Sentences with phrase «so voter interest»

Could Eddie Cox have a strategy here... throw the Governor race by running Krazy Karl's angry grandad so voter interest goes down giving him the best chance to hold on to enough Senate seats they can buy off fake Democrats and maintain their corrupt majority?

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Hoffman also stressed that transparency is important in a presidential candidate so that voters can be made aware of his conflicts of interest, his state of public affairs, and his charitable giving.

Another way of looking at it is that the voters already have decided — they elected the provincial government that put into place the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act 20 or so years ago.

So Labour need to get to the disaffected voters who maybe voted Labour in the past and not anymore; they also need to get to those who are not even interested in politics.

When you have 2 main candidates from 2 main parties, in a high profile campaign, their main viewpoints on topics deemed of interest to the voters are already well known, so there's no big problem of «oh!

Given Labour's apparent new pro-Europeanism, I'd suggest amending this approach so that it increasingly emphasises the values and interests of working class voters.

So while saying no to powerful special interests may seem like it carries short - term political cost, it's necessary to assure voters that he's not just another politician who only cares about himself.

But voter turnout in primaries, like the New York governor's race, is abysmally low, so the ideologues on the far left and far right — and the special interests who throw money at the elections — control the process.

I'm not wasting much time on Lords reform, which has excited so much media interest, largely because the very public feuding between coalition factions, peers and the Labour party in recent days confirm the hunch that it isn't going to get far, doesn't deserve to do so, and that most voters won't notice or care.

I have the same attitude to football that most voters have towards politics: I become slightly more interested in it every four years or so, but in between World Cups, my eyes tend to glaze over.

All this is a mystery to voters and so long as it remains so, Labour is too easily caricatured as a party which will sign up to any EU agreement, regardless of merit or national interest, to avoid isolation.

It is so refreshing to back a candidate who is more an activist than a politician, who believes in something other than their own self - interest, and who, like Bernie, will certainly mobilize thousands of enthusiastic voters to rally behind his candidacy,» NYPAN Co-Chairman George Albro said in a statement.

Nelson, who served as a delegate for Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016, has issued stern warnings to his fellow Democrats against accepting funds for corporate interests, and has insinuated voters should not support candidates who do so.

One of the crucial early questions surrounding Ms. Nixon is whether Democratic voters have any interest in elevating a celebrity while Donald Trump is serving as president, let alone doing so at the expense of Mr. Cuomo, whose liberal accomplishments as governor include legalizing same - sex marriage, increasing the minimum wage and establishing paid - family leave.

Candidates for high political office, including governor of Connecticut, should fully release their federal and state tax returns so that voters can digest the information and determine for themselves whether there are any financial conflicts of interests or other details that could affect a person's...

There would be no special responsibility on the LibDems: I think the major parties would think it in their interests to at least have a discussion; it would be sensible to do so; and voters might reasonably expect that once a hung parliament happened.

«With so much at stake, and with the possibility of downstate special interest groups getting a stranglehold on state government, the voters of this district deserve to hear a thoughtful discussion on issues from all the candidates.»

«It is so refreshing to back a candidate who is an activist and not a politician, who believes in something other than their own self - interest, and who, like Bernie, will certainly mobilize thousands of enthusiastic voters to rally behind her historic candidacy.»

Most Welsh Assembly Members don't look that excited about them, so why do they think the voters would be interested?»

So on Wednesday, Citizens Union, Reinvent Albany, Common Cause NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, and the New York Public Interest Research Group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo and the two new legislative leaders, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, urging them to come together to enact comprehensive and significant reforms in five ethics categories.

The Lib Dems «worry» says Mandelson, «was that the referendum would be lost because voters might see a Lab - Lib pact as a self - interested stitch - up on both sides, so it might be better to avoid such a test.»

Moreover, such an outcome is in the national interest too: these voters are disadvantaged if one party believes they could be taken for granted, and the others that they are out - of - reach, so the convergence of majority and minority voting patterns over time should be seen as a positive indicator of integration.

The frequent changes of personnel and the political pressures to balance the competing interests of voters, parents, unions, businesses, and so on, often preclude the continuity necessary to reflect on large - scale trends, plan for long - term goals, take calculated risks, or embrace change and innovation.

The frequent changes of personnel at both the staff level and the ministerial level, and the political pressures to balance the competing interests of voters, parents, unions, businesses, and so on, often preclude the continuity necessary to reflect on large - scale trends, plan for long - term goals, take calculated risks, or embrace change and innovation.

So a coalition of respected educational interests, including the League of Education Voters, has filed this initiative.

«So it's in their interest probably to be steady as you go, and to try to increase their support» among voters.

So let's work on finding some really great books to nominate, and gathering interested voters who care.

They are masters of muddying things up in order to confuse voters so that grass roots movements against their interests do not take form.

Never in history has there been so many democracies in the world, yet voters give very little thought to how they vote, and most of the thought they do give is selfish and short - sighted, consequently many countries are effectively run by moneyed interests rather than by «the will of the people».

Until landowners are prevented from signing away their land for a generation or more without a requirement they receive independent legal advice, until the legislation and regulation is made transparent to average voters (for example, until they understand why much of what they actually want to appeal may not be appealed so that, from their perspective, they in fact have no right of appeal), until they understand why of all structures it is only the power to approve the erection of wind towers that has been taken away from local municipalities, until they understand why applications for immediately adjacent areas (by gilead and wpd) abutting Lake Ontario in either the most dense or second-most dense bird migration area in all of Eastern Canada may not be joined into one proceeding [guess whose interests that favours]... the list of «untils» is a long one and there is no indication of any change on the way.

The interest in getting more information on how these companies left the doors open for voter manipulation across both sides of the aisle gets to the heart of why Russian election meddling is so troubling: If powerful foreign adversaries are working to sway American voters, it doesn't matter what team you're on.