Sentences with phrase «person run for elections»

Not exact matches

By Dec. 31, 2017, more than 2,100 people had taken at least the first step toward running for the House or Senate by filing the necessary paperwork, according to records kept by the Federal Election Commission.

President Obama has seen people who politicize faith attack him since he first ran for election.

Between 50 % and 90 % of LGB people anticipate being discriminated against if they were to run for election as a member of a mainstream political party.

I think it would run into a serious problem in that people would have to give up significant quantities of money for a vote that is still fairly unlikely to be the deciding vote in an election.

At the next annual election for Executive Committee or officers the person may run for VID office again.

He's running for President, created a new affordable housing program that won't help many people, and one of his allies is facing the heat for violating election laws.

Despite some of the strange vox - pops that happened in the run - up to the election where the phrase kept coming out of people's mouths, the British population also did not develop a passion for the relatively obscure concept of parliamentary sovereignty.

In theory anyone could attempt to run by collecting enough signatures to get on the primary ballot but the reality of election politics today is that only those people who are connected to the party already and have the ability to raise money for themselves and the party have a real chance of success of being nominated to a high profile position.

Politics, must not always be dirty, we must not run down people for purposes of winning elections, we need to recognize each other's contribution in a bigger picture of bringing relief to our mothers and children living in deprived areas.

He became the CPC Presidential candidate for the 16 April 2011 general election, running against incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), and Ibrahim Shekarau of ANPP among others.

Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

The Convention People's Party, (CPP), last week settled on a businessman, Nana Gabby Nketia as the running mate to its presidential candidate Ivor Kobina Greenstreet for the December elections.

Durham is gay and is apparently the only self - identified gay person running for President in the general election this year.

Historically, it has been hard to convince people to run in other elections against Republican incumbents, but anger over Trump ignited a spark in some to seek local office for the first time.

All the party chieftains in their speeches urged the people of the state to keep faith with the party by voting massively for Wada and his running mate, Yomi Awoniyi, in the election in order to continue to enjoy the dividends of democracy that, according to them, only the PDP could provide.

I don't know what the Moreland Commission is going to recommend — there's 24 other people and very diverse opinions on there — but what we've learned is that although there would be a funding source from taxpayers to finance public elections in the state of New York for Assembly, Senate, Governor, Attorney General, etc, the savings ultimately would be astronomical in the long run.

People are alleging that the Benjamite is in bed with Yaanom, and that he is behind a plan for Yaanom to declare their own results in this year's elections, using an Accra - based private radio station which has many affiliate stations all over the country; and that a test run for the strategy was made on April 1, this year on that station.

For an candidate running for president, the Republican nominee, to say he potentially would not abide by the results of the election, by people of every state in this nation speaking for who they want to elect as their president — it threatens our very democracy,» he saFor an candidate running for president, the Republican nominee, to say he potentially would not abide by the results of the election, by people of every state in this nation speaking for who they want to elect as their president — it threatens our very democracy,» he safor president, the Republican nominee, to say he potentially would not abide by the results of the election, by people of every state in this nation speaking for who they want to elect as their president — it threatens our very democracy,» he safor who they want to elect as their president — it threatens our very democracy,» he said.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

This is why we have launched a consultation to gather views from all those involved in the system: from candidates who stand for election, to the agents and parties that support them, the people who vote for them and those who are responsible for running and managing elections.

Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on a nationwide Ramadan Tour, speaking at the Sunyani Central Mosque on Sunday to break fasting and pray with Muslims, he recalled that he was in the region and mosque last year to ask for their support in the run up to the elections, and it is only proper that he comes in person again to thank them for helping the NPP win.

Malliotakis, a 36 - year - old Republican who represents parts of Staten Island and southern Brooklyn and is so far the only woman out of more than a dozen people registered to run for mayor, formally registered a committee to run with the state's Board of Elections on Monday.

The election of Donald Trump galvanized ordinary people all over the country to run for office, challenge the status quo, and change the Democratic Party.

The governor also described the forthcoming election as a «referendum» for the people of the state to choose between «light and darkness,» assuring that Obaseki and his running mate, Philip Shuaibu, would provide quality leadership.

People who secured state citizenship would be able to vote in state and local elections and run for state office.

ConHome ran an unsuccessful campaign to encourage more help for low income candidates to become Tory MPs after we found that the cost of becoming a candidate (over # 40,000 at the last election) might discourage people with, for example, backgrounds in lower - paid work or who have been home - makers.

«If he decides not to run for elections, I will be disappointed... I will mobilize people against that,» he recently stated on Asempa FM.

Bob ran strongly against the incumbent last time, and we know he has the momentum now going into this special election to win and send a strong message to Washington that the people need real change for the American people.»

«People see a lot of things going on in education as an attack on public education,» said Brian Jones, a former New York City teacher who is running for lieutenant governor in this year's gubernatorial election on the Green Party line....

Officials in the Kansas Secretary of State's Office late last week cleared the last hurdle to certifying the roster of candidates for the Nov. 8 election by granting presidential candidate Jill Stein's request to change the person listed on the ballot as her vice presidential running mate.

With a little over a month to go before the election, Hawkins and Brian Jones, who is running for lieutenant governor, have made strides in pulling together a bloc of people and organizations fed up with the status quo under Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo — at a time when, according to a Wall Street Journal / Marist poll, nearly half of New Yorkers think the state is moving in the wrong direction.

The governorship candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, in Anambra State, Mr. Godwin Ezeemo, on Wednesday, presented his running mate for the November 16 election...

He's also the Green Party candidate for governor who believes that big money has captured both major political parties, and that working men and women need to start «running their own people» in elections.

«Since I've been commissioner, for all the complaining that I've done with the problems with the old enforcement unit, they never got this far behind with dealing with the non-filers from elections, and I regard this as a step back that people who ran in September and November still haven't even gotten the notice letters that are required before we can get the judgments from them,» he said.

«My two cents is I would not want to run for election after the legislative scandals we've had without having shown the people of the state that I've learned the lesson,» Cuomo said in late March.

«This is going to be a changing of the guard and contrary to what people sometimes think or may say when we're running for election, people are going to put in positions the ones who supported them first,» she said.

This is mostly due to a sharp fall in the percentage of people who have faith in Labour's ability to run the economy (down 18 points since the election), rather than any great increase for the Conservatives (up 4 since the election).

Declaring his intention at the Obohia Community Primary School, in Ukwa East local government area of the state, on Thursday, Stanley said his intention to run for the Senatorial seat was born out of his love for the good people of Abia South Senatorial Zone, and the already existing equity in Abia South, which empowered an Ukwa man to run for the senatorial position in 2019 election.

Former Deputy speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, and the immediate past Chairman Of the Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ASOPADEC), Chief Emeka Stanley on Thursday declared his intention to run for the Abia South Senatorial Seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in 2019 election.

I have learned that the Judge's husband, Marc Panepinto, Esq. was given over $ 1MIL by NYSUT and the BTF for his campaign for election to the New York State Senate and in addition, NYSUT sent one of its political people to run Mr. Panepinto's campaign.

The weekend before the November election, Assemblyman Sam Roberts told about 80 people at the NAACP's life membership brunch that he plans to run for mayor in four years, according to guests in the audience.

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

Teachout decided to run in a Democratic primary, and her better - than - expected showing has prompted something of a quandary for the 181,000 people who voted for her: Do they sit home on Election Day, swallow hard and vote for Cuomo (perhaps on the W.F.P. line), or cross over for someone like Hawkins, who has been actively pitching them?

The Federal Election Commission shows that 129 people have filed to run for president in the next eElection Commission shows that 129 people have filed to run for president in the next electionelection.

Provide students with a list of individuals, living or dead, and ask them to determine which of those people would be eligible to run for president in the current election.

At Wilson Magnet, a school with a reputation for making SBM work, the teachers can't even get enough people to run in site team elections to fill out our numbers.

Any person registered as a voter in the school district may run for election to the school board.

Little kids are running around fighting for their turn to play on it; business people are using it to catch - up on projects in a dim train car; election candidates are using it to sign - up voters walking by on sunny street corners; so on and so on.

'' [I] f I were a Democrat, particularly one running for office in the 2006 elections, I would be deathly afraid that the face and image of the party is going to be represented most prominently by Senator Leahy and his right hand person for judicial nominees, Senator Schumer (D - NY).