Sentences with phrase «lobby ran candidates»

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

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In the run - up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections, BASC launched a unique campaigning website which allowed all those interested in shooting to lobby candidates and seek their views on shooting and conservation.
In fact with D'Amato expansion of his Dem lobby firm today, Our GOP US Senator candidate running against Gillibrand is employing one of Al D'Amato's new hires...
«In the run up to the election, BASC asked its members to use its dedicated website to lobby candidates and to help establish their position on shooting.
But his lobbying firm, Park Strategies, is running the campaign for the leading GOP candidate, Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive.
The political party has to set up a party secretariat in virtually every ward, state, and at the national level, pay staff, promote its brand and its agenda, organize meetings, pay sitting allowances, support candidates, run media advertisements, arrange receptions and entertainment, pay for logistics, buy vehicles, pay for air travels and road transportation, the organization of rallies and campaigns, reserve some tidy sum for lobbying at all levels including the lobbying of the media and other groups in civil society.
Also at 12:30 p.m., Reform Party NYC mayoral candidate Sal Albanese holds a press conference to challenge NYC Council members running for council speaker to pledge not to allow the political consultants who will help them run to lobby them once elected, outside City Hall, Manhattan.
Billy could form a «Let Billy show up to every meeting» party, run candidates for the legislature in every State and federally, lobby hard, raise funds for lawyers to run test cases, change the constitution, take control of the armed forces, pass a resolution through the United Nations General Assembly, etc etc..
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