Sentences with phrase «time conservative office»

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Flaherty, 64, served as Harper's only finance minister from the time the Conservatives won office in January 2006 until last month, when he stepped down, saying he would not run in the 2015 election and wanted more time with his family.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

As the result of the retirement of long - time Progressive Conservative MLA Ken Kowalski, the Speaker's Office is vacant for the first time since 1997.

Well, at least we can depend on them to act with a high degree of fiscal responsibility... my god, you mean to tell me that the conservatives have tanked the economy every time they've been in office since the Nixon administration?

I am no longer even a «conservative blogger with an agenda» but a lowly «small time hack» but at the same time I am lifted up as part of some grand nefarious GOP cabal that includes Lee Atwater, who died in 1991, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who last held office in 1999.

The 5th Ward councilman, who is running for council president in the upcoming Democratic Primary in September, is the only candidate running for elected office who is behind on taxes, according to a Times Union analysis of property tax records for all 45 candidates — from Democrats to Conservatives — seeking various city offices this year.

[14] One of his Oxford friends, journalist George Bridges, alerted Osborne some time later to a research vacancy at Conservative Central Office.

Sunday Times reporters had smuggled a camera into the office of Conservative treasurer Peter Cruddas and claimed to be from a Liechtenstein - based wealth fund.

His time working in Conservative Central Office brought him into contact with David Cameron, and his future wife Rachel Whetstone.

In a raucous session of prime minister's question time this afternoon, Conservative leader David Cameron suggested Mr Blair should take personal responsibility for the «shambles» in the Home Office - with the clear implication that he should step down.

«Congressman Hanna has not been a friend of the fiscally conservative during his time in office, and I will do everything I can to prevent him from obtaining any further terms,» Hunter said.

Wilson has kept his hand in politics, showing up at various G.O.P. and Conservative events from time to time, and has never ruled out a potential second attempt at elected office.

The Conservatives have criticised the prime minister for employing a part - time defence secretary, with Des Browne split between the Scottish Office and the MoD.

Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino on Wednesday sent an email blast to supporters and journalists a rather lengthy thesis on why it's time to knock the Republican legislative leaders out of office and nominate an appropriately conservative candidate to run against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo next year.

«I complained when I was national chairman [of Conservative Future] directly to Sayeeda Warsi as the party chairman, I complained directly to the chairman's office when Grant Shapps took over as the party chairman and I have to say Lord Feldman has been well aware of all this, for a very long period of time.»

Conservative Home Office scandals are as predictable as pantomimes and come with their own time - honoured tropes including: cruel heartless and usually racist Tories and their selfless Labour opponents championing the underdog.

«Congressman Hanna has not been a friend of the fiscally conservative during his time in office, and I will do everything I can to prevent him from obtaining any further terms,» Hunter wrote to his supporters.

«I've always had the Conservative Party's endorsement every time I've run for office,» Hochul says in the video compilation of her previous statements.

In Stony Point there will likely be a rare primary on the Conservative Party line as the Conservatives endorsed Democrat Geoff Finn over the only member of their county party with a chance to win an office in 2013, Rockland County Times editor Dylan Skriloff.

The Business Council's political action committee also endorsed Cuomo last fall and it was the first time the fiscally conservative business group endorsed a candidate for public office.

As Harry notes, the Conservative party recently opened a campaign HQ in Bangor, Co Down and I «m the new, full - time manager for that office.

Between 2000 and 2001 John worked for William Hague as Head of the Political Section in Conservative Central Office assisting with the briefing for Prime Ministers» Question Time.

«Five families» of Rockland politics hold secret meeting behind cemetery at the offices of the Working Families Party; unlikely personalities seek to save Ed Lettre's leadership of the Conservative Party (EDITOR»S NOTE POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2012 — PLEASE SEE ADDENDUM AT END OF STORY) BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Desperate times call for half - baked measures!

I don't think that many people know that I've always had the Conservative Party endorsement every time I've run for office.

America Rising, a conservative group that conducts opposition research, has started collecting records of Miner's travel and expenses during her time in office.

Following his return to the House in the 1979 election, he held various government posts and was Conservative Party Chairman from 1983 to 1985 — an office he held at the time of the Brighton hotel bombing during the 1984 Conservative Party conference.

The election victory won by the Conservatives could also arguably be attributed to the rise in average living standards that had taken place during their time in office.

Much has changed since the day when I sat in David Davis's office (he was Shadow Home Secretary at the time, and I was a Conservative MP) scribbling lines for his response to Charles Clarke's Commons statement.

Buerkle has been the most conservative member of the NY delegation during her time in office.

Since he was appointed Supervisor of Clarkstown Gromack has been a protégé of the Conservative Party Chairman, Ed Lettre, who strives to keep Gromack in office by the use of the minor party political lines which magically appear for a couple of months at election time.

In a move that will do nothing to help relations between the SNP and Conservatives, the prime minister on Thursday gave a peerage and ministerial job in the Scotland Office to Andrew Dunlop, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher at the time of the poll tax.

Castaldi, says she is at heart a lifelong Republican and fiscal conservative, despite several years spent as a registered Democrat during her time in office in Ossining.

Such overalls can be worn even in the office, just choose more conservative designs made of sufficiently dense and at the same time «breathing» fabrics.

?????? But at the time I was working in a very conservative office and that never would have flown.

This is not the first time Mr. Tancredo has been accused of using his office to promote conservative causes.

Both the Labour party, which was in office at the time of the tests, and the Conservative party, criticised the boycott.

The Dulwich home proved to be an embarrassment for one of Barratt's arch rivals, Taylor Woodrow, whose founder, Frank Taylor, was a personal friend of Thatcher's and gave political donations to her Conservative Party during her time in office.