Sentences with phrase «who run for office»

«Given (the) number of candidates who run for office each year at the state, county, federal and local levels, prosecutions are rare,» said John Conklin, a spokesman for the state Board of Elections.

«And whether it is hiring qualified women, supporting those who run for office — and also standing up against sexual harassment once and for all, saying women should not be the subjected to degradation, discrimination or harassment because of the gender in the workplace,» Hochul declared.

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.

It is key to note that not all candidates who run for office will receive electoral votes, as they will need to meet a popular vote threshold specific to each state.

Mr. Trump, a strident defender of gun rights who ran for office with the strong backing of the N.R.A., has come under immense pressure to endorse new gun limits after the Parkland massacre.

Indeed, the ability of a small clique in political party apparatuses to determine who runs for office, coupled with proportional representation systems that allow for the concentration of power in the hands of a few, has led to tight control of who gets elected.

I assumed anyone who ran for office was disturbed, egomaniacal, or just badly needed a hobby.

More than 100 Republicans who ran for office were elected to serve, a more than 95 percent success rate, he said.

A 27 year old college freshmen who runs for office as a class project and is forced onto the conservative column because the republican party won't let him, they'd rather kruger ran unapposed, and gets 27 % of the vote says that 27 % of the voters are telling kruger they are unhappy with him.

Cuomo says, referring to Tim Wu, who ran for that office in the primary.

The burden of the new fares would generally be borne by folks with more money, another convenient talking point in a city governed by a mayor who ran for office on combating income inequality.

It affects who runs for office.

The print edition of Libertarian Party News, March 2013 edition, has a complete list of all Libertarian candidates who ran for office in November 2012, including what office each ran for, the vote total, and the percentage.

«He has pretty much governed who runs for office in the Latino community in northern Manhattan,» the Democrat added.

«The basic reality is as long as we have a bad campaign finance system, everyone who runs for office has to participate in it, and everybody ends up looking bad,» Scharff said, addressing Fitzpatrick's spending history.

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.

The father took over the seat from his brother, Thomas S. Boyland, who ran for the office in 1976 and died of a heart attack in 1982.

«I am very disappointed when a person who runs for office and holds themselves out to be trusted by their community winds up involved in a sordid affair,» Cuomo told reporters this week when asked about Panepinto.

So, Albania is an artist - run country, and we've always had artists historically who ran for office.

One of the suspects is a former law enforcement officer with 20 years of experience who ran for office in 2010.

Not exact matches

Speculation about a potential run for office by McMullin, who launched a bid for the White House as an alternative for conservatives dissatisfied with President Donald Trump's candidacy, increased after Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R - Utah) announced earlier this week that he will not seek re-election in 2018.

His answer followed a back - and - forth with Trump, who tweeted that he did not believe Cuban was «smart enough» to run for the nation's highest office.

«There are a lot of really smart people running around here,» says Kirk Koenigsbauer, 48, who's been with the company for 15 years and now leads its Office 365 client applications product team.

There isn't a single candidate who has ever run for office that hasn't had various conflicts of interest, or at least the appearance of them.

Its new CEO, Jim Hackett, is a meat - and - potatoes business guy (he ran office furniture maker Steelcase for years) who also is an adherent of so - called design thinking.

However, he suggested that behavior isn't one you want to see in someone who's running for public office.

Valerie Jarrett, who is President Obama's longest serving senior adviser and runs his Office for Public Engagement, told me later, «I was impressed with the number of executives who highlighted their recognition that diversity is a strength and who shared their best practices with us.»

The former mayor, who spent $ 261 million on his campaigns for New York City office, says he'd spend as much as $ 1 billion of his own money on a presidential run.

But as soon as I got to college, I realized I had very important dreams and ambitions and I turned down a marriage proposal to a man who has his own successful law firm and is running for political office.

Such is the case for Trump, who filed a letter with the Federal Election Commission establishing his eligibility to run for a second term in 2020 just hours after taking the oath of office.

To help run EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance — responsible for enforcement of environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act — Pruitt chose Patrick Traylor, a longtime lawyer who has worked helping such clients as «Koch Industries, Dominion Energy and TransCanada, responsible for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline» avoid and rebuff environmental enforcement lawsuits.

Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper!

Everyone who runs for a public office will have his / her life exposed; if a belief in God is part of the core, then that coincides with the principles that originally shaped this country and have made it a democratic and desirable place to live.

If it held true to the Bible (which they don't), they would excommunicate any of their members who ran for political office.

The LDS Church does not approve or disapprove of who runs for different offices of government.

If they think they have ideas they want to put forward, they should run for office and stop sniping at people who are actually trying to make a difference rather than philosophizing about it.

It is dangerous to pile up examples of persons who have made of an ordinary place or a run - of - the - mill office an opportunity for extraordinary service to God and to humanity.

Now we have a group of Democratic presidential candidates who are less talented than Obama (at running for office) and who are trying to seem like leftists rather than moderates.

Now their party is led by one who is running for the highest office in the land who has a complicated relationship with the truth, I guess he is a reflection of those who are following him.

Sorry but MORMONS are nothing even cose to christians.They believe in polygamy, molestation, and the worship of Joesoph Smith the molester, murderer.The Mormons will deny this becauser they do not want to be arrested or persecuted by the public.This is why they are super secret because if people really knew what they were about they would be run out of town and rightfully so.Why on earth would anyone want a president in office who believes his underwear is magical... he belongs locked up in a padded room for being a weirdo cultist... Romney you can take you magical skidmarked underwear some where else but not the whitehouse you weirdo sicko....

So if the general population is at fault for having no choice but to elect yet another fraudulent and unrepresentative politician to some public office, then at least the prerequisites for running are faulty, the process absent of any oversight, the office free of any accountability, and the whole government essentially run by people who do not respect the law, to put it nicely.

If he were holding office at the time this would be a different story, but he was merely a guest speaker who wasn't running for office or currently holding one that would reflect or should have reflected his image.

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.

A non-citizen man who can not voice a single opinion that is not fed to him by his controllers, a man who disdains this country, who is NOT a christian, whose mother's history was rewritten after he ran for office (she was a known wh * re not a «good citizen» as she is now portrayed, a man who is a racist against whites even though he is half - white, a man whose wife is disbarred....

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

While none of Jesus Christ's 1st century Christian leaders ever involved themselves in politics to the point that they ran for public office, after they all died out those men Jesus said would sneak into the church did sneak in and did get involved with political leaders and in just a couple of centuries the Holy Roman Empire was the old Roman Empire whitewashed to appear to be something of God's and both the church and the State being led by the very same man, Pontifex Maximus who had his own wife killed for proving that his trinity doctrine was horsepucky.

They are the ones who created our government, and I have no doubt that they would be appalled by the Perrys, Bachmanns and Romneys running for our highest office.

Criminals who will never run for office control every vote in Congress.

I don't know why anybody runs for political office who has skeletons in the closet.

those who suffer from delusional thinking should be prohibited from voting, serving on a jury, running for or holding public office, purchasing or owning firearms or teaching public school....