Sentences with phrase «winning elected office»

(Denver, CO, July 25, 2011) Alexander Ooms, CSDC Board member and Managing Partner at ClearCreek Partners, comments on the evolution of education reform in Colorado in the following commentary in the Denver Post: A tipping point for Democrats on education In multiple elections over the past year, at the state, district and city level, Colorado Democrats are winning elected office...

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).

In his memoirs, he and his family have always viewed religion the same as mythology (as it should be) and joined a church when running for office because for some absurd and ignorant reason you can not win an elected office without professing Christian beliefs.

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If the best candidate is someone politically connected to the power brokers in Albany and Washington (as he calls them «people who make and break Democratic elections in the Hudson Valley»), has no ties to the district at all, has never won elected office then he is the guy.

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The Green Party in the United States has won elected office mostly at the local level; most winners of public office in the United States who are considered Greens have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (that is, elections in which the candidates» party affiliations were not printed on the ballot).

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).

In fact, studies have shown that individuals with lower - pitched voices are more likely to win elected office because they are believed to be superior leaders with greater physical prowess and integrity.

Getting TFA alumni into leadership roles, though, has meant first creating an enormous talent - building infrastructure of graduate - school partnerships, employer internships, an in - house career - counseling center, and an organization to help alumni win elected office.

Mr. Geiger built his career around activism in the 2.2 million - member union, winning elected offices such as national vice president and state president...

Not exact matches

We didn't win these increases because we elected supportive politicians to office.

Considering our former president was not just nominated but actually won for the task of getting elected to office.

Mayor Bill Smith had only run for elected office once before his win and Mayor Mandel served only one - term on Council before being elected as mayor in 2004.

a favor and just make a massive write - in campaign for «god»... let's actually elect «god» to office, and see who shows up come Inauguration Day if «god» wins the election?

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.

NOTE: A reader with Democratic leanings points out that no pro-life statewide candidate has won since Dennis Vacco was elected to the state AG's office in 1994.

The move is a signal that the party is hoping James, who was first elected to public office with the WFP's backing, would eventually take its ballot line in the fall should she win the primary contest.

The highest elected official to ever win an election on a Reform Party ticket, Ventura left the Reform Party a year after taking office amid internal fights for control over the party.

In an email to supporters sent out yesterday afternoon, WFP State Director Bill Lipton reiterated that the party has been playing a «long game» with its «Progressive Pipeline» program by nuturing candidates at the local level in hopes of seeing them either 1) start a trend that results in more like - minded candidates running for — and winning — elected office, or 2) rising to a higher post with more clout.

Pataki, 72, became the last Republican to win statewide office in New York after he was elected to his third term as governor in 2002.

Ivey was first elected to statewide office in 2002, defeating Democratic opponent Stephen Foster Black in the general election to win election as state treasurer of Alabama.

Ivey was first elected to statewide office in 2002, defeating Democratic opponent Stephen Foster Black in the general election to win the office of treasurer.

Murray, who worked as a lawyer in the state attorney general's office before winning her first elected office, had said her leadership of a 759,000 - resident town — where she has been supervisor since 2003 — trumped a lack of criminal law experience.

McCray started the buzz herself in November — days after de Blasio won a second term — by telling Cosmopolitan magazine that she would «consider» seeking elected office someday, just not for mayor.

He was involved in Andrew Cuomo's first, failed run for governor in 2002, joined his staff when he was elected Attorney General in 2006 and then helped him win the governor's office in 2010.

After all, Linares became the first Dominican - born individual to hold elected office in the United States when he won a City Council seat in 1991 with the help of the Harlem machine.

Mr. Linares became the first Dominican - American elected to public office in New York City when he won a seat in the Council in 1991.

Pataki is the last Republican to have been elected to statewide office in New York, having won a third term over Democrat Carl McCall in 2002.

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN)- Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's pick to fill Barack Obama's empty U.S. Senate seat was the first African - American to be elected to statewide office in Illinois, winning the first of three terms as comptroller in 1978.

Mr. Linares was the first Dominican to be elected to public office in New York City, winning a City Council race in 1991; Mr. Espaillat was the first elected to a state office.

In a 40 - minute address, Cuomo spoke of his father's complexity, his toughness, his fondness for arguing, and his sometimes combative relationship with his own son, who would go on to win the office Mario lost in 1994 as he sought a fourth term as the state's highest elected official.

The Left - Greens have never been elected to office, but are expected to double their vote from 14 % to 28 % while Sigurdardottir's social democrats, who are calling for Iceland to join the EU and the euro, should comfortably win the vote with around 35 %, up six points on two years ago.

Presiding Officer Norma Gonsalves (R - East Meadow) said NIFA was pushing «for unnecessary and burdensome cuts, fees or taxes, none of which are acceptable to this legislature or the county executive - elect,» referring to Democrat Laura Curran, who won the office Tuesday.

«These candidates for elected office represent the future of the GOP — strong, pro-equality Republicans with a winning message and a viable path to victory in November,» Log Cabin Republicans President Gregory T. Angelo said.

There's no question and I don't know how anybody in any elected office can turn a blind eye to the 4,700 people who stayed with us at WIN last night, mothers and children — 70 percent of the people in shelter are families with children.»

Some people say that third party candidates can't win an election, but currently eight candidates and members of the Reform Party hold elected offices.

So when Libertarian Frank Gilbert won his race for Constable of Kalb Township on November 6, he became the first Libertarian in the state elected to a partisan office.

She announced on Wednesday that she would not seek the Working Families Party's line for the ballot, even though Ms. James won her first elected office with that party's backing.

Linares, 65, was the first Dominican - born immigrant elected to public office in the United States when he won a City Council seat representing Washington Heights / Inwood in 1991.

When Nana Addo Dankwa Afufo - Addo, announced a year ago, as the leading opposition contender for the presidency, that if elected to the highest office in Ghana he would ensure that a factory was established in every district, many Ghanaians dismissed his pronouncement as just another heady electoral campaign promise from a man desperate to win the support of the electorate,...

Elsewhere, Andrea Jenkins became the first African - American transgender woman elected to office, winning a seat on the Minneapolis City Council, as did trans man Phillipe Cunningham.

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.»

Any winning candidates who decide to decline the office they were elected to in favor of a higher paying job should have to pay back any public campaign funds they received during the election.

But what it means is that the 62 percent he won against Carl Paladino in 2010 (and Zephyr Teachout in her Democratic primary earlier this year) is the high - water mark for his term in office, and quite possibly for his career as an elected official.

Donohue was the first Long Islander elected to a CSEA statewide office when he won a five - way race for executive vice president in 1988.

Dick Randolph became the first Libertarian elected to state office in America in 1978 when he won a race for the Alaska House of Representatives.

The son won the race and has been in elected office ever since.

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.

Female candidates for elected office do as well as male candidates in terms of raising money and winning votes, so why do women only occupy 19 percent of congressional seats and approximately 25 percent of statewide offices and hold fewer governorships and mayorships?