Sentences with phrase «own slate of candidates»

Finally, there is the Green Party, which is not so much avoiding scrutiny but being ignored altogether, as they are being excluded from the debate despite running a full slate of candidates.

The Democrats face a rapidly filling Republican slate of candidates that currently includes Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, and Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida, and Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett - Packard.

Mandate that every slate of candidates must include people from under - represented backgrounds.

It's actually very simple: Under the rule, at least one woman and one underrepresented minority must be considered in the slate of candidates for either every open position or every open senior position (the details vary from company to company).

When it came time to select a new head for one of the company's troubled divisions, he asked the employees of that division to nominate a slate of candidates, outline a formal selection process, and then choose the next division leader.

Gannett asks Tribune Publishing shareholders to abstain from voting for a slate of candidates for the company's board of directors to «send a message» to company leadership.

With the next federal election less than one year away, the Conservative Party of Canada is close to nominating a full slate of candidates in Alberta's 34 newly redrawn ridings.

With a provincial election expected to be called in the coming weeks, Alberta's political parties are pushing to nominate their slates of candidates.

You'll lose that one, especially with the current slate of candidates, Crazy Mitt and Sleazy Newt, on the repub side and pro-choice on the winning Dem - Obama side.

With the popular perception of a lackluster slate of candidates, a recent poll shows most Republican primary voters lack enthusiasm for any of the current lot.

If this current slate of candidates and programs is less than desirable, and if Romney is just another lame version of Dole or McCain, and if this means that the current president will be re-elected, then so be it.

In June» 76, when Bunning was concentrating on his new business as a player agent, friends talked him into getting on a slate of candidates, the People's Ticket, for the Fort Thomas city council.

Glen Ellyn voters on Saturday elected a slate of candidates for the Village Board and Library Board.

I thought it was wrong for the Westminster elite - that's what we MPs in Parliament are as far as the membership are concerned - to have deprived the membership of the full slate of candidates.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, widely viewed as a rising star in Republican circles, cut an advertisement for his slate of candidates who back his fiscal agenda.

If we view women as rational voters who likely weigh any number of different issues that they find important before making a decision on a slate of candidates, than this example is anything but puzzling.

Another sign of change in the state, despite the overwhelmingly Republican congressional delegation, is the success that voters in cities and urban areas are having electing more progressive slates of candidates, a show of energy that could continue into the fall.

The party fielded a full slate of candidates across the nine English European parliament constituencies.

Delegates will endorse a slate of candidates for top offices, including governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer, comptroller, secretary of the state and attorney general, as well as U.S....

A slate of candidates vying to represent Queens in Congress convened for a boisterous candidates» forum at St. John's University, where they were each given a chance to express the philosophies and policies they would push if they are sent to Washington, D.C.

We fielded a full slate of candidates across the nine English European parliament constituencies.

[41] The party fielded a full slate of candidates across the nine English European parliament constituencies on 22 May 2014.

Operating as a formal organization within the Democratic Party, the WCF nominated slates of candidates, developed platforms and pressured lawmakers at all levels for progressive legislation.

The centre left slate of candidates broadly represents the politics of the majority of party members that voted for Corbyn to lead the party.

City Council Watch attended a debate in the 6th Council District on Columbus Avenue this week, where we observed about four dozen elderly black and Jewish voters munch on cookies and fruit, and murmur amongst themselves about the slate of candidates who would presume to fill the shoes of the beloved CM Gale Brewer, champion of the liberal middle - class.

«While the Independence Party supports a bipartisan slate of candidates, it's disingenuous for divisive Democrats to rant about the IDC's relationship to the Independence Party when Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins not only runs on the line, but donates hundreds of dollars to the Independence Party.

High hopes for the Republicans» slate of candidates for town trustee were also dashed as Democratic incumbents and first - time candidates alike posted surprisingly strong vote totals.

McGrath was among the slate of candidates who were nominated Thursday night by the Nassau County Republican Committee at their convention in Levittown.

The South Carolina Green Party has been on the ballot since 2002 and has run a diverse slate of candidates since.

The Southold Town Democratic Committee deserves some credit for producing a nearly full slate of candidates this year.

PR Party List modified with the opportunity to vote for an independent slate of candidates has most advantages.

Hawkins says the Green Party is the only other political party besides the Democrats and Republicans that consistently runs its own slate of candidates, and has received enough votes in past elections to automatically qualify to be on the ballot.

As such, the slate of candidates he intends running for the European elections and future elections will all be Independents with no manifesto and no policies apart from a belief in «our principles of good governance».

The conventions signal the true beginning of election season, and a chance for the parties to unite behind a slate of candidates.

In a multi-member constituency, parties tend to select a more diverse slate of candidates in order to appeal to the widest possible range of electors.

On Saturday, Spence and other dissident union members plan to meet in the Albany area and launch an organization, dubbed NY Coup, to field a slate of candidates in the union's June elections.

The meeting ended at 4:45 pm having agreed on a full slate of candidates.

«This slate of candidates are all very credible, well - credentialed individuals who will be able to hit the ground running the first day in office,» Tepe said.

The slate of candidates includes Joe Anthony and Mike Hernandez, union trustees in The Bronx who are currently under indictment in the scandal, sources said.

In May, both parties in Bristol endorsed their slates of candidates for House districts 77, 78 and 79 as well as the 31st Senate district.

As recently as 2006, Republicans held four seats on the council and routinely offered up full slates of candidates.

The hotly contested governor's race has captured most of the headlines, but the party also will nominate a slate of candidates for other statewide offices, as well as U.S. House and Senate seats.

ALBANY — An early state Conservative Party convention is expected to influence the Republican slate of candidates for governor and U.S. Senate.

As Parliament is dissolved, the Welsh Liberal Democrats are today publishing the full slate of candidates who will be competing in all forty Parliamentary seats in Wales.

The good - government group Citizens Union on Friday unveiled a slate of candidate preferences, including the Democratic primary opponents to two under - indictment Senate Democrats, Malcolm Smith of Queens and Brooklyn's John Sampson.

A slate of candidates planning to challenge the leadership of PEF, one of New York's largest state workers unions, has broadened its geographic base, adding candidates from Buffalo and New York City as it gears up for June elections.

A slate of candidates known as the Strengthen the Shield platform kicked off its campaign in Brooklyn, blasting Lynch's 16 years of what they call autocratic leadership and faulting him for a five - year delay in getting a new contract.

Even in a year with no Democratic incumbents on the ballot, the Southold town committee has assembled a slate of candidates with familiar names.

A slate of candidates planning to challenge the leadership of one of New York's largest state workers unions has broadened its geographic base, adding candidates from Buffalo and New York City as it gears up for June elections.

This year's slate of candidates have received full support from the County Democratic Party: Mark Powers for State Supreme Court justice, Mike Derrick for U.S. House of Representatives, and Hillary Clinton for president.