Sentences with phrase «party leadership candidate»

Given heightened prominence during the recent U.S. election, it has since become a growing concern in Europe and even Canada, where a campaign manager for a federal Conservative Party leadership candidate admitted recently to publishing a fake article online to rile the «left» about the supposed «billions» the Liberal Party was spending on international aid.

Labour Party leadership candidate Owen Smith poses for a picture with supporters during a picnic for young members in London Fields, Hackney in London

He held four cabinet posts under Premier Klein's government: in 1997 Stelmach became Minister of Agriculture, Food and Development; in May 1999, he was shuffled to the Infrastructure Ministry and later became Minister of Transport; and in 2004, he became the Alberta Intergovernmental Affairs Minister, a position he held until he resigned in June 2006 to become a party leadership candidate.

All PC Party leadership candidates are taking aim at Ms. Redford, trying to place the blame for every mistake the government has made for the past two years solely on her.

Not exact matches

Candidate Maxime Bernier has championed a Chinese trade deal in the Conservative Party leadership race.

It's also true that in the last leadership contest, Redford was the non-Tory party members» candidate.

Now the GOP leadership is reasserting control: the party has changed its nomination rules to discourage rebellious Tea Party candidates and warned mutinous congressmen to behave, or lose their committee sparty has changed its nomination rules to discourage rebellious Tea Party candidates and warned mutinous congressmen to behave, or lose their committee sParty candidates and warned mutinous congressmen to behave, or lose their committee seats.

What you didn't know about the potential candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada

It is apparently for that reason that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's allies in the party leadership, including party president John Walsh and Harper's chief of staff, Ray Novak, are not inviting defeated candidates for the first post-election caucus meeting, apparently in mid-November: They want to contain a rising tide of anger against Harper and his campaign.

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The single most discouraging thing to come out of the sudden leadership race for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario are new promises to roll back the sex education curriculum by candidates in this race.

Simcoe — Grey MP and former Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate the Hon. Dr. Kellie Leitch announced this week that she would not seek office in the 2019 election.

One of Mr. Jean's first acts as leader was to dismiss Calgary - South East candidate Bill Jarvis, whose comments about «brown people» embarrassed the party on the night of its leadership announcement.

If he does not seek his party's leadership, he could be a strong candidate in the next election.

Unlike previous PC leadership races, according to recently changed party rules, if no candidate earns a majority of votes on the first ballot, only the first and second candidate move to the second ballot vote.

Now that Clark has made his announcement, it is unclear if he or the Alberta Together group have a chosen candidate waiting in the wings to run for the party leadership.

He was widely expected to run for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada and only just recently began positioning himself as candidate to unite Alberta's conservative partisans under one banner.

This weekâ $ ™ s Angus Reid poll on the United Conservative Party, its approval levels, and those of the three leadership candidates didnâ $ ™ t tell us anything the half dozen or more polls released since...

The week of intrigue & tumult in the affairs of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta began last Saturday with the decision by the party executive to suspend leadership candidate Jas...

We must do something to change it as soon as possible and I am doing my part by stepping up to the plate to run as a United Conservative Party candidate, under the strong leadership of Jason Kenney, to defeat the NDP government in 2019 and to put Alberta's economy back on track!

Mr. Tesarski was briefly a candidate for the Alberta Party leadership earlier this year before dropping out and endorsing Alison Redford for the PC leadership.

The two main candidates for the leadership of the party, Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, are openly appealing to the party's social conservative and rural base of supporters and have been extremely reluctant to discuss any social issues.

CALGARY — Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney says he's confident of winning, but willing to move to Plan B if the party won't follow his plan to merge with the Wildrose.

Kenney's plan has also raised questions on whether such a merger platform contravenes leadership contest rules, which forbid candidates from doing harm to the party or its brand.

(I was economic advisor to Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, whom the Democratic Party leadership blocked from even discussing a public option in the Congressional debate.)

If the candidate has leadership abilities and some good plans for the country and a lot of common sense, I don't care what color he / she is, what chuch they go to or what party they represent.

Instead, Garlow told his followers he would be endorsing DeMaio's rival, Democratic incumbent Scott Peters, representative for California's 52nd District, to send a scathing message to Republican leadership that candidates who back abortion and gay rights are unacceptable to the party's Christian base.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

If anyone claims a God - ordained candidate or party or platform, be wary of their leadership.

Six times the Socialist Party's candidate for president, Thomas is sometimes seen as a disaster in terms of his political leadership.

Another great candidate for leadership of the tea party I think.

There are a much larger number of candidates from the ideological left, and this has been encouraged by the party leadership.

Hysteria and panic ensues as the new candidate is primed for BBC Fenland by the party leadership team — Cooper's long - suffering special adviser Claudia (Jessica Regan) being told to «shut up» and «go over there and be a camera.»

If a party wins nine seats, nine of its candidates are picked off a list by party leadership.

Only when and if the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party rank and file back a moderate Gubernatorial candidate acceptable to them, with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, will I back off.

Speculation continues to mount as to how long state GOP Chairman Ed Cox will manage to hold on to his leadership post now that the rank - and - file has officially rejected his party - switching preferred gubernatorial candidate, Levy.

«Only when and if the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party rank and file back a moderate Gubernatorial candidate acceptable to them, with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, will I back off,» Paladino wrote.

Kennedy was the endorsed democrat two years ago but fell out of favor with leadership when it was revealed he donated money to a Political Action Committee that funded challenges to party endorsed candidates.

The Democratic hopeful running in the primary against Sen. Simcha Felder said the state party's leadership is «late to the game» in trying to find a candidate to run in the 17th Senate district.

The leadership, like Ferguson, believe that «Labour members won't forgive mayoral candidates who put their ambition before the party».

There has been no change in the Republican leadership over the last year when they hand picked a candidate whose values were more in line with the Democrat party then their own.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

The Green party has been dealt a blow with the news that Siân Berry, its highly - rated candidate for London mayor, will not be standing for the party leadership.

The party and its leadership candidates need to be ready to take swift action.

An inability to find any viable Staten Island candidate for the seat may lead some observers question Mr. Gulino's leadership of the the county party, after an already humbling loss in November.

Boris is likely to have an ebuillient confidence that he would win the party leadership if ever he was one of two candidates on that members» ballot paper.

Sources familiar with the conversations said the party leadership is considering not nominating an AG candidate this weekend, but rather opting for a «placeholder candidate.»

One legacy has been a membership sharply polarised by when they joined the party: in a recent YouGov poll of Labour members, Corbyn's net approval rating was -46 among those who joined before he became a leadership candidate in 2015 but +36 among those who joined after he declared — and this latter group constitutes 60 % of the total membership.