Sentences with phrase «very public campaign»

You have sent out thousands of emails and continue a very public campaign, despite him telling you to stop and that YOU are the one that is hurting him much more than anyone else.

Its something every school district will have to face,» said Cissy Bowman, spokeswoman for the Mt. Lebanon (Pennsylvania) School District, which waged a very public campaign against a MRSA outbreak in 2007.

The president has dubbed it the «Buffett Rule» after investor Warren Buffett, who has made a very public campaign about the super wealthy paying a higher percentage of their income in taxes.

That's anathema to many entrepreneurs, such as Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, who has mounted a very public campaign against overturning Net neutrality.

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At the very least, she said, the Department of Education should create a public awareness campaign to get the message out to current and former higher education students that there are programs available that can help them.

Backers of the campaign were able to pick up their very own Smarty Ring for only $ 175, though the retail price will be somewhere in the range of $ 275 when it makes its public debut sometime around April, 2014.

As noted by the esteemed commodities analysts at the US ex-investment bank, copper is very closely correlated to China fixed asset investment, which appears to have become public enemy number 1 of the People's Bank of China's latest tightening campaign.

A campaign really has very little to do with informing the American public on what policies are beneficial and which are harmful, which is exactly what it should be about.

As Woolies learnt last year with its disastrous ANZAC campaign, and as ALDI is discovering now after refusing to heed the call to phase out caged eggs (as Woolworths and Coles are doing), the consequences of alienating consumers are very real — and very public.»

Spitzer declined to pick favorites in the 2006 Democratic primary, but was believed to prefer former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green to Cuomo — in part because Green's rich developer brother, Stephen, gave very generously to Spitzer's campaign, but also because Spitzer didn't relish the idea of having the ambitious Cuomo breathing down his neck from the AG's office.

And a public with access to an essentially infinite amount of information about candidates, campaigns and issues can arrive at opinions on our own, thank you very much.

At a panel discussion at GWU's School of New Media and Public Affairs on Monday, Rospars described in particular the vital role of online video content, whose power the campaign recognized from the beginning — very early in the race, Obama's team already included a videographer and screenwriter / producer squad to shoot footage both for internal / documentary purposes and (more importantly) for use in public as a persuasivePublic Affairs on Monday, Rospars described in particular the vital role of online video content, whose power the campaign recognized from the beginning — very early in the race, Obama's team already included a videographer and screenwriter / producer squad to shoot footage both for internal / documentary purposes and (more importantly) for use in public as a persuasivepublic as a persuasive tool.

In the first two days alone, activists filled his council page and campaign page with over 150 messages, in a very public display of their desire to keep adequate funding for social programs for the District's poor.

And the Obama campaign used video extensively: from very early in the race, his team already included a videographer and screenwriter / producer squad to shoot footage both for internal / documentary purposes and (more importantly) for use in public as a persuasive tool.

Much of a campaign's online outreach will take place in the very public venues of blogs, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Twitter, but politicians and staff can also reach out behind the scenes, for instance sending emails or Facebook messages to selected bloggers, Twitterers and activists, usually in the hope of creating connections that will lead to more public affirmations of support.

ALBANY — Good - government advocates are pinning their hopes for passage of substantial ethics and campaign finance reforms on very public examinations of alleged corruption set to take place over the next six months.

«This case stands for a very simple but important principle, which is that you can not use your campaign account as a slush fund to avoid public scrutiny,» said Schneiderman, D - New York.

But she said it's at the very least an appearance of a conflict of interest when the campaign manager frequents a state office when he is not a government employee, and it's potentially a violation of the state's public officers» law.

I've argued before that corporations are better targets for email campaigns than are members of Congress, both because companies are very sensitive to the public perception of their brands and because they receive so many fewer emails than elected officials (we've managed to swamp Congress).

When I studied aspects of US politics at BA level (admittedly quite briefly and a while ago) I recalled very weak structures for substantive participation outside of campaign times, particularly for those not wishing to stand for public office.

During the campaign Peter Mandelson launched very public attacks on Ed Miliband, and Blair intervened to say: «I always took the view that if we departed a millimetre from New Labour, we were going to be in trouble.»

«I very much would like to see the state of New York be the progressive leader when it comes to campaign - finance reform, transparency, disclosure, public finance, limits — that's going to be our goal,» he said in an interview with Public Radio's Karen DeWitt this aftepublic finance, limits — that's going to be our goal,» he said in an interview with Public Radio's Karen DeWitt this aftePublic Radio's Karen DeWitt this afternoon.

The problem in the referendum was not only that Corbyn campaigned half - heartedly, and was even accused of actively undermining the Labour Remain campaign, but that his presence from the very outset meant that the media and public had ceased taking Labour seriously.

Other 2012 campaigns should learn from this very public critique — the clever subject lines can get old, fast.

All the talk of progressive policies like another minimum wage hike and establishment of a public campaign finance system and a formal fracking ban makes business leaders very nervous.

Klein called the proposal a «very exciting development» but added the new Democratic coalition majority would need to be able to pass a range of issues sought by the left, including bolstering abortion rights, single - payer health care and the public financing of campaigns.

I think we must consider public financing of campaigns because that would pay for itself in a very short timeframe.

One obvious method is public financing of campaigns, but it's very tough to persuade incumbents to limit their own resources, and Cuomo isn't exactly an outsider or a radical: His $ 16 million war chest contains money from all the usual suspects too.

The much discussed and much ignored public financing of campaigns is in the governor's budget, which makes it very hard for the Senate to turn it down.

Governor Cuomo could not guarantee that public financing of campaigns would be in the final legislation that is ultimately agreed to by the legislature, though he says he considers public financing «very important,» and says that it will be an «integral piece» of his plan.

The trouble started when Astorino stood on the Capitol steps last Monday and unveiled the very first comprehensive public policy proposal of his campaign to oust Andrew Cuomo.

In perhaps a signal to the Working Families Party, the governor now says he may very well campaign against the Senate leadership in the fall elections if they don't agree to expand public campaign financing by the end of the legislative session.

However, she said it is at the very least an appearance of a conflict of interest when the campaign manager frequents a state office when he is not a government employee, and it is potentially a violation of the state's public officers» law.

Not only is Galloway coming to the fight with the confidence of a man who secured a 36.6 % swing in his last campaign, he knows where Labour's weaknesses lie in the wake of this very public saga.

During a very public disgreement between the two men last year over funding for de Blasio's signature campaign initiative of pre-kindergarten education expansion, Cuomo said, pointedly, that de Blasio risked creating «more inequity and inequality.»

«Throughout the history of the presidential public finance system, the program has operated admirably to the point of fairly equalizing campaign expenditures between the major party candidates, and providing primary candidates with the resources to be able to run campaigns,» said Holman «It made elections very competitive, quite open and fairly scandal - free.»

Unfortunately freedom of speech is contingent to how much money you have given that the media is itself a business that has to make profits as well, so a «lobbyist» like this comes to this program without any ethics, without any remorse but with a lot of money as well to openly acknowledge that: yes, we put money in this governor's elections, we are expecting he pay us back and will stand on our side of the equation, and yes, we have collected (very fast) the private necessary money to run a public relations campaign (of lies if necessary) to guarantee that our privileges are well kept; and he finds a free stand to speak out freely and without appropriate response As far as Liz, I'm not sure if it is only a being naïve issue.

This could put his party very out of step with public opinion, possibly rendering Labour's election campaign in 2015 impotent (read: EUnuch).

At the very least, passage of the public financing of political campaigns will be an heavier lift.

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

He said there are people you use them to win power and those that are used to manage power, explaining that Kufuor knew Kwadwo Mpiani was a very good material but whose public relation and communication was not good so he was not involved in the campaign but was later used as Chief of Staff.

Schneiderman said the Maziarz case stood «for a very simple but important principle, which is that you can not use your campaign account as a slush fund to avoid public scrutiny.

Libous (R - Binghamton) insists the coalition remains «very strong» despite criticism from the left that the Independent Democratic Conference can't get bills pertaining to public campaign financing or strengthening of abortion rights to the floor for a vote.

This case stands for a very simple but important principle, which is that you can not use your campaign account as a slush fund to avoid public scrutiny.

These developments appear to worry the Cuomo / Hochul campaign, producing a very public endorsement press conference today, featuring the mayor, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and 20 other members of the City Council.

«Voters are very angry about corruption and they want to hear the candidates recognize this problem and what they plan to do about it,» said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit focuses on ethics and campaign finance issues.

He thinks public financing of campaigns is for chumps and said as much this very morning.

Despite a busy public schedule and frequent interviews with the media, Astorino had very little money for campaigning, just $ 2.4 million to Cuomo's $ 35 million.

The public will also reject the politicians who perpetuate this nasty and very ugly smear campaign.

But she says it's at the very least an appearance of a conflict of interest when the campaign manager frequents a state office when he is not a government employee, and potentially a violation of the state's public officers» law.