Sentences with phrase «running for local office in»

Further, I finally fulfilled one of my dreams by running for local office in 2012 and becoming elected to the Democratic County Central Committee in San Francisco.

He is Vice Chair of the Progressive Caucus Alliance, which supports progressive candidates running for local office in New York City.

Nelson ran for local office in 2015 and has worked on the campaigns of the past two Democratic nominees, including serving as Mike Derrick's field director in 2016.

Not exact matches

Capnerhurst said she was «outed» in 2005 while running as the Green Party's candidate for local office.

You apply for a job in my community by running a campaign for a paid office that my local tax dollars pay for and you get elected then show up to your first scheduled meeting and decide to spend the first 5 minutes — eating donuts instead of working, speaking to the audience about your personal problems with your wife, telling the audience about an upcoming play your kid will be in, telling the captive audience about the benefits of being gay, speaking to them about God or praying aloud to your God regardless of which God the rest of the audience believes in.

Finally, he never felt he had sufficient time for community affairs; now, though, he hopes to become active in local politics, perhaps even to run for office.

In addition to calling your representatives, consider attending a town hall, writing letters the editor of your local paper, connecting with the local Democratic Party to help with voter registration efforts and to challenge voter suppression / gerrymandering, and (because it's becoming painfully obvious that progressives have ceded local politics to the extreme right for too long), running for office or helping a better candidate get the job.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

I took all the decorating classes and love to decorate cakes, so when I got layed off my job last year I wanted to open my own cake shop, and its not as easy as you think at least were i live in pa you have to contact the health dept plus you have to make sure your house is zoned commerical contact your local borough office if your not you will have to have a hearing and it cost about 300 dollars for that, plus i couldn't have the bake shop in my house unless i had a separate kitchen for the bake shop, and one for my family plus no pets aloud, i am lucky enough that i have a rental house next to mine that i'm turning into a bakeshop but i have to turn it into a business, i've been working with the small business assoc. and the health dept plus there are permits i need, electric has to be updated and new lighting, plus the plummer has to do alot because i have to have a 3 bay sink and a grease trap, gas lines need to be ran for the oven,

Clinton's loss in the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump was seen as a galvanizing event for many women to run for office in down - ballot races — from local elections, state legislation races and congressional campaigns — this year.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Shane Hubers, a Republican who ran for local office last year, challenged the registration of dozens of voters — the majority of them Democrats — in Beaufort County.

You're supposed to work your way up the ladder, working on political campaigns and in legislative offices, running for local elections and then statewide elections, gaining experience along the way.

Squadron's Senate seat is safely Democratic, but he joins several lawmakers in the mainline conference who are seeking to leave the chamber, including Republican Sen. Phil Boyle and Democratic Sens. George Latimer and Ruben Diaz Sr., who are running for local elected office.

In an email to supporters sent out yesterday afternoon, WFP State Director Bill Lipton reiterated that the party has been playing a «long game» with its «Progressive Pipeline» program by nuturing candidates at the local level in hopes of seeing them either 1) start a trend that results in more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clouIn an email to supporters sent out yesterday afternoon, WFP State Director Bill Lipton reiterated that the party has been playing a «long game» with its «Progressive Pipeline» program by nuturing candidates at the local level in hopes of seeing them either 1) start a trend that results in more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clouin hopes of seeing them either 1) start a trend that results in more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clouin more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clout.

Toss in the former key Gov. Cuomo associates who face criminal trials this year, plus the several City Council members sent to the hoosegow as well as other local officals across the state, and the only thing that stands out about Harris is that she ran for office after starting her alleged crime spree.

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

Historically, it has been hard to convince people to run in other elections against Republican incumbents, but anger over Trump ignited a spark in some to seek local office for the first time.

«And they're starting local and they're running for the offices that are right there in front of them.»

As a result, far more rural people have run for elective office or held an elective office or know someone who has done so, and rural people have far more influence in a direct democracy manner over their local governments than people in urban areas.

Railing against mandated state spending on the local level — often seen as a top driver of high property taxes for municipal governments — is part and parcel with running for office in New York.

«It would not only allow illegal immigrants to vote and run for office in state and local elections, it would allow them to get driver's licenses, serve on juries, and become eligible for Medicaid.»

But Assemblyman Nojay says for now, they aren't going to promote any specific candidates, though they hope primary challengers will emerge to run against incumbents in the state legislature all the way down to offices for local county sheriff and county clerk.

People who secured state citizenship would be able to vote in state and local elections and run for state office.

There is a lot of cynicism in the minds of the public about the effectiveness of local elected officials, government and those who run for public office.

Hawkins» unsuccessful political past hasn't bogged him down — he ran for mayor of Syracuse in 2005 and has run for office in local, city and state government more than 20 times without winning a single election.

Buffalo Assemblyman Mark Schroeder, a frequent — and often lone — critic of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver among his fellow Democrats, is trying to depart the chamber by running for local office back home in Buffalo.

Howie Hawkins, has run for a number of local, state and national offices as a Green and is currently a candidate for Common Councilor in Syracuse, New York.

Yet as a line worker for the United Parcel Service (UPS), he has managed to run for office numerous times from local to statewide, in the process helping to make the Green Party of New York State the real left opposition here.

But then both of her parents got involved in local politics — her dad ran for office and her mom became the Democratic chairwoman of New Hartford in Oneida County, traveling to the 1976 Democratic convention as a delegate for Jimmy Carter.

«The N10m I received from the ONSA monthly was to run my office, pay salaries of staff, including overheads, pay expenses for our numerous press conferences, pay for publications in newspapers, magazines, local and foreign, television programmes, bulletins, and media consultants who assist and facilitate our work.

The field of candidates for local office in the fall election gained two entrants in the past week, as former Woodstock councilwoman Terrie Rosenblum announced that she would run for town supervisor and current Town Board member Bill McKenna declared that he would seek another term on the board.

State and local Green Parties across the U.S. are preparing to run candidates in hundreds of races for public office in 2016, as well as choose a Green presidential nominee.

Miner's PAC donated $ 50,000 in October and early November 2011 to the state Democratic Party, which subsequently transferred $ 45,000 to four Syracuse - area candidates running for local office.

The longtime Crown Heights resident, Shomrim patrol volunteer, father of eight and local butcher has run for state office twice before on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the heart of Democratic Brooklyn.

In addition to Sayeed, a number of alums are running for public office at the local, state, and federal levels.

You can also run a newspaper ad and post «found dog» flyers in the neighborhood and at local veterinarians» offices, and also check the local newspapers for ads the dog's guardians may have placed in an effort to find him.

Clearing owner Olivier Babin moved into the massive compound in 2017 — the gallery operated for five years out of a small townhouse, but the support for his program from local collectors prompted him to bet on more ambitious digs in Brussels, and he purchased a 5,400 - square - foot former shutter factory and turned it into a stunning space with high ceilings that run together like the roof of a church, buttressed by separate exhibition spaces, a bar, a café, and office space.

Hitachi Semiconductor America Inc. (San Jose, CA) 04/1995 — 01/2000 Staff Unix Administrator (1997 — 2000) • Supervised 3 administrators in the execution of all responsibilities related to Unix and network administration functions • Established data center and implemented SUN Enterprise E10000 Starfire Server with 2 - way HA cluster — 40 x CPU, 40 GB RAM, 1 TB Disk space with 8 system domains — running SAP and Oracle database • Led total re-design of local area network and installed 5 Cisco catalyst 5500 switch with ten VLANs to improve efficiency • Facilitated major file server upgrade, retiring a 200 GB Auspex server and replacing with 400 GB Netapp filer while ensuring the safe and complete transfer of all previous server data • Oversaw important release of Checkpoint firewall upgrade as well as developed VPN link to staff in China office • Created dedicated Unix engineering design environment for joint development project with partner including DNS, NIS, NFS, Firewall and Ntrigue server for NT 3.51 • Implemented Cisco dialup solution with RSA second factor authentication offering both an ISDN and Analog modem

The intent is to give REALTORS ® who are interested in running for local, state, or national office the grounding needed to enter the political process.

With the NAR Candidate Training Academy, participating state and local associations of REALTORS ® can help make the road to electoral success a little easier for their members who are interested in running for office by sponsoring an NAR - developed training curriculum, either alone or in partnership with other nearby associations.