Sentences with phrase «when running for election»

All politicians sound more born again when running for election.

«Protectionism is always a popular thing to voice when running for elections,» he says.

The killings endanger efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to bring security and stability to Nigeria — a key campaign pledge when he ran for election in 2015.

Not exact matches

Romney unsuccessfully ran for president in 2008 before winning the GOP nomination in 2012, when he lost in the general election to incumbent President Barack Obama.

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

O'Donnell also talked about some of the challenges her campaign faced in the 2008 election, when she ran against Joe Biden for his U.S. Senate seat.

The last time a guy from Texas said that God told him to run for President, we had kind of a bumpy ride as a country when he won the election with support from Christians...

My first introduction to this world on a personal level was at Virginia's Boys State program, when one of my closest friends ran for governor and was stabbed in the back by a last - minute, back - hallway deal that shifted support to another candidate in exchange for supporting someone else's election as Lieutenant Governor.

I saw the same poll numbers (except against Catholics) in the»60s when John Kennedy ran for president and the again (except for Muslims) in the»08 election when Keith Ellison ran for US Representative from Minnesota.

This book is a particular favourite of mine because, as a teenager, I keenly followed Robert Kennedy's quixotic run for the presidency, and this account encapsulated the frenetic and sometimes chaotic campaign that ended in the traumatic murder of Kennedy, when he had just won the primary election in the largest state in the Union, California, and in one of the most rural, South Dakota.

Unlike television commercials, online outreach and online mobilization can be targeted with great precision, making them (as I've argued before) a perfect match for a low - turnout election, particularly when run by the heirs of a team with a track record of knowing how to use them.

Fidler is running in the March 20 special election for the seat vacated by former Sen. Carl Kruger, who was forced to resign when he pleaded guilty last month to felony federal corruption charges.

Robert Freier, spokesman for the Oyster Bay Democrats, said Saladino's fee hike proposal, coming after a $ 1.3 million tax cut passed just before the November election, was «a shell game he played when he was running for election claiming a tax cut, and now he's raising fees after the fact to create a surplus.»

The 2014 European elections are also the first such occasion when Turkish Cypriots are running for office either as independents or as part of a (bi-communal or Turkish / Cypriot) platform.

«But there is a total absence of accountability for how the Board performed on Election Day, because the Board is a remnant of the days when Tammany Hall ran New York.

Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lost one of his last shots at a minor party ballot line for re-election when a potential stand - in candidate collected too few signatures to run on the Independence Party line, election officials said.

When I wrote for Total Politics in the aftermath of the last General Election, my main criticism of the Conservative Party's campaign was its failure to hire an experienced, seasoned campaigner to run it.

She now has more than $ 5 million cash in her campaign war chest — which, when combined with public matching funds, is more than the $ 6.4 million candidates are allowed to spend during the primary — leaving her with $ 2.4 million for the general election or a potential run - off with a fellow Democrat.

Pastor Bakare was notably picked as the running mate of current president, Muhammadu Buhari, when he contested on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) during the 2011 presidential election which he lost to former president, Goodluck Jonathan.

When former Senator Joseph Lieberman (D - CT), an observant Jew, was running for Vice President in the 2000 presidential election, Slate Magazine wondered what would happen if he one day assumed the Presidency, listing some of the religious restrictions:

According to him, God is punishing the NPP for the needless scathing attack at him in the run - up to the 2012 elections, when he was caught on tape promising party foot soldiers that he will get them enlisted into the country's security agencies should they work to retain the party in power.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

David Plouffe, now an outside adviser to the president, tossed a quick answer over his shoulder when CNN asked him outside of NBC's Washington studios about the tough climate for Democrats running in the midterms elections.

Geraldine Ferraro gathers with her family at a hotel in New York as they await returns of the presidential election in 1984, when she became the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket.

«(A) lifelong academic professional, serving Southampton College for 29 years and leaving the position of provost in 2002 to make his first - ever run for office, when he was elected to represent New York's 1st Congressional District in one of the closest elections in the nation.»

Moya was not the preferred candidate back when he ran in a special election for the NYC Council seat being vacated by Monserrate when he was first elected to the Senate.

And as you may have it, the stakeholders approved it and the three senatorial districts of the state gave consent to the endorsement for him to go and constitute caretaker committees that will run the affairs of the Local Government councils in the state pending when the elections will be conducted, and that prompted the decision to set up the caretaker committees.

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress, Mr Johnson Asiedu - Nketiah affectionately known in the Ghanaian political circles as «General Mosquito» has dismissed claims by one of his deputies incharge of administration, Koku Anyidoho that he will not seek re-election as General Secretary when the party opens nominations for the next executive contest to run its affairs for election 2020.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

Both Harrell and Levy had already filed run for the seat in 2020 and were quick to announce their switch to the special election when Negron announced he would leave the Senate two years early.

He has won elections to the City Council and then to the State Assembly, but he last ran in a primary in 2009, when he bid for city comptroller and mustered only 10 percent of the vote.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has been hammering possible election rival Harold Ford Jr. daily to «come clean» about his taxes, wasn't interested in releasing her own tax information when she first ran for Congress in 2006.

The truth is that Gov. Cuomo has played a slight of hand game with both parties since becoming Governor and now with the election season drawing nearer his base will show they have a longer memory than he might have counted on when he failed to back Democratic Senate candidates and let if not openly encouraged the IDC Coalition to come into being by acting like Party didn't count at all in his game plain to win re-election and then possibly run for President in 2016.

It will be recalled that in the run - up to the December 2016 election, on 1st September, 2016, the Kpembewura predicted a 53 % margin of victory for then presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo - Addo, when the latter paid a courtesy call on him as part of his campaign tour of the Northern Region.

Langworthy noted that the GOP's support for Kearns dates back to 2012, when they supported his run in a special election for State Assembly.

The new district attorney would have to run for election in his or her own right next November, when the district attorney «ss term is ordinarily up.

And in what appeared to be a critique of Bill Thompson, who re-emerged recently after running for mayor four years ago, de Blasio said there were others candidates «who practice a politics of the moment, who are heroic in election years but not engaged in the day to day fight to save our neighborhoods when their names aren't on the ballot.»

The Board of Elections requires all candidates to petition for a political party's support when running for elected office.

Sadiq Khan was a former radical human rights lawyer and doing a good job as shadow secretary for justice when he also became shadow minister for London, and responsible for running the general election campaign in London.

In 2010, when he first ran for governor, Cuomo did not release his tax returns until after election day.

Maurice Hinchey's passing brought back memories of what he meant to Democrats in a county that rarely saw Democrats victorious in elections when he first ran for office.

Now that she's won statewide election by a 26 - point margin, and has no credible challengers on the horizon for next year, when she'll run for a full term, it's becoming clearer what she intends to do with the remarkable political opportunity she has been given.

She also told the New Paltz Times that what prompted her to run was, among many disappointments in Cuomo's record the past four years, «when he did not support public financing of elections this spring: something he promised to do when he ran for governor.»

Greenfield opened the account in 2013 when he was considering running for a state seat, his office said — one year before getting named chairman of the Land Use Committee, and the same year he was re-elected to his first full term after winning a special election in 2010.

When I mentioned Scozzafava's ties to the ACORN - run WFP, Boehner political operative Don Seymour insisted this did not change his boss's support for her or his desire to have a Republican succeed Rep. (and incoming Secretary of the Army) John McHugh in the special election likely to be held November 3rd.

While running for election is when judges are most vulnerable to influence.

«The buck stops on my desk, and I was very specific when I ran for governor about what I was going to do if I was honored with election.»

At least seven candidates are in the mix to run in a special election for the State Senate seat vacated last week when Dean Skelos was convicted of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges.

While not close to the 65 Queens candidates who ran for Council when the entire delegation was term limited, we see real races shaping up in a handful of seats where no incumbent is standing for election and one challenge to an incumbent that is certainly worth focus and ink.

James Morris, who worked for Labour from when Ed Miliband was elected leader in 2010 until the election, said public polling showed a much more favourable position than the party's internal data, both in the run - up to and during the campaign.

He also left open the possibility of running for the seat in the regular election cycle in 2016, when many expect the Democrats will win a majority of seats in the State Senate.