Sentences with phrase «women candidates up»
Local constituency associations that are selecting women candidates up and down the country.
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In the last election, the PCs nominated 22 women in their slate of 87 candidates (25 %), which was up slightly from 17 out of 83 candidates in the 2008 election (20 %).
Although some ecclesiastical systems are saturated with candidates and there is an oversupply of clergy, when positions do open up, and when the appointment officer is a strong advocate for women, women move into significant pastorates.
Dems believe that there are fewer than three million true undecided voters in the battlegrounds who will decide the outcome; Dems think they are disproportionately made up of independent women and college educated men under 40 who are also independents — two groups that simply won't break towards Romney in overwhelming numbers, given the Dem campaign's emphasis on women's issues, and core differences between the two candidates over issues that matter to college educated voters.
NYC Councilwoman Tish James has thrown her support behind Sen. Eric Schneiderman's AG bid, saying he's the only candidate in the field with a «real record of standing up for working women.»
Gillibrand, a prodigious fund - raiser who far out - raised — and also easily defeated — her 2012 GOP challenger, Wendy Long has been picking up political chits by putting her cash - gathering skills to work for women candidates.
NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl now admits his private - eye firm snooped on Fox News journalist Gretchen Carlson and a woman who accused Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment in 2005 — while continuing to insist he'd never been hired by Roger Ailes to dig up dirt on reporters.
Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple Limited Liability Companies.
«We expect the party's state committee will be nominating the best available candidate to stand up for working men and women and the party that represents them.
McIntosh is enthusiastic about women's chances of picking up a few more Senate seats in 2014, and cites EMILY's List's work training 1,000 female candidates for state legislative races.
That has been widely speculated, since Cuomo is believed to be very interested in ticket balancing and Rice not only is the only woman in the field (unless Liz Holtzman formally enters the race), but also hails from the suburbs, which is going to be a battleground this fall — particularly if Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy ends up as the GOP candidate in the general election.
She said candidates will be obligated to promise to back the Women's Equality Agenda to get the line, and that it could make up the margin of error in close races for the State Senate, where the Republicans cling to power by a single seat.
If he faces off against a credible centrist candidate running a smart campaign, enough members might be persuaded to give up on the Corbyn project - especially if he faces a woman.
She said it has been her goal to recruit more female candidates for office — a head - on offensive against Democratic efforts, through the Women's Equality Party that Gov. Andrew Cuomo created, to use gender issues to drive up turnout.
If her lead holds up, Ms. Ayala appears to be the only woman candidate to break through in a race against an incumbent male state legislator.
Yet while Britain's First Past the Post acts against the representation of women, the fact that the number of women candidates is going up and that the ERS are able to project a rise in women does show that parties can move forwards in this area.
That candidate is Bessie Schachter, who's also a state committee woman with the Lexington Democrat Club, and up until recently, an aide to State Senator Liz Krueger.
In response to the GOP frontrunner's comment this week that Clinton is the leading Democratic candidate due only to her so - called «woman card,» many took to social media with mock - ups of what those woman cards might look like.
For 21 in ’21 to achieve its ambitious goal of electing 21 women to the Council and, ultimately, achieving gender parity in the city's legislature, women from every community and neighborhood in the five boroughs are going to have to step up and become candidates.
Openly lesbian Massachusetts attorney general candidate Maura Healey racked up a string of endorsements recently from women's PACS: EMILY's List, Women's Campaign Fund, Feminist Majority, and Barbarawomen's PACS: EMILY's List, Women's Campaign Fund, Feminist Majority, and BarbaraWomen's Campaign Fund, Feminist Majority, and Barbara Lee.
In a recent TIME magazine cover story, the focus was on Indivisible, and how its grass - roots strength comes from women organizers and female candidates fed up with the status quo, ready to take on entrenched men in power.
In the final days leading up to tomorrow's election, Republican Rensselaer County executive candidate Steve McLaughlin is making a concerted push to appeal to women voters with a mailer that features three of his female constituents praising his efforts to assist them from his current post in the Assembly GOP conference.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio's latest Web video features man (and woman)- on - the - street interviews near the site of the proposed mosque with New Yorkers who oppose the project and support his call for AG Andrew Cuomo to investigate the $ 100 million project's funding (when and if any funding shows up).
«While I admire all of the Democratic candidates, I believe that Steve Stern is best able to continue and build on my four priorities in Congress: consistently supporting women's rights, standing up for US - Israel relations, and demonstrating leadership on the environment and veterans,» Israel said.
The embattled US Senate candidate — accused, on the record, by five women of making creepy moves on them when they were teens and he was in his 30s — was a regular at the Gadsden Mall, where he enjoyed chatting up young ladies, witnesses told AL.com.
Women make up 51.5 percent of the state population, yet only two of the 18 candidates for statewide office are female.
Marinoni said that when candidate de Blasio asked her to head up his women's committee in 2012, «I said, «I'm a bulldagger, not a woman!»
Last week, Amedore failed to show up for a League of Women Voters Meet the Candidates event in Saugerties.
New York, NY — Reshma Saujani, founder of the national nonprofit Girls Who Code and a Democratic candidate for New York City Public Advocate, today launched Up to Us, a new campaign to empower women voters to shift the political climate and conversation away from the sex scandals that have turned New York City's summer campaign season into a national spectacle.
Saujani and her partners in Up to Us also posted an online petition at http://www.uptous2013.com asking for the public to get involved in reclaiming the public discussion and voting for candidates who will address the real needs of women and girls.
Many European governments give women candidates a leg up in the competition for parliamentary seats.
Up to Us will also work toward getting all candidates for office to take strong and clear public positions on women's issues.
Of New York's 28 congressional seats up for grabs this fall, there are only 15 races featuring female candidates from both parties despite the fact that women make up more than half of the state's population.
Longtime League of Women Voters lobbyist Barbara Bartoletti expressed frustration at the lack of action on items, including closing a giant campaign finance loophole that allows big money donors to make unlimited contributions to candidates by setting up multiple limited liability companies.
«Women who speak up the same amount are voted to be the No. 8 candidate,» he said.
To come up with characters soldiers can relate to, Rizzo and his team showed them renderings of around 20 potential candidates before settling on the three most popular ones: Female Aviator, a young woman wearing a green aviator suit (pictured above); Battle Buddy, an African - American soldier with a shaved head; and Retired Sergeant Major, a plainspoken civilian with close - cropped silver hair and a blue sweater who sits on a porch that looks out on rolling farmlands.
«The results show the importance of following up patients with exposure to whooping cough in childhood, particularly pregnant women,» says Luciana Quaranta, the PhD candidate at Lund University behind the findings.
Based on research from David Siegel, MD, chief of vascular and interventional radiology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York, some 15,000 to 18,000 UFEs are performed here each year, and up to 80 percent of women with fibroids are candidates for it.
With images of sleek black hair instead of blond, fierce sultriness displayed via almond shaped eyes and seductively taunt bodies — the Asian women seemed the perfect candidate for a Versace Pin - Up Girl.
And in the other set of profiles, the same candidates posed in expansive positions; like raising their arms up in a «V.» The photos in which the men and women were in expansive positions were selected more often than the contractive position photos.
Most guys think meeting big women online is a simple matter of putting up a smart profile, browsing the membership base for some likely candidates, firing off an enticing email, and waiting for the responses to flood back.
The former write - in candidate for Arizona governor traveled to Ukraine looking for love but ended up hungry and sick in a homeless shelter — the victim Ukrainian girls and women seeking foreign men.
According to a report by The Huffington Post in 2011, the arrangements involve women signing up for free on websites as «sugar baby» candidates, using their college email addresses.
Heidi Klum isn't taking any of Donald Trump's nonsense and she's become the latest in a line of women to stand up to the misogynistic Republican candidate.
Meryl Streep (The Manchurian Candidate, The Hours) plays Julia, a happy woman who seems to have fate lined up properly for her, and with whom Daniel forms an immediate bond.
Meeting seemingly by chance beautiful dancer Elise (The Devil Wears Prada's Emily Blunt), up - and - coming New York Senate candidate David Norris (Matt Damon) is instantly smitten, certain she's the woman for him.
In 2002, GSE research associate Cathy Trower and professor of higher education Richard Chait made the case — with data to back it up — that the «pipeline» problem, an inadequate supply of candidates, remained true in the case of minorities but not for women.
Across all Gap Inc. companies, including Old Navy, women make up 74 percent of the employee population while 49 percent of all its U.S. employees identify themselves as ethnically diverse.18 Old Navy's emphasis on performance - based metrics during its selection process ensures a strong cultural fit between the company and all hired candidates, and contributes to the recruitment and retention of its diverse employee pool.
Late last month, the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, the Ontario Bar Association's sexual orientation and gender identity committee, the Women's Law Association of Ontario, the South Asian Bar Association, the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, and the Hispanic Ontario Lawyer Association teamed up to distribute its Bencher Candidate Equity Survey to all candidates in this year's Law Society of Upper Canada bencher election.
Indeed, some even asked candidates during interviews if they plan to begin a family — even though this is banned under sex discrimination law: 52 % of managers admitted weighing up the chances of a candidate getting pregnant, considering factors such as a woman's age and marital status.