Sentences with phrase «elect politicians who»

Scientists and environmentalists have only themselves to blame if the public has yet to grasp the severity of the problem enough to elect politicians who will put effective regulations in place.

We all get fired up — and we start to recycle, and we start to bicycle, and we work like crazy to elect politicians who promise to build an economy based on green jobs and to pass comprehensive energy reform.

If we want to stop the train, the first thing we must do is elect politicians who at the very least understand that it's real, and that the danger we face is very real as well.

Lessig started Mayday PAC in 2014 to help elect politicians who support overturning the Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision and passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.

«History shows that we Americans generally like to elect politicians who have a stable family life, or at the least the appearance of one: a spouse, perhaps a couple of children, etc,» writes Freakanomics journalist Stephen J. Dubner.

One rational means for GOP voters to do so is to elect politicians who would be crazy enough to take the irrational action in the last stage of the game of not increasing the debt ceiling.

The voters simply chose to elect politicians who understand that we live in a multicultural world and that multiculturalism is a strength, not a liability.

And these followers make a large demographic of political votes in a country that loves to start wars and elect politicians who will be «guided by the hand of god»... excuse me as I am affected by these people... their practices cab affect me

It is PRECISELY that majority who is responsible for electing our politicians who have created all of those items that you dislike.

Part of the explanation arises from Balls» leap from an elected politician who some voters and journalists viewed with disdain to an awkward dancer who voters and journalists now hail as an adorable celebrity.

The ballot for the London Assembly - elected politicians who hold the Mayor to account - take place on the same day.

what about a currently elected politician who is also campaigning for re-election?

The blitz got positive press coverage, providing «grassroots» cover for newly elected politicians who made school privatization their first priority.

Some of you that follow my twitter account will have already seen this, but there was a particularly amusing episode of Q&A on Australian TV that pitted Prof. Brian Cox against a newly - elected politician who is known for his somewhat fringe climate «contrarian» views.

So a «newly - elected politician who is known for his somewhat fringe climate «contrarian» views» may have a very low ability in math.

Not exact matches

Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

Ms. Leibovici is a long - time local politician who was first elected as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in 1993 and served on city council from 2001 to 2013.

As far as Christian politicians: they all HAVE to declare that they are believers and who their God is or they will not be elected.

Any politician who publicly admits that he is an atheist or a Muslim or a Hindu, or anything other than a Christian would not get enough votes to get elected.

My 20 yrs in Africa has revealed Americans who claim they care about 20,000 children dying every day from hunger and disease are guilty of the same useless rhetoric they criticize in politicians who are at least trying to stop unnecessary daily deaths in this country, by getting elected and passing moral laws.

So if the general population is at fault for having no choice but to elect yet another fraudulent and unrepresentative politician to some public office, then at least the prerequisites for running are faulty, the process absent of any oversight, the office free of any accountability, and the whole government essentially run by people who do not respect the law, to put it nicely.

Lol who am I kidding... how would our politicians get elected if there was no hate?

So when we elect the corrupt pandering politicians who claim to be «born - again» to DC, and then they invade countries, and kill people unlike us... they are Christians?

If an elected official has a source of income that is not dependent upon holding an elected office then that official is less likely to be a professional politician than one who has no other means of support.

But we are in the business of electing politicians, not theologians, and those of the former who attempt the latter inevitably prove themselves to be simply the former.

Imagine the spinmeisters on talk shows who try to get their politicians elected.

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

In more practical terms, it would be regarded as a scandal by large segments of the press and public, who hold the Queen in much higher esteem than elected politicians.

I'm frustrated with politicians who are more concerned with their political future than with the future of the families here — the families they were elected to represent,» Ryan said in a statement.

If we do, we end up with politicians who are hermetically sealed until they are old enough to be elected, so that they don't make mistakes for 20 years.

Is it not rather hypocritical when someone who hasn't turned up to vote starts to complain about what the elected politicians are doing?

The ERS's main objection is that the introduction of above the line voting is that closed list PR systems would increase the power of political parties to influence who gets elected, which, in the words of their chief executive Katie Ghose, would result in the Lords being «a mini-replica of the commons, full of party - politicians with pre-set loyalties» whilst «STV would help create a chamber free to provide objective scrutiny».

There may be something of a rebound against politicians (of all three main parties) who won't even discuss cuts before they are elected, who tell specific lies in order to get elected (Liberals and Conservatives) and who speak out of both sides of their mouths (New Labour) when in opposition.

The battle to create progressive change goes well beyond any one candidate or campaign, and it demands the development of institutional and independent power to the left of the Democratic Party — power that can prod politicians like Cuomo to govern on behalf of the people who elect them.

«First we have to remove career politicians who have long forgotten whose interests they were elected to serve.»

«Western New Yorkers elected Mark Grisanti hoping for someone to change Albany, but all they got was a typical Albany politician who changes his position each week.»

Speaking at the G20 summit in China, the prime minister said: «What has been clear throughout my political career, and what is important for people, is that they feel they are able to have confidence in their politicians, and that is what we have a duty to apply for those who elect us.

Paul Masterton (born 2 November 1985) is a Scottish Conservative politician who was elected at the 2017 snap general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Renfrewshire.

Katherine Anne Green [1] OBE (born 2 May 1960)[2] is a British Labour Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford and Urmston in 2010.

Susan Elan Jones (born 1 June 1968 [1]-RRB- is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Clwyd South, replacing the previous Labour MP Martyn Jones after his retirement.

Politicians Huntsman, Romney, Bachmann, et al., who support this nonsense should not be elected to public service for our country.

NEW YORK CITY — Moses «Mark» Stern, the cooperating witness who played a pivotal role in the arrests of state Sen. Malcolm Smith and five others, is a well - connected upstate powerbroker who kept dirt on politicians for a «rainy day» and had ties to many elected officials, including state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, sources said.

Part of being an elected official is telling people things that they don't want to hear, and when they have it in their mindset that there are other politicians who are lying or not being honest or are under the veil of corruption, it makes it much more difficult for all of us to do our job in a time when it is very difficult to be an elected official.

A former state senator who was the first African - American politician elected to that chamber to represent a district outside New York City, Brown was elected to be Buffalo's first black mayor in November 2005.

«You're talking about electing a Dominican and maybe kicking out the most powerful African American politician in America in the last 40 years,» said Larry English, 56, the former chair of Community Board 9 and long - time resident of West Harlem who is black and supports Espaillat.

If you get to elect local officials, you can at least elect ones independent of higher level politicians, who might hopefully check their power («yes, Mr. Pro-Cat mayor, I know you want me to arrest all dog lovers in town.

The effect of this phenomenon is that we elect elect into office, politicians who steer away good governance.

Skelos, who is the highest elected Republican to hold office in the state, is the latest Albany politician to face federal charges brought on by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and his office.

We are growing tired of traditional politicians who use their time in elected office to improve their own finances.

In other words, I am not interested in examples of someone being elected as «President for Life» which has happened numerous times, or examples of parent - child pairs of democratic politicians who manage to be elected in an ordinary democratic election system to a term of office for a fixed term of years.