Sentences with phrase «candidate of balanced budgets»

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He stressed the importance of balanced budgets earlier this month when announcing former Saskatchewan finance minister Andrew Thomson would be running as an NDP candidate in Toronto.

Nine seconds of cryptic slogans — «read my lips,» «no new taxes,» — is totally inadequate to explain how any candidate proposes to reduce the foreign debt and balance the budget, without increasing taxes.

Republican Jack Martins and Democrat Laura Curran, the major party candidates for Nassau County executive, have issued a variety of proposals for balancing the county budget.

The county budget should not be balanced on the backs of county workers,» said Howie Hawkins, the Green candidate for Governor.

[1] Democratic candidate Bob Kerrey has been critical of Fischer for signing the pledge, arguing that it limits her ability to work toward a compromise to balance the nation's budget.

«The fact that Governor Johnson brings to the table his executive - level experience and a proven record of fiscal responsibility and that he left his term - limited post in New Mexico with a balance budget and a $ 1 billion budget surplus, I believe that he would be the best candidate to represent the Libertarian Party on a national level», said State Chairman, Victor Kocher.

Romney, like most of the Republican candidates, has largely embraced positions held by party activists: committing to repeal the health - care law signed last year by Obama; calling for reduced federal spending, but no tax increases, to balance the budget; and opposing same - sex marriage and abortion.

The candidate who falsely claimed that the state budget was balanced and that, if re-elected, he wouldn't make cuts to social services or raise taxes is now instructing his Democratic colleagues in the State Senate and State House of Representatives that not only must they make historic cuts to vital health and human services, while raising tax on the middle class, but that he will only accept a budget that includes funding for two new charter schools while the new budget cuts funding for the state's public schools.

Although not a declared member of the Carbon Confederacy, New Jersey Governor and 2016 presidential candidate Chris Christie balanced his first state budget with revenues from this program, but then seceded from it when conservative politics trumped economic common sense.