Sentences with phrase «campaigned against some of our members»

«A question asked about «Governor you came out and campaigned against some of our members last time.»

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Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

Though in her second campaign for Senate in 2012 — against Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Small Business Committee who is in favor of her confirmation — she did support a plan that proposed to fold the SBA into the Department of Commerce.

Student gun control activist David Hogg attended Saturday's White House Correspondents» Association dinner and campaigned against the NRA as he mingled with members of Congress.

Wikileaks has stated that they will be leading a campaign against Coinbase next week which will focus on boycotting Coinbase, calling it an unfit member of the cryptocurrency community.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group and dedicated Bachmann opponent, resurfaced the petition earlier this month after news that the congresswoman would remain on the high - profile panel despite spearheading a controversial campaign against Muslim members of President Barack Obama's administration last year.

Orban's government has campaigned against an EU plan to spread some of the burden of the influx of migrants and refugees by requiring member states to accept quotas.

It was this latter which led members of the Temperance movement in Britain in the nineteenth century to campaign against the use of alcohol and to set up alcohol - free clubs.

FRC gained attention in the last days of the campaign for its advertising against Joseph Cao — a Republican congressman from Louisiana who supported hate - crimes legislation and an effort to repeal the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy on openly homosexual service members.

Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and voice of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel says this about negotiating: «I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.»

Members of Parliament are also behind the campaign, with Labour MP, Andy Burnham, particularly outraged at the recent appeal against their release.

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

«I think some of the members were upset that he campaigned against the Conservative Party candidate Jane Corwin,» Long said.

During the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, then - AG Eliot Spitzer surprised some members of his own staff by coming out against the legalization of medical marijuana during a pre-primary debate with fellow Democrat and then - Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi.

It does not appear likely that any member of the Shadow Cabinet will campaign against our continued membership.

The top of the party is treating this like a coronation: I am not satisfied about the integrity of the process, and having put a number of complaints in to the party chairman, I was disappointed that incidents whereby Members of the European Parliament are using party databases to effectively campaign against me — ostensibly against the rules — were not challenged.

Round II of NYSUT's mail campaign against the Senate Democrats ups the ante considerably, comparing the majority members to ostriches with their heads in the sand when it comes to education spending cuts.

Highlight: a wiki that documents a «pattern of race - themed attacks against Obama by Bill, Hillary and other members of her campaign.»

«Republicans want to end the Medicare guarantee,» Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) said recently in a statement distilling the Democrats» argument against Members who have voted in favor of the Wisconsin Republican's budget.

If Congress fails to prevent the health care cuts, Cuomo is promising a full scale campaign against Republican members of the State's Congressional Delegation.

Most of the actual delegates are elected at state and congressional district conventions run by party insiders, members of the Republican establishment that Trump has run against from the outset of his campaign.

A group calling itself Concerned Members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tema West Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, have accused the incumbent MP, Naa Torshie Addo, of scheming to campaign against the party's newly elected parliamentary candidate, Carlos Ahenkorah, ahead of the 2016 elections.

Seven members of Gordon Brown's government have campaigned against local Post Office closures, despite the government ordering 2,500 branches to close by the end of the year.

Prominent Cabinet members have been accused of «rank hypocrisy» after apparently campaigning against government policy to shore up support in their own constituencies.

«The military is not unmindful of the campaign of calumny against our soldiers by paid agents claiming that soldiers are harassing members of the public while performing their constitutional responsibility.

Krueger's comment came in response to my question about whether Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson will retain his leadership role in light of the fact that he backed a number of incumbents — notably Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. — against whom rank - and - file members like Krueger campaigned.

The latest guilty pleas from Council member Stewart's former Chief of Staff and another staffperson have not done great things for his campaign... unless you are one of the people who believe that the whole thing is a racist plot against him.

The Oneida Indian Nation has been leading a campaign against the NFL's teams use of the name, which now includes several members of Congress.

Speaking to a member of Akufo - Addo's campaign team who blurted out his frustrations against the system on condition of anonymity, he indicated that, last week Friday, the campaign team «approved» and «made available» a cash amount of Ghc 2 million for Hiring of Buses and payments for polling station allowances of the party's agent in all 275 constituencies.

East Side members also voted Sunday to team up with Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of community groups that recently launched a campaign against the East 91st Street project — and has vowed to keep any pro-MTS politician out of office.

He listed his priorities in the campaign against corruption in 2018 to include, organising African Youth Congresses against Corruption «in order to sensitise and engage our youth in the fight against corruption;» mobilising AU member states to implement the extant legal framework on corruption; and canvassing «for the strengthening of the criminal justice system across Africa through exchange of information and sharing best practices in the enforcement of anti-corruption laws.»

Cuomo then told Kolb he wanted a unanimous vote, and threatened to campaign in the district of any member who voted against the package, Kolb repeated to the room, according to the sources.

Last month, the House Ethics panel said its members had voted unanimously to defer a separate investigation of federal tax charges against Grimm, which flowed from an ongoing investigation of his campaign fundraising.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

In last year's race for Westchester County Executive, republican Rob Astorino's campaign compiled the total number of times that his democratic opponent, George Latimer, voted for tax increase as a member of the Westchester County Board of legislators, which was 46 %, and used it to campaign against him as a «tax and spend democrat.»

Questions during the off topic portion of the press Q&A included the NYPD's proposed expansion of it's use of tasers, a fine levied by the Campaign Finance Board against de Blasio ally and pro-carriage horse ban advocate NYCLASS, de Blasio's recent comments on the City's long drop in crime being attributable to former mayor David Dinkins and former city council speaker Peter Vallone Sr., a city council proposal to allow filing in City Council district offices of NYPD - related complaints with the Civilian Complaint Review Board, the proposed bill which would ban carriage horses and resulting loss of jobs, an attempt by a staff member of the Fox News show The O'Reilly Factor to goad the mayor into agreeing to appear on that show, a possible tax on non-resident apartment owners, the mayor's planned meeting tonight with Jewish community leaders in Crown Heights and whether the mayor has concerns about the «secrecy» of the NYPD's disciplinary process.

Soto's campaign contends that he has fought for reproductive rights for years, noting that he supported the opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kissimmee, is a member of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, and, while in the Florida Senate, led the charge against a 24 - hour waiting period law, helping get it declared unconstitutional.

The state Republican Party countered with a complaint against Mike Michaud that accused the U.S. House member of using federal campaign money for his gubernatorial campaign.

Jeff Gohringer, a Canastota native speaking for the League of Conservation Voters, said the new ads will continue the Flat Earth Five campaign against Buerkle and four other House members who have said global climate change is a myth.

[5] Conservatives Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan, and Dominic Grieve cut their ties with Open Britain in April 2017 after it began to campaign against the re-election of anti-EU members of parliament, mostly Conservatives.

But an official with the Kirk campaign said that the vote first cited was for an amendment that would have transferred $ 3.6 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds for quality of life enhancements for U.S. service members, which Kirk voted against when he was in the House.

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«The campaign against these cuts has been inspirational and I am proud of the part our reps and members have played in it.

Things are already getting crazy down in Tampa, where members of the Convention Rules Committee revolted against the Romney campaign.

He recounted the qualifications of President Mahama which include his being a three - term Member of Parliament, Deputy Communications Minister, Minister of Communications, Chairman of the National Communications Authority, Vice President of Ghana in January 2009, Care taker President in July 2012, President of Ghana in January 2013 after winning a one - touch presidential race against someone who had campaigned for 12 years.

It is anticipated that Unite members will join other public sector unions on 10 May as part of the on - going campaign against government attacks on public sector pensions.

He also blamed some members of the NDC for deliberately campaigning against the party, resulting in the loss of several parliamentary seats to the New Patriotic Party.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called the DREAM Act a nonstarter in his house, and with good reason — politically speaking — considering the fact that a number of his new members actively campaigned against the measure during the 2014 elections and were successful at the ballot box as a result of their opposition.

Stella Creasy running a campaign against PFI is a good example of positioning that puts her on the side of members (and crucially not against the leadership).

The League also went all in for Queens Sen. Tony Avella, a member of the IDC, in his successful campaign against his Democratic primary opponent, former NYC Comptroller John Liu.