Sentences with phrase «electoral campaigns who»

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The French judges are examining whether Havas supported the electoral campaigns of candidates who once in office granted port concessions to Bollore's group, the magazine said.

«Of course, it's undeniable that in our electoral system, candidates need access to wealth to run financially viable campaigns, and the most successful fundraisers are politicians who swim in those circles to begin with.»

For DeMoss, who is officially a senior adviser to the Romney campaign, the stakes of his work go well beyond electoral politics.

I pointed out above that the politicians who campaigned on a strident culture - wars theme were not particularly successful in electoral politics.

Though its electoral successes were widespread at the local and state level the success of the early Socialist Party as a movement with mass was very much linked to the personality of Eugene V. Debs who polled nearly a million votes in the presidential campaign of 1912.

The most important proposal is to end private electoral campaign financing, a problematic arrangement that works against those candidates who refuse financial contributions from interest groups.

It is well known that those candidates who collude with special interest groups are better placed to run extravagant electoral campaigns — often devoid of any real content — and that the same interest groups that donate to candidates will later on demand privileges and benefits from them.

My own panel, «How to Act Like Obama Online When You DO N'T Have a Billion in the Bank» (which will talk about applying Obama 2012 lessons to this year's advocacy and electoral campaigns), is coming together nicely — we just signed up Ethan Roeder, Obama's chief data manager for the presidential race and who's now gone back over to the New Organizing Institute, as a speaker.

The latter move meant it was like «running a national election campaign with someone deciding who to give the electoral register to», one campaign team member said.

His bid to shift to the other chamber of the state legislature was only possible with the blessing of Congressman Joe Crowley, the Queens political boss; his campaign is backed by the unions — including the UFT, SEIU 1199, and 32BJ — who have the most clout in Albany; and Peralta's campaign strategist is from the Parkside Group, a firm that is amassing a list of Senate electoral clients nearly as long as its list of corporate lobbying clients.

Of further note, the conference was joined by Sam Smith of the Progressive Review in Washington, DC; by Mike Feinstein of the California Green Party, who had just helped organize a very successful «Green Parties of the West» conference; by representatives of the Reform Party; by Rob Daniels» «Campaign for a New Tomorrow»; and by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a national organization headed by Rob Richie dedicated to promoting Instant Run - off Voting, Ranked Choice Voting, proportional representation, and electoral reforms supported by many Greens through the Center's FairVote organizing work.

Governor Ambode, who made the presentation at the LTV Blue Roof, Ikeja, Lagos, said his administration identified unemployment as a major socio - economic challenge facing Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole in the course of the electoral campaign, and thus prioritised job creation.

Rojo Mettle - Nunoo, who managed the electoral campaign for the late President John Atta Mills, said he was part of a research team that found that the then incumbent party's 2016 campaign messages were out of touch with electorates, but their recommendations were swept under the carpet.

If there's one takeaway from this election, it is that we need real campaign finance reform in this country, and we need to elect leaders who have dedicated themselves to getting corporate money out of our electoral process.»

Matthew Elliott, who played a key role in defeating Nick Clegg's plans for electoral reform in the No to AV campaign in 2011, will serve as chief executive.

From mayoral races to state legislative campaigns, teenagers and others who are too young to vote are canvassing neighborhoods and learning the intricacies of electoral politics.

A few Seattle labor leaders have supported Socialist Alternative campaigns, and even those who still support Democratic incumbents speak favorably of the contributions this leftist electoral force has made in pushing the city's political conversation in a more progressive direction.

Her support for the controversial invasion was used against her in the electoral campaign of Respect's George Galloway, who defeated her at the 2005 general election.

Victorious New York City electoral campaigns can come down to who has the better GOTV operation on E-Day.

The City Council heard testimony Monday on a broad package of bills that would prevent conflicts of interest between elected officials and political nonprofits, limit the electoral influence of those who do business with the city, and make it easier for first - time candidates to navigate the city's campaign finance system.

This campaign unit could also start to think about the referendum campaign on electoral reform; how it should be fought and who should lead it.

Witness her decision to endorse and campaign for Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose electoral showing suffered this year from antipathy toward him among liberals, and who Mark - Viverito herself had sharply criticized a few months earlier for his positions on taxes, charter schools and the minimum wage.

The report authors argue charters have come to represent a force that «preempts traditional local control of public schools» and spends «hundreds of millions of dollars to promote itself... finance electoral campaigns up and down the political ladder and hire publicists who spread misinformation, aggressively lobby, and paint charter opponents as part of the problem they are solving.»

Stephens, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize - winner who joined The Times earlier this year after critiquing Donald Trump's presidential campaign for The Wall Street Journal's opinion section, argued in his first column that the kind of overwhelming certainty that caused Hillary Clinton to overestimate her chances of electoral victory has crept into conventional wisdom surrounding climate science:

Programs, mandates, and subsidies beget vocal beneficiaries, industries, lobbyists, and crony corporatist arrangements between them and elected representatives — who receive dinners, trips, and campaign contributions in exchange for votes that perpetuate programs, mandates, subsidies, and electoral success.

The firm was so central to Trump's electoral efforts that special counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing ties between the Trump campaign and Russia's election meddling, has asked the firm to turn over the emails of any employees who worked on the Trump campaign, according to The Wall Street Journal.