Sentences with phrase «black candidate against»

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This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when running in Chicago against a conservative black candidate.

More than 100 black Secret Service agents argued that the security agency discriminated against black people by promoting less - qualified candidates over them from 1995 to 2005.

McCall not only gave Cuomo cover back when it looked like he might again mount a primary challenge against a black gubernatorial candidate (in this case, a sitting governor — the first African American to hold the post, David Paterson), but also stood by him when other black leaders were complaining about the lack of diversity on the statewide Democratic ticket.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State,» Diaz wrote in his «What You Should Know» email at the time.

«I believe that Governor Cuomo is not only working against the Democratic Party as the leader — who as the leader should be protecting and defending the party and its candidates — but I also believe that he is working against racial equality and minority opportunities by preventing Black and Hispanics from gaining positions of leadership in New York State.»

Andrew Barovick has finally departed the city's prestigious bar association after making racist tweets against Chris Moss, the GOP's black candidate for lieutenant governor.

Mr. Thompson recently told Mr. Jeffries that he viewed the congressman as the strongest black candidate who could run against the mayor in 2017 — and one of only two Democrats, along with Scott M. Stringer, the current comptroller, able to mount a real challenge to Mr. de Blasio.

Sharpton also seemed to warn against supporting another black candidate in the race, Clyde Williams, a former political director for the Democratic National Committee.

Obama's message to voters — intended to specifically reach black voters whose turnout is critical for Democratic candidate Jones — comes on the eve of a special election that has drawn extraordinary national attention and divided the Republican Party over whether sexual allegations against Moore make him unfit for office.

A GOP ad against Senate candidate Harold Ford — featuring a white seductress who says she met the black lawmaker at a Playboy party and that he should call her — is so odious and racially tinged that Ford's Republican opponent, Bob Corker, denounces it.

NO CANDIDATE LEFT BEHIND: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., one of the nation's largest black fraternities, says it takes issue with Donald Trump's racially - charged comments against the judge handling a lawsuit against Trump University, who is the son of Mexican immigrants.