Sentences with phrase «election agenda before»

«Housing is going to be a central issue for us,» he said of the matter that will potentially drive the NDP's election agenda before voters go to the polls in May 2017.

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He criticized Trump's trade agenda before his election and more recently labelled his tariffs as tax hikes and prosperity killers.

In late January, Obama will give his fifth State of the Union address, setting his agenda for the final stretch before the 2014 midterm elections render him less able to focus Washington's attention on his own priorities.

«I think it's a sign of the times that it's the Lib Dems that have the best team - that have Vince,» he corrected, before adding quickly, «as the most authoritative spokesperson on an issue which is dominating this election agenda».

Her comments, made at a news conference in which mainline Democrats unveiled a «resistance» agenda to bolster liberal gains made before the election of Donald Trump as president, come days after yet another lawmaker moved to the IDC: Queens Sen. Jose Peralta.

Stay tuned for updates about which parties are dominating coverage, who is setting the agenda, and how far broadcasters cover the issues voters need to know about before election day.

It says something about the sad state of affairs in Albany when a newly elected governor has to barnstorm the state like a candidate on election eve to advance the same agenda that earned him a landslide victory only months before.

City Council Member Ben Kallos, who chairs the committee on governmental operations, said in a phone interview that «All of these [reforms] should've happened before Election Day and if there's an Albany special session it should be part of that agenda.

Timing is everything in politics: The day before a special election is expected to result in the addition of a 32nd Democrat to the state Senate, the eight members of the Independent Democratic Conference have released a video calling on all of the chamber's Democrats to declare their support for a set of progressive agenda items.

Cuomo, speaking one day before elections, blamed the state's small but powerful Conservative Party, which often cross endorses Republican candidates and adds a key margin of votes for victory, for the failure to get the rest of the progressive agenda approved.

Amanda Pizzuti, 25, from Brooklyn, who saw Cuomo speak at a rally with Bill Clinton before the election, said she was excited about the new governor and optimistic about his agenda.

It was formed soon after he won election, before he even took office, with the stated purpose of pushing his agenda.

If we do not develop a coherent philosophical agenda before the next election we will be doomed just as the Blair government was to govern purely in the interest of power.

First of all, Cameron is likely to want to seize the agenda at some point with a last major reshuffle before the general election (and indeed some junior ministers may get moved during the summer).

Obviously I accept that when the conference was being put together we were unsure as to whether a general election campaign might already be under way, so there was always going to be a need for some flexibility; but it would be good to know what's on the agenda with only days to go before the event.

Compared to before the General Election, today's Parliament is a different beast: more confident, far more assertive and rather than trying to catch up with old news, it is finally setting the day's agenda.

Key responded that National would set its own policy agenda and that there was adequate time before the next election for voters to digest National Party policy proposals.

On the eve of his final planned reshuffle before the election, in which the prime minister is expected to promote a number of women, the controversial issue of all - women shortlists returns to the agenda as a cross-party group raises the prospect of «prescriptive quotas».

The main reason sources say the prospects for the legislation are dim is because Senate Democratic leaders have decided to try to put immigration reform first on the agenda, and after that there likely won't be an appetite for another politically divisive issue before November's election — especially with a Supreme Court nomination ahead and a desire to stay focused on the politically potent issue of jobs.

Just one concrete example from before the general election of what certainly seemed like agenda - setting by a specific BBC programme.

In an interview Wednesday evening, Klein said that the central problem with trying to come together before November's elections was more basic: a lack of votes on the unaccomplished progressive agenda items.

In addition to their lobbying work with ConnCAN, Alexander and Johnson were the individuals who formed A Better Connecticut, Inc. yet another education reform industry front group that spent more than $ 2 million on television ads during the year before the last gubernatorial election to «thank» Governor Malloy for his «leadership» on behalf of the corporate education reform agenda.

The main reason sources say the prospects for the legislation are dim is because Senate Democratic leaders have decided to try to put immigration reform first on the agenda, and after that there likely won't be an appetite for another politically divisive issue before November's election — especially with a Supreme Court nomination ahead and a desire to stay focused on the politically potent issue of jobs.