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Indeed, can't I equally argue that Neal Lawson risks narrowing his coalition of support for electoral reform by suggesting that the existence of a national campaign on PR means postponing or vetoing any consideration of party reform issues on their merits (where he seems to argue that the principle would be one he would support, were it not for this context)?

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McConnell stayed on the attack, sending out word that the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the conference's campaign arm, was effectively blacklisting an outside consulting firm that had done work for the SCF — a move designed to send a shock wave of fear through the party's vendor class.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

As part of the $ 5.2 billion, 12 - year agreement announced today, Rogers obtains the national rights on all platforms to every NHL game through the 2025 - 26 campaign — including all playoff games and the Stanley Cup Final.

Whitman is well - known in state and national politics as well, having worked on presidential campaigns for Mitt Romney and John McCain, and having run against Jerry Brown in 2010 for the governor of California, a race she ended up losing.

Steinbrueck, a Social Democrat who will take on Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany's next national election in September, has a reputation for gaffes and his remark created the first diplomatic incident of his accident - prone campaign.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks ahead of Prime Minister Theresa May during her last campaign visit at the National Conference Centre on June 7, 2017 in Solihull, United Kingdom.

The Clinton campaign believes that Bloomberg's appearance, scheduled in a prime - time slot, shows the breadth of support for the ex-secretary of state and will vouch for her «steady hand» on economic and national security issues.

To drive engagement, the company enlisted Likeable to launch a #purebarrelife campaign, a contest which asked clients to share personal stories about integrating Pure Barre into their daily lives through text, photos and videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for a chance to win prizes.The company enlisted the agency's help because Likeable has the expertise to navigate the challenges involved in running a national social - media contest, such as time demands, possible legal issues, and the unique rules and guidelines of each individual platform.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

The move is part of Kraft Heinz's campaign to have the day declared a national holiday (it's already pushing a petition on the topic).

On Wednesday, the Clinton campaign launched «Together for America,» an initiative to recruit GOP endorsements, and announced support from nearly 50 Republicans, including George W. Bush's former Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte.

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump campaign, the Russian government and Wikileaks on Friday, accusing them of conspiring to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.

The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump campaign, the Russian government, Wikileaks on Friday, accusing them of conspiring to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.

He is part of a national marketing campaign on behalf of 1,200 independent bookstores that is centered on a recommended - reading list known as the Book Sense 76 — in honor of 1776.

But based on appointments of ideological hardliners such as Tom Price (a staunch foe of Obamacare nominated to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services), Michael Flynn (Trump's national security adviser with a dim view of Islam) and Mike Pompeo (the incoming CIA Director who has fiercely opposed the Iran nuclear agreement) and many of his campaign pledges, the chances are high that Trump could squander his limited political capital on divisive ideological issues and neglect his most important priority — getting the American economy out of its low - growth rut.

Salvini said the result was «historic» for his party, one which has moved away from its roots of campaigning for an independent northern region to campaign on a national level.

Republican National Committee staffers have reportedly gone door - knocking on his behalf, while the Koch brothers have spent «hundreds of thousands on a mail and field deployment campaign.»

Though the National Front has had trouble raising money for the campaign (Le Pen had to borrow money from her estranged father) and she has also been ordered to pay back over # 250,000 to the European Parliament over fake EU parliamentary assistant jobs — none of it seems to have an influence on the determination of her supporters.

The firm also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars of business with John Bolton's Super Pac, formed by the hawkish former UN ambassador to support conservative candidates campaigning on national security issues.

The Golden Arches kicked off the national marketing of its new $ 1 $ 2 $ 3 Dollar Menu on Jan. 4 with traditional and social media campaigns meant to educate customers about its latest value play with humor.

Zero number of people running for office in 2010, 2012, and 2014 campaigned on raising the national debt to supply more fiscal stimulus.

And they'd taken care of themselves but the fact is that the individual Congressmen knew not only that they weren't promised any cash on the table for themselves to sell out their voters to Wall Street but they thought that even if the Democratic National Committee or the Republication Congressional Committee contributed money to their campaigns, no amount of television or media advertising could persuade the voters that they were not crooks.

On the salient legal advice point, the memo concludes that US laws prohibiting foreign nationals managing campaigns — «including making direct or indirect decisions regarding the expenditure of campaign dollars» — will have «a significant impact on how Cambridge hires staff and operates in the short term»On the salient legal advice point, the memo concludes that US laws prohibiting foreign nationals managing campaigns — «including making direct or indirect decisions regarding the expenditure of campaign dollars» — will have «a significant impact on how Cambridge hires staff and operates in the short term»on how Cambridge hires staff and operates in the short term».

But if neither one can garner a majority on the first few ballots, Ryan could easily get drafted as a consensus alternative with national campaign experience and a deep well of respect within the party.

Another document is a confidential memorandum prepared for Rebekah Mercer (the daughter of US billionaire Robert Mercer; Wylie has said Mercer provided the funding to set up CA), former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and the (now suspended) CA CEO Alexander Nix advising them on the legality of a foreign corporation (i.e. CA), and foreign nationals (such as Nix and others), carrying out work on US political campaigns.

He is co-chair of the campaign on Corporate Globalization and Positive Alternatives for the Alliance for Democracy, a national non-partisan group working to end corporate domination over government and policy.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

But the Nunes memo implies the case was primarily built on the Steele dossier — and points out that it was funded partially by a law firm on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

PARIS (AP)-- The leader of France's far - right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist «offensive» and promising to hold a nationwide referendum on European Union membership if she is...

The precise nature of the criminal investigation on Cohen is not entirely clear, but it began following a referral from the Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is investigating potential collusion between Russian nationals and the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

An obvious choice to lead this type of national campaign is the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which regularly spars with governments on tax matters.

Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign adviser who went on to be his national security adviser, was paid more than $ 65,000 by companies linked to Russia in 2015, including an American branch of a cybersecurity firm believed to have connections to Russia's intelligence services, according to congressional investigators.

Aides do point to Carson's experience on corporate boards (which he says he will resign from now that he's running for president) and the business experience of members of his inner circle, such as Jeff Reeter, Carson's national finance chairman, a managing partner at Northwestern Mutual, as guideposts for his philosophy: the campaign's economic policy will be business - friendly.

Mr. Marciano recently stepped down from his position on the National Council of the Conservative Party of Canada and served as Campaign Manager for Edmonton - Centre MP Laurie Hawn in 2004 and 2006, and for Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq in 2008.

Lincoln Financial Group received a perfect score of 100 % on the 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the gas.

The Trump campaign denied using voter data from Cambridge Analytica, saying it relied on data from the Republican National Committee, but had help from some of the firm's employees.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today announced a national media campaign in opposition to the «Super Chapter 9» bankruptcy legislation for Puerto Rico, which was recently released by the Committee on Natural Resources in the U.S. House of Representatives.

A vivid illustration of the death obsession driving the movement, transhumanist popularizer Zoltan Istvan just completed a national speaking tour in a bus made to look like a coffin as part of his pseudo campaign for president on the Transhumanist party ticket.

CNN: Convention's Mormon speakers expected to shed light on Romney's faith life Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church — and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

«We... feel obligated to go on record with the facts regarding Pollard in order to dispel the myths that have arisen from this clever public relations campaign... aimed at transforming Pollard from greedy, arrogant betrayer of the American national trust in to Pollard, committed Israeli patriot

These agents include people like Larry Pratt, a far - right Washington lobbyist on guns and abortion whose less savory affiliations led to his resignation as national cochairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign.

Toward the end of their statement, the 15 bishops who signed this statement called on every U.S. Catholic to join in a «great national campaign» on behalf of religious liberty.

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

In recent years, its focus has shifted, placing greater emphasis on national campaigning, and on promoting and producing more resources that are of direct benefit to parishes.

(CNN)- Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church - and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

«One of the good things God might bring out of this evil and this tragedy would be now some type of alliance between religion and the educational establishment in a major national campaign to see that this is faced head on,» said Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the top Catholic official in the United States.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

CNN: Religious leaders launch campaign for gun control With the bells of the Washington National Cathedral ringing 28 times — honoring all those killed in last week's Connecticut shooting — a broad group of religious leaders on Friday called on their congregations, the White House and Congress to do more to combat gun violence.