Sentences with phrase «elections as constituents»

The voter ID pilot has descended into chaos during the local elections as constituents have been turned away from their polling stations.

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Re Prentice, I agree resigning as Tory leader is defensible, to an extent... but resigning the seat he had just won back on E-Day, leaving his constituents unrepresented and putting us all on the hook for an unnecessary by - election was crass and cowardly.

Legislators in Jackson Heights told their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender constituents as well as their allies Monday to vote for pro-marriage equality candidates in the Nov. 2 election.

«I am hopeful that Senator Oppenheimer will better serve and appreciate her constituents as a result of this hard - fought election.»

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

As of now, Obama - style integrated communications / volunteer - management is relatively rare, but some CRM (customer / constituent / contact - relations management) systems are beginning to incorporate multiple - channel features, and these should become increasingly common over the next election cycle or two.

Both campaigns have essentially been suspended as the candidates focus on helping their storm - ravaged constituents rather than on the election.

Jeffrey's attacks on the rebel MPs became more personal, as he went on to suggest those that voted to stop the reform were «unfit» for their jobs and suggested their constituents should «drive them from office» at the next election.

As to those politicians, of the four Republicans that blatantly went against their supporters and constituents, one has already quit, two are in serious danger of losing their primaries, and the last is facing a primary challenge and a general election challenge for the first time in decades.

As it bids to repair the country's economy, the Coalition has my full support, but it is vital that its two constituent parties retain their independence and continue to fight all elections as separate entitieAs it bids to repair the country's economy, the Coalition has my full support, but it is vital that its two constituent parties retain their independence and continue to fight all elections as separate entitieas separate entities.

Blvd., he said his election shows that his constituents do not want him to be silent on certain issues, such as charter schools.

Lawyer Rudolf Amenga - Etego, who is also an environmentalist, has indicated to Starr News through his spokesperson, Gilbert Atanga, that he would use his MP Common Fund to strengthen needy constituents through education, health, water and sanitation programmes among other interventions if voted as MP for the area in this year's general elections.

At its most cynical, look at it this way: high visibility with their constituents is grist to the mill come election time, and only the most idiotic or arrogant politician would dismiss an opportunity — any opportunity — to present him or herself as «working hard for you.»

After arriving at 6.10 pm — ten minutes late — at committee room 14, Harman began by telling the meeting that as soon as the exit poll was published on election night, she knew that her constituents would «take a thumping» under the Tory government.

It's not unusual for a campaign to use office mail to reach out to constituents right as Election Day is around the corner.

«Hopefully constituents will recognise that a party such as the SNP in a Westminster election can promise whatever it wants,» he says.

Oba Odugade won election as an independent candidate, where he contested as a representative of his ward Ibadan E4 constituency, known as the Local Authority Constituent Assembly in 1951.

Mr. Espaillat described last Tuesday's vote as a «murky process,» and he rattled off a series of perceived problems with the process, including a lack of Spanish translators at the polling stations and reports from his constituents that they had been turned away by election workers.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA Stony Point — While they are relatively low key events which do not usually draw large crowds, constituent hours for State Assemblyman James Skoufis (D — Stony Point) have served as a regular forum for Stony Point residents with questions and concerns on a range of issues since the Assemblyman's election.

«It goes without saying that until the Election I will continue to work as before, both in Parliament and locally, for all my constituents.

As such, he has caucused with Republicans since his election in 2012, saying it favors his constituents.

Democrat Adam Baumel has filed with the state Board of Elections to challenge Malliotakis for the 64th Assembly District, alleging the Republican has been neglecting the constituents who elected her as she runs for citywide office.

Stony Point — While they are relatively low key events which do not usually draw large crowds, constituent hours for State Assemblyman James Skoufis (D — Stony Point) have served as a regular forum for Stony Point residents with questions and concerns on a range of issues since the Assemblyman's election.

«He said that over the last three years he and his campaign team had concentrated not on winning the election but on improving public services in the area, and that this emphasis, plus his eight years as an assembly member had satisfied the constituents.

Many in Clarkstown believe that Wayne Ballard gave Sparaco two jobs in the Clarkstown Highway Department — one as a part - time $ 75,000 «Constituent Services Assistant» (which the Town Board eliminated) and then a job as a $ 103,600 full - time «Confidential Secretary» — because of Sparaco's «abilities» in providing additional ballot lines at election time.

District leaders help run local elections, act as ambassadors between constituents and elected officials and serve as community leaders.

Because the character of any candidate seeking election is critical to the quality of life of the public and the enforcement of law, we share the unedited words of Assemblyman and NY - 22 candidate Anthony Brindisi that he spoke on WUTQ — as he makes an unsolicited threat against his constituents.

In the 2013 election his Democratic opponent won a primary election for the minority Working Families Party only to find that Ballard's patronage employee, Frank Sparaco, then employed as Ballards's «Constituent Services Representative, working in conjunction with numerous favored highway employees had rounded up a bunch of absentee ballots over 90 % of which when opened contained votes for Ballard and reversed the result of the vote at the ballot on election day.

As a DFL constituent of Sen. Thompson's, I think he ought to look at who his supporters were in the election and find out who voted for him before he takes aim at teachers.