Sentences with phrase «on elected politicians»

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Senators also spent a significant amount of time reading letters from constituents about the effects of the scandal on their own lives, which not only looks bad for Stumpf and Wells Fargo, but also allows the politicians an easy opportunity to prove that they are working for the people who elect them.

But elected politicians have little chance of selling the public on what needs to be done.

In his first interview since Macron was elected, the outgoing Finance Minister said that Macron could achieve a majority despite stiff competition from right - wing politicians when the country goes to the polls once again for its parliamentary elections on June 11 and 18.

Ms. Leibovici is a long - time local politician who was first elected as a Liberal MLA for Edmonton - Meadowlark in 1993 and served on city council from 2001 to 2013.

Politicians lie to get elected, doctors lie on Medicare reports, universities lie about athletes, advertisers lie to sell products, ordinary citizens lie on income tax returns, and yes, even preachers lie.

Even our politicians would rather get elected on arguements over these issues rather than proving themselves to be compassionate human beings concerned about their fellow humans.

Courage to Take a Stand According to the civics textbooks, politicians campaign for office, get elected, and then spend their time on governing until it is time to campaign again.

If the bishops persist in pressing them on abortion, Catholic politicians will either be «precluded from holding high public office, because attacked by their own church's officials and otherwise harassed by their coreligionists,» or else, if they are elected, it will be «precisely because they are portrayed by coreligionists as renegades from the church.»

However, as has always been the case, politicians once elected rarely deliver on their promises.

All an executive or elected clown / politician has to do is ask himself or herself, how much damage did my decisions have on destroying the economy.

Imagine the spinmeisters on talk shows who try to get their politicians elected.

The sphere of debate on public policy should not be consigned to elected politicians.

More importantly, all politicians and officials should scrutinise legislation lest it impinge on the ability of our elected representatives to challenge government and ask the questions necessary to preserve our liberties.

A campaign about education in the northeastern U.S. targeting a specific elected official may not hold my attention with content that calls out a particular politician by name (they're not MY rep, after all), but if the content also contains stats that I find relevant to education discussions where I live, then suddenly even a regional campaign can be relevant on a national scale.

Koch warns, if any politicians reneg on their pledge after being elected in November he will run around the state screaming «liar liar pants on fire!»

The battle to create progressive change goes well beyond any one candidate or campaign, and it demands the development of institutional and independent power to the left of the Democratic Party — power that can prod politicians like Cuomo to govern on behalf of the people who elect them.

Kink said his group plans to continue to keep pressure on the state's top politicians to return the Loeb donations and will «bird - dog» Cuomo and other elected officials at public events this fall.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle learned to never cross 1199 after Eliot Spitzer was elected governor in 2006.

Note that I do believe this question is on - topic, since the moral standards and culture of a country dictates whom it elects as its politicians which in turn dictates which policies it enforces.

If a new leader is elected and a bold radical policy programme is formulated, and integrity among politicians is established the Labour Party will be in a unique and highly rewarding position of taking on and resoundingly defeating the Conservatives.

The ballot for the London Assembly - elected politicians who hold the Mayor to account - take place on the same day.

He concluded: «Our message is clear, on May 6 don't just vote for another politician, elect another champion with the SNP.»

She points out that nearly all of the politicians elected in the state's Southern Tier in the November elections are pro gas drilling, including a congressional race where the losing candidate, Democrat Martha Roberts ran on an anti fracking platform.

NEW YORK CITY — Moses «Mark» Stern, the cooperating witness who played a pivotal role in the arrests of state Sen. Malcolm Smith and five others, is a well - connected upstate powerbroker who kept dirt on politicians for a «rainy day» and had ties to many elected officials, including state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, sources said.

Skelos, who is the highest elected Republican to hold office in the state, is the latest Albany politician to face federal charges brought on by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and his office.

Convicted felon and disgraced former Queens politician Hiram Monserrate lost his comeback bid for a seat on the NYC Council as voters in his working class district couldn't look past his history of corruption and domestic abuse, electing Assemblyman Francisco Moya instead.

I hold the strongest view that politicians must be able to tell the truth and be elected on that basis.

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.

[45] He wrote on his blog, «I spend my days experimenting with new ways to get progressive policies enacted and progressive politicians elected.»

Late budgets jobs and business leaving this state cronism politicians making a life long career out of getting elected to office it has to stop open your eyes people stop listening to the BS!Fiscal responsibility, term limits and accountablity is what we should be demanding and votng for.Every election it's always some specal interest group trying to spin something.Vote out every single incumbant impose our own term limits they are all parisites surviving on our hard earned money.JOBS, TAXES, CORUPTION, LATE BUDGETS, CRIMINAL CONDUCT, ABUSE OF POWER INEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP, THE COST TO LIVE IN THIS STATE A GOOD JOB FOR YOUR CHILDREN, SOMETHING LEFT FOR YOUR FAMILY AFTER A LIFETIME OF WORKING HARD FOR IT ARE THE ISSUES!!!! HOMOSEXUALITY give me a break!

We're mobilizing our more than three million grassroots members to throw these politicians out of office and elect reformers who will focus on all of us, not just those who write the biggest checks.»

It is a win - win situation for politicians and society, and the government elected in May must act on this or face the wrath of taxpayers who are angry at the continued waste of resources.»

Waxman's also a shrewd politician with campaign contributions helping elect a Democratic majority and helping him jump the seniority queue on sub-committee and committee chairmanships.

She points out that nearly all of the politicians elected in the state's Southern Tier in the November elections are pro gas drilling, including a congressional race where the losing candidate, Democrat Martha Roberts ran on an anti-fracking platform.

Greater NYC for Change advocates on behalf of progressive causes and stands behind politicians and elected representatives who share our values.

Apart from the anomaly of the House of Lords, we elected politicians to take decisions on our behalf, locally and nationally.

In voting down the idea of elected mayors so widely, and by turning their back on this week's police elections in such vast numbers, the people seem to have understood far better than the politicians how unattractive that patchwork is.

Combined was the disappointment that there would be no debate and certainly no «Citizens» Assembly on Electoral Reform» as were held in British Columbia and Ontario where a representative group of ordinary citizens decided on the alternative proposal to the existing system, normal people deciding on the alternative to how they elect their politicians rather than the politicians deciding on the alternative to how they will be elected, unthinkable!

This event testing whether Lib - Labbery can ever be on the cards again turns out to be a test of Lamb - Lammery with the two elected politicians on the panel being Norman Lamb and David Lammy.

On March 15, some time ago, several dozen famous politicians — sturdy men, duly elected senators who claimed to love their republic — attacked their chief executive while he walked into the Senate.

Gus Van Sant's Oscar - winning biopic of crusading San Francisco politician Harvey Milk — the first openly gay elected official in America — finds the director in multiplex - friendly Good Will Hunting territory, rather than on visionary Paranoid Park turf.

Denver Teacher Elected to School Board Resigning Her Position to Comply with Conflict - of - Interest policy (Chalkbeat) Martin West quoted regarding the necessity for politicians to explain rationale for positions on policy.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is obsessed with K - 12 voucher expansion, especially in Florida where she has spent vast sums to break the separation of church and state, elect sympathetic politicians, fund a PAC with John Kirtley of Step Up for Students and served until recently on the board of Jeb's Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Cats Protection's 10 - point plan calls on politicians from all parties to support measures to protect cats from abandonment, harm and neglect if they are elected.

Some of you that follow my twitter account will have already seen this, but there was a particularly amusing episode of Q&A on Australian TV that pitted Prof. Brian Cox against a newly - elected politician who is known for his somewhat fringe climate «contrarian» views.

So the world needs to develop a massive public movement on climate change, elect politicians willing to upset the status quo, and undergo a technological revolution if Paris 2015 is going to avoid the fate of Copenhagen 2009.

We all get fired up — and we start to recycle, and we start to bicycle, and we work like crazy to elect politicians who promise to build an economy based on green jobs and to pass comprehensive energy reform.

In some countries, elected politicians have been jailed for such actions: In France, the mayor of a coastal resort town was sentenced to four years in jail for hiding deadly flood risks, and, a few years earlier, the mayor of Chamonix was convicted of second - degree murder for failing to evacuate chalets on an avalanche - prone mountainside in time to prevent fatalities.

This is why the work of people like Yvonne Bambrick and the Toronto Cyclists Union is so important; It looks like we have lost what the suburban politicians call the «war on the car» and that no matter who is elected, they are not going to spend 12 cents on paint for bike lanes and bike infrastructure improvements.

But it is a good object lesson for cities across North America about what happens when the «war on the car» right wing politicians get elected.