Sentences with phrase «broken campaign promises»

Utilizing a theme of broken campaign promises from 2008, when Begich defeated Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, the new TV ad from American Crossroads hammers the Democrat for both the percentage of votes on which he agreed with the president last year and the fact that Congress has not approved ANWR oil exploration.

Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

People like those commentators get all hot and bothered when politicians break campaign promises... except, I guess, when they're promises they don't like all that much.

In 2012, he pushed to reduce pension benefits for new public employees in exchange for allowing legislators to draw their own district lines, breaking a campaign promise to reformers and helping Republicans retain their grip on power in the state Senate.

In an open letter to senators, NYCF says Grisanti isn't worthy of a judicial post offered as a «reward» by Cuomo when the former senior's «most significant act was breaking a campaign promise made to his constituents.»

Andrew has already broken a campaign promise by putting the same old downstate connected power elite in there.

Miner, who used Planned Parenthood for healthcare services while a student at Syracuse University, noted that Katko broke a campaign promise not to cut off federal money for the organization.

For years now, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has driven the GOP Senate further and further to the left, breaking campaign promises left and right.

It would be President Obama, standing alone, breaking a campaign promise to act to protect the climate from chaos induced by human action.

The industry had a willing booster in George W. Bush, who quickly broke his campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and appointed coal lobbyists to top positions in his administration, granting the industry a long and now familiar wish list of favors, including gutting the Clean Air Act and easing standards for mountaintop mining.

Not exact matches

Trump has been vocal in his praise of Carrier and has reportedly offered the company $ 7 million in tax breaks as part of the agreement, which Trump brokered after his election win last month after promising on the campaign trail that he would save the jobs in question.

I believed the Liberal campaign promises that the National Energy Board process was so badly broken that no pipeline could be approved as a result of that process.

What followed, he writes, was a campaign of promises from the company — many of them broken — designed to ensure her silence.

Whether or not you hold up to your end of the promise can make or break your campaign.

That was when the first campaign promises were sadly broken: Various ghastly «celebrities» who had pledged to emigrate if Trump were elected now indicated that they would, after all, be staying in the U.S.A..

Following on the heels of a revelation by the Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei, that the NPP government was currently involved in negotiations to extend the programme to 2018, it should be clear that the Akufo Addo government has broken yet another campaign promise because reality has dawned on them

Several are also the subject of the AFL - CIO's leaflett and canvass campaign accusing lawmakers of breaking promises to union members on a host of issues — support of charter schools among them.

Some of Trump's most ardent campaign supporters on the far right were among his most vocal opponents after he ordered the missile strike against Syria, charging him with breaking his promise to keep the United States out of another conflict in the Middle East.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The VAT hike was particularly poorly timed for this campaign and became a keystone of Labour rhetoric against the coalition's «broken promises».

Senate Deputy Majority Leader Jeff Klein, one of several Democrats targeted by a recent AFL - CIO leaflet campaign for leaving a «trail of broken promises» to labor unions, is hitting back with a mailer that highlights his support for public education.

To step aside would be to break a promise he made earlier in the campaign and his commitment to the Working Families Party, whose line he carries.

Is the fact that a promise was made in the heat of a campaign some sort of excuse for breaking that promise?

Cameron's referendum promise may well not prevent the Conservatives from breaking up, but, if Labour wins the next election, the Tories will probably campaign for a «no» vote anyway.

Within his first hour after being sworn into office, Bill Owens broke four campaign promises when he decided to support a government takeover of healthcare that included massive tax hikes for middle class families, taxes on benefits, drastic cuts to Medicare, and a government - run option that would result in rationed care.»

In an acceptance speech that stressed his liberal beliefs, already set out in his two - month leadership campaign, Mr Clegg promised to fix a «broken» politics which is «out of step» with people and the modern world.

De Blasio has also faced criticism from his liberal base that some of his policies, such as his support of «broken windows» policing and his plan to rezone 15 city neighborhoods, do not jibe with his campaign promises to end what he called «a tale of two cities» in New York.

The NDC, led by its flagbearer launched its 2016 campaign manifesto over the weekend presenting a litany of pledges which have influenced an NPP press conference themed, «Promises made, promises brokenPromises made, promises brokenpromises broken.»

As a result of this and the various broken promises or ditched campaigns, Clegg — who rode high in 2010 on his promises to bring a «new style of politics» has simply confirmed a perception in the mind of the electorate that politicians can't be trusted.

«It should come as no surprise that the very same congressman who broke four campaign promises within one hour after being sworn in, is now lying about his record.

She's worried about the New Labour government's «broken promises» and doesn't think it's worth bothering campaigning again.

Cable's return with a 52 % share of the vote was just reward for a hugely positive campaign which focused on cuts to local schools, the state of the NHS and the Tories broken promise on Heathrow expansion.

WikiLeaks spent the final weeks of the 2016 presidential election leaking information harmful to Clinton's campaign — but now they're not happy with the man who beat her, saying he broke his promise about releasing his tax returns.

He opposed torture and promoted campaign finance reform, a cause that Mr. Obama injured when he broke his promise to accept public financing in the general election campaign.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

He broke promises to promote transparency, tried to control supposedly independent enforcers and has shattered campaign fund - raising records.

Opponents of AV need to turn the campaign into a referendum on the broken promises and horse - trading of coalition politics.

Clearly angry over those remarks, board member Richard Davis noted Albanese signed a sworn statement promising not to break campaign finance laws.

Is the real reason that he doesn't want people to talk about Europe that he is trying to tiptoe away quietly from the only hard promise he made during the leadership campaign - to break with the EPP?

Related links: Louise Bagshawe on the electoral implications of Gordon Brown's broken promise and the Tory poster campaign on Brown's surrender.

WASHINGTON — The Libertarian Party (LP) calls on President Obama to not break yet another campaign promise by directing Congress to have an open, televised format for all future negotiations on the health care overhaul bills under consideration in Congress.

Of course, they never explained which of Corbyn's campaign promises he would break, in order to fund the gaping hole in his budget

HOT VIDEO: TREVOR POTTER - In Part 1 of POLITICO's Money & Politics series, Trevor Potter, a lead lawyer for Sen. John McCain's 2008 campaign, says McCain felt like he was «mugged» by Obama in 2008 when the Democrat broke a promise to use public financing.

During the election season, Obama frequently campaigned against what he called Bush's «failed policies» and promised a «clean break» from the past eight years.

I find it faintly amusing that this article was linked to by an email from the «No» campaign — an email that strongly criticises the Lib Dems (who won just 57 seats) for breaking manifesto promises and uses that as a reason for supporting FPTP.

After running a campaign promising to fix a broken Albany, he said Cuomo is «going to have to do that, and he's not going to have all the tools that perhaps he might have liked.

De Blasio's populist campaign, with its focus on inequality, promise to govern on behalf of the ’99 per cent» and pledge to raise taxes on the very rich, certainly appeared to «break every rule in the New Labour playbook», as Diane Abbott crowed the day after the Democrats beat the Republicans by a near - 50 point margin.

«Whether it is breaking a promise to voters by voting to defund Planned Parenthood four times or the majority of special interest money bankrolling his campaign, it's clear that Katko answers to Washington, not central New York,» Lesswing said.

An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises

«Addressing alleged corruption in the budget process by pursuing prosecution of indicted principal officers of the National Assembly will provide an important opportunity for the Federal Government to reignite the fight against corruption and fulfil a cardinal campaign promise, to show that the Federal Government works on behalf of the many, and not the few, as well as jumpstart economic activities and break the back of the recession.»