Sentences with phrase «who ran on a platform»

Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election was strongly supported by the National Rifle Association and who ran on a platform opposing gun control.

Shortly after the vandalism, the city elected its first Haredi mayor, who ran on a platform of moderation, insisting that a temperate, Sephardic Haredi rabbi could and would serve all constituencies equally.

But Long said it shouldn't matter to Republicans who ran on a platform promising to repeal the law.

De Blasio, who ran on a platform of police reform, has struggled at times to balance the concerns of police reformers with the department he now oversees.

The Cushman & Wakefield executive, who ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility as a Republican, said the cost of sustaining a campaign was prohibitive.

Days before de Blasio was sworn in as the city's 109th mayor, the man who ran on a platform -LSB-...]

The former federal prosecutor, who ran on a platform of cleaning up Albany, has claimed the Long Island state once held by the former majority leader convicted of corruption.

Miller was first elected to Congress in 1974 with a group of first - time lawmakers known as the «Watergate Babies,» who ran on a platform of cleaning up Washington in the wake of the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon.

It wasn't until the election of Peña Nieto in 2012, who ran on a platform of sweeping economic reform, that real change looked possible.

Citizens are frantically organizing to try to shut down the only major legislative success of a president who ran on a platform of populism, and Democrats are growing optimistic about flipping one or both houses of Congress.

Several of the students have criticized the president, whose election was strongly supported by the National Rifle Association and who ran on a platform opposing gun control.

Not exact matches

Though she lost Democratic primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran on a leftist platform, Clinton pointed to some Senate results as proof that she wouldn't have fared better running on a Sanders platform.

Especially in Mexico, where, as you know, there is one candidate who is running on a quite anti-American platform.»

Nixon may be taking cues from the success of New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who successfully ran for governor on a platform to legalize marijuana in the state.

But AR on the iPhone sets Apple up for the long run by building a base of developers already dedicated to the platform who want to make stuff for the largest number of users they can.

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, who also runs mobile payments platform Square Inc., has focused on making Twitter more useful, including streaming programming such as National Football League highlights and recaps of series like «Game of Thrones.»

Yet he is also the powerful tech CEO who studiously ignored concerns that malicious disinformation was running rampant on his platform.

Following the election of President Donald Trump, who ran on an economic platform of bring back manufacturing jobs that had been sent from the U.S. to points overseas and pledged to «Make America Great Again,» more attention has been paid to the offshoring trends that have permeated the economy for a generation.

Sports stars are offered a tricky platform, said Chang, who now plays tennis on the Champions Tour and runs a Christian foundation that administers several sports leagues.

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

Cuomo, who was running on a platform of scaling back spending in state government and pension reform, still balked at accepting the WFP line until he was assured they would back his proposals.

«She claims to be running on anti-corruption platform yet she is financing her campaign with PAC funds and enjoys the support of both the consultants and Ulster Party leaders who are all at the center of the «Team De Blasio,» investigation.»

De Blasio, who served as Clinton's campaign manager for her 2000 Senate race, ran for New York City mayor on a progressive platform and has been working to bring progressive issues to the attention of the national Democratic Party.

But Dennis Kucinich — the populist who ran for president on a Bernie-esque platform — may disrupt those plans.

But it's not just Republicans holding it up — the «democrat» members of the IDC (Independent Democratic Conference), who often align with Republicans in the Senate despite running on Democratic platforms, refuse to bring these to the floor for a vote.

She has also run on a more conservative - minded platform and nabbed the support of the state Conservative Party earlier in the year, which was seen as a blow for Turner, who had the backing of the third - party organization when he defeated Democrat David Weprin.

Long Island Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a former federal prosecutor who was elected in 2016 running on an anti-corruption platform following Skelos» conviction (but was not involved in either the Silver or Skelos cases), released a statement saying the Silver decision demonstrates the need for state lawmakers to stop relying on the feds to bring corruption cases against state - level elected officials, and also pass more anti-corruption measures, which lawmakers declined to do this past session.

If you support the notion that governments derive their power from the people that they represent, when the people indicate they want something (like electing super-majorities of people who run for office on theocratic platforms), then government is supposed to oblige.

Kearns, who announced was splitting from the Democratic conference over the Lopez affair, was never supported by the Assembly leadership to begin with, having run on an anti-Silver platform.

Hawkins, who is running on a Green Party progressive platform, has never been elected to office after more than 20 campaigns, including three tries for mayor since 2004.

Russo, who is running on platform of fiscal conservatism, has pledged not to accept any member item cash in his first year in office if he is elected this fall.

Consequently, they went to the polls in record numbers in 2010 and elected representatives who ran on a «stop Obama» platform.

Several ministers of state and NDC stalwarts, who took to the campaign platform, focused their messages on Dr. Mahamudu Bamumia, Nana Addo's running mate and a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana.

«This is hypocrisy for a district attorney candidate who is running on an anti-corruption platform.»

Similar to her bid in 2016, Killian — who served on the Rye City Council between 2012 and 2017 — will run on a platform of reform and bucking an Albany establishment through term limits and a redistribution of school aid.

Kathee Burke - Gonzalez, who won a seat on the East Hampton Town Board in November 2013 running on a platform of curbing excessive noise, and who is the board's liaison to the airport, said she was looking forward to «having a plan put in place over the next few months and see restrictions effected for the 21015 season.»

Rodier, 40, who has never held public office, is running on a platform of increasing transparency in town government.

Essentially, this amounts to imposing a tax that is then used to subsidize premiums (charging everyone a tax and then paying people to get health insurance is the same thing as charging people who don't get insurance a «penalty»), but Obama ran on a platform of not raising taxes on people making less than $ 250,000, so he went through this «penalty» shenanigan so he could pretend to have kept his promise.

However, in 2005, Democrat Byron Brown was elected the city's first African - American mayor in a landslide (64 % — 27 %) over Republican Kevin Helfer, who ran on a conservative platform.

Rye Town Supervisor and Congressional candidate Joe Carvin (R - NY - 17), who is running for Congress on a platform of economic growth and to tame the Washington overspending, last week added a live U.S. Debt Clock to his campaign website, which can be seen at www.Carvin2012.com.

There have been heated debates among New York progressives about whether to vote for the WFP which has been heavily criticized in some circles for endorsing Cuomo for a second time, or to opt for Hawkins who has run a stronger - than - expected campaign on an unabashedly left - wing platform.

In the latest rollout of initiatives to be included in his State of the State address, Cuomo called for requirements on websites and other digital platforms that run New York political ads to disclose who purchases them and to make «reasonable efforts» to ensure they are not being bought by a foreign interest.

The Green Party's Howie Hawkins, who ran for governor on an anti-fracking platform against Cuomo in the November election, praised the announcement.

Gov. Cuomo called for requirements on websites and other digital platforms that run New York political ads to disclose who purchases them.

Bill Curry, the former state comptroller who twice ran for governor as a Democrat, said the rise of candidates like Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump has led to a flood of people running on populist platforms.

Kaminsky is a state Assemblyman and a former prosecutor who is running on an anti-corruption platform.

De Blasio, who ran for office on a platform of ending discriminatory policing practices such as stop and frisk, has said he does not feel the additional officers are necessary.

Despite some chuckles, most of those packed into the Marriott Marquis» glittery ballroom sat expressionless at the startling self - assessment from the Democratic mayoral candidate, who for the past year has been running on a sharply left - wing platform.

Ultimately, it cost Mario Cuomo his office in 1994 to Republican Gov. George Pataki, who ran on a fiscal conservative platform.