Sentences with phrase «first elected office»

Hours after the polls closed, Yepsen declared victory over Safford, a political newcomer seeking his first elected office, with a tally of 3,528 to 2,851.

She announced on Wednesday that she would not seek the Working Families Party's line for the ballot, even though Ms. James won her first elected office with that party's backing.

The 2nd Senate District race offers a stark contrast in political experience, with the incumbent boasting 30 years at the legislature and his challenger running for her first elected office.

Maragos, 61, a former banker and a finance technologist in his first elected office, made his announcement in a news release.

Murray, who worked as a lawyer in the state attorney general's office before winning her first elected office, had said her leadership of a 759,000 - resident town — where she has been supervisor since 2003 — trumped a lack of criminal law experience.

Not exact matches

Brigitte Macron's interview — her first since the Emmanuel was elected in May — came as her husband marked his first days 100 days in office with a dramatic plummet in his popularity.

The data covers the first full month in office for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was elected in December and has vowed to revive the world's third - largest economy with his «Abenomics» policy mix of monetary and fiscal stimulus.

In his first address since his electoral victory speech, President - elect Donald Trump this week discussed which policies he planned to pursue immediately upon taking office.

Known as the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to political office in the United States, Jenkins made history this year when she was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.

At 56, he pursued elected office for the first time after a 30 - year career defending radical activist groups like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Philadelphia.

Ahead of the address, the conference buzzed with speculation of how the president, elected to office on an «America First» platform, would play on a stage built to toast global integration.

The event is scheduled for president - elect Donald Trump's first full day in office.

Its official debt is unpayable, and never should have been forced upon it in the first place — under conditions where the Troika removed the elected prime minister from office to put in their own technocrat (Lucas Papademos, who had worked with Goldman Sachs to falsify the government's 2001 balance sheet to enable it to meet the eurozone's entry conditions).

It is no coincidence that in December 2015, for the first time since 1916, a nonradical or non-Peronist party candidate, Mauricio Macri, was democratically elected as president and sworn into office.

President - elect Trump has said that, during his first 100 days in office, he will reverse President Obama's decision to block the Keystone XL Pipeline.

What does that mean for investors as stocks look set to end President - elect Trump's first month in office higher?

A coalition of religious groups has asked president - elect Barack Obama to issue an executive order banning the use of torture on his first day in office.

Those whom I have communicated with, were they elected to the high offices of the land, would first move to rob their fellow citizens of their right to religious freedom leaving only those who are atheist or agnostic free to worship their god..

Back in 1994 TV viewers all over the world watched transfixed, as South Africa's first democratically elected president took the oath of office.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

and BTW the President is not the first black man elected to that office... Obama is a Mixed Race individual

In 1990, after switching to the Republican Party, Perry was elected agricultural commissioner, his first statewide office.

This morning in Austin, our state's newly elected Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is holding a press conference to announce his first official act in office.

Plot: The film follows the life and assignation of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the 1970s.

The Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner has said this issue will be a priority during his first year in office — if he's elected — although his record on LGBT issues has been called into question somewhat.

Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has said gay marriage will be a priority for his first year in office, but the issue is really going to come down — yet again — to whether there are enough votes in the Senate to pass it.

Former NYS Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo has raised more than $ 2.5 million since he began his first ever campaign for elected office.

The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.

He was one of the first Republicans elected to public office in Louisiana since Reconstruction.

Rice's proposal include creating a 311 line so residents in less - populated regions of the state can get legal help, appointing a deputy attorney general for rural affairs and visiting all 62 counties of the state during her first her in office, if she's elected.

Ironically, the exact same coalition that is now working itself to the bone to get Schneiderman elected to replace Cuomo in the AG's office was integral in putting him there in the first place.

«This is my first time ever running for elected office, and I don't know what party chairs have done in the past.

She served as a legislative aide in his office after he was elected in 2008 as the third sitting openly gay member of Congress and the first non-incumbent openly gay man to be elected to serve on Capitol Hill).

Hailing from Manhattan, Farley, a former official of the state GOP and a first - time candidate for elected office, admitted she is not well known outside NYC — if at all even there.

This isn't the first time Turner has suggested he's more electable than his challengers — attorney Wendy Long, who has never before held elected office; and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, who has been stumping around the state for almost a year, but has failed to generate much excitement, either among the GOP rank - and - file (although they did put him on the ballot at the convention in Rochester earlier this month) or voters.

A couple of weeks ago, a new application showed up on Boing Boing that at first glance would seem to be a reasonable approach to pressuring Our Elected Representatives: give the system your phone number, and CommitteeCaller will connect you with the office of each member of a given Congressional committee sequentially.

For women candidates, many of them seeking elected office for the first time, the success of women in early primary states has provided them with confidence that their sometimes - unexpected runs aren't so far - fetched.

Of the 150 current members of the lower house, 124 were first elected to office after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver became speaker.

In public office, he first served as the Attorney General of the State of New York from 1999 to 2006, and was subsequently elected as the state's 54th governor in 2007.

Without a Republican in the race, the Democratic nominee is all but assured of being elected into office in November and becoming first in line to succeed the mayor.

The move is a signal that the party is hoping James, who was first elected to public office with the WFP's backing, would eventually take its ballot line in the fall should she win the primary contest.

Zacarese, on the other hand, is a true political outsider making his first run for elected office.

At present, the NTC appears to be operating under a mistaken «security and legitimacy - first» doctrine which maintains that bold initiatives can not be undertaken until further stability is achieved and an elected government takes office after the June elections.

O'Neill cast Cuomo's ongoing refusal to formally throw his hat into the ring as a positive, insisting it demonstrates the AG «puts the job that he was elected to do first and foremost and he resfuses to politicize the attorney general's office.»

She is the first woman of color to serve in a statewide elected executive office in New Jersey and the first Democratic black woman elected nationwide.

Barkan, a political journalist making his first run for public office, said he would fight for the disabled if elected.

Arizona legislators assume office on the first day of the session after they are elected.

He is running for East Hampton Town supervisor, his first try at an elected office.

Instant runoff voting would let New Yorkers pick their first choice for each elected office and rank the remaining candidates in order of preference.

Russo, who is running on platform of fiscal conservatism, has pledged not to accept any member item cash in his first year in office if he is elected this fall.