Sentences with phrase «local candidates elected»

«Our long - term goal is to get local candidates elected,» said Hannon, the county Libertarian party's first chairman.

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I was elected as a director on the local constituency association board and over the next year I campaigned alongside the candidate in communities across the sprawling rural Redwater constituency.

His chapter on the efforts of the Christian Coalition to elect candidates to local school boards is titled «Religious Fascism,» although he says nothing about the agenda of the group that remotely justifies the use of that ugly word.

Tennessee fans — joined by former players and, incredibly, a handful of local elected officials and candidates — unleashed an unprecedented torrent of anger about Schiano's hiring.

With local officials from school board on up now hearing from internet - organized constituents, and with cadres of veteran Obama volunteer commandos dug in across the country post-election, we may see an explosion of email, online video, social networking outreach and all of the other tools of electronic advocacy in the coming months — but this time turned on the projects in the stimulus bill, not on electing a candidate.

The system with 225 local single - member districts elected by a first - past - the - post electoral system (highest vote wins) offers much room for manipulation, use of administrative resources and pressure, extortion, vote buying and putting only one candidate on the ballot in some districts.

Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Green Party in Northern Ireland having become a region of the Republic's party the previous year.

Candidates seeking the Green Party nomination for federal, state, and local partisan elected offices (or endorsement for non-partisan offices) will be present, vying to represent the party in the November 2018 election.

The two candidates have split support from the local Democratic party machines and elected officials, and have overshadowed two other Democrats on the primary ballot, community activist Tamika Mapp and former State Assemblymember Israel Martinez.

Independent and minor party candidates have been elected to local, state, and federal offices throughout our nation's history.

Local boards, especially ones that are elected are where the grass roots candidate can get their start.

The Green Party in the United States has won elected office mostly at the local level; most winners of public office in the United States who are considered Greens have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (that is, elections in which the candidates» party affiliations were not printed on the ballot).

Kinderhook, NY — April 5, 2016... Citing New York's outrageous property taxes as a major cause of Upstate's economic decline, Congressional candidate John Faso (R - Kinderhook) today announced that, if elected, he will introduce legislation amending federal law (42 USC 1396a) to eliminate a state's ability to impose a local government share of Medicaid costs.

Assemblymember Kavanagh currently Chairs American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention, the State Caucus of Environmental Legislators, and the Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection In endorsing Rivera, Kavanagh joins a growing list of local progressive elected officials at all levels of government who have announced their support for the leading Democratic candidate.

Curran's team to recommend candidates for top county posts consists of 35 people, including Republican and Democratic elected officials, developers, philanthropists, union presidents, and leaders of local universities, hospitals, religious institutions and nonprofits.

Democratic Suffolk County executive candidate Steve Bellone has launched a last - minute radio ad touting his endorsement by THE local paper of record, Newsday, as the Democrats put the finishing touches on their effort to wrest the top local elected office back from GOP hands.

In an email to supporters sent out yesterday afternoon, WFP State Director Bill Lipton reiterated that the party has been playing a «long game» with its «Progressive Pipeline» program by nuturing candidates at the local level in hopes of seeing them either 1) start a trend that results in more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clout.

Green Party candidates in the United States have primarily won elected offices at the local level; most Green officeholders have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (races in which candidates were not identified on the ballot as affiliated with any political party).

CORONA — The crowded race for Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland's seat has seen candidate donations from local unions and elected officials — while grass - roots candidates say they're limited in how much money they can raise while they struggle to get on the ballot.

Daniel Donovan, the Staten Island district attorney and a Republican candidate for Congress, echoed complaints of other local district attorneys, telling a radio host that the proposal would effectively disenfranchise the people who elected him.

The battle lines have been drawn for this race in Yonkers — with local elected officials from both parties standing up for their respective candidates.

Perez Williams is in a hotly contested race with Ben Walsh, who has received support from some local Democratic elected officials in his effort to win as an independent candidate.

Moving forward, one of the most important things we can do is to get our candidates elected in local and state elections.

While the Irish Speakers also give up their party membership and are elected automatically at general elections, much like Westminster, their local electors still get the chance to vote for party candidates to fill the constituency's remaining seats.

Additionally, what makes you think a local elected official is any better at vetting competence and qualifications of a candidate for official position than the voters?

A super PAC run by Suffolk County police unions has built a multimillion - dollar campaign operation, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help elect local candidates and boost its clout on law enforcement issues.

The group said its mission is to elect Democrats to countywide offices, and to support local, county, statewide and national Democratic candidates, and that is the standard by which the committee operates, Kosmider said.

In Northern Ireland local and Assembly elections (and Scottish local elections), voting is done on a single transferable vote basis which sees more than one candidate elected from a single constituency.

At the end of an election, the marked postal voter lists are open for public inspection and also can be purchased by the Electoral Commission, candidates, elected representatives, government departments, police forces, registered political parties and local constituency parties.

UFCW Local 1500 members look forward to helping elect a true labor candidate in the 13th district» Newell concluded.

In 1919 the local MP, industrialist and major local employer Josiah Wedgwood shifted his allegiance from the Liberal Party — the Lloyd - George Coalition Liberals allying with the Conservatives — to the Labour Party and the seat has elected the Labour candidate who has stood since that date, a total of 29 elections in succession.

It achieved that on the back of a left - wing leadership and grassroots movement that, in many if not most cases, was not reflected in the local party or the candidate elected.

The panels are intended to provide local elected officials and candidates a platform to inform voters of their qualifications, legislative ideas and opinions on key issues faced by residents of the borough.

Represent NYC is a new weekly program in which local elected officials and candidates discuss the issues shaping the future of the city.

Local elections in Wales also use FPTP, but councillors are often elected from multi-member wards (for example, the three candidates with the most votes are all elected).

Three Brooklyn elected officials are bucking their local Democratic chairman, Vito Lopez, by backing anti-Lopez state committee candidates.

At 12:30 p.m., Syracuse Democratic mayoral candidate Juanita Perez Williams will be joined by local elected officials to talk about moving the city forward and what is at stake in this election, Delaware Elementary School, 900 S. Geddes St., Syracuse.

The Westchester GOP has a long and distinguished history of electing qualified local candidates to federal, state and local office, as well as judicial candidates.

In Sirico's catering hall in the neighborhood of Dyker Heights, retired corrections officer and community activist Pam Harris managed to beat out Mr. Brook - Krasny's former chief - of - staff Kate Cucco in support from members of the local Democratic county committee — the panel of elected party insiders charged with picking a candidate in a special election.

In a special election, the local county committee — the elected panel of party insiders — nominates the candidate.

Catsimatidis, who is up against former MTA chief Lhota and non-profit founder George McDonald, will hold a Friday presser in Queens to highlight his support from former elected officials and candidates in this year's local races.

Each candidate got up after the non-contested nominations and thanked the local Democrats for their support and promised to hit the pavement, knock on doors and «bring balance» to the elected town positions.

Enthusiastic to elect a health care reformer to the governor's office, the Service Employees International Union (District 1199 and SEIU Local 3) endorsed Ohio gubernatorial candidate Congressman Ted Strickland

A localized list or local list is a technique used under systems of party - list proportional representation to determine which party candidates are elected from the party list.

Among the local candidates who had the group's backing was Dan Bukiewicz, president of the Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council, who was elected mayor of Oak Creek.

At the conference, the local labor movement will outline its extensive grassroots strategy to elect endorsed candidates, and will hear from Eric Massa.

«We are proud of our work to help elect these fantastic candidates,» said Dean Warsh, business manager of IBEW Local 494.

A local Labour campaigner who has volunteered for Stuart since she was first elected tells us that Gisela is undoubtedly a well - known and popular local candidate, often recognised on the street.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

«Based on these reports, it appears that once again, Connecticut Democrats are hoping to use federally raised campaign donations to elect local and state Democratic candidates,» Carter wrote.