Sentences with phrase «first elected politician»

Wolf also highlighted that Brownback will be the first elected politician to serve as IRF ambassador.

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In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

Rejecting traditional campaign techniques in favor of social media, the party pushed its agenda of, first, ending the generous state subsidies and salaries paid to Italy's political parties and elected politicians and, second, replacing them with a vaguely conceived Internet - based representation system.

Ms. Leibovici is a long - time local politician who was first elected as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in 1993 and served on city council from 2001 to 2013.

Reportedly close to Trump, Farage was the first British politician to meet with the then - president - elect after the November election and has since come out in full support of his more controversial policies, including the «extreme vetting» of refugees.

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

«First we have to remove career politicians who have long forgotten whose interests they were elected to serve.»

The 45 - year - old is the first black or minority ethnic person to be London Mayor and one of the most senior elected Labour politicians outside Westminster.

Katherine Anne Green [1] OBE (born 2 May 1960)[2] is a British Labour Party politician who was first elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stretford and Urmston in 2010.

No departing politician has ever paid for the cost of electing a successor, and there's no way Albanese could force Weiner to become the first to pay up.

A former state senator who was the first African - American politician elected to that chamber to represent a district outside New York City, Brown was elected to be Buffalo's first black mayor in November 2005.

Rangel, first elected in 1970 in a close race over Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., has been one of the leading African American politicians in the country.

Andy Burnham said that Corbyn had been treated appallingly when he was elected to the leadership last year, facing no honeymoon but instead a «sulphurous» first meeting of the party's Westminster politicians.

The first two directly elected mayors of London were very unusual «showbiz» politicians, widely known by just their first names.

First elected in 1970, Mr. Rangel has outlasted generations of up - and - coming politicians in an area that was once the base of African - American political power in New York City.

The MP for Bristol North West has already celebrated being the first politician named Darren to be elected to Parliament.

Jack Straw has said he is not opposed to the idea of the alternative vote system where people can rank their preferences for MPs, but it is a hardly a radical change to the way we elect our politicians and the Tory leader David Cameron has said that at least with first past the post you can kick out a government.

Before launching his mayoral bid, the Taiwan - born politician already was the first person of Asian descent to be elected citywide in New York.

Silver, 70, is from Manhattan and has been one of the state's most powerful politicians since he was first elected speaker in 1994.

After raising money for Alan G. Hevesi, the former city and state comptroller, and other Queens politicians more than a decade ago, Mr. Meng became the first Asian - American elected to the State Legislature, in 2004.

We talked to 30 women politicians in New York at all levels of government about what the political climate looks like in 2016, the year the United States might elect its first - ever woman president.

He was elected for the first time in 2010 as the MP for Rochester and Strood and has gained a reputation as one of Westminster's most rebellious politicians.

SD31 In Senate District 31, which includes the Upper Manhattan neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood and runs down the West Side into Hell's Kitchen, Senator Adriano Espaillat is leaving his seat to run for Congress in New York's 13th Congressional district — an election he is favored to win, which would make him the first politician born in the Dominican Republic to be elected to the House of Representatives.

A true twentieth - century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world.

Gus Van Sant's Oscar - winning biopic of crusading San Francisco politician Harvey Milk — the first openly gay elected official in America — finds the director in multiplex - friendly Good Will Hunting territory, rather than on visionary Paranoid Park turf.

The class discomfort is basically identical to the first movie; Vaughn caricatures politicians as cynical opportunists and the people who elect them as mindless mobs, while his camera bends down to lick the dirt off his posh old - money conspirators» black leather Oxfords.

The blitz got positive press coverage, providing «grassroots» cover for newly elected politicians who made school privatization their first priority.

It's not didactic, but it has very specific references: the Klan or the White House or Shirley Chisholm» — the first black woman elected to Congress and first black politician to run for president.

If we want to stop the train, the first thing we must do is elect politicians who at the very least understand that it's real, and that the danger we face is very real as well.

In a resolute stand against the criticism, Alec Salmond, Scotland's First Minister, says that investment in Scotland does not imply ownership, and that energy policy would be decided by its people and elected politicians.

Elected judges are politicians, i.e., personal politics first; justice second: consider this real life case: police in an American state use the computer of a distributor of child pornography to trace and thereby locate recipients, including the accused X.

«First, it is reasonable to expect that our democratically elected politicians will be peculiarly sensitive to the measures necessary to safeguard the integrity of our democracy.

According to The Globe and Mail, it was «the first time that the unelected Conservative senators have used their near - majority to kill a bill passed by elected politicians.»