Sentences with phrase «voting against the leadership»

Don't give them the endorsement until they pledge they will vote against that leadership, and get rid of them,» Paladino said, blaming Skelos for the passage of Cuomo's gun control law, the SAFE Act.

Not exact matches

It is important to remember that delegates who voted in favour of a leadership review can still agree that Mulcair brings many skills to the NDP's fight against the Liberal government, said Quebec MP Matthew Dube.

GM leadership opposed the plan, and shareholder advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis both recommended GM shareholders vote against Greenlight's proposal.

When I was the only person in a church meeting of a hundred plus, who voted against spending thousands on a building (mainly because of dodgy fiscal justification and concerns over leadership empire building), I obviously became villein of the peace!

We will vote on Tuesday to make this happen — and, while the Conservative leadership has now set its face against action, I call on every Liberal Democrat who supports a low carbon future to join us and vote with us to make this change happen.

And that's not the worst of it - Labour's manifesto has precisely nothing to say about the welfare cap, which has hit households with 200,000 children, and which Corbyn was propelled to the leadership by voting against in 2015.

London's former mayor, Boris Johnson, a Conservative figure, is advocating Vote Leave, going against the party leadership and the government.

Former leadership hopeful Owen Smith is one of three Labour MPs preparing to risk the wrath of their constituents by voting against article 50.

Former cable news host and Saranac Lake native Dylan Ratigan announced his campaign against Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, admitting during his press conference that he has done drugs and «never voted in my life,» because «the two choices that are available to me don't reflect the potential leadership in this country and it disgusts me.»

Labour MPs such as Clive Lewis could do fresh damage to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership by voting against triggering Article 50.

Members of the conservative Freedom Caucus voted against the bill after they didn't receive separate assurances from House leadership regarding immigration policy.

136 Tory MPs voted, last night, against the Tory leadership's position on gay marriage.

The by - election consolidated Nick Clegg's hold on power, sparked new rumours of leadership bids against David Cameron, saw a surge in support for Ukip and raised questions about Ed Miliband's ability to win votes in the south - east.

Rather, she voted against the motion of no confidence in Corbyn's leadership.

Since becoming an MP he has generally voted against benefit cuts, but did not vote against the 2015 welfare reform bill, when Labour's mass abstention was seen as helping propel Corbyn to the Labour leadership.

In other words, only 92 backbench Tory MPs voted for the leadership - backed plan, while 118 voted against.

Corbyn, who has rebelled against his party more than 500 times in his career, said MPs would not be «corralled» by whips into voting the same way as the leadership under a more consensual style of management.

Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC put $ 6 million in ads behind Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey for his leadership on gun control legislation after the Newtown shooting and punished New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte for voting against it with $ 8.5 million in ads backing her opponent, Gov. Maggie Hassan — while Bloomberg donated another $ 1 million to Planned Parenthood Votes to further boost Hassan.

POLITICO, citing multiple sources, reported Monday that Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team discussed replacing New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, after he voted against the GOP bill.

«If they were all at once to come out and say they would vote against this plan, the Republican leadership would have two choices,» Schumer said in the call.

Contested Chairman Phil Ragusa won re-election with 417 votes to 174 against former Rep. Bob Turner, who was backed by Bart Haggerty and the Southern faction, and will maintain his leadership post within the Queens Republican Party, according to unofficial reports.

Fillmore Common Councilman David Franczyk, who voted against Smith for majority leader in January, said the continuing problems make him unfit for a leadership position.

However, senior party figures have been advising that would - be critics should remain cautious, keen to avoid a repeat of the chaotic but failed «coup» against Corbyn's leadership that began after the Brexit vote last summer.

He says the «majority» of Republicans in the house are against the aid, and he needs to convince the leadership to bring the bill to the floor, so supporters can vote on it.

He vowed independence, and said he has proven himself by bucking the New York Senate's Republican leadership to vote against tax increases.

The donation was registered on 28 June after the vote to leave the European Union and during the move against Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

this leadership election will be a landslide victory and then every member MP that voted against needs to be fired.

Some leadership allies predicted more Republicans would now likely join the 20 GOP colleagues who have rebelled against leadership by signing the so - called discharge petition to force immigration votes.

For the Labour leadership, the choice is simple - take a principled view that they support an elected House of Lords and so ask their MPs to vote with the Government, saving it from possible defeat; or take a more pragmatic view that their job is to break up the Coalition and so ask their MPs to vote against the Bill.

OWEN Smith is the man who went up against Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election - and now he has been sacked over calling for a second Brexit vote.

The leadership of the People's Democratic Party, has said that if the All Progressives Congress, administration wants to succeed in the fight against corruption, it must probe all security votes of past Presidents and Heads of State from 1984 to date.

... We will not vote against the application because of the progress the Palestinian leadership has made towards meeting the criteria.

After a tense few hours of Labour's National Executive Committee meeting yesterday, the party's ruling body decided by 18 votes to 14 that Jeremy Corbyn would have an automatic right to be on the ballot in the leadership election against Angela Eagle.

Senate Republicans on Monday criticized the Democratic leadership in the conference for voting against legislation that would recall an elected official who is indicted for a felony.

But McLaughlin said the push to delay the vote isn't aimed at staging a leadership coup within the conference against Kolb, who has led the Assembly GOP since 2009.

As of Nick's last post on this subject, no vote had been scheduled for the leadership race, but he noted that the contest could pit a top Republican donor's family against one of the first African - American candidates the party has had run for elected citywide office in recent memory.

Burnham was not among the almost 50 Labour MPs who voted against the bill last night, including his leadership rival Jeremy Corbyn.

It's a free vote but they are still voting against their party leadership.

Many of the people, who boycotted Labour Students meetings and threatened to disaffiliate from Labour Students over the issue of OMOV, voted against OMOV for Labour leadership elections.

It's how many will vote against, and what effect this will have on Cameron's leadership.

Jeremy Corbyn insisted he would put nuclear disarmament at the heart of his leadership re-election campaign as he promised to vote against the renewal of Trident in a Commons debate that will expose deep divisions within the Labour party.

In the same way that the election campaigns of 2001 and 2005 have been criticised for solely focussing on the core vote, so the same criticism can be levied against the current Party leadership for solely focussing on the centre ground.

Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. (D - Bronx), the only member of the Senate to vote against the ethics reform bill, vowed to release his information - if the leadership does so first.

Last summer, he opposed a procedural vote on trade legislation, and after the vote, he accused leadership of retaliating against him by removing him as a co-sponsor on a bill, The Hill reported in July.

Several Labour MPs - including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and former minister Diane Abbott - voted against the bill, despite the party's official stance being to abstain after an amendment tabled by acting Labour leader Harriet Harman was defeated.

Jubilation among rebel Labour MPs on Tuesday evening at Angela Eagle dropping out to give Owen Smith a clear run against Corbyn was followed by what felt close to a wake on Wednesday night after news 184,000 registered supporters had paid # 25 each, a figure subsequently reduced to a still considerable 140,000 after duplications and the overtly hostile were stripped out, to buy a vote in the leadership race.

The Alabama gubernatorial primary will probably get more analysis than any of Tuesday night's other votes (save, perhaps, Dale Peterson's devastating defeat), for the fact that Artur Davis appears to have been punished by African - American voters for taking their traditional leadership for granted — and even at times running openly against the older generation — in a way Obama never did.

North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik voted against the bill, but she said in a statement that she blamed «Albany's failed leadership and inability to rein in spending» as the root of the high taxes in the state.

SNP supporters have been having a field day on social media mocking Labour for its mass abstention on the welfare bill, but Corbyn did vote against it and that will mean he will have gained some respect where the other leadership candidates will have certainly lost it.

Corbyn was the only one of the four leadership candidates to vote against.