This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when running in Chicago against
a conservative black candidate.
Not exact matches
This past weekend, Progressive
Conservative officials selected Doug
Black, Mike Shaikh, and Scott Tannas as their three
candidates in this Spring's Senator - in - Waiting vote.
(The Democratic
candidates find their way to
black churches, the Republicans to
conservative white ones.)
Secretary Daniels is considered by many to be the most
conservative candidate in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, and if successful would have been the first
black governor in the history of the state of New York.
At last night's annual
Black and White Ball, one
Conservative donor shelled out # 35,000 for a day of campaigning with the Tory London mayoral
candidate.
David Cameron has succeeded in boosting the number of ethnic minority
candidates in winnable seats: there should be at least four new
black or Asian
Conservative MPs to add to the two already at Westminster.
Credit is also due to David Cameron who ensured that
black and Asian
candidates were chosen in a dozen or so safe
Conservative seats.
[57] According to UCL's Parliamentary
Candidates UK project [58] the major parties had the following percentages of black and ethnic minority candidates: the Conservatives 11 %, the Liberal Democrats 10 %, Labour 9 %, UKIP 6 %, the G
Candidates UK project [58] the major parties had the following percentages of
black and ethnic minority
candidates: the Conservatives 11 %, the Liberal Democrats 10 %, Labour 9 %, UKIP 6 %, the G
candidates: the
Conservatives 11 %, the Liberal Democrats 10 %, Labour 9 %, UKIP 6 %, the Greens 4 %.
And just in case there is anyone out there who still thinks that the work we've done to get more women
candidates, more
black and minority ethnic
candidates... that this is some kind of political correctness that
Conservatives should avoid.I would say no.
No previous leader of the
Conservatives has done as much, for example, to bust open the selection of Parliamentary
candidates to include more women (now over a third) and more
black and minority ethnic
candidates.
We are persuaded that you have to keep it simple; we tend to believe that
candidates with
conservative black and white resumes have more chances on getting an interview invitations.