Sentences with phrase «n't run for political office»

«If Todd Kaminsky can't run for political office without neglecting his official legislative duties, how can we expect him to handle the myriad of issues facing Long Island as a State Senator?»

Not exact matches

While Sacca has been vocal about his political views, he doesn't have any plans to run for office.

Accepting at face value the assertion that Rick Perry has a Divine calling to run for the Republican nomination, we are lead to the question of whether it was a call to Mr. Perry to become the nominee or whether it was, instead, a call to Mr. Perry to teach a lesson about how people should not take the Name in vain in order to obtain political office.

If it held true to the Bible (which they don't), they would excommunicate any of their members who ran for political office.

We always lament that we can not get the nations best and brightest to run for political office... surely there are Americans more qualified than Obama, more intelligent than GW Bush.

As Wolterstorff recognizes, «the fact that Jesus never ran for political office does not become an objection to running for political office, any more than the fact that he never heard a piano concerto becomes an objection to listening to piano concertos.

I don't know why anybody runs for political office who has skeletons in the closet.

He did not have to get approval from the Church to run for any political office.

BTW I don't know what Reggie Miller is into that he was «kissed harder then that» Maybe he should run for political office.

«If Rudy (the younger) decides to do this — and it's a question not if he runs for political office, but when — a lot of Rudy (the elder) supporters will come out.

As Maggie Haberman reports, de Blasio has had discussions in recent weeks with Google on the heels of his successful effort to get Goldman Sachs to agree not to spend on political ads in this election cycle — even though a recent US Supreme Court decision allows corporations to drop unlimited amounts of cash to try to elect of defeat candidates running for federal office.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Democrat Erin Cole does not consider herself a political person, but has been on a career track to run for political office for quite some time.

«You know, I've never run for office before, and I'm not so much in the political establishment, so I'm going to let those guys, you know, sort it out a bit,» Malpass told me.

The fraud convictions of two former campaign aides to city Comptroller John Liu has not helped his run for higher office, but the jury's decision may influence whether the Queens Democratic Party will endorse the lawmaker's mayoral bid, borough political observers said.

The Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources has not indicated any interest in running for any elective political office in Delta State.

Although a majority of voters do not want the former governor to run for office this year, the electorate isn't ruling out a political return for Spitzer in the future.

Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings has formally announced he will not run for a sixth term in office, ending a political career spanning more than three decades.

Cuomo hasn't really done much with the party since he took office, although he used it to run the coordinated campaign during the 2010 race, installing HTC political director Neal Kwatra (now working for AG Eric Schneiderman as his chief of staff) to oversee that effort.

The fact that he changed his name 25 years after he first read «The Autobiography of Malcolm X,» while in the middle of his first run for elected office, shouldn't make you think that there were any political implications to his choice.

Donald Trump is currently running for president, and while he's given political commentary and funded candidates before, I'm not aware of him holding political office.

(FROM WRCR) A Ramapo activist and occasional political candidate told the Morning Show yesterday he was considering another run for office this year, possibly for the Supervisor's spot, though he was not specific.

Not only does Eldridge now occupy the same office space on Kingston's Wall Street as previously occupied by Congressman Maurice Hinchey and before that by Congressman Matt McHugh, but he's planning on running for the same political office as well.

Hawkins» unsuccessful political past hasn't bogged him down — he ran for mayor of Syracuse in 2005 and has run for office in local, city and state government more than 20 times without winning a single election.

«I personally believe that anybody who is attorney general should not be permitted to run for public office after leaving that position for at least three years, so the office is not used for political reasons, but to do what it primarily is supposed to be doing: enforcing the law.»

«It's comical that Mark Poloncarz — who doesn't actually have the courage of his convictions to run for federal office — now wants to be a surrogate attack dog and exploit the Parkland tragedy for his own political gain.

Kaiman and Suozzi, who are running in the June 28 Democratic primary against three other candidates — and can not use their state campaign accounts for congressional bids — said their purchases were legal and meant to keep their political operations active in case they ran for office again.

Because of his felony conviction, he can not run for public office, but can for district leader because it's a political position.

A Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey released Tuesday morning indicates that 66 percent of New York State registered voters don't think Paterson should resign in wake of a political scandal that ended his hopes of running this year for a full term in office.

«Having the ability to participate in elections would create a lot more civic engagement and, on a political level, I don't think communities like the community that I represent, which is 68 percent immigrant, would ever be able to be ignored again by anybody running for major citywide office in New York City.»

As for his own political future, St. Lawrence did not deny that he's eyeing a bid for Rockland County executive if the current occupant of that office, Republican Scott Vanderhoef, runs for the seat Sen. Tom Morahan will be vacating the end of the year.

Rumore also elevated the union's political status by providing financial support and other resources to candidates running not only for school board, but for Buffalo Common Council, Erie County Legislature and state offices.

Benoit noted the race would be his first run for office, which he said he did not think would hurt him against a political veteran like Smith.

They said there is not enough time to put it in place for this year's election and the bill does not restrict spending on candidates by political parties - a component in DiNapoli's proposal when he suggested his office be used for a trial run.

When Hudson ran for office, Miner not only steered money to her campaign but accompanied her to Manhattan to meet state Democratic Party big shots at a luncheon hosted by Eleanor's Legacy, a women's political group.

In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

They say Underwood is well - positioned to run the office and will minimize any potential political conflicts since she would not campaign before the voters for the seat.

I'm a citizen running for political office, not a politician that received 3 % of the vote in the democratic primary in 1997.

For policy - making offices, there's been talk of an unwritten rule that Democratic candidates can't also run on the Conservative line because of ideological differences between the political parties.

However, the political difficulty of privatising the post offices can not be an excuse for the inept way in which they are run today.

Further research needs to be done on why women are not more actively recruited to run for political office in addition to what can be done to correct the negative perceptions women have of their qualifications to run for office.

He then runs for political office and, to not hurt his chances of winning, joins a posse to find his best friend, accused of rustling.

As if there needed to be more speculation that things might not be all rosy between the former stars of «Sex and the City», Sarah Jessica Parker offered up a potentially awkward future moment by sounding extremely non-committal in endorsing her ex-colleague Cynthia Nixon's run for political office.

Thanks, Smarick, but I don't have any interest in running for political office.

Later on, she added, «This is not about running for further political office.»

Baird Ellan is not the first former judge step down from the bench and run for political office.

Sometimes, only one political party has candidates running for an office, meaning that whoever wins their party's nomination in the primary election won't face opposition in November.

We need an association or union that is run by Realtors for Realtors and that will lobby for Realtors exclusively — by Realtors I mean active salespeople in the field, not political wannabees or head office people with paycheques and security.

I guess it boils down to how big their payments are on their homes, cars, cottages, boats, trips abroad, in - ground pools, costs associated with runs for political offices etc, just like the rest of us (I'm not in that group, but I was once, except for the politics stuff... thankfully).