Sentences with phrase «incumbents with new members»

The idea is that voters will replace incumbents with new members when performance is poor and support incumbents over challengers when performance is strong.

Not exact matches

The PAC, first reported here, was formed with the possible duel purpose of protecting the incumbent lawmakers and even recruiting new members to the fold.

The Republican challenger for New York attorney general is calling for incumbent Democrat Eric Schneiderman to break his silence on reports that the governor's office interfered with the corruption commission whose members were deputized by Schneiderman.

Combined with a slight boost from new members that joined during the Labour leadership election, Leonard took the first spot on the Central Scotland regional list, bypassing all incumbent Labour MSPs.

«For eight years, we tried to work with Andrew Cuomo to make New York a truly progressive state,» Bill Lipton, WFP director said, after members aired a lengthy list of grievances against the incumbent that included propping up Republican control of the state Senate.

The incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Salaga South constituency in the Northern Region has launched his campaign with a call on the electorate to ignore the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP)'s call for change on December 7.

Richard Iannuzzi, a nine - year incumbent president of New York State United Teachers, was defeated by a comfortable margin Sunday, and James Jackson, a member of the State Board of Regents, was pressured by lawmakers to resign last month; both are casualties of an emotional controversy that has erupted among parents and teachers and mobilized lobbies with a variety of political goals.