Sentences with phrase «failed political run»

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David Fried — who was endorsed last month by Clinton in his bid for Rockland County executive — said he will give to charity $ 10,000 that political fixer, government informant and admitted felon Moses «Mark» Stern contributed to Fried's failed 2006 run for New York State Assembly.

As a political neophyte, Khojasteh says he recognizes what he doesn't know, and therefore hired some recognizable names to assist him in his Senate quest, including Mollie Fullington, a former Pataki administration spokeswoman, who is handling media; and Mike Lawler, an Astorino administration aide who ran the former county executive's failed 2014 run for governor, as campaign manager.

Ill - defined reforms entrench disengagement with the politics of the centre and, by failing to fundamentally shift the balance of power, exhaust political capital running in short supply.

Since failing last year to halt the expansion of Success Academy Charter Schools, run by his old political foe Eva Moskowitz, Mr. de Blasio has softened his rhetoric toward charter schools, even as his liberal allies continue to seethe.

Failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis is keeping an eye on the «electoral climate in Texas» as she decides when she should make another political run, she wrote in Cosmopolitan.

After a Staten Island grand jury failed to indict a white NYPD officer in the death of Garner, a black Staten Islander, last year, critics in political and academic circles charged that local district attorneys, who often work closely with the police to prosecute crimes, are too close to law enforcement to consistently bring charges against them when they run afoul of the law.

Vance has impaneled a grand jury to weigh whether the mayor and / or his top political apparatchiks conspired in 2014 to circumvent state campaign contribution s during de Blasio's failed bid to flip control of the GOP - run State Senate.

A challenge to his petitions filed by Essex County Democratic Party Committee Chair Bethany Kosmider cited duplicate signatures, information like dates omitted from the documents and one cover sheet that failed to list the political party he wanted to run under.

The New York Times reviews «Weiner,» a documentary about former Rep. Anthony Weiner's failed attempt at a political comeback by running for NYC mayor in 2013.

However, others in the party are starting to break cover to suggest that Corbyn narrowly failed to defeat a Conservative party that ran one of the worst campaigns in British political history.

The failed attempt to start a political blog at the NY Post (the Knickerbocker) is a prime example of how not to run a blog.

That defeat means an end to the longtime liberal advocate's political career, which has included two losses for Senate nominations, as well as failed runs for the U.S. House and New York City Mayor.

How did Michael Allegretti, a failed one - time congressional candidate with zero experience in campaign management, grassroots organization, modern media or political consulting, land a cushy gig running Carrion's million dollar campaign for mayor — before anyone knew he was running?

Political campaigns have become more people - centric, he said, which means candidates once defeated in early nominating contests, or fail to meet party muster, are pushing the contests out to November, running in different party lines or as independents.

Additionally, a candidate can not run as an independent if he or she tried and failed to qualify as a political party candidate in the primary.

Paladino also testified that he decided to run for the Buffalo School Board after his failed gubernatorial bid in 2010, when someone suggested Paladino start his political career on the School Board or city Council and work his way up.

He has been particularly critical of Singas, who he has accused of running a «dysfunctional» office that is too reactive and has failed to adequately address problems with gangs, heroin and political corruption.

Some states bar candidates who sought, but failed, to secure the nomination of a political party from running as independents in the general election.

«However, because of pending deadlines for parties to formally place alternate candidates on the ballot, I simply am not willing to take a chance that Ken LaValle and his incompetent political agenda would run unopposed for a second straight election should my further appeals fail.»

Whether to raise the Latimer - Kettner relationship as a political issue has been considered by numerous political campaign organizations over the years going back to Kettner's failed 2007 bid for New Rochelle City Council, to various Latimer races, to Kettner's successful run for New Rochelle City Court Judge in 2010.

Bunny needs the work, having lost, in succession, the full pension due a retired police major, his golden parachute running security for Johns Hopkins (both casualties of his experiment, «Hamsterdam,» to legalize drugs in his district, which yielded both a 14 % drop in violent crime and a massive political shitstorm), and his security job at a downtown hotel (the result of his failing to give special treatment to a «friend of the hotel» who beats up a hooker).

Huge foundation gifts meant to jump - start reform can fail if the funders have attached themselves to enthusiasts who ignore politics, move too quickly and dramatically, and run everything into the ground — or if local figures declare a bold reform and push it at great speed, but do not have the stature or political skill to sustain it.

And even if by some political miracle the new PARCC test could be used to impose tough sanctions on schools and educators who failed to comply with Common Core, it's a really bad idea to try to run school systems with a test.

A former political organizer - he worked for Walter Mondale's failed presidential campaign and the star - crossed movement to draft Mario Cuomo for a White House bid - he runs Project Appleseed, a nonprofit group that helps parents shed their timid, «teachers know best» attitudes and dive into the nitty - gritty of schools and education policy.

The result was run through a simple synthesizer, and the end product is a melodic, droning soundscape that fails to communicate the destruction and political fallout associated with the virus.

That lack of openness and transparency is the very reason they've had to bear so much criticism for their failings to date, whereas an open door, approachable policy from the very beginning would have saved them much scientific and political embarrassment in the long run.