Sentences with phrase «won seats on»

By now, you've heard that Anne Rowe and Allegra «Happy» Haynes won seats on the Denver Public Schools board, and that incumbent Arturo Jimenez narrowly claimed victory over reformer Jennifer Draper Carson.

In local elections this month, four out of five candidates supported by the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association won seats on the nine - member board.

Four New York City Democrats in the Assembly won seats on the City Council last November, and four upstate Republicans took county or town government posts.

Don't get me wrong: I'm immensely proud of those women who have won seats on merit.

And while the November elections went as expected — Brown won a sixth term and the six Democratic judges on the ballot won seats on the bench — one unforeseen contest in September with an improbable ending would shock the borough and the country.

As the London Labour party's email to members this week points out, the Conservatives have already won seats on the council.

The deal comes months after an activist investor won seats on the restaurant's board following a bitter boardroom battle.

Arby's restaurant owner Roark Capital Group will buy Buffalo Wild Wings for $ 2.4 billion, months after an activist investor won seats on the chicken wing restaurant's board following a proxy fight demanding management change.

CEOs need to be devising strategy, working with board members, energizing organizations, and dealing with shareholders, but most leaders are ill prepared to handle an activist shareholder who comes at the company with a proxy fight and wins seats on the board.

The sale of Garantia was a blow to Lemann, but it left him with cash to invest, so he started buying shares in Gillette, the razor manufacturer, and won a seat on the board.

Newcomer Scott Jacobson, who was backed by the Horatio Gardens Homeowners Association, won a seat on the board.

Should Republicans win both seats on Long Island, the conference would have a net gain of one member with a victory in western New York flipping the seat held by retiring Democrat Marc Panepinto with Chris Jacobs.

A year after easily winning a seat on the board, few are still laughing.

His first experience with local politics came in 2007 when he won a seat on the Mattituck Park District board of commissioners, running on a reform platform.

The WFP failed in its bid to unseat Republican Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano (it backed Democrat Tom Suozzi), but saw another candidate, Anthony Eramo, a registered WFP member, win a seat on the Long Beach City Council.

According to James Parrott, an economist with the labor - backed Fiscal Policy Institute who won a seat on the commission, it has met roughly a dozen times since.

Charles Falciglia won a seat on Rockland County legislature with 43 percent of the vote cast for the Reform Party.

She won a seat on the Suffolk County Legislature and was elected to the Assembly in 2004, filling the seat Steve Levy left to become Suffolk County executive.

Labour won the seat on a 17 per cent swing (and won the subsequent general election on a 10 per cent swing).

Conservatives won the seat on a 7 per cent swing (and won the subsequent general election on 5.5 per cent swing).

He later ran and won a seat on his own.

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.»

But Democrats are crowing that Tuesday's outcomes show there is an opening to win seats on Long Island, where all nine senators are Republicans.

She left the Trustees after a winning a seat on the Town Board last November.

CHESTERTOWN — A mother of two who campaigned on boosting academic standards and improving the local school board's relationship with the community has won a seat on the North Warren Central School Board of Education.

In Shandaken, Democrat Kevin VanBlarcum, 27, won a seat on the town board.

In 2013, Kerin won a seat on the DeWitt Town Board in her first election for public office.

«Fort Drum is unlike any other military installation in the country,» said Stefanik, who was sworn into office in January and won a seat on the House Armed Services Committee largely to defend the post from being closed under «sequestration,» or the Army's program of downsizing.

Molly McDermott (D) won a seat on the Truxton Town Board by a 55 % -45 % margin over Douglass Potter (R).

But then he won a seat on the Dutchess County Legislature, and has not relinquished it for a decade, with five wins in a row after his first five losses.

Richard Barnbrook has won a seat on the Greater London Assembly after the British national party earned more than five per cent of the public vote.

But in Copeland, an area Labour has held since the 1930s, the Tories won the seat on a swing which would deliver a three - figure majority for Theresa May if repeated at the next election.

Pennsylvania doesn't permit fusion, except in a very limited manner, but Philadelphia does have a provision that makes it possible for a party with less than majority support to win seats on the city council.

The BNP won a seat on the GLA during this year's London elections.

Jaffe ran another unsuccessful campaign for Harrison Town Council in 2015, when Republicans won every seat on the board.

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.

He said, «A senator that won his seat on the platform of the APC chose to openly work for the Alliance for Democracy during the last governorship election.

Senior members hope to win seats on Labour's little - known Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC).

Remained parliamentary leader after Jacques Parizeau became party leader from 19 March 1988 until Parizeau won a seat on 25 September 1989.

He ran for and won a seat on the Town of Tonawanda Town Board.

Ticonderoga Town Councilman David Woods won re-election, with Joyce Cooper and Health Towne winning seats on the board, 662 and 334, respectively.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Former Syracuse Police Chief Steve Thompson will try again this year to win a seat on the Syracuse Common Council.

The former governor, who won the seat on the ticket of the PDP in 2011, said that he was returning to his home, adding that it was not his wish to leave the PDP when he did.

Don't take my word for it - perhaps the argument is best put by another woman MP who won her seat on hard graft and guts: Nadine Dorries, Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire.

(Mr. Díaz left after winning a seat on the New York City Council.)

He has become so committed to improving education that 2 years ago, with the help of some former students, he ran for and won a seat on the school committee of his home town, Sharon, Massachusetts.

Emperor Palpatine has won a seat on Odessa Council, and Chewbacca got arrested while driving Darth Vader to the local polling booth on Sunday 25 October, where the Dark Lord wasn't allowed to vote.

Ref Rodriguez, the co-founder of a charter school, won a seat on the school board in Los Angeles this week.

James decided to run for office and, after they returned in May 2006, he won a seat on the New Orleans City Council.

Unionized charter teachers would have the right to help elect CTU officers and win seats on the larger union's influential executive board and its larger House of Delegates.