Sentences with phrase «party line»

Very much following the party line there.

A battle between Rep. Dan Donovan and his GOP primary opponent, former Rep. Michael Grimm, over the Reform Party line has been referred by the state Board of Elections to federal prosecutors.

«He told me that while it wasn't over yet, it was looking toward that they were not going to do the third party line,» Long said.

«But if there has to be a primary, (Wendy Long) understands that also... She's in the Senate race; she's in the senate race and she's in it to win, and I don't expect her to be on the Conservative Party line alone.

The party is king and the candidate has limited freedom to step outside the party line; which sadly serves to encourage careerists who are happy to put party before people.

CEO Rupert Murdoch says he mistakenly joined the state Independence Party line back in 2010.

«If we do this, we can avoid the problem that plagued and ultimately killed the 20th century far left — hierarchy, discipline and the party line — and foster a movement that looks like 21st century Britain; argumentative and diverse, respectful and tolerant of difference.

One of the issues where he has already broken from the party line is Ed Miliband's plans for a mansion tax.

«The Conservative Party is the natural home of Tea Party voters, but if we can't get the Conservative Party line, we'll provide them with another place to vote.»

If past experience is any guide, single - mandate district parliamentarians might display more independence from the party line compared to their party - list colleagues.

Research into party discipline, such as that by Christopher Kam, suggests that party discipline is driven by a combination of socialisation, positive incentives offered by party leaders for toeing the party line, and disciplinary measures party leaders can impose for breaking party discipline.

Stachowski also had the added benefit in 2008 of the Conservative Party line, but this year that went to Kennedy (which is sort of amusing, when you consider that the Erie County Conservative chairman, Ralph Lorigo, has launched a primary against GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio for Row D, complaining that he's too liberal).

Compound this with the party line differences, with the Republicans opposed to UHC, and Democrats unwilling to accept a Private Insurance model that could leave many poor people without insurance.

Valesky, a Democrat who has faced tough re-election battles ever a three - way race that included now - Onondaga County GOP Chairman Tom Dadey on the Conservative Party line and former Democrat - turned - Republican Sen. Nancy Larraine Hoffmann on the GOP line, told Carey he was «surprised» when he discovered he's essentially guaranteed another two years in Albany, even with the election still four months away.

Former Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Carl Paladino's threat to run for Governor on a fourth party line could derail any plans for party unity.

He did say he will continue to push for the Conservative Party line, even though its executive committee has given an early nod to Lazio, and woo the Independence Party, which he said is «fond» of him.

But the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nominee in an email says he hasn't «weakened my position» when it comes to his threat to running on the Conservative Party line if the state GOP doesn't adhere to his demands.

Both candidates in the 40th state Senate district race — GOP Sen. Greg Ball and Democrat Justin Wagner — are hoping to win the Green Party line through an opportunity to ballot in Thursday's primary elections.

Despite this difference, the House of Commons contains a similar proportion of rebels as the Lords, despite the whips» ultimate sanction against MPs of losing their jobs if they don't toe the party line.

Owens is up 44 - 39 when voters are informed that a third candidate, Doug Hoffman, whom Doheny defeated in the GOP primary on Sept. 14, is no longer in the race on the Conservative Party line.

He said, «instead of building the foundations for a true federation, a small group of so - called progressive Senators decided to stick with the new party line, pretending they didn't know what restructuring was all about, and that even if they knew, it couldn't be done.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy today sought to curry favor with conservatives (not to mention the DN and Post editorial pages) by issuing a statement from his campaign spokesman announcing he won't be seeking the Working Families Party line this year, and doesn't think AG Andrew Cuomo — or anyone else for that matter — should, either.

A State Supreme court has thrown Rep. Nan Hayworth off of the Independence Party line after determining that she didn't submit 770 valid petitions.

That is why we get people like Amedore and Tedisco two guys of very limited capacity and a stronger loyalty to the Pub party line than to their constituents!

(Also, note that the paper makes no mention of Rick Lazio, which it endorsed in the GOP primary, even though he's still technically in the race — for now, anyway — on the Conservative Party line).

In the meantime, Ognibene remains on the independent Taxpayers Party line that Paladino created through a petition drive.

Israel, not surprisingly, hewed to the party line, blaming the Tea Partiers in the House GOP for the shutdown and the lack of a debt ceiling deal, and pointing to recent polling that showed the Republicans are being blamed more than the Democrats for the mess in Washington — and could pay a price for it come 2014.

Caputo also threatened to outspend Lazio «five or six times over» on Paladino's independent Taxpayers Party line, which he said was «designed to completely take away the vote that would be going to the Conservative line under any other circumstances» and «destroy» the Conservative Party.

Cancel has ties to Silver's political allies in the Assembly district and defeated Yuh - Line Niou, who ran on the Working Families Party line.

He didn't quite follow the party line, telling his local paper: «I believe Gordon Brown has been the worst prime minister we have had in this country.

Grisanti managed to win that fall with about 50 percent of the vote, but — unlike this year — he had both the GOP line and the Independence Party line.

On the heels of yesterday's Q poll, which found the Buffalo businessman trailing the AG by just six percentage points, today's Siena poll restores the conventional wisdom of this race, showing the Democratic frontrunner 33 percentage points ahead of his Republican opponent, 57 - 24, with Rick Lazio receiving 8 percent on the Conservative Party line.

A group of Tea Party activists has launched a Website in hopes of pressuring Rick Lazio to drop out of the general election and cede the state Conservative Party line and request that Row D and Row B be «unified under a single candidate.»

The party line — as we see from Rush and others — is that YouTube is somehow biased.

Once Barron get his 50,000 plus votes for governor of the Freedom Party Line he will be speaking for a lot of people.

@SoylentGray: I think what Chirstian is trying say here is that the individual elected members of a party are not beholden to vote party line on any bill before them.

Basically you'd want to have only one vote against the «party line», so that you don't end up defeating yourself if 20 voters got the same idea.

Because Cable was deviating more than a little bit from the official party line, as this email shows.

Paladino told me on CapTon last night that his internals show him within about 9 or 10 percentage points of Cuomo, which is also in keeping with the SurveyUSA findings and — one could argue — where Marist might be, too, if Lazio wasn't in the running on the Conservative Party line.

If I, as a journalist on an impartial political website, have a Damascene conversion to Toryism and insist on only spouting the party line, I would not be able to do my job.

«Given the announcement today that the remaining unions will no longer be a part of the WFP, we stand in solidarity with them and will not be seeking the endorsement of the 3rd party line at their convention next month,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

«They may have changed their official party line to save their political fiefdoms, but Paladino is as much of a train wreck as ever.

The Conservative Party line is a near - necessity for any Republican candidate running statewide in order to be successful, given the Democratic Party's statewide enrollment edge.

He so far hasn't indicated if he'll be campaigning on the Conservative Party line through November, but pressure is mounting for him to drop out and cede Row D to Paladino.

Also present at the event were Rep. Peter King, Sen. Andrew Lanza, Assemblyman Louis Tobacco, NYC Council Minority Leader James Oddo and US Senate hopeful David Malpass (who is running on Paladino's independent Taxpayers Party line, but says he'll drop off that if he doesn't win the GOP primary).

Cuomo had endorsed or offered to support two Republicans in 2012 who had voted in favor of the measure: Sen. Stephen Saland, who lost a three - way race, and Sen. Roy McDonald, who had retained the Independence Party line after losing his primary, but ultimately declined to compete in the general election.

Even so, IDC Leader Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat, has made potential noise about trying to snag one of Skelos» own, Sen. Mark Grisanti, a Republican who lost primary this month and retains the Independence Party line.

Platforms are not legally binding on elected officials, but represent an articulation of the party's identity that elected officials are expected to honor by default unless they are making a point of differing from the «party line» on a point.

George Pataki, telling me during last night's «Insiders» segment on CapTon that Rick Lazio should do the right thing — for himself and the GOP — and decline to remain in the general election on the Conservative Party line.

In one of the few surprises of the evening, former Rep. Nan Hayworth has gained the Independence Party line in the 18th Congressional District, defeating Democratic incumbent Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.