Sentences with phrase «democratic change candidate»

Running as a Congress for Democratic Change candidate, Weah was elected to the Senate in 2014.

Not exact matches

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have tended to agree on major issues when it comes to energy, such as calling for more clean energy and supporting aggressive plans to fight climate change.

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said this week that the Academy's changes are «overdue» and that the organization «has to catch up with our reality» in terms of representing diverse perspectives.

In 1972, Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern proposed sending an annual check of $ 1,000 to every American but changed his mind after it became the subject of attack ads run by his Republican opponent, Richard Nixon, who himself had previously flirted with the idea.

It's worth noting that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton does not support TPP, a change in position, and has also levelled criticism at NAFTA.

In this regard, public opinion polls have shown that Canadian support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his message of change is extremely high.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon in Queens on Friday unveiled an environmental policy platform that is geared toward shifting the state to 100 percent renewable energy, strengthening the state's efforts against climate change and rejecting new infrastructure for gas pipelines and other fossil fueles.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs is poised to announce staffing changes designed to give presumptive gubernatorial candidate, AG Andrew Cuomo, more control over the organization, insiders say.

The GOP has been affected much more than the Democratic Party by the change in the election finance laws, allowing Super PACs to spend arbitrarily large amounts of advertising money to support their preferred candidates.

Failed Syracuse mayoral candidate Democrat Juanita Perez Williams has changed her mind and plans to run for Congress in NY - 24 challenging Republican Rep. John Katko, according to the Democratic Party chairman, though she has to make it through a primary first.

Despite Bharara's endorsement, Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman, said he would not change plans to put off a decision about the party's district attorney candidate until he can complete talks with other political parties about possible cross-endorsements.

But it is the process we currently have, and the one in which we need to work to ensure that we elect the best candidates (while we also work to change election laws to make them more small - d democratic).

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon visited Crown Heights, receiving the endorsement of the activist group New York Communities for Change.

The battle to create progressive change goes well beyond any one candidate or campaign, and it demands the development of institutional and independent power to the left of the Democratic Party — power that can prod politicians like Cuomo to govern on behalf of the people who elect them.

Also at noon, Democratic Nassau County executive candidate Laura Curran pledges to uphold the Pre-Trump Rule ensuring taxpayer funded infrastructure projects are built to accommodate effects of climate change if she's elected, the Boardwalk at Riverside Boulevard, Long Beach.

The grandiose transformational change we all desire in all spheres of our lives and the national economy, and is only mere talk by the contesting candidates, is already happening big - time under John Mahama and the governing party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), unfolding right before our eyes like a theatrical drama.

«Those who want to change Labour's leadership will have to stand in a democratic election, in which I will be a candidate.

ALBANY — Actress and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon led a march Monday of more than 1,000 environmental activists to the State Capitol, saying Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's climate change record lagged behind his rhetoric.

Eastman's upset in Nebraska is a case where progressive activist organizations, including Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Justice Democrats, helped a populist candidate defeat a moderate endorsed by the party's official House campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Of all the prospective Democratic presidential candidates, he has one of the thickest records of actual progressive accomplishments, from legalizing gay marriage early in 2011 to passing significant gun laws in 2013 after the Sandy Hook shooting, to actions around climate change and economic growth.

In January, the Alaska Democratic Party adopted a rule change that would allow for candidates not affiliated with a political party to run in the state's Democratic primary.

Three Republican and four Democratic Arizona state representatives have introduced HB 2575, which makes many small changes to the public funding program for candidates for state office.

New York Communities for Change, an organization allied with de Blasio, endorsed on Wednesday the Rev. Michael Walrond, one of the Democratic candidates in a congressional primary against Rep. Charlie Rangel.

The governor, who is considered a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, also plans to take on some of the leading national issues of the day - sexual harassment, climate change, the opioid epidemic, terrorism and reforming the criminal justice system.

Last Thursday, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee released statements from incumbent Democratic senators and Senate candidates saying they supported Social Security and Medicare expansion.

de Blasio was unequivocal in insisting that neither he nor his «team» violated campaign finance laws in his 2014 efforts at electing Democratic state senate candidates and effecting a change in control of the senate.

Spokesman Steve Greenberg said the biggest change is independents moving over to the Democratic presidential candidate's camp.

A Democratic state Senate candidate is calling for changes in ethics laws to address scandals in Oyster Bay town government.

Even if Cuomo beats Nixon (he has a huge in lead polls now), his margin of victory could have a bearing on whether he's seen as a viable presidential candidate for «a changing Democratic Party.»

«Sex and the City» star and Democratic candidate for New York governor Cynthia Nixon joined hundreds of environmentalists Monday for a march and rally protesting incumbent Andrew Cuomo's climate change policies.

Meanwhile, in Iowa, a group known as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, originally founded to aid Democratic Congressional candidates in 2010, has started broadcasting an advertisement that shows Mr. Obama, in 2008, promising to reverse the tax cuts for the most affluent Americans.

All three Democratic candidates have said they support campaign finance reform, however none have offered plans on how to change campaigning in Albany.

A group of New York City Democrats on Sunday will name its candidate to replace Sheldon Silver, giving an area long at the heart of New York's Democratic politics its first leadership change in decades.

The National Democratic Congress legislator for the Wa Central constituency, Rashid Pelpuo has said President John Maham is not scared of any presidential candidate in the December 7 general elections, not even the flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom According to him, President Mahama has won the hearts of many Ghanaians with his «changing...

ALBANY — The purple «SEIU 1199 for Cuomo» shirts appeared shortly after the candidate arrived at the Democratic State Convention in June, an opening event in his campaign to change New York by becoming governor.

Three other Democratic mayoral candidates didn't make the debate cut because they haven't raised and spent the minimum $ 150,000 required by law (changed by de Blasio and Council allies last year).

George Weah, former soccer player and presidential candidate of Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), reacts while a speech during the party's presidential campaign rally at Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia, Liberia, December 23, 2017.

Nixon picked up the endorsement of the influential progressive group New York Communities for Change yesterday, on what the Democratic primary candidate noted was her 52nd birthday.

«If Jewish New Yorkers and others who support Israel were to turn away from the Democratic Party in that congressional election and elect the Republican candidate to Congress in 2011, it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the state of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship presidents before him had supported,» Koch wrote.

Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper West Akyem constituency want their parliamentary candidate, Joseph Sam Amankwanor, changed.

Also, considering the AEG mess the Democrats are in, which GOP candidates all over the state are playing up to the hilt by calling on majority candidates to return contributions from the three main players — Senate President Malcolm Smith, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and Sen. Eric Adams — perhaps throwing stones from one's glass house in hopes of changing the conversation isn't a good idea.

They want to be a force of change that backs candidates who share their beliefs - not a third party that could split votes and benefit Democratic candidates.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Democratic congressional candidate Colleen Deacon says droughts brought on by climate change are helping terrorist groups like the Islamic State recruit young fighters who have no other options.

FORMER Sokoto State Governor and 2007 Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) presidential candidate, Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, has asked the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate Muhammadu...

Juanita Perez Williams, who is challenging the designated Democratic candidate Councilor Joe Nicoletti in the primary, said whatever changes are made to I - 81 through downtown will be the game changer for jobs.

Online politics experts from both the Democratic and Republican parties say this is a sign of things to come, and it will significantly change the messages that candidates and campaigns send to potential donors or activists.

Even more telling is the silence we hear from the Democratic candidates in this district — if they really want to change the discourse they could start by calling out their party leaders who are launching these lies and false political attacks on their behalf.»

It is significant that he chose to reveal that plan (which doesn't really have any details yet) in front of an audience of potential 2020 Democratic candidates and national politicos at a Center for American Progress event in Washington, D.C., rather than here in New York, in front of the very people whose lives any policy change would impact.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham accused the Republican - led Florida government of neglecting the needs of affordable housing and vowed to change that with full funding of the state's Sadowski Affordable Housing Trust Fund and efforts to get housing money quickly into communities.

The Eastern Regional Executive members of Convention People's Party (CPP), have warned the Electoral Commission on rumours that they are in bed with National Democratic Congress (NDC) and want to help them change their candidate, for a more favorable one.