Sentences with phrase «political novice»

However, as political novices they have been forced to learn on the job about running for national office.

Mr. Morales, a Democrat and political novice who waged a competitive Senate campaign against Republican Sen. Phil Gramm in 1996, announced last week he will try again in 2002.

It was currently a four - way race, with political novice and social liberal Emmanuel Macron polling slightly ahead of the far - right candidate Marine Le Pen.

If nothing else, Tenney, 53, has gained confidence from Cantor's loss to a Tea Party - backed political novice in early June.

Let Akufo - Addo and his gang of malfunctioning political novices be prepared for more.

Political novice Joan Lipp is surprised her incumbent target, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is suing to bounce her from the ballot this fall.

QUEENSBURY — This year's election results in Warren County offered plenty of intrigue as several political novices prevailed, the county attorney was elevated to a judgeship, several town officials spurned earlier this year in the primary scored rebounds, and races in Thurman and Chester were far too close to call.

«My real mandate is to clean up the corruption in Albany,» Republican Manny Alicandro, a Brooklyn - born political novice, said outside Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan.

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)- As Democrats in South Carolina face the uncomfortable prospect of having unemployed political novice Alvin Greene as their Senate nominee in November, some in the party have launched an effort to put a more polished candidate on the ballot as an independent.

Even so, she thinks her campaign does provide other political novices with a useful road map.

2016 will be remembered as the year Donald Trump — a wealthy, narcissistic political novice with a strong authoritarian bent — was elected president of the United States after campaigning against economic globalization.

One name that has surfaced as a potential AG candidate is political novice Sarmad Khojasteh, a Westchester County commercial litigation lawyer who recently dropped a bid for state Senate.

In a short period of time, City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D - Middle Village) went from a relative political novice to a seasoned veteran of municipal races.

He was a political novice when he launched an unlikely bid for mayor in 2001.

On April 6 2016, the political novice, who had never stood for any kind of election, announced in his home town of Amiens the launch of his party.

Kazimir, Slovakia's finance minister, launched a volley of criticism at his Greek counterpart, releasing months of pent - up frustrations among the group at the political novice.

At the moment, most of them are political novices, but that situation is not likely to last for long.

Still, its hard to hold a grudge against Bellavia for the stupid indiscretion of a political novice.

As a political novice in the Windy City, he easily adapted to being «multilingual» - learning to speak in different ways to different audiences by «subtly shifted accent and cadences depending on who he was speaking too».

Eric Ulrich, one of three Republicans on the NYC Council who once considered a run against de Blasio himself, instead has endorsed Dietl's mayoral run, lending the weight of an elected officeholder to a political novice.

Murkowski lost her bid to political novice and Alaska attorney Joe Miller late last month in an upset that stunned national Republicans.

State party officials also gave $ 10,000 to Bob Dougherty, a political novice recruited by Miner's staff to run for an open 3rd District city council seat representing Strathmore and the Valley.

However, he was outraised and outspent over the past six months by deep - pocketed developer Paul Massey, a political novice running as a Republican for mayor who raised $ 2.9 million.

Eric Ulrich, one of three Republicans on the New York City Council, on Monday endorsed mayoral candidate Bo Dietl, lending the weight of an elected officeholder to a political novice.

For the political novice who is tempted to become a politician, Shane Greer's So You Want to be a Politician is an accessible, practical guide to the external basics, such as personal presentation, how to dress and how to present yourself on TV and radio, as well as fundraising and political activity.

I am not a political novice and I have the wherewithal to return to the senate.

While en route, star - struck straphangers requested selfies and shouted messages of support to the political novice.

(CNN)-- New documents indicate that Senate candidate Alvin Greene, a political novice who shocked observers by winning the South Carolina Democratic primary, has a less than stellar military record.

Greene originally shocked the political world when as a political novice he won an upset victory in South Carolina's U.S. Senate Democratic primary last year.

He immediately drew criticism from Democrats in the state because the unemployed former soldier did not have the apparent financial means to afford the filing fee, and many party veterans in the state questioned whether the political novice was qualified.

A political novice, Bruso faults the legislative process because of the reluctance of legislators to cross party lines, but he commended the bipartisan effort behind the county's war on opioid addiction.

Greene, a political novice, shocked the political world in South Carolina when he emerged as the winner in the Democratic primary for Senate last summer.

Lhota's closest primary rival was a billionaire supermarket magnate, John Catsimatidis, a political novice.

Also, Joe Lhota, the Republican candidate, is a political novice and having trouble pinpointing the political arguments that help him and hurt de Blasio.

Hassett ran third with 881 and fellow Republican Bill Dietz III, a political novice, brought up the rear with 781 votes.

The affable 37 - year - old state representative didn't find himself up against a political novice, instead he faced a member of a South Florida political dynasty hoping to make his way back to the Florida Legislature.

Many of these political novices, eager to please their paymasters may be oblivious to the countless times my counsel was treated with contempt.»

NEW YORK — Political novice and tea party ally Carl Paladino has beaten the Republican designee in the race for the party's nomination for New York governor.

Olney, a political novice, edged home by barely 2,000 votes in last year's by - election, caused by Goldsmith resigning in opposition to a third runway at Heathrow.

In my memory there has never been a political novice like Republican Congressional challenger Elise Stefanik, whose involved in her first Congressional race so wilfully disrespectful of the 4th Estate.

In 2014, Cuomo faced a challenge for the liberal Working Families Party endorsement, which he won over political novice, Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor.

Two incumbent city councilmen who represent other portions of the neighborhood are also seeking to defend their seats, as they are being challenged by community activists and political novices.

Republican Manny Alicandro is a political novice running for New York attorney general.

The Democratic nominee is Aaron Woolf, a documentary filmmaker and political novice.

She won her last election against a political novice, a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic town, by a mere 127 votes out of over 3,400 cast.

Since then, he has guided a number of officials into local, state and federal office, including Teresa Sayward, the former state assemblywoman who first met Belanger at his kitchen table when both were political novices.

Gillibrand is no political novice.

[4] The Republican Party nominated Akshar, a political novice, to replace Libous.