Sentences with phrase «candidates running for public office»

As a continued effort to provide the American public with factual information on candidates running for public office, these archived responses are made available here.

Candidates running for public office have no formal process when it comes to submitting their tax returns for public viewing.

Still, same - sex marriage and LGBT issues in general have not received much oxygen this election cycle, despite President Obama say this summer he now favored marriage rights for gay couples and a record number of gay and lesbian candidates running for public office.

Any candidate running for public office knows that the internet has become an increasingly powerful tool in communicating with voters.

Jasman: It was an election unlike any other in that Trump was the first candidate running for public office who has ever spoken so bluntly without regard for censoring his thoughts.

Not exact matches

Anyways, candidates should remember that they're running for public office and not the pulpit.

The actions by the Haggerty brothers bring a negative effect on those Hispanic potential candidates may they be just contemplating a run for public office or well supported viable Republican Hispanic's.

We hope that you will make every effort you can to support this reform - minded candidate in her run for public office, and help return the reins of city government back to the working class.

Hawkins said that candidates for public office in New York should run on only one line, rather than cluttering up the ballot with fake third parties and independent lines whose main function is patronage and vote - buying.

The Green Party leader is a proponent of raising the minimum wage, tuition - free public college and a ban on fracking — ideals that Hawkins said Cuomo has supported, to an extent, because Green Party candidates keep running for office.

The Green Party is an established national party, having laid a foundation for candidates to run for public office at all levels, from local to national.

Running in her first race for public office, Ursula Rozum is the Green Party candidate for Congress in New York's 24th district.

«The law should be changed so that if you want to run for office in New York State, you have to agree to participate in a series of public debates with all candidates who meet the legal requirements to be on the ballot,» said Hawkins.

But Rodriguez, who is currently running for his third and final term, as well as City Council speaker, defended his endorsement, writing that he is «currently and will continue to stand behind LGBTQ candidates for public office.»

Cathy Guerriero is a first - time candidate who says she's been thinking about running for Public Advocate for 20 years, essentially since the office was created.

There is a true labor / middle class candidate, Radahakrishna Mohan, who is a union official (Public Employees Federation) running for that office.

«Our endorsements of challengers and candidates running in races for open Senate seats are based on these candidates» intent to support The Business Council's pro-growth policies, and in several cases, the candidates» pro-growth performance in other public offices,» said Heather C. Briccetti, president and CEO of The Business Council.

Republicans are more forgiving than Democrats when it comes to the personal issues of a candidate who's running for public office, according to a new Morning Consult / Politico poll that shows GOP voters care more about policy positions.

Brian Lehrer of WNYC had a segment of his show Tuesday devoted to new candidates for public office... and Caroline was in the audience to tell Brian and his listeners why she's running for Democratic District Leader.

Tabacco has never run for public office before and while he said he will back Castorina as the Republican candidate, he said he is considering third - party lines if those parties ask him or if South Shore residents express to him that they want to see a third - party candidate run.

There are only three citywide positions in New York and, as several white candidates are jockeying for the mayoralty and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer runs unopposed for comptroller, the public advocate's office is viewed by some Democrats as an opportunity to have demographic diversity on their ticket.

While he cast himself as a candidate with a long record of public service — he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served 30 years of active and reserve duty — it was his first run for office.

To all those candidates — Dominican or not — who may aspire to run for public office, I would like to dedicate to them that biblical passage I used to start this column: «Cursed is the one who trusts in man» (Jeremiah 17:5)... «Let God be true, and every man a liar.»

The councilman, who is running for his third term and speaker of the city council, filled out a questionnaire prior to receiving his endorsement from the club in June 2017, where he replied «no» to whether he had or will «in the future endorse or financially support any candidate for public office or current elected official with a track record of working against LGBT equality.»

Florida law says: «No officer may qualify as a candidate for another state, district, county, or municipal public office if the terms or any part thereof run concurrently with each other without resigning from the office he or she presently holds.»

Unlike New York City, where a robust public financing system gives a wider range of candidates a real opportunity to run for office, money and media flow to power in Albany and stagnation is the result.

Now Mr. Ganim believes he should qualify for public grants given to candidates who run for statewide office.

Hawkins said in a statement, «The law should be changed so that if you want to run for office in New York State, you have to agree to participate in a series of public debates with all candidates who meet the legal requirements to be on the ballot.»

Hawkins is a Teamster who unloads trucks at night at UPS and has run many times for public office, most recently as the 2014 Green candidate for New York Governor.

«We've got to find a way to properly fund candidates who are willing to come out of their everyday lives and run for public office.»

He suggests there could be some tweaking of the rules but says overall, New York state needs something like this to encourage more candidates to run for public office.

If Ritz were to lose the primary, our sources tell us, she will just run again for Superintendent of Public Instruction since it is a nominating convention and she would not be prohibited from running again for another office under Indiana's «sore loser» law which bans candidates from running for an office in the general election which they lost in the primary.

«No one knows what the public advocate should do,» said Reshma Saujani, who is running for the office she previously worked in under the current public advocate and mayoral candidate, -LSB-...]

The debates are officially sanctioned by the New York City Campaign Finance Board, for candidates who received public money to run for office.

Senators, Assembly and Congress members and those running for those positions have signed pledges on Wednesday by New York Uprising, a non-partisan, independent group formed by Koch that has a mission to «end corruption in Albany and reinstate the public's faith in government by offering real, honest and sensible solutions that legislators and candidates can implement, adhere to and be held accountable for executing once elected or re-elected to office.»

State and local Green Parties across the U.S. are preparing to run candidates in hundreds of races for public office in 2016, as well as choose a Green presidential nominee.

«We must replace the public embarrassment of existing campaign financing laws, which allow enormous contributions and unlimited expenditures, with a system of reasonable limits that levels the playing field and ensures that meritorious candidates are not discouraged by the costs of running for public office.»

The county party's founders hope to recruit candidates to run this year for public office in Onondaga County in addition to supporting the national Libertarian Party's presidential nominee and candidate for U.S. Senate in New York, Hannon said.

The bipartisan legislation would create a public financing system for congressional campaigns, with the goal of limiting the influence of special interests and encouraging a «more diverse pool of candidates» to run for federal office.

[5] Although members of the families of judges, judicial candidates, and a judge - elect are free to engage in their own political activity, including running for public office, there is no «family exception» to the prohibition in paragraph (A)(3) against a judge, candidate, and a judge - elect publicly endorsing candidates for public office.

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