Sentences with phrase «head of the party»

«As head of the Party in the state, Gov. Cuomo needs to unify the Democratic caucus, and as a national Democratic leader, he needs to firmly establish the Democratic governing trifecta voters clearly wanted when they cast their ballots in November.»

This observer suggested the Lorigo - Kay insurgency is really about an internal battle over control of the Conservative Party and a sign that state Chairman Mike Long — the longest - serving head of a party in New York at the moment — might face a leadership challenge this fall.

Fossella became the de facto head of the party when he was elected to Congress in 1997, with his Uncle Frank and his father, Vito Sr., the power brokers behind the scenes.

Heastie, a Democrat from the Bronx, spent the day subtweeting the titular head of his party with arguments in support of higher taxes.

Dadey, who's been head of the party for six years, says the important thing now is defeating Democrats in November.

Steele is opposed by Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Priebus (pegged as the frontrunner), former Bush administration official Maria Cino (endorsed by House Speaker John Boehner), Missouri's Ann Wagner (the former ambassador to Luxembourg) and Saul Anuzis (former head of the party in Michigan).

Elected every year by a vote of the County Committee, the County Leader serves as the figure head of the party, calling all meetings and facilitating constructive dialogue.

State Senator John DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader and recognized head of the party's conservative wing, dug into the contract and raises Mr. de Blasio approved with the United Federation of Teachers in 2014.

The skit then plays out disagreements over the Syria vote and the use of the press to bring down this unknown head of the party.

As with Welsh Labour, the Scottish Labour Party has its own general secretary which is the administrative head of the party, responsible for the day - to - day running of the organisation, and reports to the UK General Secretary of the Labour Party.

Regardless of who succeeds Cardinale as city chairman, the mayor is traditionally head of the party.

Head of party policy Oliver Letwin, Chairman Francis Maude, Theresa May, CCHQ campaigns director George Bridges and Friends of the Earth's Tony Juniper will all give policy / strategy presentations.

Current MP: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) Formerly head of party relations for Ed Miliband, formerly Deputy Political Secretary to Gordon Brown.

While the presidency is important, Xi's positions as head of the party and head of the military are considered more important, and these titles are always given first by state media.

The governor's absence has fueled suspicion among Democrats that Cuomo, the de facto head of their party, is siding more closely with Republicans in the State Senate as lawmakers negotiate the renewal of rent regulations in New York City.

«He'll become the titular head of the party.

Feinberg uses the information he gathers to get into the heads of the parties involved in a negotiation.

In the run - up to the 19th Party Congress, party watchers speculated that Wang Qishan, the head of the party's corruption investigation division, would be kept on the seven - member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) even though he was 69, past the conventional retirement age.

Previous tradition had seen a successor identified at the gathering after the head of the party had served one five - year term, prior to a transfer of power at the end of the leader's second five - year term.

«They love it because it unifies people and it seems less political than when they have to make tough policy choices as head of government or brazenly political choices as head of party.»

The Labour leader has had precisely nothing to say about foreign affairs during his time at the head of the party so he will have to forgive us now for not taking his late concern about events overseas particularly seriously.

(Reuters)-- Battle lines were drawn for South Africa's ANC on Monday as voting began to elect a new leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma as head of a party that has ruled since the end of apartheid but faced scandals and corruption allegations.

«It's laughable that Ed Cox, a walking JCOPE violation as an unregistered lobbyist for the Noble Energy oil company, who is head of the party that counts Dean Skelos, George Maziarz, Ed Mangano and John Venditto among its leaders and empowered Pedro Espada, is trying to take the moral high ground o n anything.

«No one wants to run on a ticket when you have Donald Trump as the head of your party.»

Along with not wanting to look like he was wrong, he also was head of the party and doesn't want to lose credibility of the Labour Party.

(Schumer will succeed Harry Reid as head of the party's caucus in the U.S. Senate next year.

But Smikle stopped short of what role the head of the party — Gov. Andrew Cuomo — should take on reuniting the party in the Senate.

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan — battling to keep his job as head of the party — was the first prominent member of the GOP to criticize Saltsman for sending committee members the song.

Governor Andrew Cuomo did not attend the fall meeting of the Democratic State committee, an unusual decision for a governor who is the head of the party and running for re election.

Among MPs from the 2015 intake who could win promotion are government aides such as Suella Fernandes, the head of the party's European Research Group, and Seema Kennedy, the PM's parliamentary private secretary.

«Clearly to me the problem is that the head of the party does not believe that this is still a conservative county and trying to go in a different direction,» Lorigo said.

«How would you like to be running as a Carl Paladino, and you have a chairman — the head of the party — who tries to draft a Democrat, who tries to take someone from another party and pit them against you?

The corruption conviction of his onetime right - hand man and political fixer Joseph Percoco, who is now facing a possible 50 - year prison sentence, opened Cuomo up in an election year to a barrage of relentless public attacks from Republicans and no rush from many Democrats to support the head of their party in New York State.

And the calls for another general election are coming in even before the Conservative Party board has officially confirmed her as David Cameron's replacement at the head of the party - and the Government.

Labour MP and head of the party's Remain campaign Alan Johnson told BBC News there was a «remarkable unity» within the party regarding its stance on the EU referendum.

According to Arise, «The President is our President and is the head of the party.

Mehlman has made outreach to the African American community a priority during his time as head of the party, and Steele would be seen as a logical successor to that effort.

The recruitment of a new head of the party's press office has also been delayed after it was decided by Corbyn's aides that the candidates who had made an initial shortlist were not sufficiently sympathetic to him.

The Brooklyn native also is poised to take over as head of the party's caucus in the U.S. Senate Democrats next year following the retirement of Minority Leader Harry Reid after the election.

Ukip's deputy leader Paul Nuttall has said he won't be bidding to replace Nigel Farage as the head of the party and also plans to step down from his current position.

«No matter how many Eagles there are,» said Cameron, «the Labour party will always have an albatross at the head of the party.»

Too much POWER is give to a one party running Govt and it goes to the heads of the party members Tory party a very good sample of soul rule.

Former Conservative party director of operations and head of the party «s target seats campaign.

«We're not doing what the heads of parties have done for a long time, which is basically make the decision for their membership.

More changes are expected to Mr Corbyn's top team tonight, with the leader looking to cement his position at the head of the party.

At the head of the party was an uneasy triumvirate: Massasoit, the sachem (political - military leader) of the Wampanoag confederation, a loose coalition of several dozen villages that controlled most of what is now southeastern Massachusetts; Samoset, sachem of an allied group to the north; and Tisquantum, a distrusted captive, whom Massasoit had reluctantly brought along as an interpreter.

I can certainly understand how most lawyers that haven't been trained in collaborative law would be skeptical that a process that doesn't have a judicial decision hanging over the heads of the parties will work... But after having been through the training, taking on my own collaborative cases, and watching other lawyers that are trained in collaborative law, I have a renewed optimism that this is the best way for people to resolve their divorce case.