Sentences with phrase «first leadership campaign»

A lot of the policy originates from the first leadership campaign, when Andrew Fisher was actually working at PCS [trade union] and managing to turn out a huge number of documents which formed the skeleton of the general election manifesto.

Not exact matches

Improving economic conditions for Canadian middle class families was the first and last item on the agenda of Trudeau's leadership campaign.

This being the party's first contested leadership campaign since 1996, it is unclear what the benchmark for membership sales should be.

It is apparently for that reason that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's allies in the party leadership, including party president John Walsh and Harper's chief of staff, Ray Novak, are not inviting defeated candidates for the first post-election caucus meeting, apparently in mid-November: They want to contain a rising tide of anger against Harper and his campaign.

In 1992, in response to epidemiologic reports from Europe and Australia, the AAP recommended that infants be placed for sleep in a nonprone position as a strategy for reducing the risk of SIDS.9 The «Back to Sleep» campaign was initiated in 1994 under the leadership of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development as a joint effort of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration, the AAP, the SIDS Alliance (now First Candle), and the Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs.10 The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development began conducting national surveys of infant care practices to evaluate the implementation of the AAP recommendation.

Levi, Sen. Tom Duane, (the chamber's first openly gay and HIV - positive member); NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, (the first lesbian and woman to hold her leadership post); Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, (one of the first gay elected officials to represent Queens) and Marty Rouse of the Human Rights Campaign Fund will hold a pre-Columbus Day press conference to denounce Paladino's «homophobic comments» at 11 a.m. in Manhattan.

As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

Then get a transplant,» was but the first of various interventions he made during the party's protracted leadership campaign — interventions that weren't just counter-productive, but also rather disingenuous.

But a dark horse may well come out of the military, which has gained stronger ground in North Korea through Kim Jong - il's «military first» campaign aimed at excluding any possibility of collective leadership based on the Party.

«Not only is Jerry Nadler bucking the unity agreement that Governor Cuomo, Senate Democrats and labor leaders have worked for, he is working to unseat the only Latina and first Dominican woman in the State Senate, which only demonstrates how out of touch he is with the goals of the Democratic Party and it's leadership,» said Barbara Brancaccio, spokesperson for Alcantara's campaign.

It wasn't until 1980 when I was working for CLPD that I first met the man himself but within a few months, as secretary of his campaign committee during the deputy leadership campaign, I worked with him in the basement of his house in Notting Hill.

Thus it was not clear initially that the # 500bn, first floated in the leadership campaign, was for ten years, or why People's QE was dropped.

Astorino allies made little secret of their disdain with the GOP leadership in the chamber, and blasted Senate Republicans during the gubernatorial campaign for not effectively opposing Cuomo's first term policies.

He is expected to supply full details of his financial backers to the commission within days, after first stating on December 3rd that he had not fully reported the donations to his deputy leadership campaign.

Brown must reject advice to stick to a winning formula and that the need to appeal to swing voters in super-marginal seats demands a «safety first» campaign, focusing on strong leadership and national security.

In the first direct shot in the leadership campaign battle, Diane Abbott said Labour members faced a «clear political choice» because Ms Eagle voted in favour of the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith will go head - to - head in their first hustings of the leadership campaign next week, The result of the election will be announced on 24 September.

In his first interview since launching his own leadership campaign, Burnham, 45, who stood in the 2010 contest only to come fourth out of the five candidates, is sympathetic to Umunna's decision.

Jeremy Corbyn's «hard left» campaign for the Labour leadership has been dismissed by Rhodri Morgan, the former first minister.

«During this campaign my case has been based on three things: first, the need for strong, proven leadership to steer us through what will be difficult and uncertain economic and political times, the need, of course, to negotiate the best deal for Britain in leaving the EU and to forge a new role for ourselves in the world.

But the first task for Ramaphosa will be to unite the ANC after a bruising, acrimonious leadership campaign and prepare the party to fight the 2019 elections.

During the leadership campaign, his keynote speech was the first to make a genuinely convincing alternative case for cuts.

He was one of the first MPs to back Corbyn's leadership campaign and has been named as one of the stars of the new parliamentary intake.

«Throughout the campaign I was also very vocal about my support for restrictions on lobbying activity, or bidding on state contracts, reform to restrictions on outside income, and term limits for our bodies» leaders, which is what we had voted on in our rules, that was the first thing that we did - eight years that we wanted for committee chairs and for leadership,» Serino says.

«We have to use this leadership campaign as the first step on the road back to power because that is where we should be as a political party,» he said to loud applause.

The criticism of the election campaign came amid the first signs of whisperings about Cameron's leadership.

«An arms length relationship between the Tory leadership and the No campaign that meant Cameron was unable to stop the targeting of the politically toxic Nick Clegg and his broken promises Main AV could only be defeated if a large number of Labour supported voted to keep First Past The Post and from the earliest days of the campaign huge efforts were made to ensure the No campaign was genuinely cross-party»

The leadership campaign, especially the first one, and the general election campaign we've just had, are expressions of the same phenomenon but there are distinct features of each.

Liz Kendall annoyed Andy Burnham's campaign team this week with her «country comes first» swipe during the Newsnight leadership hustings.

It considers the choice in «Labour's first truly modern leadership campaign» but warns us that «there is a balance to be struck between embracing the party's new glasnost and forgetting the old ways — and why we adopted them in the first place.»

At the risk of sounding cynical, everything about this — including the perfect timing — suggests to me that it's being staged: 1) Labour is on course for a huge defeat 2) no - one wants to take on the leadership of the doomed party at the 11th hour 3) GB's popularity (such as it is) is at an all - time low Given that no - one else wants the job on the eve of such a crushing defeat, surely the only chance Labour have of gaining support and mounting any semblance of an election campaign is to first restore some faith in their battered leader.

In his first three months, Miliband established that he will have a more collegiate leadership style, and that he is in the foothills of a long campaign and doesn't see rushing into photo opportunities or political pyrotechnics as the answer.

It considers the choice in «Labour's first truly modern leadership campaign» but -LSB-...]

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's first ad in the 24th Congressional District race labels Republican challenger John Katko a «rubber stamp» for House GOP leadership and attacks his positions on abortion and the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby birth control coverage decision.

Unlike say, a Mike Bloomberg, who made a switch with no track record before his first mayoral campaign, I had already been endorsed by Republicans and Conservatives, so it wasn't any kind of great leap that I was being endorsed again by Republican and Conservative leadership.

We now find ourselves in the middle of Labour's first truly modern leadership campaign; one that eschews the left / right factionalism of the past and the fatalism we used to have about whether we could actually win power at all.

Under the leadership of Dean Jerome T. Murphy, the Ed School completed its first capital campaign totaling $ 111 million, the largest sum ever raised by a school of education.

Aside from a commitment to oppose the expansion of selection in English schools, the Labour conference has been light on education policy, and although Corbyn has renewed a commitment to the idea of a national education service, there have been few details about the policy first mooted during his leadership campaign last year.

Under his leadership, CTO took a scattered and fragmented membership and created a powerful regional force which launched the innovative Caribbean Coalition for Tourism, the first - ever regional marketing campaign in the world, and one that has been since copied by several regional destinations.

The leadership of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots will be in New York on 19 - 20 October to conduct outreach at the UN General Assembly's annual First Committee on Disarmament and International Security, which opened on 8 October and is chaired by Ambassador Karel van Oostrom, permanent representative of the Netherlands to the UN in New York.

As leadership and staff continuously lobbied on the issue, NYSAR began the first phase of its statewide campaign by launching television, radio, online, and print advertising to spread the message that it is time to «Cap that Tax.»