Sentences with phrase «ran for election»

Justice Willett ran for election to the Supreme Court of Texas in 2006.

In 2007, Torres Chabert ran for election and was overwhelmingly elected to a new three - year term.

He also is working with Mayor Ras Baraka, who ran for election on a platform opposing Cerf's predecessor, to end state control in Newark — a goal leaders and families in the district have hoped to achieve for decades.

Some examples include a state representative who ran for state senate or a state senator who ran for election for state executive office.

LaGrand ran for election in the 2010 election for Michigan State Senate District 29.

The killings endanger efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to bring security and stability to Nigeria — a key campaign pledge when he ran for election in 2015.

Felder, who ran for election on several party lines but is a registered Democrat, is the only obstacle in the way of a Democratic majority in the body.

Since only three Democrats ran for election, Republicans were guaranteed at least two seats in that district.

For instance, the situation in which former President Goodluck Jonathan completed the tenure of late President Umar Yar» Adua between 2010 - 2011, participated in the 2011 election and won a four - year term and still ran for election again in the 2015 election will no longer be permitted if the proposed amendment scales through.

Glass ran for election to the office of Attorney General of Texas but failed to win the Libertarian nomination at the party convention in April 2014.

Geary ran for election in the 2012 election for Nebraska State Senate District 7 of the Nebraska Unicameral.

He did so when he first ran for election in 2010 and he used one to promote his women's agenda during his reelection campaign in 2014.

Sort of like Republicans who refused to be anyplace near GW Bush as the ran for election / re-election.

Sannes ran for election in the 2012 election for Oregon House District 21.

Rosinbaum ran for election in the 2012 election for Oregon House District 9.

Theresa May ran for election not on a manifesto, or a Brexit plan or even as a party leader.

In the 2016 Assembly elections, eight members of the party ran for election under the name of the Northern Ireland Labour Representation Committee, as the Labour Party NEC had refused to allow candidates to stand as official Labour Party candidates.

District 2 Democratic Senator Cynthia Willard - Lewis was displaced and instead ran for election in District 3.

104 green party candidates ran for election in 2011.

Moss ran for election to the office of Lieutenant Governor of New York on the same ticket as gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino.

«They ran for election on the basis of being more New Labour than Labour, but without the baggage of Tony Blair, the Iraq War and all the rest of it.»

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

«Protectionism is always a popular thing to voice when running for elections,» he says.

He also said he hoped the company would deliver on its promises of improved returns so «we don't need to run for election next year.»

«If he was not running for election, they would not have done this.»

All politicians sound more born again when running for election.

If you're running for election as a Republican, it may have encouraged you to change your strategy.

Jesus CHrist is not running for election — He is already on the throne and none of the negative comments spewed on here will change that.

However, the new members would have to run 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.

As the Obama presidency has unfolded, it seems it has been a mixture of both; nevertheless, the fact that Obama did not run for election as a Black candidate (despite winning over 90 % of the votes of the African American community) but rather ran a strategically race - neutral campaign is a testament to the complicated relationship the United States has with race.

Because how do you run for election in New York State, and the cost of that is astronomical, and how do you compete without the money?

Ballotpedia collects information on campaign donors for each year in which a candidate or incumbent is running for election.

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

«I have spoken with the legislative leaders to tell them that I was seeking the position and that I would not run for election, which was a matter of great importance to them,» Underwood said.

Ken (unlike many in a highly tribal Labour Party) is now used to running for election under a PR system.

State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has decided not to seek the Democratic nomination to run for election to New York's First Congressional District, a move he had considered for several months.

The Manhattan Democrat maintained his characteristic sense of humor Friday at New York Hospital Queens as he fielded reporters» questions about news reports that the White House had asked him not to run for election in 2010.

For an example closer to home, picture laws designed to infringe this or that minority or caste's right to vote and run for elections.

She says it's possible whoever gets the post could run for election in November.

Underwood, who was interviewed by lawmakers earlier in the week, along with 11 other candidates, says she would be happy to serve out the remainder of the current term, and let others run for election in November for the term that begins January 1.

«The average citizen is finding that the cost of running for election has become too expensive,» Silver said.

[7] In 2016, Hamilton announced that he would join the Independent Democratic Conference, [9] a group of eight senators who run for election as Democrats, but support the Republican party once elected.

The new district attorney would have to run for election in his or her own right next November, when the district attorney «ss term is ordinarily up.

Upon hitting the limit in one office or chamber, a legislator may run for election to the other chamber or leave the legislature.

If I have so much money that I can put pressure on the candidates running for election - by funding TV ads or political campaigns or by threatening not to do so - I exercise a power far beyond my own voting power.

After a set period of time (usually two years), the clock resets on the limit, and the legislator may run for election to his / her original seat and serve up to the limit again.

With lifetime limits, once a legislator has served up to the limit, she / he may never again run for election to that office.

Mr. Cuomo also spoke with President Obama and for more than an hour with Mr. Paterson, whose decision last spring not to run for election cleared a path for Mr. Cuomo to become the Democratic nominee, to discuss transition logistics, the budget, and other matters.

While running for election is when judges are most vulnerable to influence.