Sentences with phrase «leaders over candidate»

On Feb. 7, Killian won the nomination in a vote by Republican district leaders over candidate Dan Schorr, a former inspector general in Yonkers and previous candidate for Westchester district attorney.

Not exact matches

She has publicly clashed with interim leader Ric McIver over his decision to endorse the federal Conservatives, and with Wildrose supporters over her decision to endorse Liberal candidates in the 2015 federal election.

Former cabinet minister Kellie Leitch has become the first official candidate to replace Stephen Harper as Conservative leader, sounding the starting gun on a race that will stretch over 13 months.

One of the reasons he was once considered the presumptive next leader of the federal party was due to his perceived head - and - shoulders lead over other potential candidates among this key voting block.

I personally think religion should not be a factor.No one should ask the candidates what their religious views are and they should never mention them.Their religious preferences have absolutely no effect on what type of leader they will be.Unless they are some kind of a religious fanatic.I think it's time for an atheist.There was not a Christian president for over the first 50 years of our nations existence.And, I do not think there has been one since.If you look it up you will find not one of our founding fathers were Christian.Not even Jefferson.I know he wrote the Jefferson bible, but, that's just because he, like the other founding fathers, did not believe Jesus to be of divine decent.So, he kept his philosophy while removing all the mystical and dogmatic concepts.

But your leaders over the past 30 years has focused on stacking local, state and federal elections with candidates sporting that Fresh Bible Smell.

A candidate forum for a vacant southern Brooklyn Assembly seat turned into a bitter verbal tussle over abortion last night — not between the two women running to represent the district, but between one of them and a civic leader in the audience.

Over the weekend, news broke (here on SoP) that county leaders were growing worried about a GOP primary and the possibility that the Conservatives would end up with a different candidate than the Republicans.

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron sacked former MP David Ward as a general election candidate after a storm over his past comments about Israel and Jews.

The Liberal Democrats have sacked former MP David Ward as their general election candidate for Bradford East over accusations of anti-Semitism, after leader Tim Farron had earlier decided not to drop him.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

Narrator: Over the next few years, Clinton began to catch the attention of the media and national Democratic leaders desperate to find a candidate who could loosen Republicans» grip on the Presidency.

«As leaders of unions representing over half a million working New Yorkers, we held a conversation with the Speaker candidates so they could hear our members» concerns and share their own plans for the future of working people in our city.

bottom line is stop the cross endorsement crap and stop giving these leaders leverage over who gets jobs and whether candidates take positions on issues that suit the minor parties rather than taking a position they believe in... STOP THE EXTORTION

ALBANY — A leading New York labor leader, citing the «stunning defeat» of the Democratic senatorial candidate in Massachusetts, yesterday became the first top Democrat to endorse Attorney General Andrew Cuomo over David Paterson for governor.

So you have a larger campaign spread over a significant geographical area, your campaign probably has more than one office and a dedicated team working on the tour operations of your candidate... you can do the things mentioned above but why not also play «follow - the - leader».

Their voters might like having a chance to pick candidates for themselves instead of turning decisions over to corrupt county leaders.

However, of the six candidates, three are well kent faces with Ruth Davidson, the Conservative party leader contesting this constituency after moving over from the Glasgow list.

Polling conducted by Ipsos, Ifop and BVA all gave Mr Macron, the pro-business candidate, a strong lead over Front National leader Marine Le Pen.

All those Conservatives who want Gordon Brown to stay as Labour leader will be relieved to learn of an ICM poll for The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Mirror that gives the Labour candidate, Margaret Curran MSP, a 14 % lead over her SNP rival in the Glasgow East by - election, scheduled for 24th July.

Creasy admitted that some of the messages may have been provoked by the deluge of emails people have received over the past few months from contenders not only in the deputy leadership contest, but also the campaigns for leader and London mayoral candidate.

He and Ms Eagle have held talks in recent days over one of them becoming a so - called «unity candidate» to take on the under - fire leader.

Conn Republican candidate for governor Tom Foley with supporters at the Villa Rosa Pontelandolfo Club in Waterbury celebrating his win over state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney on primary night Aug. 12th 2014.

Senate Democratic leader John Sampson got an earful from disgruntled LGBT activists over his blanket endorsement of Democratic Senate candidates in this fall's elections.

In the first poll released since two candidates emerged from Louisiana's jungle primary for governor, state House Minority Leader John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, holds a serious lead over Republican Sen. David Vitter.

Jane Dodds, Montgomeryshire Candidate and child protection social worker, takes over the role from Acting Leader Kirsty Williams immediately.

DeMint has clashed with his party establishment's leaders this election cycle, as he's backed staunchly conservative candidates over the sometimes more moderate GOP - backed ones.

In order to take over, then, the Lexington Club had to elect enough County Committee members, election district by election district within the Assembly District, to seat their District Leader candidates.

Nassau Community College trustees last night selected the college's next president, fast - tracking a candidate through the process in a day after several failed attempts to find a permanent leader for the school over the last four years.

The Auburn Citizen chastises Sens. Jim Seward and Michael Nozzolio for supporting Long Island's John Flanagan for Senate majority leader over the upstate candidate, Sen. John DeFrancisco, of Syracuse.

Also, considering the AEG mess the Democrats are in, which GOP candidates all over the state are playing up to the hilt by calling on majority candidates to return contributions from the three main players — Senate President Malcolm Smith, Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and Sen. Eric Adams — perhaps throwing stones from one's glass house in hopes of changing the conversation isn't a good idea.

The April 19 special election to replace the former legislative leaders in the Assembly and Senate has the specter of corruption hanging over the candidates as they pledge to restore voter confidence.

There is a new controversy over the Puerto Rican Day Parade's plan to honor a former leader of a group blamed for terror bombings in the 1970s as a Republican candidate for mayor is demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio bow out of the march.

After dithering among potential Labour leaders over the idea of a welfare cap at # 23,000, the latest move will lead to pressure on the leading candidates to firmly reject a cap at # 20,000.

This calls for concern from our national leaders that specialise in unreasonable harmonisation and imposition of unpopular candidates over the popular ones.»

The Electors were originally elite political leaders collected from all over the country to give a final vetting of the candidates.

As deputy leader I will be assuming his responsibilities with immediate effect, and over the next 48 hours will obviously be consulting colleagues - but I can confirm today that I intend to be candidate in the leadership contest that is to follow.

«I think the definition of leadership should be the ability of leaders to prioritize long - term investment over short - term gains,» says Aaron Woolf, the former congressional candidate who planted the above political campaign signs at his restaurant in Elizabethtown.

Kingston's Democratic party elite — incumbent aldermen and the committee chairman, along with assorted business and community leaders — were holed up a few blocks away at Clement's HQ, guardedly optimistic that the slim lead would hold and the candidate they had endorsed would roll over divided Republican opposition to take City Hall.

Farley received 67,338 votes to Auffredou's 57,870, and their margin over the other candidates prompted party leaders to declare them the winners late Tuesday night.

MANHATTAN — Presumptive mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio is surging in the fundraising race for the city's top office, raking in $ 1 million over the past six months to outpace the leader of the pack, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

Nassau County executive candidates Jack Martins and Laura Curran squared off Thursday in a debate hosted by regional business leaders, tangling over red light cameras, ethics reform and fixing the county's finances.

Also: Independent candidates can petition their way onto the ballot if they're passed over for the special election by party leaders.

Democratic leaders and candidates for Congress began over the weekend to call on Republicans to disavow Trump.

I have never been a quitter and I am not going to start now,» reads a message on the Facebook page of scandal - soaked Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who received a shellacking last night at the hands of Gustavo Rivera, a relatively unknown candidate who won over voters by not being Pedro Espada.

Instead, Hoffman has triumphed over Scozzafava in public opinion polls, despite, not the local Republican Party, but local Republican Party leaders (a very different kettle of fish), who clearly misread the mind and mood of the electorate when they imperiously chose a candidate who is evidently closer to Nancy Pelosi in her ideology than to Joe Lieberman, let alone George Pataki.

Democratic candidates this cycle have gone to great lengths to distance themselves from their party leaders, but West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin's (D) remarks over the weekend demonstrated just how far Democrats in competitive races are willing to go.

Apart from the fact that 2 of the four candidates for leader were women, and just over half the shadow cabinet posts are held by women, all women short lists are discriminatory.

2015 is also the year that the Labour party, which used to love to taunt the Conservatives over their «women problems», elected a man to be the Leader, Deputy Leader and their London Mayoral candidate.

A leader for the group Indivisible, which has partnered with a number of liberal groups around the United States for town hall events since last year, slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Thursday on Facebook for endorsing one candidate over other Democratic candidates in the primary.