Sentences with phrase «incumbent protection»

This western Connecticut district is competitive and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently named Esty part of its Frontline incumbent protection program.

In plain language, incumbent protection trumped citizen equality.

That was one of more than a half - dozen press releases and clips forwarded by both the NRSC and the Republican National Committee Thursday in an effort to keep the focus on White House incumbent protection efforts.

Sinema is also one of 12 lawmakers listed in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's «Frontline» incumbent protection program.

She then briefed on Cuomo - related issues, including him failing to close campaign finance loopholes, failing to veto any incumbent protection gerrymandering, not doing enough for election reform, for looting public schools to give tax cuts to banks and not taking a stance against fracking.

Unresolved questions surrounding Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in Colorado — and Republican attempts to provide accelerant to the incumbent protection flap — have suddenly forced Senate candidates in a handful of other states, including Arkansas, Illinois and Ohio, to respond to queries about possible White House involvement in their own races, throwing them off message and on the defensive.

«I don't think the motivation is racism — the motivation is incumbent protection,» said Lawrence Levy of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.

The National Republican Congressional Committee added Wednesday two more members to the ranks of its incumbent protection program: Reps. David Jolly of Florida and Tim Walberg of Michigan.

But Lerner says overall Common Cause New York concludes that both majorities in the legislature are continuing the incumbent protection program, which has characterized the official redistricting process.

One of them was the promise to veto any redistricting that was incumbent protection, and leads to Republican control in this very Democratic State.