Sentences with phrase «black candidate for»

A gang of gun - toting goons have staged a daring, big - money rip - off at a high - society fund - raiser for the state's first black candidate for governor!

While speaking on the floor, Barron said «it's time for a black speaker» and referred to the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm — the first African - American woman elected to Congress, the first black candidate for a major party nomination and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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.

It was only last week that Councilman Robert E. Cornegy Jr. of Brooklyn, the most prominent black candidate for speaker, privately conceded to Mr. Johnson as they met in the modest interior conference room in Mr. Johnson's West Midtown district office.

There hasn't been a major - party black candidate for governor since then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall ran in 2002.

Another black candidate for speaker, Jumaane D. Williams, has yet to concede the race.

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

«When the black candidates for City Council would not commit to come to this day when the nominations and selection for speaker occur, it erased all possibility for a black speaker,» she said.

Not exact matches

Goldman started its MBA Fellowship program in 1997 for «Black, Hispanic / Latino, Native American or women» for first - year MBA candidates.

You rarely get the candidate's best, plus it's easy for the interview team to fall into the group consensus black hole where everyone gravitates towards the same opinion.

Recently hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) revealed that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee instructed candidates not to «offer support» for Black Lives Matter's «concrete policy positions.»

Black voters in red states should vote as they usually do for candidates, down the ballot — and leave their choice for President blank.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the Alabama Legislature and the federal court that ruled on the plan had taken a «mechanically numerical» view, instead of trying to figure out what percentage of black voters were needed to elect a candidate of their choice.

By converting «wasted» presidential votes into «none of the above» or support for third - party candidates in Oklahoma, Arizona and other deep red states in the South — the Confederacy, essentially — black voters would exert pressure on party leaders to not take black voters and their issues for granted.

Since then black voters have provided the margin of victory for Democratic presidential candidates over the years — Jimmy Carter in 1976, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

One desperate solution was for blacks to risk voting for the candidate who represented the greater of two evils, in the hope that he would be sympathetic to African Americans because they helped secure the election.

In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

As a policy - focused, but non-partisan, organization The Vancouver Board of Trade has worked to positively engage both of the leading candidates for mayor and council, noted Black.

The trend is the same for black Protestants: 76 percent voted in support of a candidate in 2012, compared to 56 percent in 2016.

But there is a fundamental tradeoff involved here: majority black districts raise the likelihood of the black candidate's success while lowering the probability that his election will bring along white support for his program.

Not all did so with enthusiasm, and for that matter, Trump received a higher percentage of black and Hispanic votes than did his predecessors, Republican candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain.

Sho Baraka: Why I Can't Vote for Either Trump or Clinton Both candidates fail to address the heart concerns of black evangelicals like me.

More than half of black Protestants said they would be less likely to vote for a gay or lesbian candidate in 2007; that number declined to 29 percent in 2014 but increased to 34 percent in 2016.

I'm on the right (although not a Republican) and it's clear that she is a token candidate to try and increase the black vote for Romney.

Of great significance was the fact that two black Democratic candidates, David Dinkins in New York City and Douglas Wilder in Virginia, used their support for legalized abortion to persuade white voters that their politics were «moderate» and «mainstream.»

More black and Hispanic millennials — ages 18 to 25 — said that it was important that a presidential candidate hold religious beliefs than white millennials, according to survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.

On Friday at a senatorial campaign rally for failed - candidate Luther Strange, Trump referred to mostly black protesters in the NBA and NFL as sons of bitches.

Names like Donovan Peoples - Jones, Tarik Black and Cesar Ruiz already have spent a semester at Michigan as January enrollees, and they are candidates for serious playing time in their freshman seasons.

This burden of reassurance is even heavier for someone young, and (especially) for a candidate identified as black.

Paterson joked he wanted to form a «group therapy session» for black voters and others who support underdog candidates.

Condi was supported by others earlier as being a shock and awe VP choice.It won't happen.She has expressed no interest in being a public candidate, and likely would be very bad at it.In many ways, she is a delicate flower; and would not easily survive in the political garden of vipers.And what would she add to the GOP ticket?A slight tick up for black voters?

And as of Friday, he's the first candidate to have profiles on BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com, popular soc - nets in the black and Latino communities, and also on newer soc - nets such as AsianAve.com (for Asian Americans) and GLEE.com («GLEE» stands for «Gay, Lesbian and Everyone Else»).

As the Obama presidency has unfolded, it seems it has been a mixture of both; nevertheless, the fact that Obama did not run for election as a Black candidate (despite winning over 90 % of the votes of the African American community) but rather ran a strategically race - neutral campaign is a testament to the complicated relationship the United States has with race.

What never ceases to amaze ME is the political «wisdom» that (1) black voters are more likely to vote for a gubernatorial candidate governor who will appoint a black Lt. Gov. and (2) women are more likely to vote for someone who appoints a female Lt.. The menfolk (including some in the press) must think that female and minority voters are simpletons.

In the lead up to this weekend's New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus» conference in Albany, the Center for Working Families and Citizen Action of New York has released a study that found public financing of political campaigns helps candidates in poor and majority - minority districts.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon wants to legalize marijuana because she says it is time to stop putting black people and others of color in jail for something that is «effectively legal» for white New Yorkers.

Given the ugly tone set earlier in this race by former candidate Thomas Lopez - Pierre who criticized a black supporter of Mark Levine for «sucking Jewish cock,» one might imagine that the remaining candidates would make an effort to avoid certain linguistic clusters.

Duffy provides geographical balance to the Democrats» downstate - dominated ticket, but leaves the field with no black or Latino candidate for statewide office.

However, Black Protestant voters, majorities of whom are Evangelical, voted 96 percent for Pro-Choice Democrat Al Gore and only 4 percent for George Bush, the Pro-Life candidate.

(There are two other candidates — the most viable a charismatic Harlem minister, Michael Walrond, who could siphon black votes from Rangel, or steal from Espaillat voters simply looking for a change.

a black supporter of Mark Levine for «sucking Jewish cock,» one might imagine that the remaining candidates would make an effort to avoid certain linguistic clusters.

In an open letter to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Tatum warned the AG that he «can not do this without the help of the Black community, and you will not get that help just for being a Cuomo.»

«As many of you know, my boss, Ann Wagner (MO - 2), and Congresswoman Diane Black (TN - 6) have worked over the last year to recruit, support and promote Republican women candidates for Congress across the country,» wrote Christian Morgan, Wagner's chief of staff.

For one, he's the only black candidate in the race.

The campaign theme seemed to be a break with the 2010 candidate for governor, Carl Paladino, whose orange and black campaign signs included the slogan «I'm mad too, Carl!»

And his influence extends beyond his members: Mr. Seabrook has been known to throw his weight behind an interesting array of candidates from both parties and was rumored (by Rudy Giuliani) to be supporting Donald Trump — for whom an endorsement from a black union leader would amount to big news.

Standing in front of a large orange - and - black «Paladino for Governor» banner, Golombek joked that he wasn't the only Democrat in the room, noting Rus Thompson, a WNY Tea Party activist and state comptroller candidate on Paladino's Taxpayers Party line, is, too.

NEW YORK CITY — Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton said Eric Garner was «choked to death» by police during her first major policy speech at Columbia University where she called for a dramatic shift in the way the nation's criminal justice system treats black men.

(CNN)-- Days before American shoppers rush to the stores for Black Friday deals after Thanksgiving, former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum joined a political choir urging Americans to buy at home this holiday season.

This new development could present a problem for Cuomo, who has had an up and down relationship with the black and Latino communities for years, dating back to his short - lived primary challenge to then - state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, the state's first black major party candidate for governor, in 2002.