Sentences with phrase «run for public office instead»

«It's a participatory democracy, so people need to get up and vote, or even better, get up and run for public office instead of just complaining about it.

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HOWEVER, if this person was running for public office, instead of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this church for some inane belief that they would take wildly out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.

The mayor and comptroller have engaged in bitter public relations battles going back to their first year in office — giving rise to rumors that Stringer will challenge de Blasio in this September's Democratic primary instead of running for re-election.