Sentences with phrase «elected office then»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

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.

Courage to Take a Stand According to the civics textbooks, politicians campaign for office, get elected, and then spend their time on governing until it is time to campaign again.

If Bishop Kicanas is elected and the allegations are confirmed, he should then be summarily removed from office and defrocked for the grand hypocrisy of his denials and for adding insult on the victims.

«The Labour party was always quite a clever community of all of those and what Tony succeeded in doing was getting elected with the support of all of them - and then systematically losing that support over the 15 years he was in office.»

Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.

«If you want to fundamentally and dramatically change the culture of Albany, then you need to limit the amount of time our elected officials are in office,» Griffo said in a statement.

Paterson at the time was the highest - ranking black elected official in New York history, but he rose still higher when he was tapped to serve as Gov. Eliot Spitzer's lieutenant govenror, and then ascended to the governor's office in 2008 when Spitzer was forced to resign in the wake of a prostitution scandal.

If you support the notion that governments derive their power from the people that they represent, when the people indicate they want something (like electing super-majorities of people who run for office on theocratic platforms), then government is supposed to oblige.

It is no surprise then that «elected officials are encouraged to spend their time with the wealthy and the well - connected, and cater to the special interests of very few, instead of the constituents who put them in office.»

«It was then that I started to meet women who were in elected office, and the tangible differences that they have made, and it started to become something that seemed tangible for me.

He then urged the president - elect Nana Akufo - Addo and his team to revisit the decision by the out going President Mahama government to privatize the ECG, he said» our expectations are that as there is a new government to be sworn in too office, we want them to sit and discuss the issue of privatizing ECG and come out with a decision that will benefit all Ghanaians and not to a group or section of people with selfish interest.»

Mr. Cuomo is also trying to repair any lingering damage from his 2002 primary for the governor's office with H. Carl McCall, then the state comptroller and the first black official elected statewide in New York.

He was involved in Andrew Cuomo's first, failed run for governor in 2002, joined his staff when he was elected Attorney General in 2006 and then helped him win the governor's office in 2010.

«If we want to ensure that capable, progressive hard working candidates are supported for the bench and for all levels of elected office, then we need to begin electing new district leaders,» said Restler.

He then, as a retired former chief of police, ran for and was elected to public office.

Paul Vallone is reversing the typical course of a political career, starting out as a lobbyist, and then seeking elected office!

Her husband is one of the biggest lobbyists in Albany, she used to be a lobbyist, until she went to work for Spitzer and then used her elected office to stop an effort by Farley's son to have the Schenectady County Legislature object to Spitzer's crazy scheme to give illegal aliens drivers licenses.

Former US Senator - turned - lobbyist Alfonse D'Amato, who played a key role in helping elect then little - known state Sen. George Pataki to the governor's office in 1994, has turned his back on his former ally and endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president in 2016.

After 13 years in elected office (first in the state Assembly and then on the City Council's powerful land use committee), Melinda Katz, 44, is now settling into private - sector life.

He wanted names, apparently, that he believed would help him in seeking the governorship,» Greenberg said of Spitzer, who initiated the case before he was elected to the state's highest office and then forced to resign amid a prostitution scandal.

A statement issued in Accra and signed by Emmanuel Osei Akyeampong, the then Public Relations Officer of PCG, said the Moderator - elect, was to officially assumed office on December 1, 2010.

(though not having been elected), then the VP would no longer be elibile eligible to be president, and thus wouldn't be eligible to be VP either, since «no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.»

if the current Speaker stays in office until a new Speaker is elected, then the new Speaker (not currently a Representative) can be elected and enter the Hall.

The Republican was first elected to office in 2014, when he beat out Democrat and then - incumbent Dan Maffei by about 19 percentage points.

Malloy will be required to formally release a final budget next year before he leaves office, but then the newly elected governor will take over and release a budget that will be acted upon by the legislature.

Not content with what he could do for the area from his business, John became involved in Orchard Park government as a member of the Public Safety Committee for a year and then as a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals on which he served for four years before being elected to the first of his six four - year terms of office as a Town Councilman.

All of this has left Mr. Rangel staring down a future out of elected office — if not next year then at the end of 2016, when the congressman says he plans to retire as President Barack Obama leaves office.

This is a Prime Minister who got ready for an election when he thought he could win it, then was too frightened to hold it, then has dragged out this miserable parliament to its fullest, bitter end, dithering and vacillating over every decision; a Prime Minister no one ever elected kept in office by Lord Mandelson who no one voted for at all, and who should have had the moral courage and political decisiveness to hold an election long ago.»

The sale was approved in late 2006 by the office of the state attorney general, which was then led by Eliot Spitzer, who had just been elected governor.

A competing Senate bill sponsored by Long Island Republican Sen. Carl Marcellino would apply only to elected officials and only to pension credits they amassed while in they office they disgraced, not any benefit accrued before then.

«If it's not your intent as an elected to improve quality of life and to reduce or to leave more money in taxpayers» pocket, then you shouldn't be in office,» Bey said.

He previously worked in the Office of the Lt. Governor as External Affairs Director for Dan Patrick, as Transition Director for then Lt. Governor - Elect Dan Patrick, and as Political Director for Dan Patrick's historic victory in 2014.

Then, there is also the incident in Illinois back in 1839 when young Abraham Lincoln, when first elected to public office, joined in a momentary legislative boycott in Illinois, which was quickly put to rest.

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

If we can accomplish the two pivotal goals: elect the right people to office and support the locals in bringing value to members, then instituting equitable and learning - centered funding, getting teachers back in control of our profession, and maintaining a strong and vibrant CEA will become much more achievable.

Late last year, New Jersey's legislature was poised to pass the cheaper nuclear - only legislation when then - governor - elect Murphy asked the state assembly to hold off until he came into office in 2018.

(In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.)

If you were an editor of the Iowa State Daily, held an elected office on the business council or were instrumental in the organization of a large event, then you should include this in your resume.

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Then for those of us still blasé about technology, the newly elected mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi, spoke to us from his office via Skype on the big screens of the conference centre.