Sentences with phrase «endorsement of candidates by»

Significant happenings on these visits include endorsement of candidates by chiefs, although the constitutions frowns on the act, as chiefs are not to be involved in active politics.

** This event does not constitute an endorsement of the candidate by the Saskatoon - Wanuskewin Federal Liberal Association or any of its executive members **

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It is unclear whether Mr. Anders, who has the endorsement of senior cabinet minister Jason Kenney, will be approved by the Ottawa Tories as their candidate in this new riding.

Bank of America commented on E I Du Pont De Nemours And Co (NYSE: DD) Monday following the endorsement of Nelson Peltz and John H. Myers as candidates for the board of directors by Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS).

San Jose City Councilmembers Raul Peralez, Chappie Jones and Sergio Jimenez endorsed Antonio Villaraigosa for governor... Insurance commissioner candidate Asif Mahmood has been endorsed by Antioch Councilmember Monica Wilson; Skyler Tempel, Vice Chair Riverside Democratic Party and Monterey Councilmember Alan Haffa... The Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, San Francisco's largest Democratic Club, has endorsed Dave Jones for attorney general... State Treasurer John Chiang's campaign for governor announced the endorsement of the AAPI Democratic Club of San Diego... The Latino Victory Fund endorsed Gil Cisneros in CA - 39.

Hagee's endorsement of then - presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 was plagued by controversy.

The endorsement by President Clinton and by both presidential candidates of government assistance to «faith - based» charities is one example.

They stole tens of thousands of dollars from crazy Carl's campaign and even lied about endorsements by printing the wrong candidates name on mailers going out to tens of thousands of people in 2010 (picking Jay Townsend over Gary Bernstein without authorization.

... that would be two — count»em — TWO public appearances by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo: One in NYC (to pick up the endorsement of Mayor Bloomberg) and another in Albany (to announce a «major takedown of 41 gang members).

To be clear, visits by candidates to religious institutions — particularly black churches — are a time - honored tradition in New York and elsewhere, and generally they don't include a formal endorsement, which would, of course, put nonprofit status in danger.

Ayariga had over the weekend challenged the endorsement of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, Nana Akufo - Addo, by the APC's General Secretary, Razak Opoku and its running mate, Carl Bartels.

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on Thursday unveiled its endorsement of Democratic candidate Harvey Epstein, who is vying for the seat vacated in the Assembly by Sen. Brian Kavanagh.

We differentiated between computational approaches (either based on volume data, such as the number of mentions related to a party or candidate or the occurrence of particular hashtags; or endorsement data, such as the number of Twitter followers, Facebook friends or the number of «likes» received on Facebook walls), sentiment analysis approaches, that pay attention to the language and try to attach a qualitative meaning to the comments (posts, tweets) published by social media users employing automated tools for sentiment analysis (i.e., via natural language processing models or the employment of pre-defined ontological dictionaries), and finally what we call supervised and aggregated sentiment analysis (SASA), that is, techniques that exploit the human codification in their process and focus on the estimation of the aggregated distribution of the opinions, rather than on individual classification of each single text (Ceron et al. 2016).

Among the other Democrats still in the running for the seat vacated on Jan. 1 by Westchester County Executive George Latimer are People for Bernie co-founder Kat Brezler, who received the endorsement yesterday of 2014 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout; and Bedford Supervisor Chris Burdick.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden also intervened on behalf of Hillary Clinton by making unprecedented endorsements of two Democratic Primary Candidates in Florida: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Florida Senate Candidate Patrick Murphy.

But while Cuomo is in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention to boost Hillary Clinton, he once again declined to endorse a Democratic takeover of the state Senate, reiterating his stance that his endorsement is on a candidate - by - candidate basis.

Ben Walsh, an independent contender for Syracuse mayor, received the endorsement of the Upstate Jobs Party — a nascent group founded last year by millionaire entrepreneur, and unsuccessful NY - 22 candidate, Martin Babinec of Little Falls.

NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn's mayoral campaign wasted no time in capitalizing on the Democratic candidate's surprise endorsement yesterday from Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in the DOMA case that led to one of the historic same - sex marriage rulings by the US Supreme Court yesterday.

Mr. Wright seems to be the most likely candidate to land Mr. Rangel's endorsement: the assemblyman has been a close ally of Mr. Rangel's, and his congressional bid is being run by a former Rangel campaign adviser.

RWDSU is a traditional supporter of Democratic candidates, but endorsement is also one of the earliest for Scheniderman, who this month was backed by the painters union.

And his influence extends beyond his members: Mr. Seabrook has been known to throw his weight behind an interesting array of candidates from both parties and was rumored (by Rudy Giuliani) to be supporting Donald Trump — for whom an endorsement from a black union leader would amount to big news.

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.

I also thank your Excellencies for the big vote of confidence you gave to my country Ghana, not just by the massive endorsement of Ghana's candidate for Deputy Chair of our Commission, but also for the selection of my compatriot, Prof. Dakoure, as one of the two awardees of this year's Kwame Nkrumah Scientific Award.

«I can not imagine any candidate in our district who would not want the endorsement of the NRA Victory Fund, which is by far the largest gun rights organization in the country,» the campaign said.

«Carnright, by a flicker» sounded more like a pick for a horse race than an endorsement of a candidate for an important county office.

Bugbee was headed to a Friday afternoon court appearance as a result of a lawsuit previously filed by McLaughlin over which candidate received the Independence Party's endorsement in the race when the confrontation started.

(CNN)-- Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum stood by his tepid endorsement of former rival Mitt Romney on Tuesday, saying he supported the presumptive GOP nominee but would still try to hold his «feet to the fire.»

In theory, by helping winnow the field a party endorsement could help prevent what Politico called the «nightmare scenario» of so many Democratic candidates splitting up the vote that two Republicans finish first and second, shutting Democrats out of the general election.

Manhattan Republicans turned the tables on the Cuomo - created «Women's Equality Party» (WEP) in a primary last week by grabbing the party's endorsement for a candidate of their own.

(b) Each Democratic organization shall have a written constitution which provides among other things (i) that the annual election of officers be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization; (ii) that membership in the organization be open to all enrolled Democrats residing in the political subdivision for which the organization is to function; (iii) that there be periodic financial reports to the membership, with at least one report each year and that the receipts and expenditures of the organization may be reviewed upon the written request of any member of the organization at a reasonable time and place fixed by an officer of the organization designated for that purpose; (iv) that endorsement of all candidates for party position or public office in the party primary be by a secret ballot of the members of the organization.

«Yes, and when I have learned about candidates who have the Conservative Party endorsement and then allow themselves to be corrupted by accepting the Working Families endorsement, I try to strip them of our ballot line,» New York Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long told me, «Running with the WFP and our line is totally unacceptable.»

He's yet to be endorsed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been selective in his endorsements of Democratic candidates this year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced his second general election endorsement of a state Senate Democratic candidate, issuing a statement of support for Justin Wagner, who is making his second attempt at winning the Hudson Valley seat currently occupied by GOP Sen. Greg Ball.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, is generally pretty judicious with his endorsements, preferring to hand them out only in instances of 1) political expedience (like, say, the tight race for Westchester County executive where he would personally benefit from the defeat of incumbent Republican Rob Astorino, who has been mentioned as a potential future gubernatorial contender); or 2) almost certain victory by his preferred candidate; or 3) when his nod is highly likely to make the difference between victory and defeat in the 11th hour of a campaign.

Democratic congressional candidate DuWayne Gregory challenged Long Island Rep. Peter King to rescind his endorsement of Trump, after comments by women who have said the presidential nominee had groped them.

Former President Barack Obama is adding his voice to the Alabama U.S. Senate race, imploring voters to go to the polls tomorrow to reject the candidacy of Roy Moore as part of an aggressive effort by Democrats to try and counter Trump's full - throated endorsement of the controversial Republican candidate.

«In 2009, I watched as the endorsements of local candidates in NYC like Debi Rose, Vincent Gentile, Paul Vallone and scores of others were overturned by the state, at the behest of Mayor Bloomberg's aides or The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY).»

The WFP's strong campaign operations, ability to mobilize grassroots and institutional support, and impressive record of electoral victories at the city and state level make its endorsement highly sought - after by political candidates.

With an army of campaign aides, Perez countermanded a request by California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton that statewide candidates not seek the party's endorsement.

Democratic congressional candidate DuWayne Gregory on Tuesday challenged Rep. Peter King to rescind his endorsement of Donald Trump, after comments by women who have said Trump groped them.

The club ultimately voted to withdraw its endorsement, adding that it «does not relish calling out its friends by name, but we will not hesitate to continue hold all those who advance the political ambitions of bigoted candidates accountable for their actions.»

We caught up with state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli in Buffalo earlier today and asked him whether he's put out about the fact that he's now the odd man out when it comes to endorsements by Democratic gubernatorial candidate of his fellow statewide contenders.

Three candidates are somehow in the mild slugfest for county Surrogate Court judge — Democrat Sara McGinty, who won her party's primary, though not its endorsement at convention, and has a dubious distinction of being listed as «not qualified» by the Third Judicial Department Independent Judicial Elections Qualification Commissions, though the Ulster County Bar Association lists her as «qualified.»

«I am honored and humbled by the outpouring of support I have received over the first month of my campaign from the great people of the 10th District and all over Erie County,» said the grassroots candidate who has earned endorsements from the Democratic and Working Families parties.

Republican congressional candidate Bob Turner picked up the second high - profile endorsement of his campaign when he was backed Sunday by U.S. Rep. Peter King (R - Massapequa Park) at Joe Abbracciamento's Restaurant in Rego Park as his opponent, state Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) was endorsed by the state's largest private sector union.

LCV's affiliated political action committees, the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund and the League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund, support the overarching LCV mission by making independent expenditures, campaign contributions and endorsements in support of pro-environmental candidates.

Given this highly objectionable endorsement, loyal NYC Democrats resisting the disastrous polices enacted by the Trump Administration will also now view Cornegy as a totally unsuitable candidate for Speaker of the City Council.»

«As a first time candidate, I'm humbled by the outpouring of support I've received from the Committee,» Zegers said in a statement after her party endorsement.

Several other GOP candidates are expected to announce this month as Republican leaders begin an interview and endorsement process that they want to complete by the end of February.