Sentences with phrase «local campaigns where»

At issue was whether the costs of a Conservative campaign battlebus should have been accounted for by local campaigns where the legal spending limits are tighter at between about # 11,000 and # 16,000, depending on the size of the constituency

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A dealer - owned co-operative, Home Hardware has worked hard in recent years to stress its connection to the communities where it operates, by sponsoring local minor sports teams and tournaments, and playing up its «Home Owners helping home owners» ad campaign.

Perhaps not where anyone would expect him to be during the last weekend of the campaign, Liberal Party leader Raj Sherman was scheduled to spend today in the traditionally conservative voting Red Deer, where the Liberals nabbed prominent local historian Michael Dawe as their candidate in Red Deer - North.

In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy, [6] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop, [6] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters.

As in New York, a proposal for a local Islamic center has become a state - wide campaign issue in recent weeks in Tennessee, where certain Republican candidates in various primaries are trying to outdo each other for the fear vote by denouncing a recently approved expansion of an existing Islamic center in Murfreesboro.

He says that where churches have become involved on a local level, providing food for example, this has spurred them into campaigning for change on a national level, which is what is really needed.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

He donated $ 3 million last month to the University of Texas where he played and matched Colin Kaepernick's $ 10,000 in the quarterback's «10 for 10» campaign, Durant's contributions helping a local organization doing community - based justice work.

«The TUC's March for the Alternative on 26 March promises to be one of the biggest events that we have ever organised, but local campaigns and protests that do not hit the national headlines could well make just as much an impact in those constituencies where there are coalition MPs with small majorities.

A grassroots campaign like this would be online - focused, of course, since email and the social web are where we now live much of our lives, but it could also have a strong on - the - ground component as well, enabled by the local social - welfare organizations that have helped sign people up all over the country.

All that campaign cash has helped buy a state and local tax system that's regressive — where the wealthy actually pay less than the poor and middle class, and nowhere near their fair share

Republican congressional candidate Christopher Cox — the grandson of Richard Nixon — and his family members have poured close to $ 80,000 since the middle of last year into local Republican committees and campaigns in the district where Cox is running, POLITICO has learned.

He was a partner at BuzzMaker where worked with international leaders, Presidential, Senate and Congressional campaigns, national advocacy organizations including the American Jewish Congress, local nonprofits such as La Salle Academy and NYCLASS, and local businesses.

Local political blogs often have a «water cooler» function — they're a place where political activists and operatives gather to discuss issues and campaigns.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

He has always been fascinated by politics and debating and after reading physics at university (now there is a rarity) gained experience as a local councillor in Croydon, where he was born and lived, then at CCHQ in research and campaigning and working with the young George Osborne as well as Lynton Crosby and Michael Ashcroft.

Ali Najmi, an attorney and activist, Bob Friedrich, a local civic leader, Sally Frank, a staffer to Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Rebecca Lynch, a former Democratic district leader, are all said to be considering campaigns for the bucolic eastern Queens district, where public transportation options are limited and a booming South Asian population is changing the make - up of the once predominately white neighborhoods.

Watch has been active on the local political scene where he has served on the campaigns of Elio Forcina for Assembly, Paul Vallone and Dan Halloran for City Council.

Steve Brine Formerly the party's area campaign director for Hampshire, Steve was selected in November 2006 for Winchester, where he has served a deputy chairman (political) of the local Conservative association.

In spite of the loss of seats in Wandsworth and Westminster, the party comfortably held on to Hillingdon, where the local MP and shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, had campaigned.

Onondaga County is among five counties in central New York state where campaigns to encourage homes, businesses and local communities to install solar energy are currently underway.

Mr. Storobin also stressed that money isn't the most important factor in a campaign by pointing to multiple local elections where Republican candidates were significantly outspent but still won.

They will hope that a strong local campaign can trump their national performance in the upcoming Richmond Park by - election, where the Conservatives are not fielding a candidate against Zac Goldsmith.

The candidacy of a 34 - year - old Bronx assemblyman — and veteran of President Barack Obama's presidential campaign and White House — to become a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee has drawn more enthusiasm nationally than in his native borough, where party leadership perceives him as an overly ambitious interloper using his local office as stepping stone on his way to glory in Washington.

The majority of the Buffalo Board of Education would like to be rid of member Carl Paladino, who, in addition to acting as the New York chair of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, recently told a local newspaper that, among other things, he'd like to see President Obama catch «mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford,» while Michelle Obama «[returns] to being a male and [is] let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.»

The campaign said it'll kick off the opening with a 3 pm event where Levine will speak to supporters, volunteers and locals on «his bold, progressive vision to move Florida forward» as well as Broward's importance in the primary and general elections.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee knocked the NRCC's effort, noting, correctly, that the three locations where the billboard truck is scheduled to appear today and Thursday — a local GOP headquarters and two Hochul Congressional offices — are not actually in the newly configured district.

[7] The Conservative campaign focused on local issues, such as crime and antisocial behaviour, closure of post offices and problems at Leighton Hospital, where two women in labour were turned away, as well as national issues - referring to Dunwoody as «Gordon Brown's candidate» and capitalising on dissatisfaction with the Labour government, in particular the removal of the 10p tax rate.

Milvi Vehik, program director for Good Companions Senior Center at the Henry Street Settlement, where local politicians usually campaign for votes, has not seen Cancel.

Although they don't want expectations to get too high they believe the campaigns against the 10p tax band and post office closures could produce excellent results for the Tories in May's local elections and in London - where Boris now leads by 13 %.

Hawkins works at UPS unloading trucks, where he is a member of Teamsters Local 317 and active in Teamsters for a Democratic Union, US Labor Against the War, and the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.

The vice president was also in prime form at a local campaign office, where he hugged a woman in the front row during his own introduction.

We caught up with her today in Troy, where she stopped at a local diner and campaign headquarters, to ask her about the barrage of negative ads coming from both sides in the campaign and if she is worried about the latest polling in the 19th District.

Labor MP Len Kiely had been brought into the Ministry when Henderson became Chief Minister, but a past incident where he had been forced to resign as Deputy Speaker over a drunken incident involving verbal sexual harassment became central to the local campaign and led to Kiely's defeat.

I would welcome the appointment of Eric Pickles as chairman of the party, as I think he is an excellent campaign strategist - but more importantly because it would get him away from areas of policy formation in the field of local government where I believe that, despite his apparent experience, he has been too focussed on areas which appeal to the tabloid newspapers and has not fought hard enough over important issues such as local government powers and planning.

It's a key Labour target, and the place where Ed Miliband launched Labour's local election campaign.

Yes, he brings glitz and money to the tail - end of the campaign, but no where near the actual experience and abilities that some of the other candidates - all of whom have actually lived in the district for years - have earned from years in the trenches of local politics.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W. Va. — Senator Barack Obama continued the «regular guy who does regular guy things» portion of his campaign tour here, visiting a local billiards hall where he proved that his pool skills are better than his bowling skills.

Cetera was also a local organizer for the Hawkins for Governor campaigns in 2010 and 2014, where he helped the Green Party secure a ballot line for the next four years as they received over 50,000 votes in 2010, and 184,419 (5 % of the vote) in 2014, enough to leap over the Independence and Working Families parties to take the fourth line on New York ballots.

So far, the Stein campaign has worked with local Greens, and new activists, to launch new ballot drives in Iowa, Indiana, Virginia, Vermont, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, where, like Utah, the campaign has inspired a new state Green Party.

The bad examples start at the top, where Brazil's congressmen, who have yet to vote anything of importance this year, work a two - day week and have already announced a three - month unofficial recess later this year so they can take part in local election campaigns — while receiving their full salaries.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

After losing three times in various campaigns for local office, he takes advantage of redistricting and wins a spot on the Board Of Supervisors, where he serves for a year before White (Josh Brolin) assassinates him and mayor George Moscone.

There are no online modes to speak of, just local co-op where one player pilots and the other shoots through the whole campaign with the on rails portions strangely included, giving the pilot nothing to do.

More talent where there are high turnovers — I used to develop training for a call center and the specific reason they went virtual (VILT) is because they saturated the local college market where the call center was located (i.e. there were no people left until the new year started and therefore a new campaign started for hiring).

Bringing the concepts of the campaign to the venues where local educational decisions are made, these meetings are designed to secure understanding and support for Expanded Learning opportunities.

A native of Grayson, Georgia, Mehul attended the University of Georgia, where he fell in love with Athens, GA, and began his service in local and national Democratic politics by working on the Obama Campaign and congressional, legislative and statewide races in 2006, 2008 and 2010.

In the hysterically titled «GOP War On Learning Continues In Senate Tax Plan, State Funding Cuts,» he writes, «As the Republican - controlled Congress continues to advance tax plans that slash funding from public education, a new report reveals how state and local government officials, especially where GOP leadership dominates, have continued a decade - long campaign to keep school funding below levels that preceded the Great Recession.»

David Barry, a member of Local Schools Network, which campaigns against schools being built where they are not needed, said at the time that the investment might «not be prudent to pursue».

With ad campaigns and other encouragements, we can, perhaps, increase the number of cats and dogs entering and leaving through the revolving door of our local animal shelters, but spay / neuter programs, not adoption, prevent the overwhelming number of excess pets from needing homes, entering shelters or becoming victims, no matter where on the timeline they are counted.