Sentences with phrase «shadow over these candidates»

«In spite of my legal caution, the appearance of my actions has created an unfortunate shadow over these candidates,» Miner said.

At her news conference, Miner insisted she did not sidestep the law, but said «the appearance of my actions has created an unfortunate shadow over these candidates.»

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In little over a year the former shadow chancellor Ed Balls leaps from being a defeated candidate...

This culminated in a bitter row over Falkirk, when the right wing — Blairite shadow ministers, a majority of the PLP and the New Labour pressure group Progress — cried «foul «over UNITE's success in building support for yet another working class trade unionist candidate.

G. Steven Pigeon's shadow looms large over 143rd Assembly District race, given candidate Kristy Mazurek's long association with the political operative.

Weiner's tawdry activities have cast another shadow on the adviser and confidante who has been by Clinton's side for the past two decades, and threaten to remind voters of the candidate's own marital troubles over the decades.

County Executive Mike Hein, once the subject of much speculation as a congressional possibility, didn't attend last week's candidates» night, but his shadow looms over this race.

Apart from the fact that 2 of the four candidates for leader were women, and just over half the shadow cabinet posts are held by women, all women short lists are discriminatory.

The problem is partly the excessively tight control being exerted by the shadow Treasury team over all their colleagues» initiatives, but mainly that Ed Miliband is hamstrung by a shadow cabinet where a large majority didn't vote for him as their first - choice candidate.

Tom Watson, who was involved in the selection of Labour's election candidates, resigned his shadow cabinet position over the Falkirk row in July.