Sentences with phrase «authorization from party leaders»

Ms. Jones said that UpIsland party leadership chose not to endorse Mr. Wilkinson's Republican running mates, Steven Gaines and Richard Haeg, candidates for the town board and instead provided de facto support for the local designees, Bill Mott, an Independence Party member, and Marilyn Behan, a Democrat who received Wilson Pakula authorization from party leaders to run on the Independence Party line.