Sentences with phrase «party labels»

That is an example of why party labels on the ballot are so important.

A handful of business groups are urging upstate lawmakers to put aside party labels and join together in a regional - based caucus to promote upstate interests.

There political parties nominate or hold primaries for judicial candidates who then appear without party labels on the November ballot.

Paladino's campaign manager Michael Caputo told me his candidate is «intrigued» by Samuels» proposal, and noted (as the Democrats have been pointing out for some time now), Paladino is not bound by party labels and has contributed campaign cash to Democrats over the years.

At least Samuels understands that the Democratic Party label doesn't mean you're a decent politician.

Bloomberg spent $ 7 million of his own money pushing nonpartisan elections in a 2003 referendum that failed 70 % to 30 %, but never wavered in his belief that removing party labels in local elections would lead to better competition and decrease the power of political bosses.

Many other petitions were filed under independent party labels by candidates who will already be running as Republicans and Democrats, and these candidates will thus have their names appearing on multiple ballot lines.

Unfortunately small and mid-sized companies don't have the financial resources or the fitting equipment to implement individual packaging for such campaigns, because their labels are often produced in large runs by third - party label print houses.

Hochul told supporters in her speech voters «looked beyond party labels... for a message they believed in.»

The longer this goes on, the more difficult Gibson's re-election becomes and the more the Tea Party label which Dems have been dying to affix to him sticks.

Shawn O'Hara, who has run unsuccessfully for several statewide offices under different party labels, spoke Tuesday on behalf of the candidates.

«I could see myself endorsing any individual regardless of party label depending on positions, depending on the individual,» Cuomo said.

«Many London voters ignore party labels when electing their mayor,» he said.

«Primaries can encourage candidates to make explicit racial appeals,» said Hunter College professor Kenneth Sherrill, who explained that voters typically use party labels to decide which candidates share their values and their stances on issues that matter most.

It's also why many third - party labels popped up in recent years — trying to get on the trend while bypassing federal regulations.

December 18, 2012: Ninth Circuit Sets Hearing Date on California Case Challenging Discriminatory Law on Party Labels November 25, 2012: San Diego Union - Tribune Story on Difficulties Faced by Independent Candidates in California

Washington state won't allow party labels longer than 15 characters.

Unfortunately, this too is a sorry pattern in New York: Voters putting party labels ahead of honesty by refusing to turn out criminally compromised legislators the way they should be turned out — at the ballot box.

New candidates emerging under independent party labels include Debra Runyon for Thurman Town Board, Rebecca M. Tucci for Town of Chester Clerk, Lauren Pereau for Chester Town Board and Dennis Brower for Glens Falls Ward 3 Supervisor.

An accomplished problem solver who transcends party labels, Rebecca has...

Until the Crewe and Nantwich by - election, 2008, the opposition Conservative Party had not gained a seat in almost 26 years, the last being the Mitcham and Morden by - election, 1982, which occurred during the unique circumstances of the Falklands War and the sitting Labour MP defecting to the Social Democratic Party and seeking re-election under his new party label.

«There are totally disparate issues that can fall under the same party label that doesn't make sense to me.

Thanks to a willingness on all sides to put political party labels aside, we are ready to move Connecticut forward — together.

But DiPirro and Chiazza both said party labels don't mean as much as they used to for elected officials.

Six presidential candidates submitted a petition: Stewart Alexander, Socialist; Virgil Goode, Constitution; Gary Johnson, Libertarian; Jill Stein, Green; Rocky Anderson, independent; and Michael W. Hawkins, whose party label is «Together Enhancing America.»

We don't look at party labels.

«It is clear any efforts are meant to manipulate judicial selection to partisan advantage, from repealing judicial public financing to adding party labels on judicial elections to judicial redistricting.

Candidates in Mississippi special elections run without party labels.

«That's why Andrew Cuomo is calling on New Yorkers to ignore these distractions, put aside party labels, and rally around the reforms that are most important to our state.

«Voters in this district really like to go beyond party labels,» Democratic consultant Jonathan Yedin said.

So far the results are 48 % for the Democratic nominee, 42 % for the Republican nominee, and 10 % to the two other candidates in the race, a Green Party nominee and independent Jack Davis, who was running under the Tea Party label.

In 1972 the sitting Labour MP Dick Taverne resigned from the Labour party and from Parliament to re-contest his seat as an Independent Democratic Labour candidate - the last instance of an MP resigning to contest their seat under a different party label and winning until Douglas Carswell repeated the feat in 2014.

Despite their forceful and attimes partisan natures, neither Lloyd George nor Churchill felt constrained by party labels.

«I could see myself endorsing any individual regardless of party label depending on the positions, depending on the individual.

«Party labels don't have that much importance on a local level, but one thing is important, and that is to have somebody in public office in a leadership position like county executive who has the independence from vested interests so that he can get the job done in an unencumbered way,» Meyers said.

«I still strongly believe that this country needs a new generation of common sense leadership and we, as a nation, need leaders who ignore party labels and find solutions to our most challenging problems.

Dennis Brower, a real estate broker, who served as Queensbury Town Supervisor from 2000 to 2003, filed petitions for the post under an independent party label.

Regardless of party label our rulers shared a misplaced faith in management science and a rooted belief that the public sector was always inferior to the private.

Nebraska uses a Top Two system but without party labels on the ballot at all for the election of its nonpartisan state legislature.

Hypocrisy carries no party label.

When looking at these third - party labels that don't include USDA certification, consumers should research what the certifications mean, said Ioannis Kareklas, assistant professor of marketing at the University at Albany, who co-edited the 2017 book «Deciphering Organic Foods» and works with farmers.

Then all votes for candidates of a certain party are added, plus the blank lines on lists with less candidates names than seats to be allocated, as long as there is a party label in the header of the list.

He used the position cannily, building a base in the party unencumbered by ministerial office, charting a course of what he would term «independent loyalty» — never dissing the leader, but voting against # 9k tuition fees and the bedroom tax — yet which critics inside the party label «ambitious expediency».

The system must be changed to give independent thinkers more power and to give the voters an opportunity to choose based upon issues, not party labels.

«Barbara Bush's advocacy shows that equality knows no party label.»