Sentences with phrase «public face of the party»

Given that Perez, Ellison and the other candidates largely agree on how to rebuild the DNC, the real debate — and the real choice DNC members face — is about who will be the best public face of the party during the next four years.

«We have a lot of very high profile, capable people who can stand in for the first minister in terms of being the public face of the party, going on television and pushing our arguments,» she added.

Dr Fox will instead be the public face of party headquarters, taking charge of campaigning, policy and media issues.

Not exact matches

Although he's been the face of the party since 2003, his candidacy for the country's top job has brought up issues of disclosure and privacy: How much does the public need to know about a prospective leader?

The resulting public discourse has seen furor from many quarters with politicians on both sides of the Atlantic rounding on all parties involved in the allegations with Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg earlier facing two inquisitions from the US lawmakers as a result.

Left without its most public faces, notably former leader Danielle Smith, the party will choose its next permanent leader sometime in the next year, likely between the months of March and September.

Higher food prices could pose a challenge to the government of the nation's president, Jacob Zuma, who is confronting widening public anger over rising income inequality and whose party, the African National Congress, is expected to face serious challenges in municipal elections this year.

One of the liberationists, Hugo Assmann, admitted this shortcoming, calling for a «transition to democracy»» a movement beyond face - to - face democracy to the public and formal democracy of parties and institutions.

The United States faces grave problems because of profligate public spending, however well - intended, by both parties.

It seems clear that Cameron has decided (i) to keep Osborne as Shadow Chancellor, which I have personally all along predicted he would, while there have been some senior right - wing commentators calling for him to be moved http://www.nextleft.org/2008/11/why-george-osborne-will-stay.html (ii) to rebalance his team to make Osborne somewhat less prominent, with Clarke in a public - facing role, while putting firmly on the record that Hague is the senior member of his team, which the well informed Daily Telegraph reported as «an interview widely interpreted as a slap - down to Mr Osborne, who is usually considered number two in the party hierarchy» and as «widely seen in Tory circles as a blow to Mr Osborne».

Symbols of the ruling party and the president — including pagnes (clothing fabric / tissue) decorated with RDPC insignia and the face of the president, campaign T - shirts from every campaign of the last 25 years (given free of charge to Cameroonians as an impetus to vote for Biya), official Biya portraits in every public office, campaign posters in private homes and businesses, billboards of Biya's grinning face at the entrances and exists of most towns — abound.

Since being elected party leader in 2005, David Cameron has proved himself relentlessly pro-female and anti-male in his public statements and policy directions, yet even he faces accusations of being biased against women because of the low number of women in his Cabinet.

But increasing the amount of taxpayers» cash handed over to political parties by # 23 million a year can not be morally justified, especially in the current economic climate when the public are feeling the squeeze and facing some cuts.

Ans: Let me first correct an impression, I want to state it categorically that there is no personal disagreement or face off between the National legal adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire SAN and the National leader of our party, it is just a misconception which has been fueled from a number of quarters to the public, probably those who tend to benefit from the existence of the crisis between the two who would prefer that there should be a crisis.

The party will then face many of the same challenges as the current government: an ageing population; straining public services; high migration from poorer EU states; persistent inequality; and the economic and fiscal overhang of the worst crisis for 80 years.

If you were to take the excellent Jim Pickard's report at face value, you would conclude that innumerable shifty recruitment consultants are queuing up around the back of Labour Party HQ, signing up unsuspecting politicos for the public affairs industry.

Yet there are signs that those around Corbyn are beginning to understand the scale of the task they face in order to change public perceptions of his leadership and the wider party.

What most worries those Labour MPs who haven't lost their heads is the party seems unwilling, or unable, to face up to the fact it was a lack of trust on welfare and on spending public money that doomed Labour.

He had the determination to push through undoubtedly necessary public spending cuts in the face of opposition from within his own party (and, indeed, our own).

The corruption conviction of his onetime right - hand man and political fixer Joseph Percoco, who is now facing a possible 50 - year prison sentence, opened Cuomo up in an election year to a barrage of relentless public attacks from Republicans and no rush from many Democrats to support the head of their party in New York State.

After Sir Peter's expenses claims were made public Conservative leader David Cameron had warned him he faced the removal of the party whip if he did not announce that he would stand down at the next election.

As the most visible public representatives of the party, ministers and shadow ministers are the symbolic face of the party, and their demography shapes the electorate's perception of the party and its leader.

Former Shadow Health Secretary Heidi Alexander, of the pro-EU campaign group Open Britain, said: «Without this, it is genuinely not clear how Labour members, supporters and the public are meant to contribute to the party's policymaking on the biggest issue we face as a country.

At the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul, who served as the public face of the Women's Equality Party during the campaign, was seated to the governor's left.

Given that the entire public sector is facing sharp restraint in spending, the appetite among MPs for increasing state funding of political parties will not be high.

Cameron's steadfast support of Miller just wasn't enough in the face of hostility from Conservative MPs, contempt from party members and revulsion from the general public.

«Our party values the life of every single Nigerian and we implore all contenders, including political parties, to eschew desperation for power, especially in the face of loss of popularity and public support due to performance issues.

A spokesman for Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who served as one of the party's two public faces along with former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, did not respond to a request for comment.

But another remarkable story is the growing diversity of the Green Party and the candidates who are its public face.

What Trevor I think misses, and what all the ultras like Rob and Atul can not face up to was that the dislike of the typical New Labour MP which has been out there in the public domain for a while had infected the internal party electorate also.

«Plans to ban Muslim women from covering their faces in public areas are oppressive, the leader of the Respect party said yesterday.

But its very welcome, it will cause worry and concern in the PLP and this will feed into the public narrative of a government in serious trouble and decline If this type of Conservative poll lead continues with the Labour party continuing to drop under the 30 % barrier, I would expect it to have a similar destabilising effect on the Labour party comparable to the run up to the Conference season last year when we were facing an Autumn election with Labour riding high in the polls.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's historic nomination as the first woman presidential candidate of a major political party in the U.S., women continue to face obstacles in politics and the workplace, according to a national poll conducted by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

Her world premieres include Party People by Universes (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The White Man — A Complex Declaration of Love by Joan Rang (DanskDansk Theatre, Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Luminato Festival / Canadian Stage Toronto), Eclipsed by Danai Gurira (Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson (The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), A History of Light by Eisa Davis (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), Angela's Mixtape by Eisa Davis (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges), Bus and Family Ties (Play Company for the Romania Kiss Me!

Instead, both political parties, and all levels of government, have advanced reforms that, while well intentioned, have not risen to the level necessary to address the depth and breadth of the daunting challenges of equity and excellence facing American public education at the beginning of the 21st century.»

Should politicians and others in public office, also paid by the public purse, condone such examples of obvious misconduct (by staff and bureaucrats in the University) indicates they are party to an even larger problem the nation faces — the deliberate incremental loss of freedom and liberty.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.