Sentences with phrase «electing a candidate from»

There was little change outside Northern Ireland, with 620 out of the 641 seats electing candidates from the same party as they did in 1997.

What I'm saying, in short, is if you actually want something DONE about climate change, elect the candidate from the party that gives a damn.

Not exact matches

She added that Thiel should assume more responsibility and resign from his role at YC «to focus on his work getting his candidate elected, instead of putting his friends in the position to defend him.»

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

In Ohio, where Murray is based, state law prohibits employers from putting signs and placards at work containing «threats, notice, or information that if any particular candidate is elected or defeated work in the establishment will cease in whole or in part.»

The Liberal presence shrunk to five MLAs in last year's provincial election and the federal Liberals last successfully elected a candidate to Parliament from Alberta in the 2004 election.

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Several task groups evolved from these; their goal was to raise the level of concern on the city council by working to elect candidates aware of urban problems.

He despairingly lists some of the improper or fatuous reasons sometimes put forward in favor of such candidates, like their wealth, family connections, their being recently converted from the other side, their fashionable large - mindedness, their ecclesiastical pu11.32 But basically, the reluctance of the high - minded to be elected bishop was their own extremely high view of the office and the spiritual dangers it involved.

In the past three months, the odds of a third party candidate being elected President have improved from +5000 to +3832.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

We have to improve the way we examine candidates before we elect them, because so many candidates from both parties have had markedly weak characters that have lead to scandal and eventual resignation from office.

The party doesn't hold much sway in Democrat - dominated NYC, and hasn't managed to elect anyone to a city or state post for decades, but it is nevertheless prominent in Republican circles, since the city is a must - stop for candidates from all over the nation who are trying to raise campaign cash.

In other words, he's going to be VERY hard to beat — especially for two little - known Republicans, one of whom is a freshman elected official from Nassau County, and another who has made a living counseling candidates but never running himself.

A GOP insider who reviewed Lhota's filing counted another 32 contributions made by people connected to Giuliani in one form or another, which only serves to further complicate the candidate's task of distinguishing himself from his old boss and proving that electing him won't simply be Giuliani, Take II.

The measure backed by Sen. Brad Hoylman is squarely aimed at one candidate from the last year: Republican President - elect Donald Trump, who refused to submit to the post-Watergate scandal tradition of releasing tax information.

Hailing from Manhattan, Farley, a former official of the state GOP and a first - time candidate for elected office, admitted she is not well known outside NYC — if at all even there.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, unless -

However, this was hardly surprising coming from that great bastion of West Country non-conformity, which elected an independent candidate as its inaugural mayor.

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

At noon, elected officials, including LG candidate and Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane Williams, tenants from rent regulated and NYCHA apartments and Upstate / Downstate Housing Alliance members, deliver thousands of signatures to the governor, demanding that housing be a priority in this year's budget, Cuomo's office, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.

It is just (based on the clever idea of the OP) a way to evaluate separately the two respects in which the Electoral College is different from a direct national election, where the candidate with the most votes nationally is elected.

2007 LEGON VIOLENCE The NPP after shortlisting the numerous candidates for the flagbearership position to 17 of which Professor Ocquaye was part, ended up in University of Ghana, Legon to elect the next Presidential candidate of the Party who will take over from President JA Kufour.

The Electoral Commission must determine which candidates are entitled to be elected by selecting those candidates on the list of each party, beginning with the first candidate on the list and ending with the lowest ranking candidate, which are equal in number to the number of seats to which that party is entitled to have allocated from its list submitted pursuant to section 127.

On Sept. 15, Gillibrand wrote to her supporters about New York House candidate Grace Meng, who if elected will be the first Asian - American elected to Congress from New York.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or any provision of sections 191 and 192, the Electoral Commission may proceed to select the names of those candidates entitled to be elected from lists submitted under section 127, by such method and procedure as the Electoral Commission thinks fit, including the use of computer technology:

The key difference in the SV system from FPTP is in what candidates need to do to get elected.

At any general election any secretary of a political party that is registered under Part 4 may forward to the Electoral Commission a list of candidates for election to the seats reserved for those members of Parliament elected from lists submitted under this section.

The two candidates have split support from the local Democratic party machines and elected officials, and have overshadowed two other Democrats on the primary ballot, community activist Tamika Mapp and former State Assemblymember Israel Martinez.

Also in the Northern region, the NDC quest to snatch Tamale North from the present occupant, an independent, appears to be smelting gradually as there are reports of lack of cooperation among the constituency executives, defeated parliamentary candidate aspirants and the duly elected candidate, Alhassan Suhuyini and his supporters.

Unlike some other proposals that bar candidates from contesting elections if charged with criminal cases, this solution would not vitiate the presumption of innocence, and should be seen as a «privilege» given to elected representatives, an opportunity to quickly clear their names of malicious or frivolous allegations.

This summer, as you'll recall, the state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia removed Paladino from his seat for violating executive session rules, even though voters had twice elected the former Republican gubernatorial candidate to the school board despite his many controversial public statements.

Next Tuesday, several thousand Bronx voters are expected to head to the polls to elect a new City Council member, but they have to choose from a large crowd of candidates.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, received a $ 30,000 infusion of cash from the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a Washington - based group that has sought to elect more Democratic candidates to state office.

«As both an elected official and candidate for attorney general, I am proud to support this long overdue effort to reform state government from top to bottom.»

Doug Enyart, owner of Clearwater Forest Consultants and a former U.S. Marine, was recently elected from a pool of candidates to represent the Constitution Party for the 8th Congressional District seat vacated by JoAnn Emerson.

Since Labour can ignore neither the perspective held by a large number of its membership, nor abandon the rest of the country, the elections that result from these «power vs. principles» crises tend to be fought between candidates who back similar policies — Labour tried to appease Bennites by electing the similarly radical Foot, and now a part of Labour has rested its hopes with Owen Smith, who, at least publicly, shares many of Corbyn's views.

The article says candidates nominated by the Americans Elect leadership need 10,000 «clicks» from the ranks of people who have signed up to be voters in the Americans Elect primary.

Jewish New York Government Outreach is a project uniting diverse Jewish community leaders from across New York City seeking to engage candidates for elected office on the matters of great concern to the city's Orthodox communities.

None of the changes to downgrade the powers of the elected bodies of the party — notably the conference and NEC — and restrict members» rights to select candidates for public office could have been adopted without support from the trade union bureaucracy.

Taking cues from Clinton's success, the party must work to address these weaknesses through better fundraising and voter mobilization as well as recruiting stronger candidates for these important elected positions.

Under this system, each party draws up a ranked list of candidates, from which a number are elected based on the parties» shares of a national vote.

President Nana Addo then candidate Nana Addo in 2012 made it clear that he will move to the flagstaff house when elected the President but because he want to enjoy the 9million dollar renovation just like other Presidents from his camp, he has now deliberately refused to move into the flagstaff house with his family at the expense of the poor trader on the street of Nima.

Democratic Suffolk district attorney candidate Timothy Sini said that if elected he would not pay staff bonuses from a seized property fund while Republican Ray Perini said he would have to study the issue further.

A copy of the suit said: «This honourable court will be moved by Gary Nimako Marfo ESQ., counsel for and on behalf of plaintiff / applicants herein praying for an order of interlocutory injunction to restrain defendants / respondents, whether by themselves, agents, servants, workmen, hirelings, privies or any person claiming under or through them or howsoever described, from holding out the second defendant / respondent, [as] the parliamentary candidate - elect for Klottey Korle constituency.»

Democratic Suffolk County executive candidate Steve Bellone has launched a last - minute radio ad touting his endorsement by THE local paper of record, Newsday, as the Democrats put the finishing touches on their effort to wrest the top local elected office back from GOP hands.

Under the rules of the broadcast era of politics, a young man with a funny name and a couple of years in the Senate might run honorably but would almost certainly lose, crushed by the ability of an experienced candidate like Hillary Clinton to raise money from big donors and lock up endorsements from elected officials and party activists.

Visibly confident, jocular and at ease, Eagle read out quotes from disgruntled Tory backbenchers including London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, in a performance which was reminiscent of the former era of PMQs, before Corbyn was elected.

Party members heard from elected officials and candidates at all levels of government, including potential gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino.