Sentences with phrase «seek elected office»

Men in the sample were 60 percent more likely than women to consider themselves «very qualified» to seek elected office.

«The public financing system was designed to ensure equal and fair access for all candidates who seek elected office in New York City by limiting the amount of money candidates can raise and spend during an election cycle.

They also promised that «constituents will always come first», that «I will regularly report back to my constituency party as well as to my constituents» and that «I seek elected office for the honour of serving the public and our democracy».

McCaughey Ross said she would seek elected office in 1998 either as lieutenant governor, governor or to the U. S. Senate.

As for former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who reportedly eyed a challenge to Dinapoli (among other things) before deciding this fall would be too soon to seek elected office again, well, it was probably a good idea for him to sit this cycle out.

Bharara's abrupt departure immediately launched calls for the crusading prosecutor to seek elected office, though he has always insisted he has no political aspirations.

While an outspoken figure and a major donor, Paladino did not seek elected office until he ran for governor in 2010.

(CNN)-- Sharron Angle, the tea party aligned Republican who came close to unseating Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid in 2010, announced Friday that she would not seek elected office this cycle.

The former Buffalo businessman, who said on multiple occasions that he was done with politics and wouldn't seek elected office again after losing to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year, is in fact mulling a return to the public stage by running for former Rep. Chris Lee's seat.

Mr. Mullen has no plans to seek elected office and will serve out his term as chairman.»

In a recent Washington Post poll, two - thirds of Virginia adults surveyed said he should not seek elected office again.

Demos will be sworn in on May 13, replacing Mark Pfefferman, who says he has no immediate plans to seek elected office again.

Hopefully I will live to see the day when having religious faith is a serious handicap for a person seeking an elected office.

He believes an often ruthless media environment could put off millennials from seeking elected office.

For women candidates, many of them seeking elected office for the first time, the success of women in early primary states has provided them with confidence that their sometimes - unexpected runs aren't so far - fetched.

This should serve as admonition to all candidates seeking elected office.

The WFP has a history with Clinton, supporting both her first 2000 US Senate run (her first attempt at seeking elected office) and her re-election campaign in 2006, though she faced a primary challenge from the left from labor activist Jonathan Tasini.

McCray started the buzz herself in November — days after de Blasio won a second term — by telling Cosmopolitan magazine that she would «consider» seeking elected office someday, just not for mayor.

During three days of testimony before a special referee hearing the election law challenge to his candidacy, Blake sought to establish his residential bona fides as legally qualified candidate seeking elected office in New York State and his Bronx assembly district.

During three days of testimony before a special referee hearing the election law challenge to his candidacy, Blake sought to establish his residential bona fides as legally qualified candidate seeking elected office in New York State and his Bronx assembly... Continue reading →

Paul Vallone is reversing the typical course of a political career, starting out as a lobbyist, and then seeking elected office!

Not exact matches

The tale of a local diner owner who sought local elected office, and the dangers he faced with his business.

Political scientists have noted that many third parties that had strong political support but not enough to elect many official to office have often found planks of their party platforms migrate to the platforms of major parties later on as the major parties seek to do so to co-opt support from third party voters and backers.

McCaskill was seen as perhaps the most endangered of the Senate Democrats running for re-election this year (Gillibrand has made a point of conducting her «Off the Sidelines» campaign to elect more women to public office, a narrative that her own GOP opponent, Wendy Long, has gleefully sought to turn on its ear).

Edwards, who was elected County Executive in 2005, announced in April he wouldn't be seeking a third term in office.

Candidates seeking the Green Party nomination for federal, state, and local partisan elected offices (or endorsement for non-partisan offices) will be present, vying to represent the party in the November 2018 election.

«Log Cabin Republicans continuously seek to foster friends in development among elected Republican office holders as well as their staff and campaigns.»

Two other state senators are also trying to jump ship in Albany by seeking local elected office, and they're on the primary ballot today, too.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, received a $ 30,000 infusion of cash from the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, a Washington - based group that has sought to elect more Democratic candidates to state office.

Jewish New York Government Outreach is a project uniting diverse Jewish community leaders from across New York City seeking to engage candidates for elected office on the matters of great concern to the city's Orthodox communities.

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.

Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said Tuesday he is seeking a fourth term in office, stating that he would bring «purpose, vision and vitality» to the Town Board if elected in November.

Apart from being interested in having certain individuals elected to offices, democratic clubs seek to engage and inform the public on democratic events and issues happening throughout Manhattan.

Democratic clubs are comprised of dedicated individuals who seek to have local Democrats elected to various political offices throughout the borough of Manhattan, New York City.

(3) Neither the Executive Committee nor the County Leader shall designate, nominate or propose any candidate for judicial offices which are to be elected county - wide in New York County, or which are to be proposed for appointment by the Mayor of the City of New York or by the Governor of the State of New York, exclusive of recommendations for interim appointment by the Mayor or the Governor, unless such candidate shall have been approved in that calendar year for such office by the independent panel., except that once a candidate for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court has been reported as highly qualified by at least two of the last four independent screening panels for that office, that candidate shall be considered as having been approved by the panel for such office during each of the four calendar years after the year in which the candidate shall have last achieved such status, (not counting a year in which there are no vacancies for the office of Justice of the Supreme Court other than a vacancy resulting from the expiration of the term of office of a justice eligible for and seeking re-election to that office, or a vacancy which has been filled by an interim Supreme Court justice seeking re-election who has been appointed by the Governor and who satisfies the requirements of sub-paragraph 4 (b), provided in each case that such justice has been determined by the independent panel to merit continuation in office), and such candidate shall not make application to the panel during any of such years unless the Committee on the Judiciary shall require the candidate to make such an application.

«I stand here beside you today and every day to reaffirm our friendship, to let you know that as the county's top elected official, that not only are you welcome here, but that the contributions of our Muslim - American community are essential to us,» said Astorino, whose is up for re-election this year and unofficially has said he plans to seek a third term in office.

According to Politicker, «included in the list are a whole host of elected officials, including some who are seeking higher office.

However, Koo gave no clue on whether he would seek re-election to the Council as a Democrat in 2013, or to seek any other elected office.

For some 48 hours now, the office of the elected National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has surprisingly been inundated with calls from persons of all walks of life seeking to know whether there is some truth in what they had been reading on social media.

John Duane, brother of former state Senator Tom Duane, was an assembly one - termer back in 1982, and is seeking his grand return to elected office now.

The mission of 504 Democratic Club is to urge New Yorkers with disabilities and the elected officials and candidates seeking office to recognize that issues important to the disability community are important to all.

Fellow Hudson Valley Democrat James Skoufis, who was elected to the Assembly in November 2012, says he sought out Skartados for advice before taking office.

In a 40 - minute address, Cuomo spoke of his father's complexity, his toughness, his fondness for arguing, and his sometimes combative relationship with his own son, who would go on to win the office Mario lost in 1994 as he sought a fourth term as the state's highest elected official.

Gallo said that Dunn's legislation would, for example, bar Common Council President and plumber James Noble from seeking a plumbing license from the city and force Alderwoman Maryanne Mills to choose between her elected office and her job at United Health Care which administers the city's health insurance plan.

Additionally, during the 2016 and 2017 legislative session, Francesca successfully coordinated the statewide campaign «We Are Florida's Families,» which led to the defeat of 9 anti-immigrant and anti-refugee bills which sought to criminalize immigrants and remove from office local elected officials who support and vote on policies to protect immigrants regardless of their status.

«My client feels very strongly that his constitutional rights, including his right to free speech have been violated by the actions of the majority members of the Board, the Board of Education and the school district as a result of a resolution that was passed seeking to remove my client from elected office,» Vacco said.

He wanted names, apparently, that he believed would help him in seeking the governorship,» Greenberg said of Spitzer, who initiated the case before he was elected to the state's highest office and then forced to resign amid a prostitution scandal.

We are polling all elected officials and those seeking public office as to their position on this important issue and we intend to keep the millions of Italian Americans residing in this state informed as to the result of our inquiry and make the community aware of who is supportive of the Italian American community and who will succumb to anti Italian sentiment.

Progress Iowa is a self - described issue - focused organization that seeks to rally voters around progressive candidates and issues with the hopes of helping more progressives hold elected office in that state.