Sentences with phrase «state political office»

Some might believe that Nigel Loncke is too young for a run for state political office at 33 years of age, but he believes that he is a seasoned political operative, having worked in the background both for Gregory Meeks and Barack Obama's campaign and also in the recent mid-term election in Colorado.

The governor says the bills range from banning LLC money just for the race for governor, to extending it to all contests for state political office.

I'll distribute and discuss this with many folks, including several aspirants to local and state political offices, in the coming days and weeks.

Not exact matches

Known as the first openly transgender black woman to be elected to political office in the United States, Jenkins made history this year when she was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.

Back in the United States, an abstention of direct investment in the flexible office industry from a global real estate leader such as Blackstone coincides with a lack of of confidence for the country's political and economic future.

He does not even touch on what the political scientists Valerie Hudson and Patricia Leidl have called the «Hillary Doctrine,» promulgated through the Office of Global Women's Issues established by Mrs. Clinton at the State Department, and according to which any denial of gender equality anywhere in the world is a threat to American order.

This is not unlike the political leader resigning from office, because the janitor, with whom he had neither contact, nor any relationship with, sold state secrets to the enemy.

Just ask any Republican candidate about the separation of church and state... or try to run for a political office as an atheist.

It will be based on how I feel he measures up to the office of the presidency of the United States according to his public service record, his political beliefs, and how he wants to move this country forward.

«I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

There should be no religious test required as a qualification to any political office in the United States.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

«12 At the same time, the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington was putting economic and political pressure on the governments of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea to withdraw their trade barriers and allow U.S. cigarette sales and advertising into their nations.

In the United States they have forced priests out of political office.

Electrical Trades Union state secretary Troy Gray said demand for a Senate inquiry was coming from ordinary workers in factories, shops, offices and service providers, where «powerless and voiceless Australians spend their working lives, our of sight from the political and corporate elite».

In the wake of last month's election that returned Gov. Jerry Brown and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson to office, the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers have the best political opportunity in 40 years to reshape teaching and schooling.

The Young Dads are becoming increasingly political, holding informational protests at courthouses, county board meetings and state child - support offices.

Today it is a time to honor all those who have held the highest political office in the United States, past and present.

The court also mandated INEC to recognise the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP headed by Sen. Ahmed Markarfi, former Governor of Kaduna State in all matters pertaining the conduct of Primary Elections for Political Offices and the submission of the PDP List of Candidates for any elections to be conducted by INEC pending the hearing and determination of the Motion on Notice.

Wrongdoing has no political colour and I do not subscribe to the lawlessness of political party supporters simply because their party has been elected into office,» he stated.

Similarly, while some commentators have got very excited about the potential political impact of having all «four great [shadow] offices of state» being held by London MPs, I would be amazed if more than five per cent of the population could name all of those four officeholders, let alone the constituencies they represent.

AFRICOM has a fledgling office for security cooperation in the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, and the State Department's Bureau of Political - Military Affairs maintains a fund for Conventional Weapons Reduction (CWD); though no funds have been allocated for Libya for this fiscal year, or the next.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

Spitzer (AKA the steamroller) was hardly a shrinking violet during his brief stint as governor, and according to a report by Cuomo — who was AG at the time, having followed Spitzer into that office — he misused his executive power over the State Police in a botched attempt to smear his top political rival, then Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

The latter, aged 66, may well lead the party, but most important offices of the state are now in the hands of his younger colleagues using a different language and relying on different political advisers than Kaczyński.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown acknowledged he knows all three Western New York political figures involved in State Attorney General's Office probe.

The former councilman, who also served a brief stint in the state attorney general's office, has not officially announced a challenge to Klein, but he has discussed a possible run with the IDC leader's political nemesis, DSCC Chairman Mike Gianaris.

Chief Ogbeh who described Governor Aregbesola as a visionary leader per excellence, said his landmark achievements since assumption of office remained memorable legacy in the political annals of the state.

Cuomo noted that his office has gone after some very powerful people who have contributed political cash to him, using this as proof that he can't be swayed from acting in the best interest of the «people of New York State» just because someone throw some money in his direction.

«If Todd Kaminsky can't run for political office without neglecting his official legislative duties, how can we expect him to handle the myriad of issues facing Long Island as a State Senator?»

Making any contribution or donation to any committee or organization of any national, state, district, or local political party (including donations to a party nonfederal account or office building account);

RSLC president Chris Jankowski: «Matt is an experienced political professional who is ready to continue the RSLC's groundbreaking success and take the point for the Committee's efforts electing Republicans to state office across the country.»»

Joshua Lafazan, who in 2012 became the youngest public office holder in state history when he was elected at 18 to the Syosset school board, kicked off his campaign for the Nassau Legislature, vowing to bring young energy to fight political corruption and restore the county's fiscal integrity.

Espada has repeatedly accused Cuomo of targeting him in a political «witch hunt» in order to boost his own credentials as a erformer — a reputation on which he rode to the governor's office in 2010 while pledging to clean up the infamously dysfunctional and corruption - ridden state Capitol.

It is less than a hundred days until the election for the most powerful political office in the world, the President of the United States of America.

«For most offices, New York State's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of theState's contribution «limits» are substantially higher than those of any other state that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of thestate that imposes limits, and they are so high as to ensure that large donors dominate major political campaigns and candidates spend as much time as possible raising money from donors rather than talking with voters about issues,» Cuomo said in the written version of the SoS.

The head of the state Republican Party, Chairman Ed Cox, has filed a complaint alleging that Cuomo and his former closest aide, Percoco, broke laws meant to prevent government offices from being used to run political campaigns.

When one political party holds the governor's office and a majority in both houses of the state legislature, the state is governed by a state government trifecta.

Through his campaign account and his political action committee, the Kerry campaign operation generated more than $ 10 million for various party committees and 179 candidates for the U.S. House, Senate, state and local offices in 42 states focusing on the midterm elections during the 2006 election cycle.

As you'll see in our highlight reel, the speeches displayed much of what Team Cuomo has going for it; four years in office with some significant legislative accomplishments, nearly universal support from elected Democrats and their political organizations, enormous amounts of state money spent over the past four years which, whether well spent or not produces support from recipients, and a powerful speaker at the top of the ticket.

It was his first run for political office and his opponent was Democratic state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who had been appointed to the office three years prior.

Vance, in a letter sent to Cuomo on Tuesday night, said the state probe into his office was political, and that Cuomo only started it because he was nervous about a Democratic primary challenge from actor Cynthia Nixon.

According to New York law, state - level campaign contributions can be used for «any lawful purpose,» but they «shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

State law defines an established political party as any party whose candidate for a statewide office received at least 2 percent of the total votes cast that office in either of the two most recent general elections.

-- MOUNT VERNON MAYOR ARRESTED — Journal News» Jonathan Bandler and Jorge Fitz - Gibbons: «Mayor Richard Thomas was arrested Monday, accused of stealing more than $ 12,000 from his political campaign and diverting more than $ 45,000 from his inaugural committee in what the state Attorney General's Office called a wide - ranging scheme to use those funds as his «personal piggybanks.»

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

In the United States system, your political party really only matters to the public once you decide to run for an office.

So you can bounce between parties as much as you want in the United States until you decide to run for office... than you better be prepared to part with the party only on pain of death or (worse of an elected official) future political career.

Though it operates under the umbrella of the state Board of Elections, the new enforcement office is designed to operate separately from the board, which in the past had been neutered by a bipartisan structure that made it loath to investigate wrongdoing by political actors on either side of the aisle.

Based on records from the Office of Campaign and Political finance the average raised by incumbent Republican State Representatives was $ 21,236 and the median was $ 15,680.