Sentences with phrase «council seat because»

Brewer, who can not run for reelection for her current council seat because of term limits, has yet to formally announce a borough president run.

Hogan can not seek re-election for his district council seat because there is a four - term limit.

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However, largely because London accounts for no less than 42 % of all the seats up being contested this year, amongst the councils that do have local elections this week there are more seats being contested where the Remain vote was higher.

Mohamed Albanna, who was barred from taking the Lackawanna City Council seat he won in the November election because of his prior felony conviction, told lawmakers he could be taking his case to the state's highest court.

«According to many commentators here, such people deserve safe seats because they've sat on a council for X number of years..»

Gillibrand appeared at a fundraiser this week for the Initiative, which aims to elect at least 21 women to the Council in the year 2021, when most of the seats in the 51 - person body will be open because of term limits.

City Council, District 4: The race to represent Midtown East, Murray Hill, Stuyvesant Town and The Upper East Side in the seat that Eva Moskowitz is leaving because she is running for Manhattan Borough President (although she could serve until 2009) has several candidates, two of whom appeared before 504 seeking an endorsement.

«Corey Johnson might be a nice guy, but he shouldn't be able to just waltz into office, just because he's an anointed incumbent,» she said of the councilman, who was elected to fill the seat left by former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in 2013.

Ms. Barron is the Democratic nominee for her husband's council seat, which he must vacate because of term limits.

Are you really gullible enough to believe this is some Damascean conversion, or is it far more likely that Gurchuran, who stood for Labour in the Hillingdon & Ealing GLA seat twice, has been on the London Labour Board until recently, and as I say was Deputy Labour Leader on the Council is actually defecting because Labour completely and utterly botched its selection process.

They have gained more than 250 seats (the BBC figures have been ahead of the ones on our result chart, but that's because our figures only get updated when full council results come in), and they are easily ahead on projected national share.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

But they recognise that it is hard to assess Ukip, because they are a relatively new party that has only started winning council seats, and so they revised their figures to take into account the likelihood they would win some seats.

If labour lose certain seats we've got because the White working class, self employed man, witha St George's flag outside ina council home votes UKIP are you going to say it doesn't matter as that sort of chav stereotype, is something that we as labour supporters shouldnt want anyway

«I think Braunstein won because he had the most support out there,» said Jerry Iannece, who ran last year for Tony Avella's Council seat and is the chairman of CB 11.

Goodman told DNAinfo he's running for the Council's District 6 seat because his opponents, incumbent Helen Rosenthal and challenger Mel Wymore, either actively support or take no stance on the museum's project.

The city council seat is becoming available because Brewer, who is running for Manhattan borough president, is term limited after 12 years.

Mohamed Albanna, who was barred from taking the Lackawanna City Council seat he won in the November election because of his prior felony conviction, told lawmakers Monday night he could be taking his case to the state's highest court.

This PAC has picked her as one of their top three picks in the city and they are pouring hundreds of thousands into this race to buy the Council seat for Margaret Chin because they know she will do whatever they want.

Forced by term limits to relinquish his 2nd District council seat, he decided to challenge the incumbent because, he said, she exercises «elitist, top - down government» and pays too little attention to the quality of life in city neighborhoods.

On Primary Day several voters said they did not vote for White, who had held the Council seat from 1994 - 2002, because he had done very little for the community during the recent economic turbulence.

A fourth seat on the council opened up because Council President Margaret «Peggy» King is not seeking re-elcouncil opened up because Council President Margaret «Peggy» King is not seeking re-elCouncil President Margaret «Peggy» King is not seeking re-election.

The plaintiffs, which claimed that they belong to a body known as Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), want the court to determine «whether INEC can deregister a party which has fulfilled and satisfied all requirements of registration simply because it fails to win a seat in the Presidential, Governorship, National or State Assembly without considering other elections like the Local Government Chairmanship and Councillors Elections.

According to the National Safety Council (NSC), more than 145 people will be saved in car accidents because they wore their seat belt this weekend.

This did not lead to increased seats or votes in those institutions of which the FDR was a member, because if this had been the result, it would have indicated that a new state had indeed been created; but in due course, due to the inevitable increase in population, Germany did indeed acquire more seats in the European Parliament and more votes in the Council of Ministers.

In the alternative, the respondent submits that s. 5 of the MCIA does not apply because the amount involved is so insignificant that it can not be regarded as likely to influence his actions (MCIA, s. 4 (k)-RRB- and, in the further alternative, his contravention of the MCIA was committed through inadvertence or by reason of an error in judgment so that his seat on Council should not be declared vacant (MCIA, s. 10 (2)-RRB-.