Sentences with phrase «elected office with»

She announced on Wednesday that she would not seek the Working Families Party's line for the ballot, even though Ms. James won her first elected office with that party's backing.

It's one of three citywide elected offices with 9 million constituents and definitely not for the faint of heart.

Not exact matches

Trump's lease with the federal government to develop and operate a hotel inside the historic Old Post Office building expressly prohibits any elected official from benefiting from the property, yet Trump has not divested from his company or this particular project.

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.

The data covers the first full month in office for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was elected in December and has vowed to revive the world's third - largest economy with his «Abenomics» policy mix of monetary and fiscal stimulus.

Overall, I think my age brings more to the table than not, and the idea that someone who isn't affiliated with a political party, didn't have the blessing of the establishment, and who doesn't have deep pockets was able to get elected into a substantial government office is pretty exciting.

The tale of a local diner owner who sought local elected office, and the dangers he faced with his business.

Ahead of the address, the conference buzzed with speculation of how the president, elected to office on an «America First» platform, would play on a stage built to toast global integration.

When Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM (ibm), strolled across the atrium connecting her company's New York City office building and Trump Tower for a meeting with the President - elect's incoming administration and tech industry leaders last month, she had a report in hand.

Adam believes it is this visibility which will force accountability and responsibility from elected officials charged with the fiscal decisions of local, city, state and federal government offices.

Its official debt is unpayable, and never should have been forced upon it in the first place — under conditions where the Troika removed the elected prime minister from office to put in their own technocrat (Lucas Papademos, who had worked with Goldman Sachs to falsify the government's 2001 balance sheet to enable it to meet the eurozone's entry conditions).

President - elect Donald J. Trump kicked around ideas for his inauguration in his office at Trump Tower on Tuesday with two of his oldest friends, Mark Burnett and Thomas Barrack Jr..

Those whom I have communicated with, were they elected to the high offices of the land, would first move to rob their fellow citizens of their right to religious freedom leaving only those who are atheist or agnostic free to worship their god..

kermit, If the elected officials need guidance from a supernatural being to do their job — why not do it on their own time either at home before they leave for work or get to the office early and pray alone or with a group of like - minded co-workers?

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.

Hunter was asked to pray with Obama the same day he was elected into office.

Someone who thinks THEY are the voice of God, instead of humbly trying to listen and understand, is someone who can't be trusted at all - and certainly can't be trusted with elected office.

Finally suppose those same people, organized around this shared delusion, formed a voting bloc which exerted political pressure to organize your government and laws in accordance with those of the wizarding world and was large enough and vocal enough that elected officials could not attain office without pandering to it.

i predict obama will be removed from office with the approval of the democratic party for his disgrace failure to do the job he was elected for...

The American brethren agreed with him, so he and Coke were elected to their office of superintendent.

The 2020 nominee is almost certainly going to be someone with a long history of public service and probably in elected office.

Whether you have already had one C - section and are electing not to have a VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarian delivery) or if you are planning a C - section for health or personal reasons, you can work with you doctors» office to decide when you'd like your baby's birthday to be.

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.

«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.»

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.

Foreign Office minister Jim Murphy said: «It would be utterly unacceptable for Russia to try and destabilise a democratically elected government on its border with a view to any sort of regime change.

The choice before the voters this year is Andrew Cuomo - someone with a proven record that includes successful actions conducted by the AG's office he headed, and Carl Paladino, who is a successful businessman who profited from government contracts and subsidies, but who otherwise holds extremist views that even if elected would never come to fruition.

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]

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.

Another ex-Bills quarterback, Jim Kelly, flirted with a run for elected office in 2006, but never pulled the trigger.

It is not surprising, in a country with approximately half a million elected offices, where about 133 million people voted in 2008, and with ballots that can call on voters to make dozens of decisions, that the aggregate costs of campaigns and elections mounts.

NOTE: A reader with Democratic leanings points out that no pro-life statewide candidate has won since Dennis Vacco was elected to the state AG's office in 1994.

No one with a criminal record should ever be elected to office.»

At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committee on Local Government holds a public hearing to listen to local governments, local elected officials and local government advocacy organizations regarding shared services and discuss how Albany can better partner with localities, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, Albany.

But Mayor - elect de Blasio, coming into office with a lot of goodwill and clout, outmaneuvered the two party leaders.

Indeed, the ability of a small clique in political party apparatuses to determine who runs for office, coupled with proportional representation systems that allow for the concentration of power in the hands of a few, has led to tight control of who gets elected.

A couple of weeks ago, a new application showed up on Boing Boing that at first glance would seem to be a reasonable approach to pressuring Our Elected Representatives: give the system your phone number, and CommitteeCaller will connect you with the office of each member of a given Congressional committee sequentially.

Morey said Throne - Holst may have a slight advantage at this point, given her higher name identification from her multiple runs for elected office and her compelling personal story as a single working mother with children in college that will resonate with primary voters.

As you'll see in our highlight reel, the speeches displayed much of what Team Cuomo has going for it; four years in office with some significant legislative accomplishments, nearly universal support from elected Democrats and their political organizations, enormous amounts of state money spent over the past four years which, whether well spent or not produces support from recipients, and a powerful speaker at the top of the ticket.

For women candidates, many of them seeking elected office for the first time, the success of women in early primary states has provided them with confidence that their sometimes - unexpected runs aren't so far - fetched.

As a matter of fact Crowley mailed a piece of campaign literature all across Queens to curry favor with those deeply concerned about Education in her bid to become your Congresswoman from the 6thDistrict, however upon research and review and confirmation from her office spokesman, she's taking credit for schools that were budgeted and started construction prior to her even being elected to the City Council.

The authority to remove an elected School Board member from office falls with the state commissioner of education, and a spokeswoman for MaryEllen Elia said that since she might be called on to act in this instance, she could not comment on the situation.

One doesn't have to agree with the Bloombergian technocratic principle that a businessman will always make the best elected official to find it weird that so many people run for office on the basis of having carried water for other elected officials.

«The public does not elect people with the expectation that they will use their office for personal enrichment.»

And some of our elected «democratic» lawmakers, otherwise known as the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC), repeatedly caucus with republicans in exchange for leadership roles (which gets them a bigger paychecks, staff, and offices) and more funding for their districts.

Nixon, who has never run for elected office, did agree with de Blasio that the city shouldn't fund half of the MTA's $ 800 million Subway Action Plan, which aims to bring short - term service improvements to the system.

After Cuomo was elected, Howe said he was interacting «with the administration almost on a daily basis,» talking to Percoco, Glaser, other staff members, Malatras, «and other folks that were in the governor's office at that point.»

The move is a signal that the party is hoping James, who was first elected to public office with the WFP's backing, would eventually take its ballot line in the fall should she win the primary contest.

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

Heaney: It's one thing to be unhappy with Byron Brown and it's another thing to vote for somebody who's 32, and has never held elected office before, much less held executive - type positions.