Sentences with phrase «from running for office»

By concentrating power in the hands of so few, he said, good people are discouraged from running for office because they know they will have little influence on important matters.

The traditional wisdom has been family obligations and responsibilities prevent women from running for office.

He argued that the lack of a raise since 1999 has discouraged qualified candidates from running for office.

Sweeney, like Reclaim New York, has blasted Santino's plan to limit council members» outside income to $ 125,000 a year, contending the cap is aimed at her and Blakeman, both successful lawyers, and will prevent accomplished professionals from running for office in Hempstead.

An aviation attorney, Sweeney has termed Santino's proposed income limit as «a political hit job» to prevent her and other successful professionals from running for office.

In the UK, Phil Woolas was ousted from Parliament and banned from running for office for three years, and subject to criminal punishment, for knowingly uttering falsehoods about another candidate before the election.

I do not know, maybe he was a big «hate the military» guy, but he said that the those that served should be dissuaded from running for office.

Here again, the judiciary and other «guardian» establishments began to close down newspapers, prevent reformists from running for office, and imprison or even assassinate key figures in the reform movement.

Their greatest importance may actually lie in the future, though, assuming an Obama victory — as he begins to move from running for office to governing a country, they'll give him an independent power base, a permanent tool to use to promote his agenda, pressure Congress and assure reelection.

And in either case, she is violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from running for office.

Bar all government employees, including the elected ones, from running for office while elected.

The simplest method in the United States would be to bar people who are currently in office from running for office, forming campaign committees, and asking for donations to political committees.

«A lot of times the need to fundraise large amounts of money prevents a lot of people who are qualified and who are leaders in that community from running for office because they don't have networks that include wealthy donors,» said Allie Boldt, a Washington, D.C. - based counsel for the think tank Demos.

Today, Mayor Tom Richards announced he is going to step down on Thursday, after a complaint was filed accusing Richards of violating the Hatch Act, which prevents certain employees of a municipality from running for office, or engaging in other political activities.

Carone said he plans to argue that state election law prohibits anyone convicted of a misdemeanor from running for office for five years — which would make Pierre ineligible.

Pettigrew thinks that the obstacle that is stopping private - sector talent from running for office isn't the lack of a big paycheque.

Provides that law prohibiting those above the age of 70 from running for office of justice of the peace does not apply to those serving as a justice of the peace on or before August 2006

Political parties that represent the ultra-Orthodox sector actually ban women from running for office.

The governor warned that calls for Rangel to resign will discourage people from running for office because they won't want to be subject to the heightened scrutiny that comes along with public life, adding:

If Ritz were to lose the primary, our sources tell us, she will just run again for Superintendent of Public Instruction since it is a nominating convention and she would not be prohibited from running again for another office under Indiana's «sore loser» law which bans candidates from running for an office in the general election which they lost in the primary.

There are still six states with laws on the books that would bar myself or my daughter, as Atheists, from running for office (even though that's against the constitution).

-- some dimwit says her obligations «as a wife» prevent her from running for office and sets the women's movement back about 20 years.

It does not prevent me from running for office.

Little, a Republican, views this experience as a parent in the Legislature as both an asset and a challenge that might prevent some women from running for office.

Term limits prevent him from running for the office again after his term expires in December 2013.

Mr. Bharara argued the current structure discourages well - meaning people from running for office, and encourages corruption.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, the fact that someone wants to run for office should immediately disqualify them from running for office -LSB-... and he was not the first to think this.

Numerous legal experts quoted in international media reports said Assange's current troubles with various governments would not prevent him from running for office in his native Australia.