Sentences with phrase «same as the state senator»
Wright challenged Espaillat to do the same as the state senator had repeatedly run for Congress only to return to the state Senate.
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Obama, who as a state senator checked a box acknowledging support for same - sex marriage, later fell back to what at the time was the politically safer position of supporting civil unions.
He'll do the same thing for you as state senator.»
Efforts to reach MEM Enterprises were unsuccessful, however, based upon inquiries made by City & State, it appears that the company's address is the same as that of the senator's brother, Marvin Maziarz, a retired Niagara County Community College professor.
Santorum earlier this week announced he was suspending his campaign ahead of the New York primary, which falls the same day as his former senator's home state of Pennsylvania.
Philip Aduda, who represents the Federal Capital Territory said the same status should therefore be accorded Abuja while a senator representing Osun Central, Prof Sola Adeyeye said Lagos state deserved a special status as argued by the sponsor of the bill.
At the same Buffalo appearance, Cuomo did not directly point the finger at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, when asked by reporters whether Clinton was responsible for the decline of the state's economy during the time she represented New York as a U.S. senator.
The Iowa Constitution states, «Senators shall be chosen for the term of four years, at the same time and place as representatives; they shall be twenty - five years of age, and possess the qualifications of representatives as to residence and citizenship.»
Beyond dignifying the renegades with any form of relevance, how soon have those now falling «a corps perdu» to remove the peck from their neighbour's eye forgotten that Adeleke as Senator and Adejare Bello as Speaker of the - then Osun State House of Assembly once drank from the same cup of birthplace?
Seneca President Robert Porter, who spoke on the same panel as the senator, said attempts to resolve differences with the state are headed for binding arbitration, the results of which will have a bearing on the proposed casino expansion.
As a United States Senator, he'll do the same in Washington,» Menendez added.
«I think his point that we need ethics reform is the same thing that I have been saying,» Mr. Cuomo said, later noting that when he served as state attorney general, he had successfully prosecuted a state senator and a comptroller on corruption charges.
The former senator, who, according to an aide, served in Congress with Kasich, called his chosen candidate «a proven political winner in a very tough state for Republicans» — ironically, the very same argument Pataki is making as he makes his case for his long - shot bid for the presidency.
But last year, Mr. Esposito was widely viewed as a leading Democrat to take on State Senator James Alesi, an upstate Republican who provided a crucial vote in support of same - sex marriage.
As three Republicans state senators who voted for same - sex marriage battled for their political survival yesterday, Rev. Jason McGuire said he was thinking about one person whose name wasn't... Continue reading →
That political fact of life, which has set in among the smart strategist set in Washington over the last 10 days or so, is due longstanding in - state rivalries — much of Hawaii Democratic establishment including its two U.S. Senators don't like former Rep. Ed Case (D)-- as well as a special election quirk that puts Case, state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa (D) and Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) all on the same ballot.
State Senator Roy McDonald, a Republican who voted for New York's landmark same - sex marriage law last year, needs to make up 106 votes as the lawyers here shift through Saratoga County's share of roughly 1,000 absentee ballots that will determine whether he has survived a primary challenge from Kathy Marchione, the county's clerk.
You can not dismiss Atiku as politically insignificant even in his home state and at the same time attribute to him the powers to influence 109 Senators and 360 House of Representatives Members to conspire against APC to ensure its officially endorsed candidates were defeated.
What if he were on the air or talking to the press, publicly accusing senators — as the tenant activists and many rank - and - file Democrats do — of carrying water for the same developers who keep turning up in criminal complaints against state lawmakers, including the former Republican leader?
«This statute permitted Lyndon B. Johnson to run for Vice President in 1960 and, at the same time, seek re-election as United States Senator from Texas.»
As for the accuracy of «sentiment» data, just consider this incongruous finding: according to Smith, Facebook's data currently show New York Governor Andrew Cuomo with the exact same positive - negative ratings as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Elizabeth WarreAs for the accuracy of «sentiment» data, just consider this incongruous finding: according to Smith, Facebook's data currently show New York Governor Andrew Cuomo with the exact same positive - negative ratings as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Elizabeth Warreas former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Just 41 percent of the state's voters think Caroline Kennedy would do an above average job as senator; 62 percent say the same of Cuomo.
Another of such independent minded Senator who like Dino Melaye is of the same ruling All Progressives Congress Mr. Shehu Sani has just been similarly invited by the Kaduna state police command on the infantile allegation that a murder suspect listed him as a collaborator.
«As a decoy, the state government said that the same set of people have been going around and granting press interviews claiming that the state Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, was after their lives.»
Why was my own election the only one that was canceled when the same invalid PDP primaries produced other PDP Senators, Members of the House of Representatives as well as State Assembly Members?
Jim Gerlach talking to himself: Let's see, I can run for an open, Executive Branch, Governors Seat or I as a member of the Republican Main Street Partnership who supports Stem - Cell Research, some LGBT Rights and Environmental Issues, where my primary opponent would be an ultra-right conservative who already ran another moderate GOP member to the Democratic party, and if I survived that bloody primary fight, would then face the six - term incumbent senator with long roots in the same part of the state as me and who had a 60 % approval rating among Pennsylvania Democrats before he decided to switch parties and will have a popular president campaigning for him in an already 55 - 45 Democratic state.
Kansas (D): Sen. Sam Brownback (R) is running against a state senator named Tom Holland - which is fitting, because Holland has exactly the same chance of becoming the next prime minister of the Netherlands as he does the next governor of Kansas.
Additional charges against him included allegation that he continued to receive salary and emoluments as governor of Kwara State after the expiration of his tenure and at the same time, from the Federal Government as a Senator between June 2011 and October 2013.
State Senator - elect Tony Avella sent the same message to Steiner earlier this week, and a similar letter from a group of concerned citizens had gathered more than 6,400 online signatures as of Sunday afternoon.
On the same night as the GOP Bronx powwow, State Senator Pedro Espada will be throwing a $ 1,000 - a-head birthday party for himself in Manhattan to honor his «historic ascension» to the position of majority leader Bronxites from Guinea react to the horrific violence in their homeland.
State Senator Sue Serino of Hyde Park is running against the same opponent as in 2014, Democrat Terry Gipson, who she unseated by securing about 51 percent of the vote.
BUT: In 1997 Kerry joined 94 other senators in support of a nonbinding resolution that undercut the Kyoto Protocol by insisting that developing nations agree to emissions reductions in the same time frame as the United States.
A recall petition was filed around the same time as the legislature was changing the law to save state senator Josh Newman's seat.
Remarkably, the claim by Every Student Succeeds Act advocates such as Senator Lamar Alexander — that it gives back some authority to both state and local governments at the same time it reduces federal control of local schools — has not been recognized as the fraudulent claim it is.
To view this list in PDF format, here is the the same list as posted by former state senator (and co-author of SB 54) Gloria Romero ’s
Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D - CO), then representing the Clinton - Gore administration as U.S Undersecretary of State for global issues, addressing the same Rio Climate Summit audience, agreed: «We have got to ride the global warming issue.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.