Sentences with phrase «elected office as»

«Many pursue elected office as a life's work, but few embrace public service as a life's passion,» said Paterson, who is stepping down from the Democratic Committee's chairmanship at the end of the month.

She has held elected office as a Naperville Park District commissioner and president, has advocated for a bike trail link between Jefferson and Ogden avenues in Naperville and has also co-chaired DuPage Neighbors for Open Space, Clean Water and Clean Air.

Not exact matches

«The Trump Organization has directed that no communications of the organization, including social media accounts, will reference or otherwise be tied to President - elect Trump's role as president of the United States or the office of the presidency,» a company attorney wrote in a briefing released earlier this month.

Brigitte Macron's interview — her first since the Emmanuel was elected in May — came as her husband marked his first days 100 days in office with a dramatic plummet in his popularity.

Known as the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to political office in the United States, Jenkins made history this year when she was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.

Hopefully this will help show other young people that this is possible to do, and I hope to have more younger people as colleagues in elected office around the country as more people realize they can do this.

Trump already screwed up the Carrier deal as President - elect, handing red meat to his enemies before he even took office.

Business circles are particularly concerned over the future of U.S. - China commercial ties as President - elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, having pledged to brand China a currency manipulator and threatened to impose tariffs on its goods.

Mayor Bill Smith had only run for elected office once before his win and Mayor Mandel served only one - term on Council before being elected as mayor in 2004.

It is no coincidence that in December 2015, for the first time since 1916, a nonradical or non-Peronist party candidate, Mauricio Macri, was democratically elected as president and sworn into office.

As newly selected Progressive Conservative leader Jim Prentice begins his transition into the Premier's Office (having just named his transition team), attention will soon turn to a provincial by - election that will allow the new premier an opportunity to be elected as an MLAs newly selected Progressive Conservative leader Jim Prentice begins his transition into the Premier's Office (having just named his transition team), attention will soon turn to a provincial by - election that will allow the new premier an opportunity to be elected as an MLas an MLA.

President Trump is starting to do the things that many of the people worried about before he got elected (tax reform convinced many that he would not ruffle markets): Amazon under pressure as the White House is Tweeting up a storm about the company ripping off the USPS and not paying enough taxes — Today, Pres Trump said the US is giving a subsidy to Amazon — He noted that the company has the money to pay for additional USPS shipping rates; — Commented that the post office continues to lose «billions» due to Amazon.

What does that mean for investors as stocks look set to end President - elect Trump's first month in office higher?

«So, number one, the positions I hold on these issues is the Second Amendment, I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official,» Rubio responded.

A considerable majority of Americans describe themselves as Christian, and it's not even possible to be elected to national office here without making a big show of one's Sunday morning church routine.

We have never demanded that our elected officials stop practicing their faith as a condition of their office.

Back in 1994 TV viewers all over the world watched transfixed, as South Africa's first democratically elected president took the oath of office.

Despite Republican senators» argument that the appointment of a new Justice should be postponed until the next president is elected into office, Obama introduced Garland as his nominee this morning, and he basically dared Republican senators to refuse to consider a man who many seem to regarded highly around Washington.

The show that originally debuted as The Apprentice in 2004 was hosted by President - elect Donald Trump until he left in 2015 to run for office.

Politicians easily manipulate this, as discriminatory Christians dare not to elect an educated Atheist to office, even more than their fear of Islam comes their fear of Atheism.

We can expect of our elected officials (and ourselves) integrity — the idea that we can act as honorably in the locker room as we would from the stage of the political rally or the seat in the Oval Office — without requiring perfection.

There is a story out of Iowa - a story about a faith community that has matured beyond voting for the «most evangelical» candidate as a «statement» and takes seriously the responsibility of electing someone to occupy the Oval Office at a time of great national testing.

As far as electing reasonable people for offices goes, dittAs far as electing reasonable people for offices goes, dittas electing reasonable people for offices goes, ditto!

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

In his memoirs, he and his family have always viewed religion the same as mythology (as it should be) and joined a church when running for office because for some absurd and ignorant reason you can not win an elected office without professing Christian beliefs.

As such, I don't see her being elected to any office of national responsibility from this point forward.

Nobody can get elected to any significant public office unless they genuflect to what we perceive as an imaginary (and very partial) friend in the sky.

Each appointee shall hold office until a successor has been nominated and elected as provided by law.»

So I apologise if this comes across as uncivil, but — «the most experienced democratically elected president of the world» has the most experience because he has changed the laws several times to allow him to run more than he should have, and now last year lengthened the amount of time he can stay in office.

«As an elected official who strives to be involved in the communities I represent, I am excited to have a new office in Orland Park's Village Hall,» Lipinski said.

Political scientists have noted that many third parties that had strong political support but not enough to elect many official to office have often found planks of their party platforms migrate to the platforms of major parties later on as the major parties seek to do so to co-opt support from third party voters and backers.

In a small political party that is unlikely to elect anyone to office, or is likely to elect only a handful of officials, the drafting of the party platform is often seen as the primary mission of the party since it articulates the ideas that are associated with the party and provides a marketing document for the party and for its ideas.

Plot: The film follows the life and assignation of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the 1970s.

Also, according to this source, Fahey, who has never held office before, started 15 points down in this race, so his loss to an established elected official with name recognition shouldn't come as such a shock — no matter what the internals said.

The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.

Mr Awah, at the ongoing AASU Delegates Congress in Khartoum, Sudan has fraudulently chosen his friends and cronies as official representatives of national student unions across Africa including Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone among others for the purposes of electing his friends into office as his tenure as Secretary General of the continental student body ends this weekend.

He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows [emphasis added]

While this may have worked for him in his bid to be elected President, it is not going to work as President because one is held to a higher standard the moment one assumes the high office of President.

McCaskill was seen as perhaps the most endangered of the Senate Democrats running for re-election this year (Gillibrand has made a point of conducting her «Off the Sidelines» campaign to elect more women to public office, a narrative that her own GOP opponent, Wendy Long, has gleefully sought to turn on its ear).

Carl Paladino argues in an LA Times profile that the personal failings of elected officials should not be considered when voters are trying to decide whether they're qualified to hold elected office, and cites former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as an example of someone forced to resign when he should not have.

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Wilson, a former hedge fund manager who has never before either run for or held elected office, is widely viewed by many Republicans as their best chance at statewide victory this fall.

Wragg, a chum of Pursglove's, did not have a similar enlightenment, though his time as a councillor gave him a taste for elected office.

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

«Spitzer is so clearly unfit for public office that I am offended, both as a woman and as an elected official that he would even deign to run.»

She served as a legislative aide in his office after he was elected in 2008 as the third sitting openly gay member of Congress and the first non-incumbent openly gay man to be elected to serve on Capitol Hill).

Latimer was elected Westchester County executive; Diaz will take office as a member of the New York City Council.

He will act as an «advisor» to Paladino, who has never held elected office, on the ins and outs of politics — particularly downstate GOP politics, which is unusually fractious in Ognibene's home county of Queens.

«Unfortunately, after George Amedore got elected to office all his campaign promises were conveniently forgotten, and it's the parents and public school students who are suffering as a result,» she said.

If the best candidate is someone politically connected to the power brokers in Albany and Washington (as he calls them «people who make and break Democratic elections in the Hudson Valley»), has no ties to the district at all, has never won elected office then he is the guy.