Sentences with phrase «listen to their constituents as»

They will be on Facebook and Twitter, but they will use social media to listen to their constituents as well as to speak to them.

The foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said the Conservatives had to listen to constituents as his own majority fell — but bookies also slashed the odds of him becoming the next Tory leader.

Or is it OK to listen to the constituents as long as they are not teachers?

Not exact matches

Senator Johnson has been in some hot water with constituents and local media lately for failing to answer citizens» calls to hold listening sessions or meet with them, as other legislators around the country have.

«Unfortunately, many of our elected officials seem intent on proposing legislation as a form of protest, or to win political points in a game of partisan ping pong, rather than listening to their constituents and coming up with ideas that would help to solve real problems for the people they serve,» he said.

-- Tell us (as someone above said) how much of his time is spent actually communicating with his constituents compared to sitting around in Westminster making wet speeches — Listen to the people and get together with supposedly like minded MPs and get rid of Brown by the powers they have.

«He met with Holly and listened to her, just as he does with hundreds of constituents each month.

«New York's lawmakers have an opportunity now to listen to their constituents, who demand access to ridesharing as a transportation option.»

«Unfortunately, many of our elected officials seem intent on proposing legislation as a form of protest, or to win political points in a game of partisan ping pong, rather than listening to their constituents and coming up with ideas that would help to solve real problems for the people they serve,» Khojasteh said.

For his part, Mr. Flanagan struck an embracing tone in his early hours as majority leader, saying he would, first and foremost, listen to his colleagues and constituents.

As your New York State Senator, there is nothing more important to me than listening to the needs of my constituents.

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And when the newspaper called me for comment, while it was at first tempting to let fly with everything that had gone wrong between us (which is what the paper was after, I'm sure), I realized that the reason Bill was running for mayor is that he believed in local government as a voice for the people, and that the current administration wasn't listening to its constituents, and that his campaign was meant to bring attention to that.