Sentences with phrase «statements about their opponents»

As for whether the by - election should be happening at all, three quarters of voters in the seat (including a majority of Labour voters) think Phil Woolas «did make false statements about his opponents and this probably affected the result», so rerunning the election was the right decision.

Not exact matches

They are, sadly, about as amoral as their opponents suggest they are, which is a fairly strong statement given the amount of hype typically found on the Internet.

In a statement released by his campaign, Davis slammed both his major party opponents — Democrat Kathy Hochul and Republican Jane Corwin — calling them «professional politicians» who are «lying about me and my record» — not to mention their own respective records, «taking credit for work done by others.»

«I look forward to the opportunity to debate my opponent and to give the voters of the 22nd District a chance to learn about the issues affecting all of us,» Tenney said in a statement.

In response to questions by The Buffalo News about campaign spending, the Brown campaign issued a statement Thursday: «Regardless of the opponent, the Brown campaign put a campaign strategy and plan in place and ran the campaign accordingly.»

Woolas has since been stripped of his seat in parliament by a special election court, which ruled that he knowingly made false statements about his Lib Dem opponent, and suspended from the Labour Party.

Picente did not say anything negative in his statement about his Democratic opponent, incumbent AG Eric Schneiderman.

In a statement to a news conference in London, Clegg was scathing about the bill's opponents, referring to them as «an establishment resistant to change [and] vested interests who benefit from maintaining the power of political patronage, while keeping the power of people out».

The Star's final tally came to 494 false statements, most of which were about the policies of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

On Friday 28 May 2010, Woolas's Liberal Democrat opponent, Elwyn Watkins, issued an election petition against the result [40][41] under section 106 of the Representation of the People Act 1983, [42][43][44] which makes it illegal to make false statements of fact about a candidate.

The Hotel Trades Council — which said about 100 housing activists and other Airbnb opponents attended the event — also released a statement from union member Tyrone Connell, who was the male heckler at the bottom of the stairs.

But Levitan — who typically proffers a statement outlining the mayor's record of achievements in response to any comments made by opponents — took to Twitter to blast Malliotakis and the other candidates during the forum after Dietl made an off - color comment about the mayor's wife.

, a vocal opponent of nuclear power, saw Jaczko's statement as a welcome response to his concerns about the ability of the AP1000 to survive a major earthquake, hurricane or earthquake strike, and as evidence of NRC's closer scrutiny of safety issues following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.

denied, 540 U.S. 825 (2003): In reviewing charges stemming from a pro-prosecution judicial campaign, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the pledge or promise clause, the commit clause, and the clause prohibiting false statements or misrepresentations about an opponent (in this case, giving a misleading account of the incumbent's granting bail in a particular case) of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct.