Sentences with phrase «candidates running on platforms»

The combination of a history and culture of violence in the DRC, together with an election process featuring an alarming lack of candidates running on platforms of any real political substance, seems to have resulted in an election atmosphere characterized by tactics of coercion, intimidation, and fear.

Not exact matches

Especially in Mexico, where, as you know, there is one candidate who is running on a quite anti-American platform.»

The Democratic candidate isn't running on a platform that aims to codify the immoral religious delusions on the society as a whole.

Cuomo does not support an end to the fusion ballot system of allowing a candidate to run on multiple ballot lines, but the Wilson - Pakula repeal would greatly reduce the clout of the state's minor parties that can influence the platforms and policies of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Many presidential candidates have run on the platform of limiting the size and scope of the federal government.

Joe Roberti Jr. continues his reckless banter about abstract topics instead of presenting a credible platform that his candidates will run on.

«This is hypocrisy for a district attorney candidate who is running on an anti-corruption platform.»

She points out that nearly all of the politicians elected in the state's Southern Tier in the November elections are pro gas drilling, including a congressional race where the losing candidate, Democrat Martha Roberts ran on an anti fracking platform.

The Green Party in Syracuse is running five candidates for office this year, on what they describe as a a progressive anti-poverty platform.

The Populist Party ran candidates in the United States from 1984 through 1994, on a platform that suggested that whites are discriminated against by many government policies.

Rye Town Supervisor and Congressional candidate Joe Carvin (R - NY - 17), who is running for Congress on a platform of economic growth and to tame the Washington overspending, last week added a live U.S. Debt Clock to his campaign website, which can be seen at www.Carvin2012.com.

GPNY is calling on the state legislature to act now, but is also calling on voters to make a choice in November between Governor Cuomo's corruption and a Green candidate running on an aggressive ethics reform platform.

The candidate receiving the most support on the first ballot was Mike Lee, a lawyer running on a platform of strict adherence to the constitution and limited government.

She points out that nearly all of the politicians elected in the state's Southern Tier in the November elections are pro gas drilling, including a congressional race where the losing candidate, Democrat Martha Roberts ran on an anti-fracking platform.

Bill Curry, the former state comptroller who twice ran for governor as a Democrat, said the rise of candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump has led to a flood of people running on populist platforms.

The appeals were fallouts of the legal dispute over which of the candidates of the two factions was entitled to run the last Saturday's governorship election in Ondo State on the party's platform.

Republican Paul Massey's mayoral campaign is burning through money even faster than it can raise it, prompting bewilderment and concern from Republican political operatives about the candidate's ability to run an effective campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio on a platform criticizing the mayor's management skills.

Despite some chuckles, most of those packed into the Marriott Marquis» glittery ballroom sat expressionless at the startling self - assessment from the Democratic mayoral candidate, who for the past year has been running on a sharply left - wing platform.

Carvin Adds U.S. Debt Clock to Campaign Website Rye Town Supervisor and Congressional candidate Joe Carvin (R - NY - 17), who is running for Congress on a platform of economic growth and to tame the Washington overspending, last week added a live U.S. Debt Clock to his campaign website, which can be seen at www.Carvin2012.com.

In the general election the only candidate running on a progressive platform is Hawkins.

Koch ran to the right of the other candidates, on a «law and order» platform.

The significance of the impending change is not lost on either candidate — indeed both men are running on a platform of change in Dutchess County — but the two disagree on the current state of the county and how best to move the county forward.

Nixon, a first - time candidate for elected office, is now challenging Cuomo from his left, running on more of a Bernie Sanders - style platform.

«Mohammed Hanif sent three text messages in Brierfield relating to the town and parish council elections, where the candidates are independent and not running on party political platforms.

The third installment follows Presidential candidate Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), a purge survivor running on a platform of ending the bloody celebration forever.

Right now the ever - changing list of Democratic candidates includes Sal Albanese (who has run twice before, finishing 3d and 8th, and whose education platform focuses on pre-K expansion, one of de Blasio's few success stories); Kevin Coenen (who has a section about education on his website that contains grammatical errors); Robert Gangi, and Collin Slatter (who have no name recognition).

Al Graf (R - Holbrook), president of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association Beth Dimino, co-founder of Stop Common Core in New York State Yvonne Gasperino, Michael Bohr, the founder of advocate group Badass Parents, and upstate principal Tim Farley, and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the newly announced Republican gubernatorial candidate running on the anti-Common Core platform — whose own kids have opted out of taking the tests.

And Fletcher himself wasn't part of a slate of candidates; he was simply a well - known UTLA activist running on a «back - to - basics» platform with an agenda that was not as broad as Washington's or Duffy's.

I can't imagine we'll ever see a candidate running for major office in the U.S. base a campaign on «the Finnish platform.»

He was the first candidate for governor in any state with the courage to openly run on a platform of school choice.

In 1856, recognizing the strength of the anti-polygamy vote, Republican candidate John C. Fremont ran for president on a platform that pledged to «prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy and Slavery.»

Many of the candidates who won on Election Day ran on platforms that highlighted support for business and innovation and opposition to overly cumbersome bureaucracy.

Consider running as a candidate yourself on a Climate Emergency Declaration platform.

Marina Silva, as a candidate for the Green Party and the only to run on a platform of environmentalism, made a bid for the presidency, too.