Sentences with phrase «as a political party candidate»

Additionally, a candidate can not run as an independent if he or she tried and failed to qualify as a political party candidate in the primary.

Candidates in Arizona can access the ballot as political party candidates, independent candidates, or write - in candidates.

Not exact matches

Much has been made during the current election cycle about which political party is best aligned with the interests of Corporate America, with some arguing that the Republican party is losing its status as the «party of business,» while Fortune «s Chris Matthews argued that Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson may actually be the best candidate for the business community this year.

With a strong pro-business message, Johnson could eventually could emerge as the third — party candidate who grabs votes from either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or real — estate magnate Donald Trump, the respective presumptive Democratic and Republican candidates, political analysts say.

• Make sure that third parties are subject to the same donation limits as political parties and candidates, as well as increased transparency around their activities.

These include activities considered intervention under the Internal Revenue Code in any political campaign, such as direct and indirect political contributions to candidates, political parties, or political organizations; independent expenditures; or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

After losing the Wildrose Party nomination in Rimbey - Rocky Mountain House - Sundre last weekend, some political watchers have speculated that he might join the Alberta Party, others believe he could run as an Independent candidate in the next election.

There has been plenty of activity this week as candidates from all political parties put forward their names to run in Canada's next federal election, scheduled to be held in October 2015.

But that would require a fundamental change to the Elections Act — eliminating the requirement of a party leader's endorsement to run as a party's candidate, then fashioning a more coherent rule — and a change in the ways our political parties do business.

The aristocratic principle — necessary in all political systems — should come into play within the parties themselves as would - be candidates are screened in accordance with established criteria to insure a high level of competence and personal integrity.

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

In a June statement on her web site decrying what she referred to as an «Islamic training center,» Lou Ann Zelenik, a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Tennessee and a Tea Party favorite, argued that the center «is not part of a religious movement; it is a political movement.»

«If you want to be involved in the political process, go and stand as a candidate, work for one for one of the parties, deliver your leaflets, wear your rosette, argue what you think is good for the country.»

«As a pastor of a local church attended by people of different political parties and persuasions, I have made it my practice not to endorse political candidates,» wrote Jonathan Falwell.

A statement can identify a candidate not only by stating the candidate's name but also by other means such as showing a picture of the candidate, referring to political party affiliations, or other distinctive features of a candidate's platform or biography.

I believe some will argue the alliance is just a mere opportunistic move to gain ground with a political party thats so desperate to absorb a black candidate to counter the labels they have earned as a party that does not subscribe to Blacks interest.

Kraft Heinz and the Kraft Heinz PAC do not support Presidential campaigns, judicial candidates, super PACs or make contributions to independent expenditure committees, which is defined as money spent to support a political candidate, but not at the suggestion or request of the candidate, the candidate's authorized committee or a political party.

After the coup, Col. Zanlerigu was on the quiet until the ban on political party activities was lifted in 1979 when Nkrumaists forces re-grouped under the People's National Party (PNP) with Dr Hilla Limann as the presidential candiparty activities was lifted in 1979 when Nkrumaists forces re-grouped under the People's National Party (PNP) with Dr Hilla Limann as the presidential candiParty (PNP) with Dr Hilla Limann as the presidential candidate.

In Spain there is no need for primaries; as long as the political party internal workings are democratic, the way of chosing a candidate is up to each party.

There was lot of political infighting inside the PSOE and in 1999 Josep Borrell did renounce his candidature; then the party executive declared Joaquin Almunia as candidate.

Often, campaign sponsors do not just support the candidate (s) but the political party as a whole.

Chief Scribe of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, is predicting a bleak political future for Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia if he still persists in what he describes as intellectual dishonesty.

Speaking at the party's campaign launch in Cape Coast in the Central Region on Sunday, 14 August, General Mosquito, as Mr Asiedu Nketiah is known in political circles, said: «The NDC scored a very important victory when we decided to expand our decision - making structures and allow every card - bearing member of the NDC to participate in the choice of our parliamentary and presidential candidates.

Paladino also praised a man he just recently was quoted as calling a «degenerate idiot» — former Gov. George Pataki — saying his fellow Republican «put his own political best interests aside for the public good» by insisting in 2002 that the minor party gubernatorial candidates be included in debates along with his Democratic opponent, then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall.

`' As a presidential candidate or a political party, if your campaign massage is in sync with the campaign songs you are using, you can win the election easily... but if what the message in the music is saying is different from the campaign message, you can lose the election easily», he reveals.

He added that all political parties, candidates and their supporters as well as the general public are assured of safety throughout the period of voting and collation.

The Usual Suspects moved quickly as news spread of Eric Cantor's sudden fall in Tuesday's primary election: my inbox filled fast with fundraising messages from the Democratic party committees, outside political funding groups, individual candidates and more.

Long, no relation to state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, first surfaced as a potential US Senate candidate at the Conservative Party's annual political action conference in Colonie last month.

Open preferential voting is a hybrid electoral system which allows voters to either express a rank ordering of individual candidates in the same manner as STV, or to select a list of candidates chosen by a political party, much like a closed list proportional representation system.

There is only one thing we could do that would make the whole system, teetering as it is, go over the top, and that is to relax the rules on advertising for political parties and candidates.

In the political calculations, alignments and re-alignments of 2014 which brought back Aregbesola for a second term, Adeleke emerged a factor that was required to complete the rank of all former governors of the state to be on one side (that of Aregbesola) as against ambition of the then candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyiola Omisore.

Expenditure is «controlled» if it is spending on election activities which «can reasonably be regarded as intended to influence voters to vote for or against political parties or categories of candidates including those parties and categories of candidates who support or do not support particular policies or issues».

As a result, wealthy donors and the political action committees of unions and corporate interests often give to political party committees that are backing candidates they favor — in addition to, or rather than, the candidates themselves.

No constituency candidate who seeks election as an independent candidate shall use the name of any political party that contested the last general election or any by - election held since the last general election but shall have the word «INDEPENDENT», without further qualification or addition, shown on the ballot paper immediately below that candidate's name.

«This generation relates to candidates more than political parties, and as a result, despite voting for Obama 2 - 1, they are less concerned with which party will win in 2010 and instead gravitate toward the candidate who speaks most clearly and directly to their interests and concerns,» said Rock the Vote President Heather Smith.

The presidential candidates of the two major political parties in Ghana, John Dramani Mahama and Nana Akufo Addo have been visiting various communities as part of their campaign ahead of the December polls.

Subject to the concurrence of the Electoral Commission, where the Returning Officer considers that the name shown on the nomination paper or other document as the name of the constituency candidate's political party is indecent or offensive or excessively long or likely to cause confusion to or mislead electors, --

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

State law defines an established political party as any party whose candidate for a statewide office received at least 2 percent of the total votes cast that office in either of the two most recent general elections.

It deals in theoretical situations with all sorts of shortcomings — such as no defined alternative election candidates — but it underscores the risk to political parties of ignoring voters» moral sensitivities.

The intention is that the # 40m (which would be in addition to the # 8m already provided to political parties) would be financed by ending the free election post for general and european elections, and instead circulating a booklet including statements from each candidate (as happened in the last London Mayoral election).

«As an eager young delegate to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, I can tell you first - hand that Geraldine Ferraro thrilled us when she took the stage as the first woman ever nominated by a major political party to be its candidate for vice president of the United States,» Maloney said in a statemenAs an eager young delegate to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, I can tell you first - hand that Geraldine Ferraro thrilled us when she took the stage as the first woman ever nominated by a major political party to be its candidate for vice president of the United States,» Maloney said in a statemenas the first woman ever nominated by a major political party to be its candidate for vice president of the United States,» Maloney said in a statement.

Plaintiff avers that as a duly registered political party in the Republic, she is entitled to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for election to any public office subject to the Constitution and other laws consistent with the Constitution of Ghana.

Some political observers have even named Harry Wilson, the party's 2010 candidate for comptroller and an independently wealthy businessman, as potentially interested in running.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

Business restructuring expert Harry Wilson, a former candidate for state comptroller, appeared at the state Conservative Party Political Action Conference Sunday evening to pitch himself in what could eventually serve as his stump speech.

The NDP, which was formed in 2012 as a split from the governing National Democratic Congress, joins four other political parties and an independent candidate to challenge the NDC's John Mahama for the presidential seat.

Obasanjo's intervention comes as political parties and candidates begin jostling for position in preparation for campaigning.

Green Party candidates in the United States have primarily won elected offices at the local level; most Green officeholders have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (races in which candidates were not identified on the ballot as affiliated with any political paParty candidates in the United States have primarily won elected offices at the local level; most Green officeholders have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (races in which candidates were not identified on the ballot as affiliated with any political partyparty).

«Independent expenditures tend not to be particularly as big in New York as say the LLC Loophole or housekeeping accounts,» said Blair Horner of The New York Public Interest Research Group, referring to political party accounts not subject to the same campaign finance limits as candidate campaigns.