Sentences with phrase «as elected officials in»

«This is an expression that we are expressing our First Amendment rights as elected officials in the city,» he said.

Community schools with wraparound social services got a statewide funding boost of $ 175 million as elected officials in both parties embraced the model.

After November's General Election, Adriano Espaillat will be a Member of the United States Congress and two women Espaillat supported in the Primary will serve as elected officials in the New York State Legislature.

She has worked extensively with the executive branch, as well as elected officials in both houses and across the aisles of Congress, State Government, and in the private sector.

About 47 percent of white evangelicals were less likely to vote for someone who had served as an elected official in Washington for many years, while 34 percent said it made no difference and 18 percent said such political experience would make their support more likely.

Jesse Hamilton has spent his entire career helping people, including over 15 years as an elected official in Crown Heights, eight years as President of the School Board and the last eight representing our community as District Leader of the 43rd Assembly District.

Duehay has also served 36 years as an elected official in the City of Cambridge, and during this period was three times elected Mayor.

Nevertheless, DFER Executive Director Joe Williams lent a quote to Romero's goodbye press release, saying, «We are extremely grateful for all the great work Gloria has done for children and families in California as an elected official in the California Legislature as well as her leadership of DFER in California.»

Not exact matches

Elected officials can see the fault lines in Canada's housing market just as well as anyone else — but fixing them is too politically unpopular

The Trans - Pacific Partnership is on life support, and as President Barack Obama readies a long - shot push to get the free - trade deal through Congress this fall, he may be virtually the last elected official in Washington who hasn't given it up for dead.

Prosecutors began to uncover a string of corruption scandals in 2014 and 2015, involving both private and state - controlled companies, like Petrobras, the nation's oil and gas champion, as well as current and former elected officials — namely, the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Kellie Leitch The pediatric orthopedic surgeon first elected as an MP in 2011 was the first official entrant in the race.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

«So, number one, the positions I hold on these issues is the Second Amendment, I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official,» Rubio responded.

That wasn't even Olson's case, but with assists from a federal district court judge who came out as being in a same - sex relationship only after ruling and retiring, and elected officials who chose to forgo their traditional duty to vigorously defend state law, Olson and Boies did succeed in disenfranchising millions of Californians on a procedural technicality.

Nor is the fact that money talks in the electoral process, having a significant influence on who is elected and what they do as elected officials.

In early 2007 the committee unveiled a Spiritual Advocacy Handbook covering such topics as working together for change, visiting an elected official, attending a public forum, and influencing the media.

I do care if it is done by an elected official in his capacity as that elected official.

I worked for 30 yrs in Govt as a manager and what you describe as key issues hold true in relation to many elected officials (not all).

We can expect of our elected officials (and ourselves) integrity — the idea that we can act as honorably in the locker room as we would from the stage of the political rally or the seat in the Oval Office — without requiring perfection.

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I haIn a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I hain my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I hain the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I hain Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

She says being a Mormon isn't an important thing, and yet she appeared in the «I'm a Mormon» ad campaign, which also pointed her out as being an elected official.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouAs Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouas we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

As we watch the comedic behavior of some of our elected officials in Washington D. C., we long for the return of Jesus when He will rule and reign over all the earth with righteousness and justice.

In their op - ed, Morre, Dupree, and Kinsky wrote that they are excited by what they believe is a «change that we see sweeping the nation,» referencing newer elected officials they dubbed as «new visionaries» who are re-defining what it means to win.

The best we can do is catch a slight glimpse of him as he speeds by us in this life, and hope that he will in some way help prepare us for the day when we elect public officials who wear beanies and have term themes to write.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

«As an elected official who strives to be involved in the communities I represent, I am excited to have a new office in Orland Park's Village Hall,» Lipinski said.

Think about the best way to tell your story, to share your information and to ask for the support of your elected official in as clear a way possible.

She currently is serving as chairperson of East Texas Area Breastfeeding Coalition, and has actively lobbied her local and state elected officials in support of breastfeeding legislation.

Lorigo said the most immediate impact will come as a result of new transparency rules for elected officials regarding disclosure of family members working in government.

In a small political party that is unlikely to elect anyone to office, or is likely to elect only a handful of officials, the drafting of the party platform is often seen as the primary mission of the party since it articulates the ideas that are associated with the party and provides a marketing document for the party and for its ideas.

«The only thing we know Flanagan supports are double dipping elected officials who voted for large increases in state spending, installed Pedro Espada and Dean Skelos as their leaders and gave state grants to themselves and their families.»

Also, according to this source, Fahey, who has never held office before, started 15 points down in this race, so his loss to an established elected official with name recognition shouldn't come as such a shock — no matter what the internals said.

NYSUT had never been big fans of King to begin with, having passed a vote of no - confidence in his tenure as commissioner, including knocking the roll out of the Common Core education standards, which education observers and elected officials had said was was flawed.

Mr Awah, at the ongoing AASU Delegates Congress in Khartoum, Sudan has fraudulently chosen his friends and cronies as official representatives of national student unions across Africa including Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone among others for the purposes of electing his friends into office as his tenure as Secretary General of the continental student body ends this weekend.

New York City wants elected and community officials to speak up about potential locations for new homeless shelters in their neighborhoods as it enters the second year of its effort to build 90 citywide.

But some elected officials on both the city and state level have criticized this approach as a way to close public schools and open a charter school in its place.

In particular, local media attention matters: it's often easier to get than national coverage, it lets you leverage your local activists and it can lead to much broader distribution of your story if it gets on a newswire (even local blogs can help, since they may be disproportionately read by elected officials and other opinion leaders and can also serve as a source for national blogs — see this article for details).

Carl Paladino argues in an LA Times profile that the personal failings of elected officials should not be considered when voters are trying to decide whether they're qualified to hold elected office, and cites former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as an example of someone forced to resign when he should not have.

Gillibrand, as you might recall, was one of the first Democratic elected officials — and definitely the first member of the NY congressional delegation — to call for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign if the allegations about his involvement in a prostitution ring proved true.

The questioner (who happened to be a YNN videographer) then asked Gillibrand if she thought women should be offended by Eliot Spitzer's candidacy for New York City comptroller, as some of her fellow female elected officials have suggested — including NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, but she had a political motive in seeking to link Spitzer and Weiner together in hopes of tarring the former congressman, who is one of her rivals in the mayor's race.

Plus, Bronx voters have seen their share of elected officials charged with bilking the taxpayers in corruption scandals (former Sen. Guy Velella comes to mind, as does NYC Councilman Larry Seabrook and ex-Sen.

Two days later, the newly - minted governor held a press conference to announce his transition team, which included no lobbyists or elected officials to, as he put it, «maintain the public's confidence» in the process of transferring power from the Pataki administration to the Spitzer administration.

«You look at why people are upset; you look at the way some people act, and it's certainly not becoming of them as an elected official and not becoming of them in the job that they're supposed to doing.

And a governor, as the state's most prominent elected official, can line up in - person meetings with hard - to - get political officials and business executives.

Many upstate elected officials have signed on in support of Uber, saying their cities would benefit from the competition to existing cab companies, as well as the jobs the company says it will be creating.

In a boost to Ramaphosa, courts ruled that officials from some provinces seen as supporting Dlamini - Zuma had been elected illegally and were barred from the conference.

The voter register is the most important tool for making election outcomes credible, it is like a credible and reliable scientific research which relies on the «sample frame»; it is the touchstone that gives assurance to the fact that the ballot, as expressed in an election, arose from the physical presence of eligible voters at the polling unit who delegated part of their sovereignty temporarily to elected officials.