Sentences with phrase «term on campaign promises»

The mayor was elected to his first term on campaign promises to curtail police officers» use of stop - and - frisk, which critics argued was tantamount to racial profiling, and to increase affordable housing following years of luxury development and soaring housing prices under his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.

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The terms of service of crowdfunding sites state that they aren't responsible for campaigns that fail to deliver on their promises.

Elsewhere, Gov. Scott Walker, a rising Republican star, campaigned in 2010 on a promise to create 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin during his first term.

An attempt by the House of Representatives to pass an overwhelmingly popular ban on late - term abortion was temporarily scrapped when some House Republicans came to the horrible realization that they might actually have to follow through on their campaign promises.

Cuomo, to chants of «four more years», promised to deliver in his next term on a mostly progressive agenda, including enacting a number of items that were stalled in the State Senate over the past couple of years, like an abortion rights provision as part of a women's rights agenda and public financing of political campaigns.

The agreement eases a longtime political headache for the mayor, who promised campaign supporters he would eliminate the industry on Day One of his first term.

He further assured that all promises he made while on the campaign trail will be honoured during his term in office.

And on Tuesday, she upped the rhetorical ante with her campaign promise to impanel a new Moreland Commission, a century - old mechanism that lets the governor «examine and investigate» almost any part of state government, on the very first day of her very first term (presuming, of course, she gets past Mr. Cuomo in the September primary — still an uphill climb — and a Republican in November).»

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who appear to be fighting for the right to meet de Blasio in a runoff — if there is a runoff — took the public advocate to task for flip - flopping on issues such as term limits, for what Quinn called «pie - in - the - sky» promises about education and for accepting campaign donations from building owners who appeared on a slumlord watch list.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg again changes promises on what votes he can provide from Senate Republicans on marriage equality: «Less than a month after defending his support for Republican state senators, saying he could get their votes for gay marriage, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said conservatives in that body will not support what the mayor termed «our number one priority» at a recent campaign event with gay supporters.

He noted that since Buhari had delivered on his campaign promises, the governors were of the opinion that the President deserved to run for a second term.

Walker is now campaigning on a promise to destroy the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) if elected President in 2016, a plan which was earlier debated by ALEC at its December 2014 conference and is in line with ALEC's long - term legislative agenda.