Sentences with phrase «former head of the party»

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The Senate voted largely along party lines Wednesday to confirm a former Marylander as President Donald J. Trump's head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Unfortunately, that has been flouted, generating reactions like that of Imran Khan, a former Pakistan cricket celebrity and current head of a new political [Justice] party in Pakistan: «No country has the right to be judge, jury and executioner....

The controversial conventions of the Peoples Democratic Party holding in Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Abuja have produced a new caretaker committee headed by former Kaduna Governor Senator Ahmed Makarfi with Senator Ben Obi as his Interim Secretary.

The former Labour MP won the support of 71 per cent of Labour Party members in his head - to - head contest with former city councillor Steve Bedser.

Current Vice President, John Boakai of the Unity Party, is heading to the run - off with former footballer George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC).

Here's the robocall recorded for Democratic NY - 26 candidate Kathy Hochul by former President Clinton as the party pulls out all the stops headed into the home strech of tomorrow's special election:

The NY Post reports this morning that a group of African - American Democratic leaders, headed by state Party Co-Chair Keith Wright, are mobilizing to try to erode the support among black voters enjoyed by former Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he heads into the final weeks of his NYC comptroller battle with his primary opponent, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

The former head of the Erie County Democratic Party says there is an element, small or not, who'd like to replace Zellner.

Lingering popularity for the former head of state and her newly forged centre - left Unidad Ciudidana (Citizen's Unity Party) has contributed to a fiercely polarized campaign in a province that has recently slipped from Peronist hands for the first time in decades.

Lib Dem peer and former head of communications Olly Grender said very few people in the party were considering leaving the coalition.

ICYMI... I wrote this morning about former Gov. George Pataki's fury with his longtime communications director, Mike McKeon, for crossing party lines to head up «GOPers for Cuomo,» along with a number of fellow Republicans who say they've seen the writing on the wall and don't believe their party can beat the Democratic AG.

The head of the state's Republican Party has filed a formal complaint with the state's public ethics commission, alleging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide — Percoco, now on trial for bribery — broke the state's public officers law.

The head of the state Republican Party, Chairman Ed Cox, has filed a complaint alleging that Cuomo and his former closest aide, Percoco, broke laws meant to prevent government offices from being used to run political campaigns.

Trump's nomination of Tillerson for secretary of state is headed toward Senate confirmation after several Democrats crossed party lines to back the former Exxon Mobil CEO.

President Donald Trump's nomination of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state is headed toward Senate confirmation after several Democrats crossed party lines to back the former Exxon Mobil CEO.

A former Labour party head of briefings, O'Donovan was a special adviser in the New Labour years and is now seen as one of the key Blairite lobbyists in the private sector.

Ever since first being elected as the MP for Harwich in 2005, the former head of the Conservative party policy unit has been depressed by what he's seen.

There was speculation that Mr Davis might be demoted in the reshuffle, but in his acceptance speech yesterday the new leader insisted the former party chairman and head of the public accounts select committee would have a vital role to play.

The heads of the borough's two major parties are expected to name their nominees to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner by later this week at the earliest after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a Sept. 13 special election to fill the vacant 9th Congressional District seat in Forest Hills.

In his submission, former Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Sharafa Ishola, though a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, threw his weight behind the President's anti-corruption fight, and advised him to form his economic team and find a competent person to head it.

Even as members of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party remain resolute in demonizing former President John Dramani Mahama, describing him as the worse thing to have ever happened to the country, party leader and President of the Republic, Nana Akufo Addo has not shelved his admiration for his predecessor at Heads of State summits he has attended soParty remain resolute in demonizing former President John Dramani Mahama, describing him as the worse thing to have ever happened to the country, party leader and President of the Republic, Nana Akufo Addo has not shelved his admiration for his predecessor at Heads of State summits he has attended soparty leader and President of the Republic, Nana Akufo Addo has not shelved his admiration for his predecessor at Heads of State summits he has attended so far.

Today Jeremy Beecham, the former head of the Local Government Association (LGA) and a member of Labour's national executive committee (NEC), said the reports were «outrageous» and amounted to state interference in how political parties work.

A former Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu, has been named as campaign manager of the party's campaign team to spear - head Nana Akufo - Addo's third time bid to be president of GParty (NPP), Peter Mac Manu, has been named as campaign manager of the party's campaign team to spear - head Nana Akufo - Addo's third time bid to be president of Gparty's campaign team to spear - head Nana Akufo - Addo's third time bid to be president of Ghana.

Speaker Sheldon Silver, Dov Hikind (a major Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish power broker), Vito Lopez (Brooklyn Democratic boss and Housing Committee chair), Richard Brodsky (now a former assemblyman who used to chair the Corporations Committee and lost a 2010 AG bid), Joe Morelle (chair of the Insurane Committee and head of the Monroe County Democratic Party), and Peter Abbate (chair of the Governmental Employees Committee, in the Assembly since 1996).

The Help to Move idea is contained in a report by the all - party group, which is chaired by Lord Best, the former head of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Nuttall's team in Stoke included Suzanne Evans, Ukip's head of policy, Patrick O'Flynn, another MEP, and Lisa Duffy, a former leadership candidate, all of whom are on the wing of the party pushing for a more modern outlook.

David Cameron is leading a government with a «worryingly authoritarian streak» that is seeking to undermine the Labour party's funding arrangements through the trade union bill, the former head of the civil service has said.

David Cameron leads a government with a «worryingly authoritarian streak» that is seeking to undermine the Labour party's funding arrangements through the trade union bill, a former head of the civil service has said.

Dominic Cummings, Michael Gove's former policy adviser, has never been a member of a political party, despite having been the Conservative Party's Head of Policy under Iain Duncan Smith, according to his party, despite having been the Conservative Party's Head of Policy under Iain Duncan Smith, according to his Party's Head of Policy under Iain Duncan Smith, according to his blog.

Tom O'Carroll, a former head of the Paedophile Information Exchange, which campaigned to lower the age of sexual consent, joined the party in Barrow last year.

Republicans are expected to designate Ray Perini, of Huntington, former head of the Suffolk DA's narcotics bureau and now a defense attorney, as the GOP candidate at their party convention Monday night.

US Senator John Sampson Former Head of the New York Democratic Party and Chairman of the New York Senate Judiciary Committee was Threatened & Bribed to Cover Up NY & Federal Corruption!!

He is author of the forthcoming report: «This human business: why the new bottom line is social» Hopi Sen is a former head of communications for the Parliamentary Labour Party.

Day's political ascent continued then with a consolidation of power within the Rockland County GOP, sweeping away the resistance of party rivals such as Chairman Vincent Reda and former Legislator Frank Sparaco, who had been butting heads with him.

Charlie King, the Mercury Public Affairs lobbyist and former head of the state Democratic Party, is planning another one - man protest, this time targeting new U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for his lack of black staffers.

Mark Fullbrook, former head of campaigns at the Conservative Party and deputy director of Boris Johnson's 2012 re-election team, took over as Goldsmith's campaign director in the New Year.

Nick Wood is former Head of Communications for the Conservative Party and now runs Media Intelligence Partners.

The Conservative party will not face an official inquiry into allegations that it broke electoral law by failing to declare News International «s payments to its former head of communications, Andy Coulson, after the elections watchdog concluded that there was insufficient evidence of a breach.

The new head of the New York State Democratic Party — a former staffer for former President Barack Obama — plans to build on recent Democratic victories across the country by winning Republican seats and uniting two rival Democratic caucuses in the state Senate.

Former DNC head Donna Brazile writes that she seriously contemplated trying to replace Hillary Clinton as the party's 2016 presidential nominee with then - Vice President Biden in the aftermath of Clinton's fainting spell, in part because Clinton's campaign was «anemic» and had taken on «the odor of failure.»

The former ruling party is currently factionalised with Makarfi heading one group while a former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, is also heading another faction.

When openDemocracy challenged DUP MP and Brexit campaign manager Jeffrey Donaldson about the donation in his constituency office this spring, he told us that the party had done proper «due diligence» on the donation, but then claimed that they hadn't known that the chair of the Constitutional Research Council had set up a business in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi Arabian intelligence service.

He said that the BoT had also set up a nine - member committee headed by a former Senate President, David Mark, to reconcile members of the board over the outcome of the December 9 national convention of the party.

The group includes some former remain supporters but its founding members are largely made up of those involved in the Brexit campaign, including Tory former chancellor Nigel Lawson, Tory donor Peter Cruddas, Digby Jones, who is a former head of the CBI, and David Owen, the former Labour foreign secretary who went on to help found the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

A former Chairman of party, Peter Mac Manu, is the Manager of the campaign team to spear - head Nana Akufo - Addo's third time bid to be President of Ghana.

The Indictment also charges Zehy Jereis, the former head of the Yonkers Republican Party, and Anthony Mangone a Westchester County attorney, with conspiracy, bribery, and extortion in connection with two real estate development projects within the City of Yonkers which were pending before Annabi..

Some governors serving on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stormed Abeokuta on Thursday and headed straight to the Presidential Hill - top mansion of the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said Sunday that he did not know about a consulting company set up by the former head of the Florida GOP which was allegedly used to funnel party funds to the ex-party chair.

The Turaki Vanguard, an independent group pushing for the presidency of former Vice President, Atiku Abubarkar has alleged that the former Military Head of State was been sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP because it knows he will fail again.

Lopez, the former head of the Brookyln Democratic Party, was forced to resign in 2013 after an ethics probe concluded he harassed multiple women.