Sentences with phrase «against women candidates»

Lets be honest - these comments and howls of self serving anguish just show that there is a bias against women candidates.

Other polls have similarly found a lack of bias against women candidates.

Not exact matches

Ivanka Trump has weighed in on the allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, claiming that she believes the accounts of the women who have come forward.

The city's leader was bound to be a woman no matter what, as Durkan faced off against another female candidate, Cary Moon.

But Podesta and his candidate want to force a religious order of Catholic women to cooperate in the provision of contraceptives and abortifacients; they want to compel small businesses to cater to same - sex marriage ceremonies; and they want physicians to refer troubled patients for «transgender» treatment — all against the Catholic understanding of the right to act on one's conscience (in these cases, one's rightly formed conscience).

So gender based bashing against a woman is OK, but questioning the qualifications of a colored candidate is wrong.

There are some voters who don't see the election as a contest between two candidates who have differing opinions on nuanced, complicated economic, diplomatic and social issues, but as one between a candidate who is against abortion, and one who supports a woman's right to have one.

Anecdotaly, however, there is no evidence that Hillary Clinton is leading against Republican candidates among women, and may even be leading by less than Obama did.

Many mediocre women were selected some were be reasonable and competent But this simple hit and miss approach to candidate selection based on their gender is wrong as it discriminates against men.

Failed Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a new lawsuit Monday accusing several women who made allegations of sexual misconduct against him of a «political conspiracy» to prevent him from winning the state's December special election.

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.

If he faces off against a credible centrist candidate running a smart campaign, enough members might be persuaded to give up on the Corbyn project - especially if he faces a woman.

LeFevre won her Plattsburgh town council seat last year against Republican candidate Tom Metz, joining the council not just as the only woman, but the youngest member in her early 30s.

She said it has been her goal to recruit more female candidates for office — a head - on offensive against Democratic efforts, through the Women's Equality Party that Gov. Andrew Cuomo created, to use gender issues to drive up turnout.

If her lead holds up, Ms. Ayala appears to be the only woman candidate to break through in a race against an incumbent male state legislator.

This is the same woman who is alleged to have actively campaigned for an independent candidate against the NDC's candidate in the last elections at the Klottey Korley constituency.

Yet while Britain's First Past the Post acts against the representation of women, the fact that the number of women candidates is going up and that the ERS are able to project a rise in women does show that parties can move forwards in this area.

But with a month to go before the elections, state Senate Democrats, who if they win will make Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman leader of the chamber, said they are set to use Trump's latest controversy against every Republican candidate in a series of mailings and television ads.

If Labour wants to show that it can select candidates who have experienced real hardship and have personal experience of the effects of violence against women, it could not have made a better choice.

She encouraged Ghanaian women to ignore the governing National Democratic Congress» vile propaganda against the NPP's Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, and endorse his candidature on December 7.

Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is considering legal action against one or more of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, he said Tuesday night.

In yet another sign allies of Senate Democrats will be using the 10 - point women's agenda this fall as a political bludgeon against Republican candidates, Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York are blasting GOP hopeful Rich Funke for comments made on the key abortion provision in the measure.

Republican Senate candidate George Amedore in a Capital Tonight interview on Wednesday said he'd vote against the abortion provision in the 10 - point women's agenda, saying it goes further than what women's advocates claim.

All six judges in an Alabama county have recused themselves from presiding over the lawsuit filed by failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore against some of the women who accused him of sexual misconduct.

She had experienced many rebuffs along the way, often on the short list for candidates only to be disqualified by prejudice against a woman — and, worse, a woman with children.

At noon, Democratic congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout and about 25 women from Women With Zephyr will rally against John Faso and his stance on abortion, Corner Plaza, 181 Healy Blvd, Huwomen from Women With Zephyr will rally against John Faso and his stance on abortion, Corner Plaza, 181 Healy Blvd, HuWomen With Zephyr will rally against John Faso and his stance on abortion, Corner Plaza, 181 Healy Blvd, Hudson.

A parliamentary debate in the Awutu Senya West Constituency in the Central Region was postponed because of the presence of some National Democratic Congress (NDC) women clad in red at the venue to protest against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the area George Andah.

He has previously been convicted of soliciting a prostitute, and the woman serving as treasurer for Shirley Patterson, the Independence Party's candidate, took out an order of protection against him eight years ago.

Gillibrand endorsed an insurgent woman candidate, Marie Newman, in her Illinois primary Tuesday night against 12 - year incumbent conservative Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski.

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Similarly, Jon Kostakopoulos — a public relations specialist and former aide to supermarket magnate and failed 2013 GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis — got into his race against Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright relatively late, and faces long odds even with his name appearing on the Women's Equality line.

The Labour leadership candidate published proposals on tackling violence and harassment against women overnight.

Minnesota Democratic Senate candidate Richard Painter repeatedly would not say Monday if he believed the women who have made accusations of sexual miscoduct against former Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.).

Referring back to his Wednesday night remark that a judge who ruled against him looked like McCray, Dietl said the two women have similar - looking eyes and mouths, and noted that he did not refer to their race when he spoke about them at the Republican mayoral candidate forum.

But judging by this year's audience reactions to the sold - out showings of both Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Dee Rees» «Mudbound,» maybe sentiment concerning matters involving the verbal and physical abuse of women, hate crimes and violence directed at those of different races or creeds and the rise of white supremacy has affected more than just those who voted against the GOP candidate.

As a result, CPPIB — which manages more than $ 325 billion for the Canada Pension Plan — voted 34 times this year against specific directors who chaired board's nomination committees that failed to include women as candidates.

Workplace pregnancy discrimination is any type of adverse employment action against an employee or job candidate based upon the fact that the woman is pregnant.

Women coming forward in the wake of new harassment allegations against the U.S. presidential candidate should be aware of the risk of defamation, warns Toronto civil sexual abuse lawyer Elizabeth Grace.

The backlash against punishing abortion - seeking women is incomplete without acknowledging two points: First, ALL the Republican candidates for president want to outlaw abortion - and second, politicians have already been punishing women for years.

Unfortunately, every leading GOP candidate has advocated for a repeal to the ACA, including its protections against being charged more for being a woman or being denied coverage for preexisting conditions that in the past even included domestic violence abuse — many, such as Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz, have specifically targeted access to no - copay birth control.