Sentences with phrase «other elected politicians»

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Currently, the President - elect is an ongoing spat with the intelligence communities over claims by the FBI, Homeland Security, and others that Russia hacked the email of American politicians in a bid to meddle with the U.S. election.

Any politician who publicly admits that he is an atheist or a Muslim or a Hindu, or anything other than a Christian would not get enough votes to get elected.

If an elected official has a source of income that is not dependent upon holding an elected office then that official is less likely to be a professional politician than one who has no other means of support.

He announced that President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush would both be attending and participating, as well as other politicians and elected officials.

It's about realizing he couldn't litigate his past comedy, about trusting his staff, about understanding why politicians act the way they do in interviews, about recognizing why the norms of the Senate matter.So this is an interview about what it's like to be a politician, why perfectly nice and interesting people end up acting like all those other politicians after getting elected, and the role we as voters (and we in the media) play in it.

«Chris McGrath is not a politician and he has never before run for elected office, but he has dedicated his life to serving his community and giving back to others,» Reif said.

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.

Secondly, with the power to tax and the ability to collect, has to go hand in hand with transparency of how those taxes are spent, and with the ability of those taxed to demand accountability from the government, whether individually as citizens or elected politicians or through the dissemination of think tank research or actions of other civil society organisationsor through the law.

Freeze salaries of MPs and all other British elected politicians (including MEPs, MSPs, assembly members and executive mayors) until they are no more than twice average earnings (currently about # 54,000).

Whatever the outcome of Stevenson's case, the accusations alone — which came just days after corruption charges against two other elected officials — seem to have chipped off another chunk of the public's brittle trust of politicians.

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.

Part of being an elected official is telling people things that they don't want to hear, and when they have it in their mindset that there are other politicians who are lying or not being honest or are under the veil of corruption, it makes it much more difficult for all of us to do our job in a time when it is very difficult to be an elected official.

In other words, I am not interested in examples of someone being elected as «President for Life» which has happened numerous times, or examples of parent - child pairs of democratic politicians who manage to be elected in an ordinary democratic election system to a term of office for a fixed term of years.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli hit a milestone today, one that only 11 other New York politicians have reached: He has served a decade in the same statewide, state - level elected office.

Greenberg says the numbers matter, because when a politician is falling in the polls, he loses political capital and other elected officials, like those in the legislature, no longer believe they have to go along with what the governor wants.

After raising money for Alan G. Hevesi, the former city and state comptroller, and other Queens politicians more than a decade ago, Mr. Meng became the first Asian - American elected to the State Legislature, in 2004.

Like many local politicians, Silver earns supplemental income from jobs other than his elected state government post (which earns him $ 121,000 annually).

Flanked by several local politicians and supporters in Utica Monday, Myers, who's a county legislator from Broome County, at the other end of the sprawling 22nd District, promised to be very visible in the Mohawk Valley, if she's elected to Congress.

DiNapoli's interest in the hotel — where politicians, lobbyists and others in state government's orbit are common patrons — comes as other elected officials have sided with hotel workers during the contract negotiations.

For this we need to acknowledge the wisdom of our elected officials in generously funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the effectiveness of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and other scientific organizations in convincing politicians of the value of biomedical research.

The other day an article in Huffington Post quotes a rural politician from the Midwest, a Democrat who regularly gets elected in a Republican town.

ALEC tries to shortcircuit all that nasty legislative stuff and put elected state officials directly in touch with corporations and other like - minded lobbyists and politicians to meet outside of the legislature and make things happen.

I'm mindful however that what Trump said to get elected does not necessarily translate into what Trump will do — same as any other politician.

You support the solar industry through a variety of tax and regulatory policies — voted in by politicians you elected — that favor it over other lower - cost forms of electricity generation.

The Heartland Institute is endorsed by some of the top scholars, thinkers, and politicians in the world — including many members of congress and state elected officials and the leaders of other conservative and libertarian think tanks such as Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist, The Leadership Institute's Morton Blackwell, The Heritage Foundation's Jim DeMint, and many more.

Some judges no longer have a strong sense of their own limits or indeed of the strengths of others such as tenants, housing managers and democratically elected politicians.

They drink more Labatt's Lucky Lager per capita than any other region in North America, and they elect very interesting politicians.