Sentences with phrase «former constituents»

As Sanders looks for a place to locate his Senate district office, he said he feels for his former constituents, especially those in the Rockaways still reeling from Superstorm Sandy.

If Vito Fossella has an ounce of respect for himself, to say nothing of his former constituents, he'll stay retired.

Eliot Spitzer looked like a political candidate Monday night at the Rangers game at the Garden as he shook hands and posed for photos with his former constituents.

«I want you to know that I am deeply remorseful,» Skelos told the court as he apologized to his former constituents on Long Island.

The get - together, called so Weiner could update Turner on the projects he had been working on for his former constituents, was held in «strict confidence,» O'Reilly noted, but could very easily have been leaked with a single well - placed anonymous phone call.

A Conservative councillor has lashed out at her former constituents, suggesting they are too stupid to vote.

The one - time favourite of prime minister David Cameron suggested that her former constituents lacked sufficient intelligence to be allowed to vote.

The Post urges former Rep. Vito Fossella to «stay retired» if he has «an ounce of respect for himself, to say nothing of his former constituents.»

Either way, while Castro's 86th District office will stay open (without him there), his former constituents will go without a representative in Albany for the immediate future.

Schneiderman's Upper West Side neighbors and former constituents from when he was a state senator are particularly bewildered by the allegations against him, wondering if they ever really knew him at all.

You should listen to Jack Kemp's former constituents.

- A former constituent who had recently moved to Yorkshire wrote in, asking my MP to help re-house her family back in London.

Not exact matches

«Don McRae needs to answer to his constituents, many of whom strongly support the protection of farmland, whether or not he stands with British Columbian farmers, or if he sides with B.C. Liberal MLA Bill Bennett who wants to destroy the Agricultural Land Reserve,» said New Democrat agriculture critic Nicholas Simons, who noted that McRae is himself a former agriculture minister.

Mulvaney, a former GOP congressman from South Carolina, said Tuesday that he would only meet with lobbyists who had donated to his political campaigns but valued the opinions of his constituents over hired guns.»

The former county Councillor said that her faith will play a part in her now role as an MP and she will «definitely» be prayerful about her decisions and her constituents.

The former shadow minister has served his constituents since 1992 and escaped unscathed from the expenses scandal.

Unlike with Castro, whom the feds allowed to stand for election three times, knowing all the while he was 1) a crook, and 2) splitting his time between representing his constituents and trying to catch fellow crooked colleagues in the act; Huntley only ran for re-election once, and was defeated in a primary by former NYC Councilman - turned - Sen.

Hence, the number of representatives in the two cases not being in proportion to that of the two constituents, and being proportionally greater in the small republic, it follows that, if the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice.

Nigel Farage, he feels, straddles these two sides quite effectively, while UKIP's new MP Douglas Carswell sits more firmly in the former camp (although it must be said that he seems to be very popular with many of his working class constituents).

A former deputy minister at the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection Rachel Appoh has revealed that she had to pay her constituents to reduce the NO votes against President Mahama during NDC's primaries held over the weekend.

The flyer accuses Golden, who is a former cop himself, of being a «puppet» of the gun lobby and urges his constituents to call on him to «stand with law enforcement and vote «yes.»»

Former leadership hopeful Owen Smith is one of three Labour MPs preparing to risk the wrath of their constituents by voting against article 50.

He moved to the city in 2008, after landing a constituent - services job in the Queens office of former City Councilman Eric Gioia, a Democrat who has been critical of the WFP.

Over 100 family members, constituents and lobbyists wrote letters on behalf of the disgraced former Assembly speaker, Silver himself apologized in a letter, and his lawyers pleaded for mercy.

The former minister had travelled to celebrate the Christmas festivities with his constituents when he was attacked on 25th December 2017, a statement signed by James Agalga, Ranking Member of the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament, said on Wednesday.

Almost immediately after the election, Avella said he has been fielding phone calls from soon - to - be constituents, has decided his office will be at his former City Council site at 38 - 50 Bell Blvd. and has selected a number of his employees, including his chief of staff, Seth Urbinder.

The letters were signed by nearly three dozen women, both former and current employees and female constituents of Mr. Klein's district.

He was joined by a large contingent of constituents (including the local «Red Hats» group shown ^ with the Senator and with members of the Morris Park Community Association shown >), largely from the Morris Park area where Klein grew up and currently lives, as well as a number of sitting Bronx elected officials and former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, who all resoundingly disputed Koppel's critique of the Senator and pledged their support to challenge other Democrats from other areas of the city and state.

While his corruption may have overshadowed his 31 - year state Assembly career, former colleagues of disgraced Richmond Hill Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio chose to remember him as an outspoken man who delivered for his constituents.

Likewise, Assemblymen Michael Miller and Michele Titus continue to mistreat me, their former and present constituent like raw sewage, and misbehaving on public payrolls with an arrogance, hostility and dereliction of public duty that is unwavering and unprecedented.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz issued the following statement in recognition of former Deputy Borough President Leroy Comrie's inauguration today as a New York State Senator: «Leroy Comrie is an exceptional public servant with a tireless work ethic and a proven track record of working on behalf of the interests of his constituents,» Borough President -LSB-...]

After all, the former assemblyman's staff is still getting paid, as it works to field calls from constituents who have no elected representative.

And, she said, she's hearing the same from some of her own constituents, including at a recent visit to a diner in a rural part of western New York, where many former opponents of Obamacare now don't want lose their benefits.

In short, the new generation of Tory MPs, if tugged one way by their constituents and the other by the Whips, will go with the former (especially since no seat, now, is ever completely «safe», and local Associations are no longer reflexively loyalist).

Former Town Supervisor Mark Henry, whose term ended Dec. 31, 2017, said that his constituents have spoken clearly about their desire for a special election.

Leading up to the decision, lawyers for Mr. Silver have filed letters of support from ex-colleagues, constituents, family members and even a former employee at a Chinese restaurant he frequented.

Lowell, who represented Williams's former company in the McDonnell case, said prosecutors would now have to decide in the cases of Menendez and others «whether the allegations go to what the Supreme Court said was the public official's authority to act, and to be doing more than what is the typical, expected constituent service that our system depends on.»

Randall Eliason, a former prosecutor who specialized in public corruption and government fraud, said an elected official could now demand $ 10,000 for arranging a meeting for a constituent and not run afoul of federal bribery law.

In Jomro, the incumbent MP and former Air Force pilot, Wing Commander, Farncies Kabenlah Anaman opted out ahead of the primaries after the constituents claimed he was not active in the constituency after he won the 2012 election.

Green party politicians Caroline Lucas and Baroness Jenny Jones and former Respect MP George Galloway claimed the government are breaching the «Wilson Doctrine» which forbids the interception of communications between MPs and their constituents.

The Member of Parliament who hails from Sankore decided to spend the Easter holidays and celebrate the festive season with his family and constituents only to be attacked by known activists and followers of the former NPP Member of Parliament George Yaw Boakye around 1:00 AM on 1st April, 2018.

In an open letter to senators, NYCF says Grisanti isn't worthy of a judicial post offered as a «reward» by Cuomo when the former senior's «most significant act was breaking a campaign promise made to his constituents.»

«Recently, at the urging of many of my former Assembly constituents, I entertained the possibility of returning to public life.

Former foreign secretary and current MP for Blackburn Jack Straw formulated a definition including «an active participant in the House of Commons; to represent constituents; to legislate; to hold the executive to account...» and insisted that «MPs are not on a different planet» career-wise, although they do «have to reapply for our jobs every five years to quixotic employers» - ie.

Flint, Michigan Mayor Karen Weaver thanked Hillary Clinton, saying the former secretary of state's concern over the city's water crisis helped spur government action for her constituents.

``... Executive Odell owes a campaign promise to her constituents in Garrison since the former governor campaigned extensively for her in last year's campaign.

The letter describes the loss of the site's former nursing home as «a devastating blow to our constituents» and says the two pols «remain deeply concerned about a flawed city process that has paved the way for the closure, sale, and now potential conversion of this building into luxury condos.»

On his part, Mr Babatunde Ogala, a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, noted that undue pressure placed on politicians by their constituents had also contributed to widespread corruption in the country.

Faso, a former minority leader of the state Assembly and the GOP candidate for New York governor in 2006, has taken heat during his brief time in Congress for voting in favor of the Republican health care bill in the House and for refusing to hold town hall - style meetings with constituents in his district.

Former Gardiner town supervisor Laura Walls took the podium to reminisce about her five years as a Constituent Services staffer in Hinchey's Kingston office in the 1980s.