Not exact matches
AUSTRALIANS finds themselves in the peculiar position that whichever party wins the coming
federal election, a former party
leader has been promised a senior ministerial post.
New Democratic Party
leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent
federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.
As soon as the May 2
federal election was called, the questions began for New Democratic
Leader Jack Layton.
During the 2008
federal election, the Conservative
leader denied the recession would push Canada into deficit.
With Canada's 2015
federal election underway, we're asking Canada's business
leaders for one policy measure that the next government — whichever party (or parties) may lead it — could implement to boost business in this country.
He lost his bid to replace Harris as party
leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial
election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a
federal seat later the same year.
As if to prove this claim,
federal Liberal
leader Justin Trudeau announced that one plank of his
election platform will be to realign the tax system to shift wealth away from those nasty one - percenters and down to the middle class.
New comments by President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani about a payment to Stormy Daniels place the president at the center of questions about possible campaign - finance violations, two former
Federal Election Commission
leaders said.
In the 2008
federal election, Opposition
Leader Stéphane Dion also tried but failed to convince the public of the need for a carbon tax, despite Canadians» support for action on climate change.
NDP's
federal council met to review terms for leadership race, which will pick a new
leader two years before next
election
He would become the longest - serving
leader of a major political party in Canadian history and the only Prime Minister to win four consecutive
federal elections by backing up his pledge of real change with real action.
The issue figures to feature prominently in the next
federal election, with Liberal
Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP
Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.
During his speech, I could not help but reflect on the differences between Mr. Mulcair and former
leader Jack Layton, who spoke to a raucous crowd in the same room during the 2008
federal election.
Ms. Rankin has been
leader of the Communist Party since 1992 and, according to her Wikipedia biography, has run in every provincial and
federal election in Alberta since 1982.
She has publicly clashed with interim
leader Ric McIver over his decision to endorse the
federal Conservatives, and with Wildrose supporters over her decision to endorse Liberal candidates in the 2015
federal election.
Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's
federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on
federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]
Ross Harvey (NDP
leader, 1994 to 1996): The former NDP Member of Parliament was selected as
leader of the seatless party shortly after he was unseated in the 1993
federal election.
But your
leaders over the past 30 years has focused on stacking local, state and
federal elections with candidates sporting that Fresh Bible Smell.
The «social market» program put forward by Konrad Adenauer, the
leader of the Christian Democratic Party in the
Federal Republic's first parliamentary
elections in 1949, was a key element in this social and political transformation.
Quebec dairy farmers thrust their fight over supply management into the
election spotlight today, bringing a pair of cows to the site of tonight's
federal leaders debate.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd used the final
leaders» debate of the 2013
federal election to signal a possible shift on foreign property ownership, saying he is «a bit nervous» about an «open slather approach».
The political action committee for Abbott Laboratories, the maker of U.S. market
leader Similac, spent more than $ 1.5 million in contributions to
federal and congressional candidates during the last
election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington - based watchdog of campaign contributions.
Kaminsky won the seat vacated by former Republican Senate Majority
Leader Dean Skelos, who was also convicted on
federal corruption, in a special
election last April, defeating McGrath.
In 2010, when the party was under
federal investigation and risked falling off the ballot in the following
election, it agreed to endorse Cuomo after he made the party's
leaders sign on to a pro-business platform that included fighting organized labor.
A diverse group of local governments, environmental protection organizations, business groups, recreational enthusiasts, newspapers and former
federal and state government officials and environmental
leaders are asking New York State voters to help make the Adirondacks and Catskills safer for residents and visitors alike by voting Yes for Ballot Proposal # 3 — The Public Health and Safety Land Account — this
Election Day.
The
leader of IPOB, Mazi NnamdiKanu, had earlier posited that unless the
Federal Government of Nigerian organizes a referendum to determine the status of the country, there would be no
elections in Anambra State come November 18, 2017.
Even after a
federal judge ordered Mr. Cuomo to declare a special
election for a vacant Staten Island Congressional seat, party
leaders did not foresee that Mr. Cuomo would decide that the
federal election and state
election would be held on the same day, May 5.
Senior
leaders in the Social Democratic Pary (SPD) have decided that Steinmeier will run against incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's
federal elections, according to reports on Saturday, Sept. 6, by the Berliner Zeitung and Spiegel Online.
Low information voters largely just trust «
leaders» in the correct community (local Democrats, union reps, and so forth), but of the people who aren't surprised by
federal elections every two years who like Obama, they just don't care.
There were also special
elections yesterday to fill two state legislative seats left vacant by the
federal corruption convictions of their former occupants — ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (lower Manhattan) and ex-Senate Majority
Leader Dean Skelos (Nassau County, Long Island).
«We realize that the State Primary date may not accompany this change and our encouraging our legislative
leaders to alter the
Election Calendar to include both the
Federal and State Primaries.
The
leaders of the bipartisan
Election Commissioners» Association sent a letter this week to Judge Gary Sharpe that urges legislative
leaders to take action on setting state and
federal primary dates in order to comply with the
federal MOVE Act.
A footnote in the
federal corruption complaint against former Senate Majority
Leader Dean Skelos states the Republican during the 2012
election cycle directed Glenwood Management — the real estate industry's biggest user of the LLC loophole — to make $ 100,000 in LLC contributions to the Erie County Republicans, an organization Skelos was believed to have «substantial control» over.
An Ijaw
leader and former
Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday described the Bayelsa State governorship
election as not only a show of...
In the last three years, the Long Island Nine has become the not - so - solid seven with the conviction of ex-GOP Senate Majority
leader Dean Skelos on
federal corruption charges and the
election loss of freshman Sen. Michael Venditto after
federal charges were leveled against his father, former Oyster Bay Supervisor John Venditto, who is now on trial.
Before the
election of the first
federal leader of the party (the Liberal Democrats having a
federal structure in their internal party organisation), the
leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the SDP, served as joint interim
leaders.
On Tuesday,
election day, a new
leader was finally chosen while the disgraced former supervisor is due to be sentenced later this month on
federal corruption charges.
There is the South Shore
election to replace Dean G. Skelos, the former State Senate majority
leader, in which Mr. Kaminsky, a freshman Democratic state assemblyman and former
federal prosecutor, faces Christopher McGrath, a Republican personal - injury lawyer who polls show holds an edge in the contest.
Cuomo moved from a closer - than - expected
election to face the death of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, and the
federal indictments of then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and then - Senate Majority
Leader Dean Skelos.
«Our Client hopes that the ongoing scandalization of his name is not a ploy by the Commission to give effect to the desperate attempt by the
federal government to intimidate him and destroy his credibility and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as other opposition
leaders as the general
elections approach in the pretext of war against corruption,» he wrote.
The occasion was his
election as Senate majority
leader, taking over for Dean G. Skelos, who was arrested last week, along with his son, Adam, on
federal corruption charges.
House Democratic
Leader Nancy Pelosi's campaign committee donated $ 2,000 to Deacon, D - Syracuse, on June 16, according to a 48 - hour contribution notice filed with the
Federal Election Commission.
In April, Alice Cancel, a longtime Democratic District
leader, won a special
election for Silver's seat, after he was convicted by a
federal jury on a host of corruption charges.
Seventeen months away from
election night 2018, at a time when would - be candidates are usually putting out tentative feelers to party
leaders and fundraisers, no fewer than eight Democrats have filed paperwork with
Federal Elections Commission announcing their candidacy for the seat currently occupied by Kinderhook Republican John Faso.
«At the
federal level, I will recommend it as well because with the card reader and the electronic voting machine, the era of rigging
elections is almost over and I think that is when people will have confidence in the process and will come out en masse to vote for their
leaders.
Susan Gaszczak, a member of the
federal conference committee, warned Nick Clegg, the party
leader, that the peer and former
election guru was «destroying» the party, as she resigned along with members of her family after 28 years of activism.
But that seat — once held by the now - disgraced former Senate majority
leader Dean G. Skelos, convicted of
federal corruption charges in December — is up for grabs in a special
election also held on April 19.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a
federal court to order a new
election of officers for the Washington Teachers Union, alleging that irregularities marred the vote that gave the District of Columbia union its first elected officials since an embezzlement scandal toppled its
leaders in 2002.
The choice of a new
leader for the union representing teachers in the District of Columbia — the first since a financial scandal sent its former president to
federal prison last year — won't be decided until a runoff
election is held later this month.