Sentences with phrase «key issues in her campaign»

After making her remarks at the Hilton Albany, Nixon, who has made education one of her key issues in her campaign, held a roundtable discussion with public school parents to talk about the conditions their students face.

But although she sees both equal pay and abortion access as important issues — «Choice is really important to me; I'm at a loss for words at how strongly I feel about it,» she tells me at one point — they're not the key issues in her campaign.

For instance, Senator Sanders had huge success well beyond all expectations, and climate was a key issue in that campaign.

A key issue in the campaign was the cost of removing Xcel and replacing it with a municipal utility.

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In turn, he was probably rested as a precaution to avoid the issue from flaring up, and it's a sensible strategy as the 30 - year - old is a key figure for Spurs and will be needed for bigger tests ahead throughout the campaign.

We are told that the scanty detail provided in the SONA on the key issues that matter to the people and the many promises made to the Ghanaian in the NPP manifesto and on campaign platforms will be fleshed out in the budget.

Kaminsky has focused heavily on corruption and ethics issues during the campaign to replace Skelos, a key race that could put the narrowly divided Senate in play.

The women's coalition was formed last year as Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the Women's Equality Agenda, which has stalled in the Legislature and is now becoming a key campaign issue with the formation of a new ballot line with the focus of passing the package of bills.

Governor Cuomo, who has been somewhat reticent about speaking out on the national stage, has lately been talking about the issue of gun violence, saying it should be a key topic in Congress and in the 2016 campaigns.

Terrence Murphy won a race in the 40th Senate district two years ago while making heroin abuse a key campaign issue.

The campaign releases themselves (a typical headline: «Amedore Voted For 96 Tax Increases In Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voterIn Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voterin suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voterin which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voters.

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.

Although Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly vowed to campaign against the ruling coalition in the senate unless headway is made on some key issues, Democrats in the chamber are not optimistic about legislative progress.

Sources Friday evening said Cuomo and the leadership of the party had reached a tentative deal for the incumbent Democrat to take the labor - backed line in exchange for pushing on key progressive issues such as the Dream Act, the public financing of political campaigns and the women's agenda.

The IDC had previously called for votes on key liberal issues in the Senate through a «call the roll» campaign — indicating that even with a Democratic majority, the votes on concerns like abortion rights and campaign finance reform may not be there.

The three Democrats vying to take on freshman Republican Rep. John Katko in NY - 24 — Colleen Deacon, Steve Williams and Eric Kingson — staked out similar positions on key issues last night in their first televised debate of the campaign hosted by TWC News.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The three Democrats running for Congress in the Syracuse area's June 28 primary staked out similar positions on key issues Monday night in their first televised debate of the campaign.

Influences contributing to the changes of heart are secret Republican polls showing majority support for gay marriage in key swing districts and the strong possibility that the GOP could lose control of the Senate next year to Democrats campaigning on the issue, sources said.

While Nixon is smartly trying to make in - roads with blacks and Latinos by campaigning around the city — including The Bronx today — she's going to need to find a key issue that questions the credibility of Cuomo's commitment to the city's working class.

Massey's campaign has released detailed policy positions on a few key issues while Malliotakis, who has been in the race less than a month, has said she will do so soon.

ToryDiary: «The Government's pledge to reduce net migration is a key plank of the next election campaign - CCHQ regularly issues infographics and updates reminding everyone that the Coalition's record starkly contrasts with Labour's incompetence in border control.

«Worryingly, [Jon] Lansman and [John] McDonnell are now actively using new policy «workshops» to widen their support to bring in powerful key single issue campaign and powerful voices in key sector like the arts, creative industries, disabilities, mental health and housing.»

We appreciate what he said concerning the Administration's performance in two out of the three key issues that formed the plank of its campaign: Fighting corruption and tackling insurgency.

Other areas are ones Cuomo has proposed before, including the 10 - point women's agenda, which he first unveiled in 2013 and is running on as a key campaign issue.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made the second stop in his «Where Do We Go From Here» tour in Albany Friday afternoon, where he told a small but loyal group of supporters that he'll fight to get key items into the national Democratic Party platform, including a nationwide $ 15 minimum wage, and has been in talks with Hillary Clinton's campaign over a greater focus on progressive issues.

Former Hudson Valley state Sen. Terry Gipson, who already has created a 2018 campaign committee, and City Councilman Jumaane Williams, who says he's been approached about challenging Cuomo, say a push for tougher rent laws should be a key issue in the 2018 gubernatorial campaign.

From Blabbeando and Gay City News: «During a September 7 City Hall press conference in support of Barack Obama, leading New York LGBT Democrats, many of whom had supported Senator Hillary Clinton during the spring primary season, sounded a strong message of unity, while a key operative for the Illinois senator made clear the campaign would push back on any effort to muddy the distinction between him and John McCain on critical gay issues.»

«Influences contributing to the changes of heart are secret Republican polls showing majority support for gay marriage in key swing districts and the strong possibility that the GOP could lose control of the Senate next year to Democrats campaigning on the issue,» Dicker writes.

Development was a key campaign issue in Amherst, where reuse of the former Westwood Country Club remains a pressing consideration for the Town Board and where developers seeking to build on the town's few remaining pockets of green space run up against neighbors who complain about the effects on traffic and quality of life.

Both men are thought to be contenders for the White House in 2016 and on CNN's «Crossfire,» they aired out some of the key issues that are likely to define their campaigns should they run.

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.

One of the key issues in Speranza's campaign is cracking down on Medicaid fraud.

Carol brings up another key issue in the best - actress predicament: category fraud, the term for what happens when a performer in a lead role campaigns for a supporting Oscar (often at the insistence of the film's marketing team), theoretically increasing their chances of ultimately winning a statuette.

In his conclusion, for instance, referring to the just - concluded presidential campaign, he says: «Important issues of Softness and Hardness are at stake [and] two key issues are whether to retain the Bush tax cuts and whether to add individual investment accounts to Social Security.»

The issue has emerged as a key area of disagreement between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke, a Madison School Board member, in this year's gubernatorial campaign.

«After 18 bargaining sessions since July, LAUSD has yet to present legitimate counterproposals on key elements of our Schools LA Students Deserve campaign,» the union said in a statement, listing class sizes, due process for housed teachers, support for restorative justice programs and elimination of teacher evaluations among the issues on which progress has been elusive.

Our members lead the charge for change by building a movement of forward - thinking educators through grassroots organizing; identifying, training and supporting teacher leaders to take on key leadership positions in their schools, districts, states and unions; creating teacher - led policy recommendations on issues selected by local educators; and advocating for implementation of those ideas through teacher - driven campaigns.

While we will never be able to equal the billionaires in their spending, it is absolutely vital that we significantly lower the ratio by which we are outspent — that is crucial to winning election races, and crucial to having money available for campaigns around key issues.

The airwaves in key battleground states are likely to be awash in campaign advertising that may, at times, stray from bread - and - butter issues.

In the US, Bloomberg found there's a pattern: a few pioneers will get out ahead of the issue, and then years or decades later a key event (such as a landmark court case or the maturation of a grassroots campaign) will take place that ushers in a cascade of new supporters, and finally a federal law on the issuIn the US, Bloomberg found there's a pattern: a few pioneers will get out ahead of the issue, and then years or decades later a key event (such as a landmark court case or the maturation of a grassroots campaign) will take place that ushers in a cascade of new supporters, and finally a federal law on the issuin a cascade of new supporters, and finally a federal law on the issue.

Speaking to key figures in the campaign, vocal opponents, lobbyists, authors and thinkers we discuss how significant the environment will be in the 2012 election, and what the major issues affecting the US are.

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.

The campaign has focused on the key issue of most Indian families specially those in the middle class being under insured or uninsured.

The perspective of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and its call for a ban on fully autonomous weapons were heard throughout the conference, but to ensure that key concerns are not downplayed and in the spirit of furthering common understanding on this emerging issue of international concern, we have the following comments on the reflections by Blanchard and Scharre.

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But with tax reform shaping up as a key campaign issue in the state, the victory is only temporary.