a more distant Liberal Democrat who is likely to make his mark in the leadership campaign with swingeing attacks on Labour.

The ever - present discontented murmuring about Sampson's leadership seemed to crescendo toward the end of the last session, and several other Democrats, including Mike Gianaris, who masterminded this last campaign, now say a leader will be determined by the conference in some future process.

«For decades, New Yorkers» lives have been improved by the hard work and progressive leadership of Eric Schneiderman,» said the Manhattan Democrat's campaign spokesman James Freedland.

(Recall that there had been ample speculation during the campaign that Cuomo would move to oust Sampson from the minority leadership if the Democrats lost control of the chamber, largely because the AEG scandal didn't mesh with Cuomo's mantra of reform).

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Nick Clegg laid out the values informing his campaign today with an attack on the «Sat - Nav politics» of Labour and the Conservatives.

Donald Trump's campaign reaffirmed its embrace of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, signaling a preference for the leadership of an authoritarian adversary over that of America's own president, despite a cascade of criticism from Democrats and expressions of discomfort among Republicans

She may only have been Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton since 1997, but enough heavyweight colleagues have encouraged her to stand for Paddy Ashdown's job for her to arrange three press conferences for June 11 the day the leadership campaign formally starts.

Biden, who never had a leadership PAC prior to this cycle, donated $ 45,000 to fellow Democrats in the period — $ 15,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $ 27,500 to Senate candidates and $ 2,500 to House candidates.

As a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's leadership team, Frankel is charged with electing fellow Democrats to the House.

On Monday, the Clinton campaign released the names on her New York State «leadership council,» a team of more than 100 Democrats that included Cuomo, every other state - and city - wide Democrat, every Democratic congressperson, and both U.S. senators.

Asked about the attempt to destabilise his leadership, Clegg said: «I think it's odd, to put it very mildly, that any fellow Liberal Democrat should spend time and good money, while the rest of us were out campaigning for these tough elections, instead surreptitiously trying to come up with specious claims on the basis of polls, which were in any case entirely confounded by the election results.

Other Democrats in Congress have contributed $ 121,800 to him either from their own campaign funds or from their leadership PACs, records show.

Fact 1: Republicans control both houses of Congress Fact 2: A Republican controlled ethics committee voted THREE TIMES to censure Tom Delay for ethics violations Fact 3: The Republican leadership, not liking this, removed the Republican on the committee who was voting to censure Delay and replaced him with a Republican who accepted Delay's leftover campaign money for his own campaign Fact 4: The Republicans further tried to shield Delay by making a change to the rules to allow a Congressman under indictment to retain their leadership post, relenting only when Democrats had a field day trumpeting that little change in the media

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

Sir Menzies Campbell promised to be the Liberal Democrats» «bridge to the future» as he formally launched his leadership campaign.

Liberal Democrat leadership front runner Sir Menzies Campbell is battling against a whispering campaign from MPs and activists who are convinced that he lacks the political skills to turn the party's opinion poll plunge around.

As many readers know, it seems that every day thousands of Connecticut activists receive emails from top Democratic elected officials and the leadership of the Democratic State Central Committee asking for donations to help bolster the Democrat's campaign fund.