Sentences with phrase «win political office»

We'd like to see a politician win political office on this platform, but it's not going to happen.

Women who have bridged the gender gap in winning political office acknowledge the balancing act between career, family, and political ambition.

Not exact matches

The government revealed earlier in the week, in response to a written question from a Conservative MP, that some four dozen political staffers in various ministers» office received a total of $ 1.1 million to move to Ottawa after Trudeau's Liberals won power last fall.

David Koyzis is the author of the award - winning Political Visions and Illusions and We Answer to Another: Authority, Office, and the Image of God.

It is time we said to our leaders that while we don't expect to elect any saints to public office, we have had more than enough of political pragmatism rooted in nothing but the desire to win the next election.

«This time around, I expect to ask President Trump a number of policy questions but also about how he is processing his amazing achievement: A man with no political experience winning the most powerful office in the world.»

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford completed a political comeback earlier this year, winning a House seat in a special election after he publicly admitted to having an affair while in the governor's office.

AND... we think I might be the only female political blogger to have run for office and won, in the country.

No, instead, Mr. Rangel deserves some sympathy because after four decades in the House of Representatives, building a political machine that has seen scores of friends and protégés win high office, serving a district that has been represented by only two people since World War II, he is now presiding over that district's dissolution.

«Those who amass a lot of debt in their run for office are unlikely to be able to raise the funds to pay it back — unless they win,» said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that tracks political money.

Artiles won his seat in office in November after an aggressive $ 1 million campaign run by Artiles» political committee, Veterans for Conservative Principles.

Timothy D. Sini, a 37 - year - old Democrat serving as the Suffolk County Police Commissioner, handily won the race for Suffolk District Attorney Tuesday night, and said he would prepare quickly to take over an office marred by political scandal in the...

The NPP are yet to give jobs to the thousands (1000s) Ghanaians they summoned at Labour Office for employment when they won political power in eight (8) years.

The plea has ramifications in this political season: It gives Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose office has conducted the investigation, a major win as his gubernatorial campaign seeks to burnish his bona fides as a crusader against entrenched corruption.

Green Party candidates in the United States have primarily won elected offices at the local level; most Green officeholders have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (races in which candidates were not identified on the ballot as affiliated with any political party).

Given that a modern political party aims to win votes, win seats and to hold office, the mood on the ground seems little short of bizarre.

Political leaders on both sides of the aisle believe Gov. Andrew Cuomo will not call for a pre-November vote to fill the Assembly seat that opened up when Republican Assemblyman Dan Losquadro won the Brookhaven highway superintendent's office in a March special election.

The truck driver who won the Democratic bid for Mississippi governor — without spending a cent — is the latest in a string of nominees for statewide office who lack any political experience.

But, I think there is at least some incentive for people to support candidates that both represent their political views and have a realistic change of winning elected office (s).

The «30 Rock» star, who has long talked about running for political office, believes Weinergate has shaken up the field of candidates enough that he might have a chance to win, a friend of the actor told The Daily.

Hawkins» unsuccessful political past hasn't bogged him down — he ran for mayor of Syracuse in 2005 and has run for office in local, city and state government more than 20 times without winning a single election.

«I wanted to win this more than any political contest I ever had,» Cuomo said as he prepared to leave office.

Newsday's political correspondent, Rick Brand, has also described MacKay as «a political alchemist» for his uncanny ability to galvanize support for unknown candidates for public office — and help them win.

The former federal prosecutor had never held political office before winning the seat in 2014.

This is a Prime Minister who got ready for an election when he thought he could win it, then was too frightened to hold it, then has dragged out this miserable parliament to its fullest, bitter end, dithering and vacillating over every decision; a Prime Minister no one ever elected kept in office by Lord Mandelson who no one voted for at all, and who should have had the moral courage and political decisiveness to hold an election long ago.»

In recent weeks, there had been chatter in state political circles that Gibson, who demonstrated an ability to win as a Republican in a congressional district twice taken by President Barack Obama, would be a credible candidate for statewide office.

The move sets the stage for an unprecedented three - way race in which Crist will test whether he can win federal office without the formal backing of a political party.

Political life: Hudson made her first run for political office in 2011, when she easily won her at - large seat on thePolitical life: Hudson made her first run for political office in 2011, when she easily won her at - large seat on thepolitical office in 2011, when she easily won her at - large seat on the council.

This is another political office which they fought for and won.

• Winning local office • Running an ideological or educational campaign to build party presence • Ballot access • Challenging an incumbent • Raise important issues, get into the political debate

Scores of former political office holders and Peoples Democratic Party chieftains on Friday condemned the burning of the party flags at the secretariat by supporters of Senator Iyiola Omisore and said that the party would win the September 22 governorship election in the state without the former governorship candidate of the party.

She has won good will by putting former rivals in charge of influential committees, and surrendering some of the traditional tools of political discipline, including the power to hand out extra money to allies» offices and Council districts.

Since the NPP won elections in 2016 and even before Nana Addo was sworn in to take office as the sixth president under the 4th Republic, Delta Force, a known NPP political vigilante group, the party of the sitting president, has been on the rampage.

Bharara, who appears regularly on CNN as a commentator, has the resume to campaign successfully as an independent, said Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political consultant who helped pull off the last upset in an election for state attorney general when Eliot Spitzer won the office in 1998.

City Council attorney Deirdre Feerick has won the endorsement of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, a citywide political organization named for the first openly gay man to run for elected office in New York City in the 1970s.

When a political candidate wins an election, no one cites the simulated nature voter - database crunching that put him in office.

Having won the day, Mulan turns down a political office equal to the men around her, in order to get married and return home to a life of domesticity.

He then runs for political office and, to not hurt his chances of winning, joins a posse to find his best friend, accused of rustling.

Johnson's own laudable efforts to pass civil rights legislation, as much driven by his own morality as by political calculations about winning higher office, waned after he felt that Martin Luther King and others didn't cater enough to his prodigious - yet - fragile ego.

Testing companies win political support by pumping thousands of dollars into political lobbying campaigns to ensure that candidates who support testing are voted into office.

Mike Rounds began his political career in South Dakota as a state senator; afterwards, he won the office of governor.

Trained as a diplomat and European political specialist at the Foreign Service Office of Singapore, Tham has also held leadership positions in marketing and communications - She has launched advertising campaigns that won the Cannes Gold Lion at Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity.

have run a campaign for political office, won and served on the Chattanooga City Council.

In a Fifth Avenue office near Trump Tower, a company being paid millions of dollars by Donald Trump's presidential campaign says it has developed a political weapon powerful enough to help the Republican nominee overcome his troubles and win the White House.

Sometimes, only one political party has candidates running for an office, meaning that whoever wins their party's nomination in the primary election won't face opposition in November.