Sentences with phrase «vote on campaign promises»

Constituents, however, vote on campaign promises.

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Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

Research shows that boomers may also have been instrumental in voting President Trump into office, which increases the probability that this generation has an anchored belief that he will yet deliver on any outstanding campaign promises.

However, I did not vote for President Obama either time, as I didn't feel he had the experience or leadership skills (2008), let alone reneging on his promise to abide by campaign finance reform; or had accomplished what he promised (2012).

Touching on the campaign promises of his main contender Nana Akufo - Addo, Mr. Mahama urged Ghanaians to be cautious of a man who promises «One district, one factory» for votes, when he has never constructed any factory in his lifetime.

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

In voting to repeal Obama's signature health care law, House Republicans finally delivered on a key Trump administration goal and on a campaign promise that they have made for the better part of a decade — but at a potentially steep political price.

The labor groups — still steaming over the Senate's surprise vote last month to boost the cap on charter schools — are promising candidates as much as $ 200,000 in campaign cash to take on leading charter proponent Sen. Craig Johnson (D - LI), The Post has learned.

It can be argued that Cameron has double - crossed Clegg on democratic reform before — taking a more active role in the no campaign in the alternative vote referendum last year than he had promised in private.

Every four years, presidential candidates lavish attention (and, more important, campaign promises) on a dozen or so swing states whose electoral votes are up for grabs.

In particular, the promised in / out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU could badly split the Conservative Party if Cameron campaigns for a vote to remain in the EU while many of his backbenchers — and some frontbenchers — campaign for a «Brexit».

Some of them openly expressed their disappointment in this administration and apologised to the former President for voting against him in the 2016 election because of lies told them about him and his government by the Npp, and failure on their part to critically evaluate promises the Npp made during the campaign.

Cable's return with a 52 % share of the vote was just reward for a hugely positive campaign which focused on cuts to local schools, the state of the NHS and the Tories broken promise on Heathrow expansion.

On the other hand, there were all these mega-billionaires who (a) threatened to target him if he voted no; (b) promised him huge campaign contributions if he went along; and (c) would pay to call him a «hater» and a «homophobe» and even, perhaps, pay «witnesseses» to allege he was in the closet as part of a blackmail scheme.

Meeting the good people of Nkoranza and Techiman showed clearly that the President had no plan of fulfilling his campaign promise on the investment issue which he used as a political tool to sweep votes in the Brong Ahafo Region.

Utilizing a theme of broken campaign promises from 2008, when Begich defeated Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, the new TV ad from American Crossroads hammers the Democrat for both the percentage of votes on which he agreed with the president last year and the fact that Congress has not approved ANWR oil exploration.

Mr Howard reminded Mr Straw he had campaigned for prison officers» votes in 1997 on the back of a promise to repeal the ban.

Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided not to even hold a vote on the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last - gasp effort to deliver on the party's banner campaign promise.

It's worth remembering that Vote Leave's campaign literature on farming promised that «After we Vote Leave... we can: Protect farmer's subsidies — and even increase them».

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.

Chuka Umunna, the backbencher and chair of Vote Leave Watch, an organisation that seeks to hold politicians to account for promises made during the Brexit referendum campaign, has also spoken out on the issue.

Strategists on both sides of the issue acknowledge that the repeal effort is pure theater, aimed at fulfilling a Republican campaign promise to hold the vote and, hopefully, having the helpful side effect of pushing a few Democrats into another tough vote on the health care law.

Can you guys please focus on governance and deliver on your campaign promises... Nigerians will decide who to vote for when the time is ripe..

The Board approved a zero percent increase for one - year leases and a 2 percent increase on two - year leases, fulfilling a campaign promise that Mayor Bill de Blasio made, though one that he has shied away from weighing in on this year, declining to take a position until after the board's vote tonight.

The governor had promised to form the investigatory commission in accordance with the state's Moreland Act after he and lawmakers failed to agree on a package of ethics and elections law reforms that ranged from increasing punishment for taking bribes to making it easier to register to vote to using taxpayer money to finance political campaigns.

The money swells the opponents» coffers to $ 25 million, promising months of campaigning before the public vote on the proposal in November.

At that moment, the teacher lays on his campaign to win her «not guilty» vote with charm and the promise to buy her art.

For details on other important election issues and campaign promises that go beyond your pocketbook, visit Vote Canada 2015.

What Trump did yesterday was based on a campaign promise he made last year that helped earn him the presidency in the first place, and I applaud him for being brave enough to follow through on that promise — a promise he made, NOT to oil industry bigwigs (most of whom approve the accord), but to the millions of vulnerable working people who voted him into office.