Sentences with phrase «elected post»

The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, defended Corbyn, saying it was wrong to criticise him for being too decisive and insisting the issue of elected posts was still on the table.

Traditionally in Glen Ellyn, residents serve in elected posts for one four - year term, and selection at the caucus has been tantamount to election.

The number of women donating to political campaigns is climbing to new heights ahead of this year's midterm elections as women swarm to politics and run in record numbers for Congress and other elected posts around the country.

The former lieutenant governor stepped up to the state's top elected post when former Governor Elliot Spitzer resigned after being named in a sex scandal.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos has only been in office — the first elected post he has ever held — for less than four months, but he already has his eye on something bigger.

James is not the first public advocate to push the limits of the office, which, as one of three citywide elected posts, offers a bully pulpit but little in the way of concrete powers.

Two men are in the running for Southold supervisor, the town's highest elected post, and both know a thing or two about public service.

Americans Elect posts its national signature total (on ballot access petitions for itself) weekly.

At a national level reform measures could / should include an elected second chamber, a directly elected post of Prime Minister, and open primaries for all members of Parliament, giving the people the power to apply their own checks and balances to the system as well as allowing individuals to chose their Parliamentary representatives free of party machines.

Since January, newcomers have been crowding once scantily attended local party meetings, filling the depleted ranks of political party committeemen and lining up for consideration for other elected posts that went begging until now.

Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry defended Corbyn, saying it was wrong to criticise him for being «too decisive» and insisting that the issue of elected posts was still on the table.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is again providing a professional home for former Bloomberg administration aides and an ex-NYC Councilman who was term limited out of office last year and lost his bid for another elected post.

Since the law requires any member of the Legislature who is convicted of a felony to immediately lose his or her seat, Miller was immediately ejected from both his elected post and his speakership.

A felony conviction for either man would result in immediate loss of their elected post.

It could be a different story with Liu, who is hard - charging and ambitious and trying to work his way back into an elected post after coming in fourth in the 2013 NYC mayoral Democratic primary.

Schneiderman said there were plenty of repercussions for Maziarz — including the loss of his influence, elected post and reputation — when he admitted to engaging in misconduct in court.

Derek Wyatt MP told the same programme that he hoped Mr Prescott would «see sense» and resign as deputy prime minister - although he did not call for him to quit his job as deputy leader of the Labour party, an elected post.

Jon Ashworth, one of the few remaining moderates in the shadow cabinet, was promoted to shadow health secretary, but lost his place on the NEC to a Corbyn loyalist, which could tip the finely balanced body in the leadership's favour as it decides on whether to have elected posts.

Venditto, 68, a Republican from North Massapequa who stepped down in January from the elected post he had held since 1998, has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges that last October also ensnared Republican Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda.

But McCaffrey wonders whether the commissioner spot is just a steppingstone for an elected post, like district attorney or county executive.

In the past the whips were able to allocate the chairmanships of these committees but they'll now be elected posts.

The superintendent, who began serving her second four - year term in January 1993, said she would not seek a third term in the elected post but was considering running for the U.S. Congress in November.