Sentences with phrase «resign over the vote»

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Senate Democrats lost their supermajority last month when Los Angeles - area Sen. Tony Mendoza resigned rather than face an extremely rare expulsion vote over sexual misconduct allegations, and he's running again for the same seat.

Stewart Jackson, the Conservative MP for Peterborough who resigned as a PPS to Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson over the EU referendum vote.

Zac Goldsmith, resigned on Wednesday as patron of his local Richmond AID disability charity after coming under pressure over his voting for disability benefit cuts.

The Buffalo School Board voted to extend a contract with the schools» former chief financial officer, Barbara Smith, who resigned over the summer.

Three veteran members of the NYC Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus — Annabel Palma, Fernando Cabrera and Inez Dickens — said they were resigning from the group, citing ongoing conflict over the caucus» voting process for its budget priorities in the upcoming fiscal year.

He's also called on Rep. John Faso, a Republican who voted against the House bill in November, to resign over the package passing without his support.

Two other ministers could resign from their posts in government over the issue, and as many as 100 Labour MPs could vote against plans to update the UK's nuclear deterrent, it has emerged.

The view Tony Blair has destroyed the Labour Party, by his critics is often met with, the last election Neil Kinnock fought, he got 34.5 %, the last election Blair fought he got 35.3 %» all be it, on a lower turnout, those who'd been in the party for years, who resigned over Iraq, stopped voting labour in 2005, even though Blair was on his way out, lost MPs who were against Iraq, their seats

House Democrats insisted Sunday that Rep. Anthony Weiner must resign — not just take a leave of absence to undergo psychological treatment — as they prepare to return to Washington contemplating a possible vote to expel him from the party caucus due to the scandal over his sexually - charged online messages.

Even loyal Corbyn supporter Clive Lewis resigned over Corbyn's three line whip on the recent EU vote.

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If the British people vote to leave in June, Cameron will have little choice but to resign and Johnson could be in pole position to take over as leader.

The Unite official at the centre of allegations of vote - rigging over the selection of a Labour parliamentary candidate in Falkirk resigned from his position at the Grangemouth power plant after a witch - hunt against trade unionists, Len McCluskey has said.

He would be forced to resign from the state Senate, leaving the Democrats with a single - vote majority over Republicans.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer won the September 10, 2013 Democratic primary with 52 % of the vote, defeating former New York State Governor, Eliot Spitzer, who had been forced to resign as governor over various scandals.

That is why last week's tangle over Europe, with 15 Lib Dem MPs defying his voting instructions and three front - bench spokesman resigning was damaging.

In the geographic region with the most turnover (voting district 2), over a third of all teachers who resigned had two or fewer years of experience, and over half had fewer than five years in the classroom.

Piech, the 78 - year - old grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, resigned his position over the weekend rather than suffer the indignity of having the board vote him out.