Sentences with phrase «run on a platform of»

Yi - Ting Cheng is the founder of the OTCBTC crypto exchange and the world - class coder is running on a platform of crypto innovation for the country.

Shortly after the vandalism, the city elected its first Haredi mayor, who ran on a platform of moderation, insisting that a temperate, Sephardic Haredi rabbi could and would serve all constituencies equally.

I was voted Pope (no joke) and I ran on a platform of agnosticism.

He's been running on a platform of social change.

He ran on a platform of making the village a more attractive place to start a business.

Kennedy, for example, slammed the Republicans for doing nothing about Fidel Castro and ran on a platform of «strengthen [ing] the non-Batista democratic anti-Castro forces in exile.»

Cuomo, who was running on a platform of scaling back spending in state government and pension reform, still balked at accepting the WFP line until he was assured they would back his proposals.

Kaminsky ran on a platform of ethics reform and anti-corruption.

In September, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, running on a platform of taming inequality, routed his Democratic mayoral rival, Christine Quinn, known for her ties to Michael Bloomberg's finance - friendly administration.

Davis, known as the «Manhattan Madam» for her claims to have paired disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer with prostitutes, is running on a platform of legalizing marijuana and casinos.

Faso is running on a platform of economic growth, private - sector job creation and tax and regulatory reform.

Many presidential candidates have run on the platform of limiting the size and scope of the federal government.

The combination of a history and culture of violence in the DRC, together with an election process featuring an alarming lack of candidates running on platforms of any real political substance, seems to have resulted in an election atmosphere characterized by tactics of coercion, intimidation, and fear.

Russo, who is running on platform of fiscal conservatism, has pledged not to accept any member item cash in his first year in office if he is elected this fall.

Now, Paladino's campaign manager Michael Caputo is taking Cuomo to task for celebrating with a lawmakers at the center of an ethics probe while running on a platform of reforming Albany.

In the 2014 midterms, Senate Democrats ran on a platform of a $ 10.10 minimum wage.

Similar to her bid in 2016, Killian — who served on the Rye City Council between 2012 and 2017 — will run on a platform of reform and bucking an Albany establishment through term limits and a redistribution of school aid.

BRISTOL — In the 78th House District, Republican incumbent Whit Betts is running on a platform of cutting taxes and regulations on businesses while reducing state spending.

De Blasio, who ran on a platform of police reform, has struggled at times to balance the concerns of police reformers with the department he now oversees.

Kathee Burke - Gonzalez, who won a seat on the East Hampton Town Board in November 2013 running on a platform of curbing excessive noise, and who is the board's liaison to the airport, said she was looking forward to «having a plan put in place over the next few months and see restrictions effected for the 21015 season.»

Rodier, 40, who has never held public office, is running on a platform of increasing transparency in town government.

Essentially, this amounts to imposing a tax that is then used to subsidize premiums (charging everyone a tax and then paying people to get health insurance is the same thing as charging people who don't get insurance a «penalty»), but Obama ran on a platform of not raising taxes on people making less than $ 250,000, so he went through this «penalty» shenanigan so he could pretend to have kept his promise.

If he is so popular as he is claiming, how did he lose the senatorial election in 2011 when he ran on the platform of the Labour Party?

The Cushman & Wakefield executive, who ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility as a Republican, said the cost of sustaining a campaign was prohibitive.

It will be interesting to hear how Cuomo explains that Schneiderman is not, as the AG's many surrogates intimated (and several of Schneiderman's primary opponents charged outright), in fact too much a creature of Albany to be the state's top attorney at at a time when Cuomo is running on a platform of cleaning up Albany.

After running on a platform of ethics reform, he has introduced bills to prevent elected officials from «double dipping» by collecting retirement while still in office and increasing a legislator's term from two to four years.

Particularly as Donald Trump ran on a platform of not touching Social Security or Medicare in any way.

The candidate receiving the most support on the first ballot was Mike Lee, a lawyer running on a platform of strict adherence to the constitution and limited government.

Carl is running on a platform of cutting, not just capping.

He ran on the platform of no tax increase, as did I. I chose to stand by my promise and deliver results to residents.

The former federal prosecutor, who ran on a platform of cleaning up Albany, has claimed the Long Island state once held by the former majority leader convicted of corruption.

[2] He ran on a platform of opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal.

Last year I ran on a platform of raising personal income tax rates to the progressive rates of the 1970s and collecting the stock transfer tax, and using that money to and provide full employment through a Green New Deal.

The significance of the impending change is not lost on either candidate — indeed both men are running on a platform of change in Dutchess County — but the two disagree on the current state of the county and how best to move the county forward.

«Eliot Spitzer ran on a platform of ethics and restoring integrity to Albany,» Stringer spokeswoman Audrey Gelman said.

But he's running on a platform of stripping down government and purging the party of the entrenched, and tailoring the message to them is not easy.

The third installment follows Presidential candidate Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), a purge survivor running on a platform of ending the bloody celebration forever.

The endorsed slate, which ran on a platform of support for the corporate education reform industry, went down to a stunning defeat against a challenge slate made up of local Democrats who support local teachers, local schools and local public education.

Miller was first elected to Congress in 1974 with a group of first - time lawmakers known as the «Watergate Babies,» who ran on a platform of cleaning up Washington in the wake of the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon.

That year, Moskowitz ran on a platform of improving education options and opposing MTA fare hikes, and adopted campaign rhetoric about inequality reminiscent of de Blasio's 2013 bid.

I remember the CEA president looking for re-election 9 years ago ran on indoor air quality, rather than running on a platform of securing guaranteed rights for teacher retirement funding.

He was the first candidate for governor in any state with the courage to openly run on a platform of school choice.

Mr. Hood is running on a platform of taxing Wall Street greed to pay for global need.

However, Trump did run on a platform of bringing prosperity back to the working class in the US, roundly placing the blame on a powerful and rich political elite on * both * sides of the aisle.

Marina Silva, as a candidate for the Green Party and the only to run on a platform of environmentalism, made a bid for the presidency, too.

It wasn't until the election of Peña Nieto in 2012, who ran on a platform of sweeping economic reform, that real change looked possible.

Maria Evangelista, Kwixuan Maloof, Niki Solis and Phoenix Streets portray the sitting judges as conservatives appointed by Republican governors, and are running on a platform of greater diversity on the bench and judicial reforms, such as decreased use of money bail.

Citizens are frantically organizing to try to shut down the only major legislative success of a president who ran on a platform of populism, and Democrats are growing optimistic about flipping one or both houses of Congress.

Hofer ran on a platform of restricting immigration and strengthening Austria's borders, although the Freedom Party would also like to see Austria leave the eurozone and the EU.

Not exact matches

Though she lost Democratic primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran on a leftist platform, Clinton pointed to some Senate results as proof that she wouldn't have fared better running on a Sanders platform.