Sentences with phrase «stumping for»

Jim isn't bothered, he tweeted: «I'd like to respond to all the conservative bundits out there personally but I'm far too busy NOT stumping for the gun companies!»

For his part, Romney has since the Tampa convention repeated his applause line while stumping for votes.

«Meet the «Cult» Leader Stumping for Donald Trump,» The Daily Beast, February 4, 2016.

Despite passing some of the strongest laws regulating hydraulic fracturing, the Democratic governor of Colorado John Hickenlooper has taken to directly stumping for the controversial process — while still sitting in office.

Following Vancouver's tax, Juwai.com, an online platform for international property buyers in China, published a blog post stumping for Calgary.

When our editors finished stumping for their personal favorites and the votes were counted, our top 10 included three notable debuts, a few familiar names and one beautifully written memoir.

Stumping for his proposal to expand school choice as an «alternative to failing schools,» Gov. Scott Walker threw down a challenge to what he called five common myths about choice.

Before Rod Paige became the secretary of education, it might have seemed a bit odd to have football players stumping for education reform.

Like a freshly minted Miss America stumping for her chosen cause, the new chairman of the National Governors» Association traditionally uses the post to focus attention on an issue that looms large for the states.

Melissa McCarthy is stumping for Paul Feig's not - so - hotly - anticipated all - female Ghostbusters reboot.

When putting together my list, I struggled to find six names I felt worthy (I personally was stumping for Jack O'Connell from the little - seen but excellent

Even when, in her enduringly funny and potent role as Che's irrepressibly messed up neighbor (and new wife, apparently) Cathy Anne, Cecily Strong points out — as Franken did in his resignation speech — it's pretty ironic that Franken has confessed to acting like a jerk and lost his job while the still - in - office Donald Trump is currently stumping for Roy Moore.

He spent most of the fall juggling a very full calendar, stumping for two films («Contagion» and «We Bought A Zoo «-RRB- while also filming Neill Blomkamp «s massive and mysterious sci - fi project «Elysium.»

T.I. isn't the first famous person stumping for the Chadwick Boseman - starring film, either; Oscar winner Octavia Spencer has said that she intends to buy out a full theater showing of the movie for low - income Marvel fans in Mississippi, and Ellen DeGeneres raised money to send kids at Harlem's Boys & Girls Club to see the film.

If Captain America: Civil War was broken down to three factions, it's a safe bet Brie Larson would be Team Black Panther.Larson, who officially joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain Marvel, has been stumping for fellow cast mate Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther.

Currently stumping for «The Fifth Estate» and «Rush» at TIFF, Daniel Brühl revealed to Collider that he'll being starring in «The Face of an Angel,» for the ever - prolific Michael Winterbottom.

Laura Dern: All of Dern's pre-release buzz died when her name failed to show up anywhere in the precursors, but the Hollywood scion is beloved within the community — lest we forget, she was all over the circuit stumping for her pops Bruce Dern last year — and managed to snag the final Best Supporting Actress spot for her lovely, if brief, work in Wild.

Tom Sanders, president of the American Nuclear Society and manager of Sandia National Laboratories» Global Nuclear Futures Initiative, has been stumping for small rectors for more than a decade.

Buerkle has had her own party's heavyweights stumping for her.

Clinton has been traveling the country stumping for Democratic candidates.

Cuomo, the source said, will be moving around the state aggressively stumping for Democrats «up and down the ballot» in the last several weeks of the campaign.

She appeared at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this morning stumping for new legislation to cement high - tech innovation and industry in the Capital Region.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has been traveling a lot this year, stumping for the need to fight the opioid crisis as a member of the National Opioid Task Force.

Supporters wait in a long line to enter the Grapevine in Depew where former President Bill Clinton is stumping for his wife and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

De Blasio dedicated his time to campaigning for Clinton instead of stumping for Democratic candidates in key New York State Senate races, where control of that chamber will be decided.

How could that happen with the Campaigner - In - Chief out stumping for them?

At a rally in Alabama two weeks ago, President Donald Trump alluded to Kaepernick while stumping for a Congressional candidate.

Certainly Avella's exit from the race makes Peter Vallone winner of the week, and urban lobbyist Paul Graziano - who's candidacy depended on Avella's stumping for him as loser of the week.

Obama's schedule of stumping for candidates over the past few months has been active as well, but it lags just behind Clinton's.

They're often called surrogates on the campaign trail; notable politicians, people in the entertainment industry, and other personalities out stumping for the candidates to help get a broader reach, since a candidate can only be so many places on any given day.

Quinn has helped push Cuomo's new Women's Equality Party in recent weeks, headlining events for the newly created party and stumping for Cuomo's running mate, Kathy Hochul, as she introduced herself to downstate voters.

Last week, down on Long Island while stumping for a Democratic state senator, odd in its own right, Cuomo had this to say: «We're going to go back to Albany, and we're going to do the unfinished business this year, and we're to start with real ethics reforms.

This weekend the state's other Democratic Senator, Kristin Gillibrand, is stumping for the Democratic candidate.

But after winning his primary in September, Mr. Cuomo proved to be a less - than - energetic campaigner for Senate Democrats, sparing in his endorsements and rarely stumping for embattled incumbents or hopefuls.

One of the most active Trump groups in central New York was out in full force this weekend, stumping for their candidate.

But Riley is now stumping for a tax cut plan of his own, and Moore has struggled to coalesce support against the incumbent, trailing 56 percent to 28 percent in a Mobile Register survey released in February.

Ms. Clinton was stumping for the governor and his Women's Equality Party at the Grand Hyatt in Midtown this afternoon, and spoke for about 18 minutes before introducing Mr. Cuomo, who recalled working for her husband President Bill Clinton's administration.

And political yard signs do work, Mr. Klein said, although he considers door - to - door stumping for votes a candidate's best shot of getting elected.

And then finally, as speculation mounted that Hochul could actually lose to Wu, the former congresswoman set surrogate duty aside entirely to start stumping for herself.

(Bill Clinton, stumping for Hillary Clinton on Long Island, endorsed Mr. Kaminsky this month.)

Ralph Nader is stumping for the Green Party's New York gubernatorial candidate.

House Speaker Paul Ryan spent more than an hour at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown stumping for U.S. Rep. John Katko, who is up for reelection in November.

Ryan also spent more than an hour at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown stumping for NY - 24 Rep. John Katko, who is up for reelection in November.

The former mayor made the remarks while stumping for District Attorney Dan Donovan's congressional run.

MANHATTAN — Actress Scarlett Johansson is plotting a sequel in her recent stumping for for Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

Sen. Ted Cruz is stumping for congressional hopeful Marilinda Garcia this weekend, just ahead of New Hampshire's Republican primaries next week.

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie stumping for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley in Trumbull, Conn..

But he did little stumping for anyone other than himself, and all of the candidates he endorsed lost.

While de Blasio was in Iowa stumping for Hillary Clinton, opposition to his plan to shrink the horse - carriage trade and restrict it to Central Park has grown, prompting the mayor and his surrogates to do some last - minute vote wrangling to counter the growing number of antagonists.

Former President Bill Clinton was met with mixed reactions yesterday while stumping for his wife on a New York City tour that included stops in Harlem and Queens.