Sentences with phrase «first party leader»

Mondello, a former state Republican Party chairman and longtime leader of the Nassau GOP, is the first party leader to announce his support of Maragos's US Senate run.

Although he is the first party leader since Margaret Thatcher to change the minds of some colleagues and commentators about the electoral consequences of espousing radical policies he is still constrained by party orthodoxies of which he is personally opposed.

Suffolk County GOP Chairman John Jay LaValle, who was the first party leader to back Rick Lazio for governor and later flipped to back his local county executive, Steve Levy, confirmed he sat down today with Lazio's primary challenger, Carl Paladino.

I was the first party leader back in August 2015 to visit Calais.

Instead, he's a grassroots campaigner — the first party leader since John Major to have begun his political life as a councillor — who narrowly won the former Tory seat of Westmoreland and Lonsdale, and set about turning it into a bastion of liberalism.

Clegg, who will be the first party leader to visit the constituency, expressed his sadness for his former leadership rival Huhne during weekend interviews.

«I was the first party leader - it was last Tuesday or Wednesday - to say that whether we liked it or not we would be driven towards offering more ambitious guarantees to depositors.

Yet Nuttall is not the first party leader to get himself into a pickle over his local football club.

His comments came as the spotlight turned more sharply on Liberal Democrat policies following Nick Clegg's widely praised performance in the first party leaders» debate.

Its first party leader was Andrew Robinson, and its treasurer was Eric Priezkalns.

Locally, Oswego County Democratic Chairman Mike Kunzwiler was the first party leader to endorse Deacon.