Sentences with phrase «key issue candidates»

The costs were a key issue candidates pledged to fix during the city's recent mayoral election.

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«Twitter is the most direct way to engage with the candidates and issues of this election and to participate in the live, public conversation around its key events,» said Adam Sharp, Twitter's head of news, government, and elections, in a statement.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

The EA serves as the key contact with clients and candidates, schedules interviews, arranges consultant and candidate travel, ensures all due diligence has been conducted on candidates, reviews results, and flags issues.

While debate moderators and election commentators focus on economic issues, the religious rhetoric of the presidential candidates appears to go mostly unnoticed - except by the key Republican voting bloc being courted.

After dodging months of questions about where he stands on key issues important to the future of the state of New York, now candidate for governor Andrew Cuomo is doing his best to answer them all — and quickly.

Despite being the favoured candidate of many Corbynistas as Jeremy's successor, the 37 - year - old Shadow Education Secretary was not as high profile as she might have been, especically since school funding was a key Labour issue.

«SEIU members across the country are working hard to inform voters about where candidates stand on key issues facing working families, and to elect candidates up and down the ballot who will fight for working families.»

The bipartisan budget deal that dodged a key immigration issue revealed a rift that could haunt Democrats for years: one between moderates such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and potential presidential candidates — including Schumer's New York colleague, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — who may want to appeal to the party's increasingly liberal base.

Click through the slideshare below to find out what the metro mayor candidates said in their manifestos on key issues such as transport, housing and skills:

Green Party of New York Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins talks about key campaign issue and introduces Lee, a public school teacher and union activist, who discusses the importance of Education to the campaign.

But with voters focused on the issue of public corruption, after indictments of key officials including County Executive Edward Mangano, the candidates have said less than usual about the central issue in past campaigns: How to cut high county property taxes.

Click through the presentation below to find out what the different metro mayor candidates said in their manifestos on key issues such as housing and transport:

Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino in Albany on Thursday renewed his call for a one - on - one televised debate, saying last night's forum didn't provide for enough airing of key issues such as the SAFE Act.

There have been a number of skirmishes between the two major party candidates over various issues, but one of the key differences between the two major party candidates is their view of the state's economy and its future.

NY - 24 GOP candidate John Katko, who is «not interested in doing the lables,» shared his positions on a host of key issues.

The group endorses candidates based on their voting record on key issues identified by its members such as health care, taxes, labor and regulatory issues.

One of the key issues of the 2014 secretary of state primary was the signature and filing requirements for minor party candidates under California's top - two primary system.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan budget deal that dodged a key immigration issue Thursday revealed a rift that could haunt Democrats for years: one between moderates such as Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and potential presidential candidates — including Schumer's New York colleague, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand — who may want to appeal to the party's increasingly liberal base.

The panels are intended to provide local elected officials and candidates a platform to inform voters of their qualifications, legislative ideas and opinions on key issues faced by residents of the borough.

The 45 minute exchange allowed both candidates a brief opportunity to describe their qualifications and express differences on several key issues

«The only debate tentatively scheduled — no firm date is set — would be a local debate held in Buffalo that will include minor party candidates, cutting in half the time Mr. Astorino and Mr. Cuomo will have to discuss key issues, like tax reform, economic development, the Moreland Commission Scandal, and Common Core.

Small business should look closely at a candidate who not only has voted against their interests on every key vote the last two years, but who would launch such a bizarre and frankly desperate attack on the organization that defends them and represents their positions on key issues.

Here is a primer explaining where each candidate stands on some of the key issues, showing where they overlap and where they differ in their visions for Connecticut.

Even if another candidate wins the party's presidential nomination, Democrats may still look to women's rights as a key issue for 2016, something that could also help a female candidate earn the local nod.

Thompson said as the election nears, voters are beginning to key in on the issues and the candidates.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

While Senate candidates deal with Trump's trade policy, Democrats are looking to use the issue to paint Republicans in these key Senate races as disingenuous.

Some conservative intellectuals, finding Mr. Trump evasive and inconsistent on key issues, have sought to recruit a more ideological candidate to run as an independent.

The four candidates seeking to replace City Councilman Eric Gioia (D - Sunnyside) told the TimesLedger Newspapers staff in a debate last week that affordable housing, education, the oil spill at Newtown Creek and a dispute between tenants and landlord Vantage Properties were among the key issues leading up to the Sept. 15 Democratic primary.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE To learn more about the intersection of science and key election issues, as well as to read the answers from the presidential candidates and key congressional leaders, visit ScientificAmerican.com/nov2012/science - debate

The debate should provide a clear contrast between the two candidates as both are practically diametrically opposed on almost every key issue — A-F grading, school choice, standardized testing and teacher evaluations.

The candidates also disagree on key issues, including how to improve low - achieving campuses, how to measure teacher quality, and whether to reward good teachers and principals with bonuses.

During last year's mayoral campaign, both leading candidates made improving middle schools a key issue, with Muriel Bowser adopting (at least for a while) the slogan Deal for All.

I think that a leading candidate is bad key switch assembly, but does that fix all four of the last ones, or do I have a severe engine friction issue, starter, or debris in the blower too?

• Promote efficient and responsible government • Provide the veterinary profession with political credibility and visibility • Speak on behalf of the veterinary profession in Florida in a strong and unified voice • Help candidates sympathetic to our profession achieve or maintain public office • Encourage members to participate in the political process • Build and maintain key relationships in both local and state government • Strengthen the political education of our membership providing awareness of government, candidates and important political issues • Provide a bipartisan means for the FVMA and our lobbyists to advocate for the veterinary profession, small business owners and the animals entrusted in our care

This exhibition features works by caricaturist and cartoonist Thomas Nast for historical context along with works by award - winning editorial cartoonists Matt Davies, Walt Handelsman, Mike Keefe, Steve Kelley, and Signe Wilkinson that offer commentary on our current national election process, candidates, and key issues.

If you look at the leading candidates on both sides, one is more ambiguous than a patch of fog, one doesn't even list climate change as one of his «driving» issues in key public speeches, and another seems to think climate change's importance derives mainly from its relationship to 9 - 11.

Throughout the presidential campaign thus far, several candidates have made energy issues key aspects of their platforms.

This post is the fourth in a series of blogs examining where 2016 candidates for President stand on key energy and climate issues.

This post is the second in a series of blogs examining where 2016 candidates for President or Governor of North Carolina stand on key energy issues.

This post is the first in a series of blogs examining where 2016 candidates for President or Governor of North Carolina stand on key energy issues.

The journalist and best - selling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, explains how food policy is a cornerstone of many of the key issues in the current election campaign while remaining virtually unacknowledged by the candidates.

Pickens is Campaigning for Energy Independence As the presidential campaign enters the home stretch, and the candidates continue hammering home their messages on the key issues of the day — among them, of course, energy independence and energy prices — it

Student leaders hope to raise gun control as a key issue during the November midterm elections, to build support for candidates who advocate universal background checks and complete bans the sale of assault - style weapons.

I'm trying to determine key issues in the beginning and not to lose too much time if the candidate doesn't fulfill basic requirements.

The report also highlights any key motivators, issues, and deal - making details essential to closing the candidate.

He provided to the attendees his position paper entitled «NCCA Requirements and Legal Issues Pertaining to Providing Names of Candidates and Their Scores to Academic Programs,» explained its key points, and answered questions.

Endorsement decisions and ratings are based on a combination of voting records, responses to candidate questionnaires, and publicly stated positions on key women's health issues.

Aimee Brownbill, a PhD candidate with the School of Public Health at the University of Adelaide, profiled some of the key health issues facing South Australian voters in the lead up to the State election on 17 March.