"Recalls should be used only when an elected official has committed a crime, not when someone disagrees with the policies of the governor or another elected official," Wheatley said.
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Not a single Republican county-level elected official was left standing there, including the county's top elected official, County Judge Ed Emmett, who had helped lead the region through Hurricane Harvey.
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Well, Cuomo appears to be that kind of elected official.
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Um..... That is a remarkable statement from an elected official.
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But this time, he was attending as an elected official.
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Other pluralist democracies may choose another elected official to lead.
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She's not an elected official or someone in public office.
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And pretty much every other elected official in recent memory.
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I was -- elected official, we totally mopped around with that election.
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" Maine "A state that has only one remaining Democratic elected official.
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This way, an elected official could move on to another post.
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Mr. LePage is the most prominent elected official to support Gov.
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Trump said Wednesday that he's leaning toward picking an elected official.
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One elected official who he has heard back from is Rep.
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Only 31% preferred an elected official who stuck to their positions.
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I don't think that's helpful to me as an elected official.
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You are the highest ranking Hispanic elected official in the Senate.
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Betsy Driver became the first-ever openly intersex elected official in history.
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No elected official did more to stymie it than Harry M. Reid.
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The elected official will then enter the running to be prime minister.
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He's never held elected office or even worked for an elected official.
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Perriello has never served as an elected official at the state level.
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No elected official, including from Trump's Republican Party, has supported the claim.
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Convicting an elected official on corruption charges just got a lot harder.
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But as an elected official, I have to go with that decision.
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And when you are an elected official, you don't get that choice.
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And of virtually every elected official -- Republican or Democrat -- in the country.
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As an elected official he cannot be tried by an ordinary court.
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He is also an elected official for the township of Hokah, Minn.
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He also questioned its effectiveness as a tactic for an elected official.
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She went on to win the job of being an elected official.
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"I'm not a fan of any elected official, except Beto," said McClinton.
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"It's extraordinary power," Romney said of being an elected official in Congress.
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Booker is an elected official who, every six years, stands before voters.
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In a state in which every statewide elected official is a Republican.
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Is this elected official, reality-show participant, Facebook friend to be trusted?
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I was as guilty as any elected official at playing this game.
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Talk about the kind of guy you want as an elected official.
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"I'm asking the question whether you can spread hate speech if you are an elected official, or trying to be an elected official, that you would not be allowed to if you were not in that capacity," Casten said.
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If you're an elected official, you take care of your people, not yourself.
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What elected official makes policy decisions based on a few cranks on Twitter?
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But the transition from business to elected official has not been entirely pleasant.
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It's something Reintke has dealt with herself, despite being an elected official herself.
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"This was a major, corn-fed f--- up," a Democratic elected official added.
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The shortlist includes one currently elected official and two retired politicians, Erickson said.
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My question to every elected official across our land: What is your legacy?
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The most important "lobbyists" to an elected official are the voters back home.
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When one Republican state legislature or elected official pushes the boundaries, others follow.
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I'm an elected official, three terms, I had to swear on a Bible.
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John Bel Edwards, who is the only Democratic statewide elected official in Louisiana.
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Just look to our electoral system: Punishing an elected official is extremely difficult.
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There is no favorite when it comes to elected official endorsements in 22016.
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It's easy for an elected official to put their head in the sand.
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The other apparent source, Graham, is an elected official in his own right.
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But he's an elected official, not a civil rights leader, not a freedom fighter.
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I have freedoms, and I didn't negate those freedoms by becoming an elected official.
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Now, Westbrook is hoping to become the first trans elected official in US Congress.
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President Obama is a democratically elected official, faithfully discharging the duties of his office.
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They're saying that they refuse to acknowledge President Obama's legitimacy as an elected official.
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The highest ranking elected official in Iowa who endorsed Bernie Sanders was county supervisor.
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The specific law on the books is about threatening to kill an elected official.
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An elected official could only say what Trump said if he didn't understand policing.
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You can also call congress to directly get in touch with your elected official.
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In November 2013, Jessica became the youngest ever elected official in Marin County, Calif.
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"I don't believe every Republican elected official believes what Donald Trump does," he said.
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Ms. Patrick is a granddaughter of Bertram L. Baker, Brooklyn's first black elected official.
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He also wants to devote more time to his duties as an elected official.
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One is the county judge, Skeet Lee Jones, 203, the county's top elected official.
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Also, I think it's crazy for an elected official to run a political party.
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The problem is, he can't be gotten rid of, since he's an elected official.
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"I don't consider Republicans enemies; they're friends," one Democratic elected official said in response.
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She is the first elected official of South Asian extraction in New York State.
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Paul LePage this year, leaving Collins as the last remaining GOP statewide elected official.
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Williams was also the first elected official in Georgia to endorse Trump's presidential candidacy.
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" Mr. Williams, a former tenant advocate, refers to himself as an "activist elected official.
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A comment as ignorant as Pittenger's is truly shocking coming from an elected official.
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At 60 million followers, he is the world's most followed elected official in office.
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He joined nearly every relevant elected official and party institution in backing Mr. Donovan.
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Henry McMaster, who was the first statewide elected official to endorse Trump in 2016.
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No elected official is running on a campaign of higher premiums and higher copays.
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Throughout his time as an elected official, Sessions has talked tough on financial crimes.
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He declined to give the person's name but said it wasn't an elected official.
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The accusations toppled Mr. Mangano, once the highest-ranking elected official in Nassau County.
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Granted, at the time of his crimes, the Louisiana Democrat was an elected official.
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Most curious, Nelson believes that Bridenstine's status as an elected official is a disqualification.
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As an elected official my oath is to protect national security and the Constitution.
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As an elected official my oath is to protect national security and the Constitution.
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But Rosselló is an elected official who must answer to constituencies on the island.
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As an elected official, McSpadden promised to tackle community policing, economic equality, and healthcare.
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If a celebrity or an elected official say something homophobic, they get called out. Shamed.
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As a progressive, Jewish, Democratic elected official, I've found these fault lines challenging to navigate.
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No news organization or elected official ever confirmed Trump's account, which he has never renounced.
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That doesn't mean the state's top elected official should stand idly by during a crisis.
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"You get highly courted in South Carolina, especially if you're an elected official," Shealy said.
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Mr. Habib becomes the nation's highest-ranking Iranian-American elected official, The Seattle Times reported.
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We will use our political power to leverage elected official accountability to our policy agenda.
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The last time I checked, the president of the United States is an elected official.
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It is YOUR responsibility as our elected official to pass laws that protect your constituents.
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The governor isn't directly responsible for what happened, but he is our top elected official.
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Andrew Cuomo, who is demonstrating himself to be the most presidential of any elected official?
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There is no such thing as an elected official who is independent of the electorate.
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When a local elected official came onstage to hand him an award, he kissed her.
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Wrenn said at an afternoon news conference that the sheriff is an independent, elected official.
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The fires are believed to have been intentionally set, a local elected official said Tuesday.
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Robert Marshall (R), becoming Virginia's first openly transgender elected official, according to The Washington Post.
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She had no experience as an educator or school administration or as an elected official.
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Every elected official has a political network, and every political network has its own distinct currency.
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"The Washington Post, acknowledging it had no corroboration, just smeared an elected official," the statement said.
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For America it is much better to have this elected official serving as a chief advisor.
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My -- Rod sentences at least, double that of any other elected official up until that point.
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But he's right that misinformation about voting, especially by an elected official, is generally considered serious.
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In reality he's as much an insider and benefactor of corruption as any other elected official.
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Bloomberg isn't the only former elected official weighing a late entrance into the Democratic presidential race.
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For some, that was because he is the first elected official to serve as NASA administrator.
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The governor is the only statewide elected official and appoints a wide range of public officials.
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At the time, Steel was the highest-ranking Korean-American elected official in the United States.
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And as an elected official, he should be modeling behavior for the rest of us too.
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While it's hard to imagine even a more serious Republican elected official -- like, say, Maryland Gov.
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What if every elected official hustling to endorse Mr. Biden, after long resisting, is wrong, too?
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The marriage was publicized, not by choice, but because Smolenski is an elected official, she said.
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As a duly elected official, chosen by the people, I stand with my Utah congressman's legislation.
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But Mr. Langford harbored the highest hopes of any elected official for the old steel hub.
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Endorsements are spread out, though Greimel (perhaps unsurprisingly, as a sitting elected official) has the most.
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Another heard about a local elected official driving elderly people to the polls getting harassed by police.
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These are good and normal practices for an elected official holding the highest office to engage in.
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But it is generally hard to make an elected official — especially an executive — give up an office.
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The only elected official who spoke (and who was invited) to this week's conference was Missouri Sen.
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Endorsements are also spread out, though Greimel (perhaps unsurprisingly, as a sitting elected official) has the most.
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Ginsburg stressed the importance of ensuring that an elected official represents all of his or her constituents.
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President Donald Trump is the only elected official in the beltway in Washington, D.C., who gets it.
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When the staff threatened to call the police, Anderson suggested instead that they call her elected official.
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But Perdue's spokesperson pointed out that he has a record of emphasizing conservation as an elected official.
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The second thing I'd say is: Let off steam, but don't threaten to kill an elected official!
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Mr. Kasich's office referred questions to Secretary of State Jon Husted, the elected official who oversees elections.
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One man threatened to marshal 1,1913 votes against any elected official who dared to disagree with him.
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And I am proud to fight as an elected official for Dreamers and comprehensive immigration reform. pic.twitter.
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Balderson was an elected official who ran a credible campaign and raised the money he needed to.
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Raven Matherne, Connecticut's first openly transgender elected official, proposed the change along with two other Democratic representatives.
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"We believe the sheriff, being an elected official, should be judged by his peers," Mr. McDonald said.
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Nor is it clear why people would want to destroy Clinton, who is not an elected official.
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He was up against an older, more established black elected official, William Bell, who was universally known.
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It sounds so simple to ask an elected official to talk in a direct way about segregation.
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I'm unaware of any locally elected official who has called for her to resign to this point.
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"And now they're left with nothing," said José Margarito Ramírez Medel, 55, the village's top elected official.
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It is occupied by troops and governed by an elected official, who also joined Mr. Lorenzana's trip.
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A former elected official, he now also juggles his performances with film-making and a construction business.
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Just years ago, a scandal that outed a GOP elected official as gay could be career ending.
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Although a number of lawmakers were spotted marching, not a single elected official spoke at the rally.
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One clause of the lease, in particular, states that no elected official may benefit from the lease.
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The argument insists that the statements of a candidate do not "bind" an elected official to action.
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Robert Marshall (R) in the election earlier this month, becoming the state's first openly transgender elected official.
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He said it's "tough" to be an elected official if you can't explain drug prices to constituents.
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"Nothing justifies intimidations and violence toward an elected official of the Republic," Mr. Macron wrote on Twitter.
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"He was actually the first major elected official outside of Illinois to endorse my Presidency," Obama said.
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Acts that do not meet a precise statutory definition still may place an elected official in jeopardy.
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When Northrop left LA with its headquarters, no elected official besides one, I think, even called them.
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We're eager to to hear about official D.C. opposition to the FCC's plan to eliminate net neutrality — if your elected official has spoken out on this (or for that matter if you are an elected official who has spoken out on this or plans to), please let us know.
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Correction (July 18th, 2017): This piece originally said that Jim Gray is Kentucky's first openly gay elected official.
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And it's not just one GOP elected official misleading voters about their stance on preexisting conditions, it's dozens.
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Removing an elected official in Pennsylvania is relatively difficult unless that official is convicted of a serious crime.
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It was an unprecedented stance for the party's highest-ranking elected official to take on its presumptive nominee.
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As lieutenant governor, McMaster was the first statewide elected official in the country to back Trump&aposs candidacy.
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I don't think any elected official should," the New York Republican told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day.
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Steyer's supporters have defended Govan, saying payment for consulting services, even as an elected official, is not illegal.
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I think it helped further the basic notion that Mike was a totally different kind of elected official.
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Elected official and citizens only became aware of the program after a profile was published in Bloomberg Business.
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Ecuadoreans will now be asked whether any elected official should be permitted to serve more than two terms.
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Rick Santorum is no longer an elected official, but that doesn't mean he's stopped being a heartless buffoon.
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Or maybe it will backfire, and Americans will question the legitimacy of just one elected official in particular.
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Josh Hawley made the strongest comments against Facebook and other social media giants by a prominent elected official.
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The top elected official is appointed by our governor who is also a candidate in the Senate race.
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Enter here former Vice President Joe Biden and the Republican Party's leading Trump-skeptic elected official, Ohio Gov.
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It was one for the books, the "here's what not to do if you're an elected official" kind.
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This was a view of an elected official I had never seen — the get-your-hands-up view.
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This is part of a broader pattern of undermining banking reforms that no elected official should not support.
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Powell responded that remarking on comments made by "any elected official" would be a "distraction" from his duty.
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His implication was that this very senior elected official was in no way the candidate for these times.
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While serving as lieutenant governor, McMaster was the first statewide elected official to endorse Trump's candidacy for president.
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Trump is uniformly unpopular with Democrats, making it hard for any elected official to support the president's plan.
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Hillary wasn't an elected official at the time, but she made favorable comments about NAFTA during his administration.
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You have to swear on a Bible to be an elected official in the United States of America.
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Small businessman Lucas St. Clair and former local elected official Craig Olson are also running for the nomination.
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At the end of the day he's the President, the elected official and he'll make the final decision.
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M.T.A. board members would be forced to step down when the elected official who appointed them leaves office.
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If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Bridenstine, 42, would be the first elected official to hold that job.
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Christie may be the only major elected official in the country with worse public approval ratings than Trump.
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Many politicians, from the lowly elected official to a succession of presidents, are being implicated, arrested, and tried.
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Few other developed democracies imbue a single elected official with so much power and so little public oversight.
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We are "holding every candidate to the highest standard" and "demanding more from every elected official," she said.
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Gary R. Herbert, a Republican who became the state's top elected official after the resignation of Jon Huntsman.
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They continued weighing the evidence against Mr. Mangano, who was the county's top elected official for eight years.
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As the state's top elected official, Mr. Cuomo is considered the head of the New York Democratic Party.
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The entire point of impeachment is to remove an elected official who is damaging the national interest. 4.
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Personally, I'm glad I'm not an elected official or chief executive, because I can't take any more accountability.
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Over the weekend, Trump was publicly rebuked by nearly every elected official of consequence in Utah, with Gov.
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" "Last week I issued a challenge for at least one Republican elected official to condemn @SteveKingIA's recent behavior.
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"How an elected official can message to America, 'Don't vote'—I find that embarrassing for them," Collins said.
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Here, Comey was not even dealing with an elected official, just one on her way to a nomination.
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Indeed, there was some surprise that a parody account would garner more attention than a publicly elected official.
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She was endorsed by virtually every elected official in the party and pretty much every major interest group.
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"Depriving an elected official of his or her pay based on charges which have not been adjudicated and to which the elected official has not had an opportunity to respond is not a decision to be taken lightly," Wrenn wrote this week, reiterating that the decision may be revisited later.
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"The president is not just an elected official who administers the country," said Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
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"I didn't give up my First Amendment right when I became an elected official," Hickman said at the meeting.
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Among the crowded field, he's the only statewide elected official to win a state that Trump carried in 73.
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During the 2017 awards season, stars used their platforms to address their newly elected official (remember Meryl's epic speech?).
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This will let an elected official send out a post or poll to only those living in their district.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party&aposs B.S. Yeddyurappa was sworn in as Karnataka state&aposs top elected official on Thursday.
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"Nothing justifies intimidations and violence towards an elected official of the Republic," Macron tweeted in relation to the incident.
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Williams touts that he was the first elected official in Georgia to endorse Trump, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported .
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And Francoise Beziat, a regional elected official for the Republicans, thinks it is a case of 'change or die'.
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"I named the dog Biden just because he is probably my favorite politician and favorite elected official," she added.
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As an elected official Sheriff Niles will continue to perform his duties and serve the people of Garfield County.
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Now is the time to leverage these tools to scale the protection to every elected official and their staff.
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There is no more obvious personification of that establishment than the party's top elected official – the very same Speaker.
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John Bel Edwards, the state's only statewide Democratic elected official, as well as the majority of black political leadership.
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" In a press conference Saturday, Bevin drew a "clear line in the sand for every elected official in Kentucky.
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Evans, who is an elected official on the D.C. Council, also serves as chairman of the D.C. Metro board.
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Call me crazy but I don't think any elected official should offer money to people to dox peaceful protesters.
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I ran for lieutenant governor in 2014 — I would have been the very first Native American statewide elected official.
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You can also call congress by using the widget below to directly get in touch with your elected official.
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Depending on where you live, you have an elected official who has something to do with the Farm Bill.
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We're no longer in a place where you can't take a position on this if you're an elected official.
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As with most on-the-record discussions with an elected official, I was recording our conversation to ensure accuracy.
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But as an elected official, he was bound to fall somewhere between the activists and the politicians, frustrating both.
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Whether he has a third act in another administration or as a publicly elected official is an open question.
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You will also have the mad urge to press it into the hands of every elected official you meet.
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His father was a longtime elected official who also served as mayor, and his grandfather was a community activist.
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It is occupied by troops and governed by an elected official under the province of Palawan, west of Manila.
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Both houses should immediately release the names of every elected official who has taken advantage of this slush fund.
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Kruse is the latest elected official to quit after allegations of harassment as the "Me Too" movement gathered momentum.
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Evans is DC's longest-serving elected official currently in office; he first won office in a 20203 special election.
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Ayala fulfilled her responsibility as a duly elected official, demonstrating transparency to her constituents and accountability for her decision.
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Vice President Pence is the only GOP elected official above water on favorability, at 44 positive and 42 negative.
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Sonko, an elected official from President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee party known for his flamboyant lifestyle, was arrested on Friday.
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There is nothing worse for an elected official than not being funny -- at least when they're trying to be.
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There's perhaps no single elected official in the United States more closely tied to Hillary Clinton than Terry McAuliffe.
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"I can say that as an elected official, as a state representative, I have experienced this first-hand," Tanzi said.
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Ocasio-Cortez might defy all the ideas of what an elected official should look like, but that's not stopping her.
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"Those videos do not look good," a local elected official Aaron Peskin said at the meeting, according to the paper.
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And I think for me to get into responding to any elected official would be a distraction from that job.
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The most visual anti-Trump troll this week came not from an elected official, but Rosie O'Donnell, his longtime nemesis.
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"You have to swear on a Bible to be an elected official in the United States of America," Crockett replied.
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On the most basic level, impeachment is a procedure used by Congress to remove an elected official from their post.
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I think I'm a much better dealmaker than the current president, both as a businessperson and as an elected official.
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You can also call congress instead by using the widget below to directly get in touch with your elected official.
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If she was an elected official who was taking speaking fees from groups — yeah, I have a problem with that.
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But in truth, no one man, elected official, or historical event could have prevented the bloodiest war in American history.
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They are often aimed at shoring up support for a candidate or elected official of the right-wing media machine.
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The win by Lightfoot makes Chicago the largest city to elect an African-American woman as its top elected official.
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"The Fed is different than an elected official in that they tend to follow through on a plan," Rieder said.
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Mr. Trump would be the first presidential nominee since Dwight D. Eisenhower to have never served as an elected official.
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A local elected official prohibiting police from displaying a flag given to them by a grateful child is disgraceful. pic.twitter.
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The highest-ranking female elected official in American history, Pelosi previously served as speaker for two terms in 2007-2011.
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It's no secret that being a Republican elected official on Capitol Hill isn't much fun in the age of Trump.
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"You have to swear on a Bible to be an elected official in the United States of America," Crockett said.
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Norcross himself is not a politician nor an elected official (though he is a member of the Democratic National Committee).
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Instead of running away from Trump, McMaster was the first statewide elected official to back Trump during the Republican primaries.
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On the other hand, not obeying the lawful order of a legitimately elected official is also a subversion of democracy.
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"Serving as an elected official is one of the greatest honors our country can bestow on a person," he added.
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Also, contact your elected official either by phone or email to let them know how you feel about the issue.
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Mangano, a Republican, was the top elected official in Nassau County, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States.
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As an elected official with a vote in Austin, let me tell you what I am NOT going to do.
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Otherwise you're either an appalling hypocrite or an elected official attempting to impose your religion on Americans of different faiths.
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It would be naïve to think that giving every elected official a copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" would change that.
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Jumaane Williams was the first elected official to back Occupy as a member of the City Council at the time.
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It sweetens the re-election bid of Telangana's top elected official, K. Chandrashekar Rao, in state polls later this year.
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By the time I was in fourth or fifth grade, I wanted to be an elected official or a policymaker.
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Mr. Cuellar was not the only Texas elected official approached by border officials about where to place a new barrier.
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It's not just that an elected official should know how to answer that question without a lot of prep work.
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But Mr. Arpaio was an elected official who defied a federal court's order that he stop violating people's constitutional rights.
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Any elected official who asks to visit my schools is welcome to do so; there is no political litmus test.
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Outside of Minnesota and Iowa, she has scarce support from people of color, including just one elected official, California Rep.
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Trump is not an elected official; he has no governmental power to independently authorize a wall on our southern border.
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McConnell is the only Republican elected official polled that is not viewed favorably by a majority of his own party.
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Thanks to the nation's founders, no elected official is empowered to make personal religious beliefs the law of the land.
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Netanyahu rrentlyfaces allegations of corruption and accusations that he used his position as Israel's top elected official for personal gain.
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"I don't think it's a productive direction for him to take," said a Pennsylvania Democratic elected official who requested anonymity.
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Jackie isn't an elected official, but she's kind of like a politician, crafting her own public narrative in real time.
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This is an actual elected official in the US making blatantly racist arguments about who belongs in America and who doesn't.
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After an explosion kills basically the entire government, Tom is sworn in as president despite never having been an elected official.
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" Adds Kendrick, "If you have a candidate [or a local elected official] that supports your values, make sure you support them.
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Any elected official that supports disenfranchising voters because of who they are or what they look like must be held accountable.
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History was made in Virginia on Tuesday when a 33-year-old woman became the state's first openly transgender elected official.
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On the other: the only Republican elected official in the county, Andrew Haggerty; law enforcement; and border hawks in the community.
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" (WOWT News) Roger Wicker Clinton: "The rule of law is more important that the tenure in office of any elected official.
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Now, the senator ranks among the "millionaires and billionaires" he has criticized during his nearly four decades as an elected official.
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Any business or elected official with a low approval rating of 17 percent would make regaining customer confidence its highest priority.
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If I was considering her to be my elected official, getting to the bottom of that would be important to me.
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Lightfoot — who identifies as a lesbian — will be Chicago's first woman of color to serve as the city's top elected official.
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The first-time elected official represents New Mexico's 1st Congressional District and is a member of the state's Laguna Pueblo tribe.
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A military coup that ousted a civilian government in May 2014 left Sukhumbhand as the highest-ranked elected official in Thailand.
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Congratulations to Sharice Davids, the first openly queer elected official from Kansas, and the first Native American woman elected to Congress.
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When Cornyn was under consideration, even his GOP colleagues questioned whether he would be the right choice as an elected official.
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However, despite having been a Republican elected official, Ken Cuccinelli is not a safe bet for confirmation by the Republican Senate.
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"What would the place become if every person left the country because they didn't agree with an elected official?" he said.
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Murphy does one thing in his public life as an elected official and something very, very different in his private life.
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That strategy, Carlson said, has a glaring problem: Clinton is not running for office, nor is she currently an elected official.
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On Tuesday, Danica Roem made history when she became the first openly transgender elected official in Virginia, The Washington Post reports.
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"I told her at the end of the debate, I've done everything but be an elected official," Patel told The Hill.
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Still, it isn't clear how Facebook is defining "politician" and whether that simply means elected official, or also includes political candidates.
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Macri did not include either company in any of the declarations of his assets he has made as an elected official.
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An elected official who has been in office for more than two decades is not a one-off, he's a mirror.
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They reasoned that the incident was a long time ago, when Mr. Franken was a comedian and not an elected official.
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It's time to, as Freemark has argued, put transit squarely within the responsibility of one elected official who is clearly accountable.
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He was only the fourth American who was not an elected official or a military member to be given the honor.
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If you support a free and open internet, contact your elected official and demand that they support the net neutrality CRA.
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"I'm protected according to the Fifth Circuit, because I'm an elected official, but the police chief is not," Mr. Saldaña said.
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But it was disheartening to hear this elected official put his party's political agenda ahead of the will of his constituents.
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He presents himself to supporters not just as an elected official representing them, but also as a source they can believe.
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If you're an elected official with a D next to your name, there's a good chance you just endorsed Joe Biden.
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Only one elected official joined the news conference on Wednesday: City Councilman Daniel Dromm, the chairman of the Council's education committee.
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David Young, the longtime executive director of the W.G.A. West, is not an elected official and will remain in his position.
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Every statewide elected official is a Democrat, and the party controls both houses of the Legislature by a two-thirds margin.
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Greg Abbott has said he will cut state funding for sanctuary cities and remove any elected official who promotes such policies.
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For one, they said Mr. Bridenstine was too political — he would be the first elected official to serve as NASA administrator.
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Democrats are pressuring the agency to evict Trump because a line in the contract prohibits it from benefiting an elected official.
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"You want a candidate who takes info security seriously to turn into an elected official who takes it seriously," Turner said.
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If Clinton wins the presidential election in November, she would be essentially exempt from security clearance vetting as an elected official.
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"It is disheartening to see yet another elected official give the public a reason not to trust us," Mr. Kenney said.
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"You have to swear on a Bible to be an elected official in the United States of America," Mr. Crockett said.
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When you're an elected official you should be held to a higher standard than regular people because you represent our country.
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Card was a veteran elected official who served four years as deputy chief of staff in the George H.W. Bush administration.
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And, of course, our highest-ranking elected official just aligned himself with a white nationalist mob in support of this cause.
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We'll be grateful when we get an elected official who puts out the fire, not someone who pours gasoline on the flames.
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It's legislation led by NYC Health Committee Chair Council Member Corey Johnson, the only openly HIV-positive elected official in the state.
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An elected official from Ohio told a top Trump donor that he didn't even like Trump but was livid at Cruz nonetheless.
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The terms of every elected official in the country eventually expired, leaving Mr. Martelly to rule by decree for an entire year.
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Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who has represented El Paso as an elected official, said he'll leave the campaign trail to return home.
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In reality, Gillum, who had been an elected official since he was a college student, was about to be a private citizen.
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"If he keeps up those channels of communication throughout his campaign and throughout his tenure as an elected official," Mr. Terry said.
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Mr. McCrum argued that Mr. Perry's actions crossed the line from mere politics to the criminal act of threatening an elected official.
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A Future: If Mr. Trump does become president, he would be hugely indebted to the first major elected official to endorse him.
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McMaster was the first statewide elected official to back Trump's 2016 presidential campaign but has faced questions over corruption in state government.
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The terms of practically every elected official in the country have expired, allowing Mr. Martelly to rule by decree since January 2015.
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Bergstein is, to his knowledge, the first more-senior person at Morgan Stanley that has a spouse who is an elected official.
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They said the lease states that no elected official of the federal government can share in the agreement or benefit from it.
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Perriello hasn't served as a state-level elected official in Virginia, and his only political experience was his one term in Congress.
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" I think that's a really easy thing to do, to call your elected official and say, "How are you going to vote?
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It is not uncommon for former political officials to lobby and consult with corporations after leaving the employment of an elected official.
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If the focus for an elected official is the economy, send economic advisers to talk about how Trump will work with them.
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Christie isn't Trump's first endorsement from an elected official — just last week, he was endorsed by GOP Representative Duncan Hunter, Politico reported.
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But a clause in the contract says no "elected official of the government of the United States" can benefit from the lease.
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With widespread awareness of this breach of trust, what elected official could justify asking for a future vote, while failing to act?
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He has also spent years schmoozing with nearly every Democratic elected official, union leader and constituency that makes this raucous city work.
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Veterans make up nearly 80 percent of Boston's firefighting force, and fill countless other public service roles from policeman to elected official.
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I have been inform elected official & all-round mensch I meet, Jason Spencer, have somehow been portray in bad light by Showtime.
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Every elected official and every government official needs to remember – we are not spending the government's money, we are spending taxpayer's money.
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San Francisco International Airport debuted a new terminal Tuesday named after Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California's history.
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According to Victory Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based political action committee, he is the first openly trans elected official in the state.
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"You're going to end up fighting every elected official in this country," she replies — half in journalistic cynicism, half wishing he would.
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"They are spooked about me being an elected official," Hubbard wrote in an email afterward to his mentor, former Governor Bob Riley.
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The person who leaked audio of Republicans meeting in Philadelphia snuck in by claiming to be the spouse of an elected official.
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August is a time for everyone to refresh, whether you are an elected official, exhausted staffer or interest group engaged in advocacy.
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Gimelstob also is a frequent contributor to Tennis Channel and an elected official of the ATP, one of tennis's seven governing bodies.
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"Activist-elected official," he said in describing his approach during an interview in his 17th-floor office across Broadway from City Hall.
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"I maintain that I have a right to submit an amicus brief in my capacity as a duly elected official," he said.
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THE AGITATORJumaane D. Williams, a Democrat and self-described "activist-elected official," started representing the 45th Council District in Brooklyn in 2009.
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No state has been as aggressive as Kansas in restricting ballot access, and no elected official has been as dogged as Kobach.
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Maricopa County voters appeared delighted with his tactics; for a time, "Sheriff Joe" was the most popular elected official in the state.
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Last week, Dalhi Myers, a conservative-leaning African-American elected official in South Carolina, switched her support from Joe Biden to Sanders.
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According to the letter, the lease agreement explicitly prohibits any elected official from becoming party to the contract or benefitting from it.
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Mr. Trump's lawyers preposterously contend that because he was not an elected official when the lease was signed, he hasn't broken it.
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But one effective way to make the point is to recruit an elected official to subtly make the case on your behalf.
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"I'd tell Bill or Jon what we needed, and they would call an elected [official]," she recalled — rallying food and political support.
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Flake is the first elected official to cross this particular rhetorical Rubicon, and he seems to be imploring his colleagues to follow.
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I do not take this position lightly, but as an elected official I must make the hard decisions—not the easy ones.
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"You're not above law by being either a member of Congress or an elected official or a candidate for office," Zeldin said.
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"There is no law preventing anybody from saying the name whether you're in the media or you're an elected official," he said.
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A new Harvard-Harris poll provided exclusively to The Hill showed McConnell is the least popular elected official with a national profile.
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Ms. Preckwinkle is the Cook County Board president and a seasoned elected official on the South Side who supports criminal justice reform.
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Baker, the top elected official in one of the nation&aposs most affluent African-American-majority counties, was endorsed by former Maryland Gov.
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And if you're a voter and you tell the elected official, 'Look, I'm concerned about XYZ,' that's their job, to work in XYZ.
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As an elected official in the mid-403s, Ryan endorsed a bipartisan immigration bill that included a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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It's refreshing to see an elected official who actually knows how to use social media instead of being free from the interminable nightmare.
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The movement's leading elected official, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, reiterated on Twitter that he would not vote for Trump in the general election.
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In the very near future, an app might have the same power as an industry, an elected official, and even Mother Nature herself.
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Trump has since unloaded on House Speaker Paul Ryan, his party's top elected official, as he falls deeper behind Clinton in recent polls.
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Duterte's crackdown: 6 stories from the front lines High-profile killings Dimaukom is not the first elected official implicated in the drug war.
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As an elected official in Congress, Sanders caucused with the Democrats, but considers himself an independent due to his far-left-leaning views.
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Think about it — when you hear that a person is a judge or an elected official, does your brain immediately conjure up "he"?
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You have to be sensitive as well, in terms of the realities of being an elected official in the Unites States right now.
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The office of the chief minister, the highest elected official in Assam, did not respond to questions sent by Reuters on this story.
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The New Frontier Awards honor an exceptional elected official as well as an individual in the realm of community service, advocacy or activism.
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The defendants violated her rights "when they assumed the authority to veto the prosecutorial discretion of an independent elected official," the suit says.
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"These false accusations are intended to damage a prominent elected official who has been a defender of vulnerable populations for decades," he said.
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""It was just one tweet," Fierce told The Verge, "and certainly not the first time I've told an elected official to fuck off.
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He may not be an elected official, but Acevedo is a public figure in his community whose words have clearly resonated with many.
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Politics -- whether you are an elected official, a reporter, a staffer or someone who just follows it closely -- is more vocation than job.
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He said he'll announce his pick prior to the Republican National Convention in July and said it will likely be an elected official.
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And so is the preference for giving the reins of government to an elected official — a member of Congress — over a cabinet secretary.
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"I named the dog Biden just because he is probably my favorite politician and favorite elected official," Sydney, Biden's owner, told BuzzFeed News.
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The relationship between the Republican Party's highest-ranking elected official and its 2016 presidential nominee has been fraught with tension from the start.
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Douglas Wilder (D-Va.) would be elected lieutenant governor just two years later, becoming the first black statewide elected official in Virginia's history.
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Bolsonaro is by far the most prominent elected official to praise the harsh military dictatorship that ruled the country from 20143 to 1985.
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No elected official wants to act, for fear of political fallout and blame for a war that he or she did not start.
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Then, a captain from the Police Service Area patrolling the complex intervened after recognizing Mr. Blake as an elected official, the police said.
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"We don't want a mukhtar sheltering Islamic State," the graffiti said, referring to the local elected official responsible for administration in the neighborhood.
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On Monday, a local elected official in Sarioren, in Sanliurfa province, was shot dead after suspected militants hijacked his car, security sources said.
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He was a local GOP elected official in this suburban district, has known Coffman for years and is leaning towards voting for him.
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Gun rights supporters vote for guns and if they sense any weakening on gun rights by an elected official, their past loyalties disappear.
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Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) as potential replacements for Ryan, noting that the Constitution does not actually require the Speaker be an elected official.
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These promises were almost certainly overambitious, but they were nonetheless promises to govern and to legislate, to take responsibility as an elected official.
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Numerous in-state polls last year showed Bullock has the highest approval rating of any statewide elected official, including Daines and Democratic Sen.
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"It's such a random sending of these bombs," said Nelson W. Wolff, the top elected official in Bexar County, which includes San Antonio.
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A strong Democratic recruit — like a military veteran or an elected official — can cut into that advantage, especially with strong fund-raising numbers.
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And Pence — like his running mate and virtually every Republican elected official in the country — professed to believe it was a huge deal. .
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Send the letter to a person or organization with local influence, such as the school board, an elected official or your local newspaper.
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If someone requests the mayor to do something in his capacity as an elected official, those emails would be subject to public review.
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Speaking as a public health person, this is the most irresponsible act of an elected official that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime.
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" The top elected official from the district vowed on Tuesday to punish the building's developer for "endangering people and using low-quality materials.
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Trump wields his megaphone like no other elected official has, and when it's trained on you; few if any come to your aid.
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Any elected official who voted for the House Republican health care plan, which passed on Thursday afternoon, should have considered reactions like these.
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Is it evil to sue for constitutional affirmation of civil rights like Free Speech in carrying out the duties of an elected official?
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At the dinner for Mr. Macron last year, John Bel Edwards, the governor of Louisiana, was the only Democratic elected official to attend.
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As an elected official, I have seen firsthand the good that can be done when lawmakers come together to promote the common good.
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"The charges against him do not reflect the character and decorum that we expect of an elected official," Fallin said in a statement.
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He punishes any Republican elected official who doesn't demonstrate total and complete fealty to his bastardized version of who the Republican Party is.
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The Democratic front-runner highlighted the need for compromise with Republicans and reflected on past examples during her tenure as an elected official.
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Early estimates show the territory could need up to $700 million in loans, said Orlando Smith, the premier and top locally elected official.
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In Hamilton's response, which the editors of his papers say he signed, he did not list the president or any other elected official.
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"You'll never see a press conference with a Cosecha member and an elected official, even if we're on the same side," Cabello said.
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Foster youths are, by definition, wards of the state, but when was the last time you heard any elected official talking about them?
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I will participate in the Republican National Convention next week for the first time as a delegate and not as an elected official.
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While some may balk at the idea of an elected official shooting an animal, Cochran assured the Houston Chronicle that her hunt was legal.
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Although the district was reliably Republican and my client was a Democrat, she was the most popular elected official in its most populous county.
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And when the mayor found out, he pressed at least one elected official not to attend, according to three people familiar with the efforts.
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"The president, perhaps more so than any elected official in this great country, should practice the politics of decency," said Cleaver in the release.
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Representative Elijah E. Cummings, who died last week, became the first African-American elected official to lie in state in the Capitol on Thursday.
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While that comment can rankle you, imagining how someone so dumb became an elected official in your democracy, it can't sway anyone with eyes.
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Lawmakers from both parties voiced concerns over DeSantis' removal of a locally elected official, pushing instead for the issue to be sent to voters.
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At the end of a campaign, every federal elected official and challenger would be required to close their campaign account and stop campaign activity.
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Unless you're a plow driver or a parka-clad elected official trying to look essential, one doesn't pretend to do battle against a blizzard.
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Test subjects included the youngest statewide elected official in the country and the mother of the CEOs of YouTube and the genetics company 23andMe.
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At 23, former Umbrella Movement leader Nathan Law is the youngest elected official in Hong Kong's history, and already one of its most controversial.
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The company currently pays $1.6 million in annual property taxes to the town, said Fairfield First Selectman Mike Tetreau, the town's top elected official.
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"There is not a single ... elected official that represents that area that's in favor of it, but the president did it anyway," he added.
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One of the judges was Councilman Carlos Menchaca, a Democrat from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and the first Mexican-American elected official in New York.
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Any elected official from a state like New Hampshire where the opioid crisis causes very real pain to families every day needs to act.
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No Republican has formally entered the race yet, though Republicans are excited that former Burlington County elected official Kate Gibbs is reportedly considering running.
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Virginia House of Delegates candidate Danica Roem (D) made history in November, winning her election and becoming the state's first openly transgender elected official.
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For the record, the reality in politics is that pledges are taken to make a candidate or elected official look like the good guy.
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However, while the president is the most senior directly elected official, most power is held by a governing coalition that requires a parliamentary majority.
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He can now walk into parliament as an elected official, just two years after he stormed and occupied parliament as a Sunflower Movement activist.
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Also, for the record, the first lady — who is neither a member of Congress nor an elected official of any kind — cannot introduce legislation.
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Like Booker, Harris has decades-long relationships with some major Silicon Valley donors thanks to her years as a statewide elected official in California.
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Most importantly, did Burr and his wife trade on valuable insider information that he gained by virtue of his position as an elected official?
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"Our policy exceeds what any elected official in the state does, goes above the law and it is an undeniably good thing," she said.
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The U.S. Federal Election Commission allows the use of private campaign funds to pay legal bills arising from being a candidate or elected official.
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And finally, we have to stop giving a pass to the people — whether elected official or average voter — who support and defend his racism.
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If you really want to know what I'd do as president, you might want to check on what I did as an elected official.
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Abrams isn't the only former elected official who has recently chosen not to run for office again and who deserves more gratitude than grief.
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"Pedro Rosselló, as an elected official from day one, never lived by the mantra of being a legend in his own mind," Cifuentes said.
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Article of the Day Before reading the article: Have you ever met with an elected official and been given the opportunity to ask questions?
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Trump's lease contains a provision specifically barring any 'elected official of the government of the United States' from deriving 'any benefit' from the agreement.
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She clearly does not support such a callous move, nor should any elected official who represents the best interests of his or her voters.
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"The fact that I'm here today as an elected official and a member of Congress had more to do with his work," she said.
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"People do have a right to freedom of speech," said Mr. Carlton, a Republican who is the county judge, the county's top elected official.
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Although the president has fewer powers than a prime minister the post is still Tunisia's most senior directly elected official with wide political influence.
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This is a guy who in his early days as mayor was described by a fellow elected official as representing the fungus of socialism.
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Although politics is naturally always on the mind of any elected official, this is a moment when they need to make those considerations secondary.
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Cramer -- as a statewide elected official in North Dakota, which has only one House seat -- would bring a much higher profile to the race.
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In 1999, after winning a second term, Johnson became the highest-ranking elected official in America to call for the full legalization of marijuana.
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But there is at least one prominent example of a country's top elected official continuing to own a major business empire while in office.
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The rapprochement between the GOP's presumed standard-bearer and its top elected official — assuming that's what this is — is clearly a work in progress.
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Negotiations between Belgium and Congo will be difficult, though, especially because DRC president Joseph Kabila is not technically an elected official at present time.
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I am an elected official, so I'm in the public eye a little bit, but this is definitely a lot more than a little bit.
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There should be no shame in removing tweets on a case-by-case basis when they inspire very real death threats against an elected official.
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In court documents, U.S. prosecutors have described that person as an elected official in Allentown with authority over city contracts and senior officials like Dougherty.
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They're also civically engaged, as 153% have attended a political rally or event, 57% have contacted an elected official and 38% have donated to campaigns.
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But it's easy to imagine how the combination of irresponsible speechifying by an elected official, combined with platform-related mishaps, will empower cathedral fire truthers.
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"We are heading straight for ... a nuclear disaster, that's why we're against it," said Jean-Marc Fleury, a local elected official with an environmentalist party.
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Clark Tucker is a candidate there, who&aposs a local elected official, and he actually got into the race -- he&aposs running against French Hill.
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Existing board members would be required to provide their attendance records, tenure on the board and the name of the elected official who appointed them.
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The group&aposs president said his behavior and "utter disregard" for public safety are the opposite of what they look for in an elected official.
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Paolo Gregoletto, the bassist for the band, seemed delighted to come across an elected official expressing such zeal, and said as much later on Instagram.
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J.B. Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt Hotels chain, beat out Trump this year as the richest elected official, with a net worth of $3.2 billion.
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A local elected official told Reuters that about 40 to 50 Chechen families lived in that area of Strasbourg, not mixing much with other people.
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It's certainly effective if you get that encouragement from a formal political actor, like an elected official or a political activist or a party leader.
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As an elected official, you stood by and watched our historic stronghold in Louisiana being chipped away, and finally taken outright by the Republican party.
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Todd is the first openly gay elected official in Alabama: Moore also shared images attacking an Alabama drag queen who was publicly critical of Moore:
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Voters can express their discontent to the city's most visible elected official by contacting City Hall or by voting for change in the next election.
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That's why everyone should be tuned in to what is happening in Georgia: Every elected official should be demanding an independent review of the election.
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Any elected official or candidate who is serious about addressing the United States' overdose crisis should view drug decriminalization as central to their reform agenda.
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An elected official in Oregon who has been a Republican for four decades announced that she is becoming a Democrat because of the Trump administration.
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"Citizens can become educated and empowered in order to bring these issues to the forefront -- to their elected official, to the regulatory agencies," Subra said.
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If the answer is no, then Republicans are obligated to put politics aside and led with the principle and integrity afforded to an elected official.
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Would they allow their children to get away with insulting a classmate, teacher, one of their elders, a Church member, or a local elected official?
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CNN reported Wednesday that a law enforcement official and local elected official had confirmed that a suspect had been taken into custody in the investigation.
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One of the clauses in the lease forbids any elected official in the federal government or Washington, DC, from holding or benefiting from the lease.
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In 2016, he said that he had been stopped seven times by police officers in the course of one year, even as an elected official.
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The case already has a political shadow: Not only is Mr. Hunter an elected official, but Judge Balkman, a former state legislator, is also elected.
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He did increase state spending on public education and health care, but he also built more prisons than any other state elected official before him.
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"FEMA didn't show up that day," said Stephen Brint Carlton, a Republican who is the county judge and the top elected official in Orange County.
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In politically tinged remarks -- unusual for an elected official to deliver at a military installation -- Pence blamed Democrats for impeding progress on funding the government.
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"He has to make sure he was not doing something on the business side that would affect his duties as an elected official," Chase said.
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But Cramer -- as a statewide elected official in North Dakota, which has just one House seat -- would bring a much higher profile to the race.
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"I'm certainly not the first elected official to say crude or nasty things about my opponent during a very vicious campaign cycle," Mr. Castorina said.
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"I think it is normal for an elected official to receive concerns from people and pass them along for an agency to assess," he said.
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The reasons cited publicly range from lack of information, interest or belief that the elected official who leads their party really means what he says.
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In that chaotic scenario, the candidate most likely to be championed by party leaders is the highest-ranking Republican elected official in the nation: Ryan.
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The former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh, charged with fraud over her "Healthy Holly" children's series, isn't the first elected official who's run into book trouble.
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It is beyond conception that any elected official in the United States, from Mr. Trump down, could choose to appear indifferent to race-based attacks.
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And the state's third-ranking elected official in Virginia, Attorney General Mark R. Herring, has acknowledged that he, too, wore blackface as a younger man.
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The party's willingness to sign a deal with the devil to ensure the position of an elected official is messed up, to say the least.
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"For me it's very hopeful because being the first openly gay elected official in Iowa was hard at the time that I came out," McCoy said.
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You've been an elected official in the Georgia House of Representatives for over a decade with seven years of that being spent as the Minority Leader.
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And if you're represented by an elected official who already aligns with your thinking, then reach out to friends who live in different districts or states.
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State rules bar lobbyists from giving gifts of more than $75 to elected leaders or to a charitable organization at the behest of the elected official.
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As an elected official from the state of South Carolina, his salary was paid by the hard-earned taxes of people like those in his state.
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She learned that he was the youngest elected official in Indiana when he was elected to serve on the Marshall Township Board in Lawrence County, Ind.
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Moore was the first elected official in Alabama to endorse Trump during the presidential primary — and one of the first elected officials nationwide to endorse him.
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In a Good Morning America interview Wednesday he said his vice presidential pick would definitely be a Republican and would "most likely" be an elected official.
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John McCain on Friday, moving to mend an intra-party rift that has put the Republican presidential nominee at odds with its highest-ranking elected official.
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Biden acknowledged his final convention address as an elected official was a bittersweet moment, coming only a year after the loss of his eldest son, Beau.
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Managers and coaches, on the other hand, are a different sort of boss—think of an elected official that can be fired via the voting booth.
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Constituent badges are a new, opt-in feature that allow Facebook users to identify themselves as a person living in the district the elected official represents.
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Ryan was a "legitimately elected official," one parent wrote, and they would have been offended if conservative students had done the same thing to President Obama.
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Lehane said that, since 2014, more than 10,000 Airbnb users have contacted an elected official and more than 50,000 have signed petitions to support the company.
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This future where we all vote on issues using some kind of app or online system rather than via an elected official has some clear advantages.
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And no one in Orlando is kidding themselves that homophobia is gone, says City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, the first openly gay elected official in central Florida.
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Former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's job became infinitely more complicated by the fact that she was also an elected official, serving as a Florida representative.
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"When you give your word and you follow through with it as an elected official, that is the model that we're supposed to do," DeSantis said.
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What he's saying: Christie, who was the first high-profile Republican elected official to endorse Trump's 2016 campaign, describes what Trump was like backstage before rallies.
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The 12 regional bank governors, hired by local boards of directors and not appointed by any elected official, also participate in policymaking on a rotating basis.
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The rules would have forbid any individual who was an elected official or lobbyist in the past 85033 years to be a part of the body.
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"She had no problem calling any elected official at any level," said Chris Hanway, the executive director of the Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement House, where Mrs.
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"I am very skeptical of any elected official," she continues, explaining that politicians are responsible for demonstrating their values through their actions, not just their words.
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It's not uncommon for a company, like an elected official, to say one thing in one situation and do the opposite when the tables are turned.
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It says something about Washington that special interest groups are outraged when an elected official has the audacity to keep a promise made to actual voters.
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Called the Fiscy Awards, they will reward two federal elected officials and one state or local elected official for bringing the deficit to the nation's attention.
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"In this instance, President Trump is right: Governors need to step up," Clay Jenkins, a Democrat and Dallas County's top elected official, said in an interview.
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The calls by Mr. Newsom — the lieutenant governor who is soon to be the state's highest-ranking Democratic elected official — made Mr. Bauman's position politically untenable.
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But if you read The Miami Herald, you'd more fully appreciate the uproar, and the rarity of hearing such a crude outburst by an elected official.
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"In how many other countries can you call the top elected official in the country a liar and get away with it?" said Mr. Le, 50.
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Donald Trump commands a remarkable level of support from virtually every elected official in his party and almost all voters likely to vote for his party.
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But, how much danger does Nixon actually pose to Cuomo, who is seeking a third term as the most powerful elected official in the Empire State?
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Second, Congress should eliminate the fund altogether, requiring any elected official who abuses or harasses an employee to pay for their own legal representation and settlements.
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We have always believed that protecting life is an obligation for us, for any elected official we support and especially for judges who interpret our laws.
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A Harvard-Harris poll provided to The Hill in August showed that McConnell had the lowest favorability rating of any elected official with a national profile.
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Its funds also backed the causes of political officials in the Virgin Islands, including up to $30,000 to support a computer giveaway by an elected official.
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During rush hour on a recent evening, VICE met with the elected official at his district office on the bustling Utica Avenue, a major transit corridor.
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But unlike any of those other demonized "powers behind the throne" of the past, Bannon has no experience as an elected official or even working for one.
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You can be sexually harassed if you're young or old, if you're strong or not strong, if you're an elected official, a college student or an intern.
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Today, they are hired and fired at the will of an elected official who steers their work to what he or she judges to be a priority.
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And as an elected official in a major swing state, Americans might want to heed his advice with less than two weeks to go before Election Day.
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Now a twitter bot has emerged that publishes Donald Trump's tweets as Presidential statements, showing just how jarring they are coming from the US's highest elected official.
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By now every Republican elected official knows that if you criticize Trump, you are very likely to watch your political career go down the tubes -- and quickly.
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A provision in the lease, signed years before Trump began his presidential campaign, prevents any federal elected official from being included on or benefiting from the lease.
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However, what is different about Trump is that he attempts to attack the legitimacy of the media and its obligation to challenge him as an elected official.
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But perhaps the most disappointing news he received as an elected official, he said, was that rates of violence on campus hadn't changed much for young women.
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In it, Legend explains what a DA does, how much power they have and how they are the most powerful elected official you probably didn't know about.
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And President Trump isn't likely to return the favor by using official titles if he's challenged by a sitting senator, governor, or other elected official in 2020.
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The island is represented only by a resident commissioner, a four-year elected official who has access to the House floor, but can only vote in committees.
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But when the deputy exited his patrol vehicle, he wrote in the report, Mosley waved a placard outside his window indicating that he was an elected official.
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"I'm basing [my support] on my experience, and I know Keith as a candidate, as an elected official who has had to raise money," said Mark-Viverito.
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"There should be no improper interference with FBI investigations to favor any elected official or candidate of either party," Grassley wrote in a Wednesday letter to Sen.
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Every current citywide elected official participated in the system, and small donors, including the match, accounted for 61 percent of the money spent in the 2013 elections.
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She's racked up some big union and elected official endorsements, becoming the favorite for the nomination over other contenders like former Department of Labor official Thomas Heckroth.
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Bill Clinton, former president Among the various allegations of sexual misconduct and philandering leveled at Clinton during his time as an elected official, one is of rape.
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"These officers have suffered the consequences of decisions by elected official to not allocate sufficient resources for the mentally ill," Mr. Bregman argued in his closing statement.
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The arrests capped months of looming trouble for Mr. Mangano, a powerful figure in Republican politics on Long Island and the top elected official in Nassau County.
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"They hear the top elected official in the U.S. making [anti-immigrant] comments, and it just lends itself to the animosity among friends, neighbors, relatives," Miyagishima said.
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Any elected official who thinks they can choose which laws they will and will not follow is sadly mistaken and this ruling reinforces that fundamental American truth.
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That is what an elected official is claiming, raising the specter that the building might have to shave off some of its height, an extremely rare penalty.
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"Does every statement made by a member of the House or an elected official warrant action on the floor?" asked Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, Republican of Florida.
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As a politician who is also a former federal judge, Sandoval is more qualified for a Supreme Court seat than the typical elected official who gets floated.
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"There's not an elected official in the Democrat Party who should not be firmly stating whether they should be for or against this radical proposal," he said.
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As an elected official and practical politician, I didn't particularly enjoy the implications of turning against someone who had comfortably carried Washington State just two years earlier.
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A majority of respondents, 66 percent, think if an elected official has been accused of sexual harassment or assault by multiple people, that the official should resign.
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He will make history as just the third African American to receive the same honor, following Parks in 2013, and the first elected official to do so.
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Mr. Mangano, who served eight years as Nassau County's top elected official, is accused of helping a restaurateur obtain loans and county contracts in return for gifts.
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He is a Republican elected official in a state that Hillary Clinton won by 27 points over Trump in 2016 and that is represented by Democratic Sen.
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Gowdy told The Greenville News at the start of 2019 that he had no plans to return to politics as an elected official or as a lobbyist.
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I object to much in his manner and his policies," but that as "a Republican elected official, I am inclined to support the nominee of my party.
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If you don't like the way someone is handling their job as an elected official, make sure you let them and their staff know at every turn.
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A retired United States Marine colonel and the vice-chair of the Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee, Chávez is the highest-ranking Hispanic-Republican elected official in California.
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"It was a pleasure to accept @guinnessworldrecords title of world's tallest elected official from @nycmayor at NY City Hall today surrounded by my children and friends," he wrote.
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Patrick Carlineo Jr., an avowed Trump supporter, was arrested Friday for calling Omar's office and delivering an expletive-filled rant that included violent threats against the elected official.
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Leahy asked if Sessions would prosecute a "sitting president" or other high-level elected official if they were accused of the behavior that Trump described in the tape.
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And so to me, when you give your word and you follow through with it as an elected official that is the model that we're supposed to do.
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Brigade accepted that its best bet was to refocus on govtech infrastructure like its voter identification and elected official accountability tools, rather than a being a consumer destination.
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Kobach joins two other announced Republicans running for Roberts' Senate seat — including Jake LaTurner, the Kansas treasurer who at 29 became the youngest statewide elected official in 2017.
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And a former elected official in New England, who spoke anonymously to Jezebel, accused Franken of giving her a "wet, open-mouthed kiss" without her consent in 2006.
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Cummings will best be remembered for his efforts to infuse the social justice legacy of the Civil Rights Movement's heroic period into his activities as an elected official.
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Coleman Young II, and, perhaps most intriguingly, Rashida Tlaib, a former elected official and working mother who, if elected, would become the first Muslim woman elected to Congress.
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Paul R. LePage of Maine, the first major elected official to endorse Chris Christie, made racially charged remarks this week about drug dealers impregnating "white girls" in Maine.
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Specifically at issue is the emoluments clause, which says that no elected official shall accept an "emolument" of "any kind whatever" from a king, prince, or foreign state.
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But when you add to the mix that she's an openly transgender GOP elected official, it should come as no surprise that she's no stranger to puzzled looks.
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For example, Danica Roem became Virginia's first openly transgender elected official — and she defeated an incumbent who refused to debate her and repeatedly misgendered her with male pronouns.
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" "We refuse to sit idly by as racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia are wielded by the president and any elected official complicit in the poisoning of our democracy.
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But now the DEA can't — all because every elected official in federal government, out of inattention, ignorance, or support from the drug industry, let this law go through.
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Being in that public position as a local elected official and experiencing those attacks definitely helped to fuel my fire as I ran for state office this year.
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"Tom had a major impact on how this race was run," said Prince William County School Board Chairman Ryan Sawyers, the first Virginia elected official to endorse Perriello.
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But whether we love him or hate him or admit that we don't really know him, it is time we give our highest elected official a fair chance.
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He appeared alongside and endorsed the governor, who claims to be the first statewide elected official to endorse Trump's presidential bid, at a fundraiser in Greenville in October.
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As an elected official, twice successfully and once unsuccessfully, I learned far more from not becoming mayor of Atlanta than I did being vice mayor for seven years.
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Yet many of the superdelegates — also known as unpledged party leader and elected official delegates — were pledged to Hillary Clinton long before rank-and-file Democrats even voted.
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And he will have to suppress a distinct political identity that he has honed as a candidate, talk-radio host and elected official for the last three decades.
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The "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington, D.C., had a long list of speakers and performers, but not a single one of them was an elected official.
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Last month, he was in the final stretch of a campaign to be his district's Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, an elected official who communicates local concerns to government leaders.
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Davut Tekin, Kadifekale's muhtar, an elected official who represents the neighbourhood, said that at least 600 homes in the area have already been taken over by the city.
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Minutes after CNN published Keplin's account, Jezebel reported Franken allegedly tried to give an unnamed former elected official a "wet, open-mouthed kiss" during an event in 2006.
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Just because you&aposre a congressman or just because you are an elected official does not give you the right to do anything that you want to do.
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Although it is not necessary for the head of NASA to be a scientist, if confirmed, Bridenstine would be the first elected official to serve as NASA administrator.
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Wymore wouldn't be the first openly trans elected official in the US; that title goes to Joanne Conte, who served on Arvada's City Council from 1991 to 1995.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's Twitter handle appeared in more tweets than any other elected official in the US in 2017, according to data from the social network.
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It's worth noting that while Georgia's secretary of state holds significant power, he or she is not the only elected official with influence over the state's election system.
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In Succession, he moves his target to New York, to media and agitprop, to empires that often have a far greater effect on politics than any elected official.
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Mr. Babis has denied any wrongdoing, but Parliament is considering a measure that would strip him of his immunity as an elected official, allowing for a criminal prosecution.
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Two days after the inauguration, 10 hours after I came home from the Women's March, I wrote my first postcard to an elected official — my senator, Cory Booker.
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Ms. Escobar, a top elected official in El Paso County, will replace Representative Beto O'Rourke, whose spirited challenge for Senate against Ted Cruz fell short on Tuesday night.
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Dr. Snipes, who like Ms. Bucher is an elected official, had told reporters on Thursday afternoon that she could not say how many votes were left to count.
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The elected official with the highest ranking in the tech capital: San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, whose favorable-unfavorables were 203 percent favorable, and just 15 percent unfavorable.
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"Today, Mr. Williams admitted that he misused the resources of the Philadelphia D.A.'s office and his influence as an elected official for personal gain," Mr. Fitzpatrick said.
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The problem for Bloomberg is that he has a long record as a Republican elected official, and he's now running to convince Democrats that he's one of them.
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Ahead of the votes on the amendments, Chief Justice Roberts clarified that he would not break a tie in the Senate, as he is not an elected official.
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This presumption that you just call up, you sit down with an elected official, you say, 'This is what I need,' and that's it — that doesn't work anymore.
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Story at a glance Before Harvey Milk became the first openly gay elected official in California, he served in the U.S. Navy as a diving officer and instructor.
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Forty-three states select their attorney general by popular election, meaning the AG is subject to the same political pressures as the governor or any other elected official.
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The typical town hall meeting "happens when something's gone wrong, or a decision has been made, and an elected official is trying to explain it," he told me.
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Gail: I'm not a big fan of Bernie Sanders, but he's a veteran elected official who believes in democracy and has worked within the system all his life.
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"There should be no improper interference with F.B.I. investigations to favor any elected official or candidate of either party," Mr. Grassley said in a letter to Ms. Feinstein.
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The lease specifically forbids any elected official, including the president, from having an ownership interest in the hotel where he or she receives benefits while in elective office.
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And so to me, when you give your word, and you follow through with it as an elected official, that is the model that we're supposed to do.
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PARK WON-SOON, 60 Mayor of Seoul As mayor of the capital, Mr. Park is considered the second most powerful elected official in South Korea after the president.
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If an elected official is found to have broken the law or abused the powers of office, is impeachment merited or should the judgment be left to voters?
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Unhappiness with Mr. Trump's policies "does not mean that those mainstream Republicans are willing to throw out every elected official," said Nathan Gonzales, the editor of Inside Elections.
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Mr. Williams, a rabble-rousing New York City councilman who prefers to call himself an "activist/elected official" rather than a politician, said he thinks that should change.
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Muslim villagers say they are particularly fearful of the top elected official in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is a Hindu priest and senior BJP figure.
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But even with so many accolades, it's unlikely Macron, with no experience as an elected official, would have made it to presidential frontrunner status in a normal year.
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"Every elected official, particularly ones in the executive who are running something are frustrated that the media works differently, that there's not enough substance," the former Bloomberg aide said.
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Dunn, then, is not unique in his sexist "critique," save for the fact that he happens to be an elected official who had his misogyny preserved in a screenshot.
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Calling it the "worst thing" she's seen in her 12 years as an elected official, Wagner's report detailed instances of the health department issuing misleading statements to the public.
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He urged Buffalonians to "relax, stay inside and grab a six-pack," which must be the best advice any elected official ever gave the public in an emergency situation.
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Melania Trump, on the other hand, has no experience being married to an elected official, as all other modern first ladies have had, with the exception of Mamie Eisenhower.
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Smith is running on his experience as an elected official, but Rogers is garnering a fair amount of name recognition and is running on her loyalty to the president.
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"His trial shed light on serious accusations of violating the public's trust as an elected official, as well as potential violations of the Senate's Code of Conduct," McConnell said.
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And again everybody, what you do as an elected official is, an old-time senator told me years ago, the name of the game is staying in the game.
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McMaster shocked even his closest advisers when, as lieutenant governor in early 2016, he became the first statewide-elected official in the country to back Trump's White House bid.
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In 1962, F. Malcolm Cunningham Sr. became the first black person elected to the City Council — and, some claim, the first black elected official in the South since Reconstruction.
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The ban would also level a symbolic blow to someone who, despite his history as an elected official and co-chief of Goldman Sachs, is a trader at heart.
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Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, who is running for the position again in 2016, and several others have argued that the next chairman should not be an elected official.
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To become a Latino elected official in Texas — to win a seat, to keep a seat, to simultaneously appeal to fellow Latinos and white voters — there are unspoken rules.
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A related myth thoroughly shattered by Mr. Trump: that an elected official in modern times must make at least a halfhearted effort to be something other than a racist.
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Pacquiao has said he wanted to end his boxing career so that he could focus on his duties as an elected official and spend more time with his family.
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The monkeys have name tags identifying them as "Elected Official" or "Revolving Door Adviser" or "Big Corporate Titan Controlled Media" or various other characters symbolic of modern political life.
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You can argue that Ms. Trump is not an elected official, and thus to demand that she recuse herself from all products associated with her name is unfair punishment.
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Smolenski, 62, married Linda Burpee, her partner of nearly 30 years, in March 2016, a union that was made public because she is an elected official, the outlet reported.
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Second, Hogan's criticism of the RNC is striking -- particularly for a sitting elected official and someone seen, in some circles of the GOP, as the future of the party.
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"On face value, that's a tough vote for any elected official in West Virginia to make, but it's been difficult to predict sometimes on how he votes," Plante said.
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" And Mr. Schumer became perhaps the first elected official in Virginia political history to begin an attempt at anecdotal folksiness with, "Last month, I went to a Yankees game.
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A Trump press release said Mr. Trump had received his first endorsement by a statewide elected official in Georgia, Lauren (Bubba) McDonald Jr., the chairman of the Public Service Commission.
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A person's ability to effectively lead and govern has nothing to do with their physical appearance, and sartorial choices or body shaming are not valid critiques of an elected official.
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"It was Donald Trump's most effective debate performance to date," Joe Scarborough, a former elected official turned television host, said on MSNBC, a channel generally aligned with the ruling Democrats.
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People can refuse to work with an entertainer like R. Kelly or Louis C.K. But few people can "fire" an elected official before the expiration of his or her term.
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And if you&aposre an elected official who does it, we&aposre going to drum you out not only the House but potentially the Senate if you do these things.
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Calling your elected official, whether at the local, state, or Congressional level, and pressing them to do more on climate change makes it harder for them to ignore the outcry.
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It's the latest escalation between Trump and Martinez, the Republican Party's best-known Latina elected official -- who had said she was too busy to attend Trump's event in her state.
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Any elected official, candidate, or party hoping to win or maintain political power in these divisive times should join us in trying to advance the interests of this immense population.
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But the program has veered off course again and again, as the Republican nominee and the party's top elected official struggle to maintain a fragile détente amid recurring public squabbles.
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This means that any elected official — from a local mayor to the president — who blocks a constituent on Twitter could be found guilty of violating a person's First Amendment rights.
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ROVE: Well, because it&aposs an open seat, because Republicans had a big primary, the Democrats had basically one candidate, the elected official in Franklin County, Columbus, Danny O&aposConnor.
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They know that Debbie Stabenow is vulnerable because for 210 years as an elected official and 21950 years in Washington, she&aposs gotten nothing done for the state of Michigan.
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Felony charges filed "Even though the mother is a state representative, they're harming her because she is an elected official and she won," CNN affiliate WLS quoted Avila as saying.
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The most prominent elected official to emerge from the conservative movement, the speaker of the House, Paul D. Ryan, has said he is not yet ready to endorse Mr. Trump.
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Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official in the state's largest county, has delivered bilingual updates over the past few days about cleanup efforts from a chemical fire.
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The charges, they said, amounted to a political assault on a strong-willed elected official who often seemed to have as many enemies in the capital as he did friends.
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Headhunters who specialize in finding candidates for high-level K Street jobs told The Hill industry groups are no longer clamoring for the cachet of hiring a former elected official.
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When our highest elected official has been accused of sexual harassment, misconduct, and assault, it reinforces a regime of power that is above the law, our values, and basic humanity.
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Abdul Baten, an elected official in Ghior, has used $500 from the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief's food-for-work program to grow more than 500 palms, he said.
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"What the senator has this time that he didn't have last time is he is the most popular elected official in the country right now," one source told Yahoo News.
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"Her bona fides as a former elected official, and now a businesswoman who spends time in other countries training women to run for office are solid," the editorial board wrote.
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Chances are, if you are a Republican activist, candidate or elected official, one or more of these names is lurking somewhere in your Facebook or Twitter news feed right now.
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"We refuse to sit idly by as racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia are wielded by the president and any elected official complicit in the poisoning of our democracy," they added.
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I always had this philosophy when I was an elected official that I shouldn't be a pundit, but now I'm called upon to be one every once in a while.
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The first openly gay elected official in the nation had just one day in San Francisco's mayoral office in 1978, but the meaning of that moment will echo for generations.
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And it's not just their senators, they want to know that every single elected official that they're voting for is going to support abortion rights and their fundamental reproductive freedoms.
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The president has been collecting a pension for more than two decades, having retired as a state prosecutor at 58, which has significantly padded his earnings as an elected official.
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He has earned his reputation as "an elected official who governs successfully amid massive diversity," says Ezra Klein on this week's podcast, and is publicly considering a 2020 presidential run.
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Gun owners are much likelier to report having contacted an elected official about the issue or donated to a pro-gun organization than are non-owners who support gun control.
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When we asked 4,20203 working-class voters in battleground races to name an elected official who was fighting for them, the top response was not a Republican or a Democrat.
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Washington (CNN)A California local elected official is shaping up to lead the charge as the state wages legal and political battles against the Trump administration: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.
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"It's a race against time," said Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official in Harris County, who talks about the pace of construction projects not in years, but in hurricane seasons.
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We, too, could give the power to an elected official and keep a different person around to handle the hosting/ribbon cutting/Rose Garden tour-leading/gossip lightning-rod stuff.
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The GOP's plan to repeal protections put in place by the ACA fundamentally undercuts the goal of expanding access to healthcare—a goal every elected official and representative should share.
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He's a member of the Republican old guard, an elected official who remembers the Senate before it was broken by polarization, who yearns for the way things used to be.
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When you take office, how did becoming an elected official, the day to day reality of it, match your expectations of the power of winning this office and being mayor?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An elected official of a New York City suburb faces trial on Wednesday in what authorities have called the first criminal securities fraud case involving municipal bonds.
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Mr. Cummings, who also sent a letter to Fannie Mae inquiring about its home sales, is not the only elected official from Maryland to target the rent-to-own business.
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But the story that doesn't get clicks is one where the elected official is kind, brilliant, hard-working, and dedicated to empowering the nerds, misfits, and outcasts of any gender.
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The Federal Election Commission allows candidates to use campaign funds to cover legal costs that may come as a result of running for public office or being an elected official.
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Her victory followed another historic election result Tuesday night: Virginia House of Delegates candidate Danica Roem (D) defeated incumbent Robert Marshall (R) to become Virginia's first openly transgender elected official.
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"We're not out of the woods yet," Judge Jeff Branick, the top elected official for Jefferson County who is overseeing the response, said at the news conference on Thursday afternoon.
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"When it comes to the ecosystem that can create great startups, it's really all about the local ecosystem," said Alliance founder Steve Poizner, an entrepreneur and former state-elected official.
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Seattle University School of Law professor John Kirkwood, who worked for the FTC for 25 years, said he couldn't recall a single commissioner who had previously been an elected official.
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Since the role has morphed into something more than mere hostessing but less than an elected official, there's a wide range in which to castigate them for not doing enough.
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"If the buck stops somewhere, it stops where it always has: the chief elected official at local level, the state governor, and the president of the United States," Jensen said.
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Whether an elected official is school board member in a small town or a U.S. Senator representing an entire state, constructive dialogue enables those leaders to engage the people they serve.
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Peter Spaulding, a longtime Republican elected official in New Hampshire who chaired Senator John McCain's successful campaign in the state, said Mr. Trump remained the defining figure in the race here.
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Standing next to the county's top elected official and chief prosecutor, Chief Hudson was stone-faced at a news conference on Sunday as he lauded Officer Guindon's bravery, intelligence and compassion.
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He took those messages to a Town Council meeting, although he says he often wondered if the work was worth it, as elected official seemed focused on commercial development over housing.
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"Under the California Constitution, Judge Persky is an elected official and voters have the right to decide whether he should continue to serve on the bench for the next six years."
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The town hall in which the elected official humbly presents himself — likely not in an actual town hall building — to performatively listen to what constituents have to say works much better.
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As one elected official after another took the pulpit, delivering moving apologies to the African-American community and pledges to do better, the tone evolved from somber to reverent to hopeful.
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Ogata felt the entire incident in 2017 was not only shocking, but a violation of her position as an elected official, a democratically chosen representative of, among other people, working moms.
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"Under the California constitution, Judge Persky is an elected official and voters have the right to decide whether he should continue to serve on the bench for the next six years."
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Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote in the opinion: We do not consider or decide whether an elected official violates the Constitution by excluding persons from a wholly private social media account.
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Those who tweeted about national politics were more likely to engage in real-world political actions, like contacting an elected official, attending a political rally, or donating money, than nonpolitical tweeters.
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Meanwhile, John Boehner, the most powerful Republican elected official from 2008 to 2015, resigned in frustration last year and is now saying his party has been captured by idiots and zealots.
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The money Biden accumulated after his decadeslong career as an elected official clash with the image he has tried to craft as a humble champion of the working and middle class.
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"The issue is which elected official is going to have the political courage to do what's right as opposed to do what's good for him to get re-elected," he said.
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Last week, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's third most senior elected official, defected from Buhari's ruling party to the main opposition and is fast becoming a leading critic of the president.
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Steve Smith is running on his experience as an elected official, but Wendy Rogers is garnering a fair amount of name recognition and is running on her loyalty to the president.
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Throughout my 30-year career as a public servant and elected official I have built relations with many leaders around the world, some of which are not exactly our country's favorites.
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Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, was assassinated along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (D) in 1978 when he was serving on that city's Board of Supervisors.
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Trends in society influence such decisions, and in the United States the choice of an elder elected official to remain in office increasingly mirrors the choices of the people they represent.
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The speaker excused himself, as Politico noted, because he is a federally elected official and cannot by law ask -- directly, at least -- any individual or entity for that kind of money.
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Nor does it change this basic fact: Ron Johnson and every other Republican elected official is going to keep getting asked whether or not they support Trump for president in 2020.
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Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, has notified Congress that he will name a fleet oiler for Mr. Milk, the first openly gay elected official in a major American city.
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More than 40 percent of Americans identify as independents, a number that has been on the rise and should be of concern to anyone interested in serving as an elected official.
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When you do media as an elected official or as a candidate, you have a very clear message that you're trying to impart and an idea of who you're talking to.
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Finding the right balance between those extremes is what we expect our elected official to do, looking at fiscal and monetary policy as the consolidated balance sheet of we the people.
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Aaron Peskin, an elected official from San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has been swamped with thousands of complaints from frustrated residents, including some who have actually been injured by a scooter.
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But one of the things I recognize, being an elected official, is in the final analysis, you know, leadership will do anything that they think is necessary to protect their leadership.
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That's why we must fight tooth and nail to demand our elected official ensure that everyone in our country has access to safe, affordable, locally controlled water service and wastewater disposal.
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"President Trump assured each elected official that the federal government stood ready and prepared to assist with anything their state and respective communities would need during this natural disaster," Gidley said.
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"The positions I hold on these issues of the Second Amendment, I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official," Rubio said.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had support from virtually every elected official in the state, was widely expected to win and, in so doing, effectively end Sanders' upstart campaign.
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Ignoring voters is the opposite of what the president is supposed to do, as the only elected official in America whose job it is to represent everyone equally, wherever they live.
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But in a sign of Ms. Nixon's political climb ahead, no prominent elected official attended her event on Tuesday; hours afterward, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York formally endorsed Mr. Cuomo.
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A powerful Indian politician was sentenced on Saturday to 14 years in prison for embezzling 37 million rupees from a state government's treasury while he was the state's top elected official.
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"No elected official should accept incrementalism," Mary Kay Henry, president of Service Employees International Union, one of the largest and most influential unions in North America, told Vox's Alexia Fernandez Campbell.
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About 80 people attended the "Coyote Education Seminar" hosted by Clarkstown's senior elected official, Supervisor George Hoehmann, who said he had to address growing questions and concerns about the coyote population.
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It is entirely possible that in some corner of the world, an elected official may be even taller than Mr. Cornegy; Guinness record holders generally self-report their feats of stature.
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Democrats allocate most of their pledged delegates proportionally by legislative district, in addition to allocating at-large and PLEO (party leader and elected official) delegates based on the statewide vote breakdown.
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The Clyburn primary: House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, the most prominent African-American elected official in South Carolina, told NBC's Chuck Todd Sunday that he plans to announce an endorsement Wednesday.
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The mood was tense in New Delhi on Wednesday morning, as riot police patrolled the streets and the city's highest elected official, Arvind Kejriwal, called for a curfew to be instated.
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Indeed, it is possible that, at the request of a taxpayer or a European elected official, the Parliament will address the question of the follow-up of funding granted to Lebanon.
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"Nancy Pelosi is the most unpopular, most toxic elected official in the country, and Conor Lamb is running to be her rubber stamp in Congress," CLF executive director Corry Bliss said.
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The Hill-HarrisX poll, which was released on Tuesday, found 22019 percent of registered voters prefer that their elected official find a way to partner with the opposite party on legislation.
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The Civil Rights Commission acted more like a court than like an elected official, in other words, and therefore perhaps should be subjected to tighter judicial scrutiny of its members' statements.
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TANGIER, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco hopes to attract investments worth $10 billion and create 100,000 jobs at a high-tech city near the northern city of Tangier, a local elected official said.
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An Arizona elected official has been suspended without pay after being charged with running a human smuggling operation involving more than 40 pregnant women from the Marshall Islands, the Associated Press reports.
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But those close to the brash former White House communications director, who famously served for only 10 days, say he envisions a future more like his old boss: businessman, then elected official.
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The very job of being an elected official means marshaling your influence on behalf of your constituents' desires ... how are we to know where the line is between illegal and legal conduct?
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In one 2011 incident, the county's top elected official, Steve Levy, announced he would not seek re-election as part of a deal with Mr. Spota to resolve a campaign finance investigation.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military government suspended the governor of Bangkok, the country's most senior elected official, on Thursday while the country's attorney general investigates allegations of corruption and misuse of city funds.
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Lofgren also asked whether an elected official could be charged with bribery or treason for accepting money from a foreign country — "say, Russia" — and then enacting favorable policies toward that nation. Rep.
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And Oregon is so antiquated in its understanding of race that I once met an elected official here who proudly defended her use of the term "Oriental" to refer to Asian Americans.
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The power of impeachment should not, of course, be exercised lightly; it is an extreme remedy that removes from office our highest-ranking elected official and entails profound costs for the nation.
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As a proud Democrat and an elected official in one of the most progressive states in America, I can understand why some liberals may be wary of applauding anything this president says.
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The newly-elected official, Juli Briskman said Wednesday that she feels "the same as I did in 2017, if not stronger, about what's going on in our country," according to NBC News.
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If loss of a seat over one infraction is considered too dire—if such lenience were to occur—then how many gaucheries would be sufficient to drive an elected official from office?
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Senator Harry Reid, the feisty Democratic leader from Nevada, will deliver his final speech to a party convention as an elected official on Wednesday; he is retiring from the Senate next year.
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"I'm an elected official in the United States of America in the federal government and our No. 1 obligation is keep people safe and immigration is a part of that," he said.
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The president opened his account before he was an elected official, the brief said, and his continued operation of the account is not a right conferred by his election to the presidency.
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Though the standard can apply to any politician, Kessler notes that, other than Trump, no other current elected official meets the standard — and 14 statements from Trump have already made the cut.
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In response, some people have chosen to protest against these lawmakers wherever they go—as some did to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday—or meet without their elected official present.
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Thompson was taken to the hospital for treatment and later charged with assault of an elected official, which is a felony, as well as battery on school property, which is a misdemeanor.
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And so the moment Trump takes the oath of office, he might be breaching the contract he signed, because he'll be an elected official, as GovExec magazine noted shortly after the election.
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My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans -- to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream.
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In 2011, one in three Republicans thought an elected official who commits immoral acts in private life could act ethically in public life, according to a Public Religion Research Institute/Brookings survey.
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"Any elected official, including the mayor, who continues to stand in the way of speedy movement toward closing Rikers will continue to feel the wrath of the Close Rikers Campaign," he said.
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No Iowa state or county elected official, nor any other minister of the state — not the governor, county executive or secretary of state — is accountable because this was a partisan party function.
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A provision in the 2013 lease for the building, held by Mr. Trump and his three oldest children, appears to prohibit a federally elected official, including the president, from benefiting from it.
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Pelosi argued in a statement that Pence was just the "latest Republican elected official to enable President Trump's violations of the Constitution," saying that that American people deserved better from its government.
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"Being gay is part of who I am and I'm aware of what it represents to be that kind of first elected official to try to do this who's out," he says.
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My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans — to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American dream.
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As an elected official and a member of "The Squad," Pressley is in a unique position to raise awareness about this deeply personal struggle that can affect so many people like her.
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The relationship is especially surprising given Miller's past as an anti-cigarette crusader, and his relationship with the scandal-laden private company is practically unprecedented for an elected official while in office.
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RUBIO: -- so number one, the positions I hold on these issues of the second amendment -- I've held since the day entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official.
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My duty and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the American dream.
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Stephe Koontz Doraville, Georgia I am an elected official in Doraville, GA. I am also transgender and have personally had to deal with being discriminated against in healthcare simply for being transgender.
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Kian's legal team wants "all statements, transcripts, notes, records and memoranda" from federal prosecutors that reflate to anything Flynn said to "any agent, employee, representative or elected official" of the US government.
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The state's third-ranking elected official, Attorney General Mark R. Herring, has also been caught up in scandal, acknowledging on Wednesday that he wore blackface at a party as an undergraduate student.
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My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans — to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream.
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HR: I'm curious about, as an elected official, we've seen the push over the last couple of weeks of people offering up their firstborn to get Amazon to come to the state.
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Briffault said Americans shouldn't be too nervous about the implications of this ruling, but that if you want to bribe an elected official, it helps if you don't get anything in return.
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My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American dream.
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Leland has not been charged with a crime, but Fiore has pleaded guilty to bribing a different elected official and faces up to five years behind bars, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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Yes, the NBA All-Stars are chosen by votes, so why not have the No. 1 elected official of the Free World convince you to send Andre Drummond to Toronto's festivities this February?
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Impeachment investigators took a break from interviewing new witnesses as the House honored the late Representative Elijah Cummings, who became the first African-American elected official to lie in state in the Capitol.
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The ruling sets a precedent that any elected official — from a local mayor to the president — who blocks a constituent on Twitter could be found guilty of violating that constituent's First Amendment rights.
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The election of Donald Trump has provided white nationalists fresh momentum; though they have not attacked an elected official for opposing him, America's own history of racist violence suggests it's far from impossible.
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A new hotel Trump just opened in downtown Washington carries a lease, provided by the General Services Administration, stipulating that no elected official can be part of the lease or benefit from it.
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Berge, who has served as a local elected official in the same area west of Paris, was in the spotlight in May last year when she denounced sexist comments from fellow local councillors.
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For his ground game, he hired Mike Slanker and Jeremy Hughes, veteran political operatives in the state who have worked with virtually every successful Republican elected official, including the rising GOP star Gov.
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"I think that if any individual, elected official or otherwise, knowingly reveals a classified piece of information about an FBI source, you are breaking the law and should be fully prosecuted," Warner said.
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Danica Roem (D) made history again, becoming the first the first openly trans person to win reelection in a state legislature after winning office in 85033 as the first openly trans elected official.
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On the same day, a second woman, described as "a former elected official in New England," told Jezebel that Franken in 28500 tried to kiss her after an interview for his radio show.
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But the timing also coincides with the inauguration of Donald Trump, Lodha's business partner and the prime minister's political ally, a remarkable confederation between a sitting U.S. president and a foreign elected official.
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As district attorney, she will be the most powerful elected official in Queens, presiding over more than 2 million people, a population larger than that of 15 states and the District of Columbia.
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"Like a traditional town hall hosted by any elected official, the Congressman Peter King Facebook page is an important avenue for communication between you and the constituents you represent," the group wrote Wednesday.
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And it's why today, on his birthday, I think it's important that people understand the qualities that make him so indispensable in Washington—a model we hope more elected official choose to follow.
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Any U.S. elected official who claims to have an evidence-based, forward-thinking public health and criminal justice reform agenda has no good scientific, ethical or political reason not to support drug decriminalization.
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"We spent 20 minutes before our conversation with Senator Flake talking about how to talk to an elected official, and what I said to her was, 'Speak from your heart,'" Ms. Archila said.
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Mike Kelly, an elected official whose constituents live in much of the South Coast area currently under threat, said the reach of the fires has been about as bad as it can get.
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"Especially with the Spanish-speaking, they'd be like, 'Whenever I've had an issue, the only elected official I've ever had actually do something and help me was Hiram Monserrate,'" Ms. Ramos Rios said.
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The striking thing is the presumption on the part of everyone involved that a timeout to recharge the batteries is somehow unacceptable for an elected official — a "negative," as the mayor put it.
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In 2016, a 33-year-old, hijab-wearing refugee and mother-of-three became the highest-ranking Somali-American elected official in the United States, winning a seat in the Minnesota state legislature.
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I grew up a little bit and realized that this work is really a public service and the job of the elected official is to make good policy that makes people's lives better.
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Many, if not most, people in DC rely on business that is somehow related to the federal government, whether they're an elected official, a lobbyist, a government contractor, or with a foreign entity.
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Some ethics experts have said this boosterism, coming from an elected official, is problematic, because people who seek to influence him could buy stock in the company as a way of currying favor.
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The full text of the letter Dear every elected official, Nowhere in my contract does it state that if the need arises, I have to shield students from gunfire with my own body.
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Senate President Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's third most senior elected official, last week defected from President Muhammadu Buhari's ruling party to the main opposition and is fast becoming a leading critic of the president.
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"As an elected official, I never wanted to have to explain to somebody why we didn't have the vision to put into place a reliable and resilient electrical power system," he told lawmakers.
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The highly anticipated summit Thursday between the top Republican elected official in the country and the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee produced a media frenzy, but yielded little in the way of tangible results.
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" The statement continues, "I hope that some of Mr. Depp's colleagues will speak out against this type of rhetoric as strongly as they would if his comments were directed to a Democrat elected official.
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While acknowledging the emotion behind this case, Republican and Democratic lawmakers repeatedly expressed concern about what kind of precedent could be set if the governor is allowed to remove an elected official from office.
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House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican elected official, said he was "sickened" by the comments and said Trump would no longer attend a campaign event in Wisconsin with him on Saturday.
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In that, he's consistent with many of his Republican elected-official colleagues: You might be able to infer that they don't like Trump, but you'd never know it from what they say in public.
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In this period of unprecedented national political polarization, former special counsel Robert Mueller will soon do something no American statesman or elected official has been able to accomplish in modern times: unite the nation.
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On some level, this isn't wrong — nothing forces any elected official to care about the opinions of people who didn't vote for him, as long as he maintains a majority in the next election.
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"My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American dream," Trump said.
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Mayor Garcetti, Mayor Suthers and Mayor Duggan have shown leaders across our country that infrastructure investment is not a box to check, but a vital and ongoing responsibility that every elected official must uphold.
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"Kay meant everything to us, and we were honored to share her with the people of North Carolina whom she cared for and fought for so passionately as an elected official," the statement said.
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"We need to say 'no' to every elected official who does more to serve the [National Rifle Association] and the short-term profits of gun manufacturers than to serve us," she told the program.
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"Unlike existing campaign finance law ... the vague and overly broad new definition of PASO communications applies year-round and threatens to consume any legislative advocacy that dares mention an elected official," the letter says.
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"Any elected official who makes an attempt to connect with a wider audience, it's important," said Melissa Mark-Viverito, the City Council speaker in New York and a prominent Hispanic supporter for Mrs. Clinton.
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Though the charges brought Wednesday don't pertain to Collins' conduct in his capacity as an elected official, Berman suggested in his remarks that Collins' status as a congressman enhanced the hypocrisy of his actions.
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"If they become aware that a board member, an elected official or even a [client] has acted inappropriately or sexually harassed an employee, the employer has the obligation to take corrective measures," Katz said.
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"We're asking President Obama to continue his legacy of being an elected official of conscience by offering clemency to persons with federal, nonviolent drug convictions," Hasshan Batts, a Pennsylvania activist, said in a statement.
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In order to do this efficiently, they'd have to have a pretty canny understanding of how the behavior of any particular elected official or party contributes to the good or bad outcomes they experience.
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"Cathy Stepp's experience working as a statewide cabinet official, elected official, and small business owner will bring a fresh perspective to EPA as we look to implement President Trump's agenda," Pruitt said of Stepp.
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It is highly unusual for an American president to offer his views uninvited on the internal affairs of an ally, much less call for the ouster of a democratically elected official in another country.
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As an elected official, you are responsible for spending taxpayers' dollars wisely, and it can be hard to justify spending the public's money on an untested idea, especially when budgets are already stretched thin.
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Steve Geller, a Democratic county commissioner who was in the State Senate during the 2000 recount, said politicians have been loath to publicly criticize Dr. Snipes because she, like them, is an elected official.
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As an elected official in Tallahassee since 23, he embraced liberal positions — like higher corporate tax rates, legalization of marijuana, tighter gun control and Medicare for all — that thrilled the Democratic Party's activist base.
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In doing so, he would follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, who began his career as an elected official in 1967 representing Texas's 85033th Congressional District, TX-22's current next-door neighbor.
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"My duty — and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber — is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities and their right to the American dream," he said.
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Indeed, prosecutors in any given local district or state attorney's office, from the most junior rookie to the top elected official, tend to view their career prospects through the lens of average sentence length.
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Nikema Williams discovered that her status as an elected official and state Democratic party chair didn't protect her from systemic race and gender inequities, including the disproportionate mistreatment of black women by law enforcement.
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During the campaign, many conservative members who backed Mr. Trump expressed frustration with Mr. Ryan, the highest-ranking Republican elected official, for declining to defend Mr. Trump after the release of that 2005 recording.
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Hunter can use campaign funds to pay for legal defense of himself, family or staff if the alleged crimes are related to the campaign or his job as an elected official, the Times notes.
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And as Jack Shafer recently pointed out, his dedication to ensuring submission began before he was an elected official—when he was the boss at a company notorious for its tyrannical treatment of employees.
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More than centering the needs of victims of trafficking or providing anything close to useful public education, it's been an opportunity for almost any federal agency, elected official, or nongovernment organization to self-promote.
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It is using all the levers of his power and public influence as an elected official to weigh in on this subject that is about as distant, literally, from Burlington as you can get.
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The March On Washington's youngest speaker has proven to be among the most resilient survivors of the civil rights era, seeming to almost effortlessly transition from political outsider to an elected official representing Atlanta.
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Tradition holds that an elected official is responsible for representing all of their constituents and governing accordingly; Trumpists have taken the easy way out and thrown those traditions of civil society out the window.
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" As for the effectiveness of today's protest, Ohanian acknowledges that Trump-appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai is "not an elected official" and "no one at the FCC is beholden to the will of the people.
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The regulation, 28 CFR 45.2, notes that an employee of the Department of Justice shall not participate in a criminal investigation or prosecution if he has a personal or political relationship with an elected official.
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A second Texan in the running for a possible top ambassadorship, or potentially as a deputy secretary in a Cabinet agency, is Ryan Sitton, a Republican elected official who sits on the Texas Railroad Commission.
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His leadership on a national level, service as a statewide elected official and long record of taking on tough federal issues are the very qualities that will make him a strong conservative senator for Alabama.
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At her naturalization ceremony in 2016 in Grenoble, in southeastern France, the woman refused to shake the hands of a local state official and of a local elected official, both male, citing her religious convictions.
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The Republican president spurned the outstretched hand of Pelosi, the Democrat's leading elected official in Washington, upon meeting her for the first time since she stormed out of a White House meeting four months ago.
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The lieutenant governor was a rare elected official to endorse Trump in the primaries, and by becoming the incumbent now faces a much easier path to reelection than he would have in a competitive primary.
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Scott, one of two current black members of the U.S. Senate and the only black Republican senator, told his colleagues that he had been pulled over seven times in one year as an elected official.
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That elected official is Stubbs the Cat, the part-Manx feline mayor of Talkeeta, Alaska, who passed away in his sleep on the night of July 20, according to a statement released by his family.
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Rosendale, a statewide elected official and strong supporter of President Trump&aposs agenda, will give Montanans a clear choice in November in a state that President Trump carried by a whopping 20 points in 2016.
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"Evans, who says she is America's only openly transgender Republican elected official, came to CPAC this year with a sign that reads "Proud to be Conservative, Proud to be Transgender, proud to be American #SameTeam.
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" Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called on Depp's colleagues "to speak out against this type of rhetoric as strongly as they would if his comments were directed to a Democrat elected official.
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The Constitution says that the Speaker of the House is the elected official third in line for the presidency; Ryan will be that no matter who is president, assuming he is reelected Speaker in January.
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However, both resolutions read more like political balancing acts than clarion moral calls, and both are unlikely to deter the next elected official who thinks about making a public statement vilifying another group of Americans.
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The man who called himself "Virginia's chief homophobe," who wrote an anti-transgender "bathroom bill," lost the seat he had held for 13 terms to Danica Roem, who became Virginia's first openly transgender elected official.
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Shame on any elected official or candidate for office who, because a Republican president might get credit for his foreign policy, withholds expressions of hope and confidence in a subjugated people's pursuit of basic rights.
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If you've ever entertained the idea of being a citizen candidate, we urge you to make becoming an elected official your New Year's resolution and offer these five tips to help you keep it: 1.
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"Every single elected official in this state who represents me, as well as some on a national level and from other states, called me in the aftermath to offer condolence," Guttenberg told MSNBC's Joy Reid.
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Terry's story led to an elected official in the crowd promising to write letters of recommendation and make phone calls to help Terry get into his dream college and find a way to afford it.
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All the posts used a similar format introducing an elected official, then stating how much they received from telecom companies to "sell out" their constituents how much a repeal of net neutrality will impact them.
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Historically, most have quietly sided with the cable and telephone monopolies and we are hard-pressed to name a single rural elected official that has lost his or her job because they made that choice.
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But to watch an elected official—who claims to represent the people of this state—baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote has been truly appalling.
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Reached for comment, Lee spokesperson Conn Carroll said the senator was not the only elected official who had objections to Feldblum's confirmation and that Democrats could have chosen to vote on the other nominees separately.
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According to the study, three in 10 Democratic and Independent women voters have contacted an elected official, compared to far fewer Republicans, and one in five Democratic voters have marched, protested, or attended a rally.
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Blocking someone isn't a matter of free speech (unless of course the blocker in question is an elected official), as some of my harassers have claimed — rather, it's often a matter of preserving one's sanity.
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"We have the power to change every policy and make every elected official work for us, but they cannot see division among us, because they will go and do nothing for the people," she said.
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While I am no longer an elected official, I still feel a duty to stand up for protecting consumers, especially when we have seen examples of unscrupulous salesmen and women targeting minorities and the elderly.
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One elected official with close ties to influential South Jersey Democrats told The Hill over the weekend that several longtime Democrats in the area were dismissive late last week that Van Drew would switch parties.
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Truman, who died in 1982, was also focused on protecting the privacy of her daughter, Margaret, who spent much of her childhood and all of her teenage years as the daughter of an elected official.
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"It's very important in our state for our governor to be recognized and acknowledged as the strongest elected official in the state of Alabama," said John H. Merrill, a Republican and the secretary of state.
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He is the barangay kapitan — a local elected official — in his part of Malabon City, a gritty district in north Manila, and had been assisting the police as they investigated drug suspects in his jurisdiction.
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While a number of politicians were spotted marching with the crowd, no elected official spoke at the rally in D.C. Most of the speakers were students from Stoneman Douglas or students affected by gun violence.
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Imagine that for parties joining his coalition he sets a condition that they support passing a law in the Knesset that would prohibit the prosecution of an elected official — like the prime minister, for example.
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Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, the state's second-highest elected official, faces the prospect of impeachment proceedings at the hands of another Democrat next week after two women separately accused him of sexual crimes, including rape.
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Besides diverting attention from 1MDB, critics say Najib is also using MACC's anti-graft campaign to target political opponents such as Lim Guan Eng, an opposition leader who is the top elected official in Penang province.
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A year later, an EnCap associate contributed to the federal election campaign of an elected official in Wisconsin whose state office was involved in selecting advisers for a public pension fund, according to the SEC filing.
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The base, which loves the President unlike almost any constituency has loved an elected official in some time, will turn out to vote in the crucial battleground states and possibly tip those contests to the GOP.
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Fear. Every GOP elected official lives in fear of becoming the next Jeff Flake or Justin Amash -- conservative Republicans in good standing with the party until they decided to publicly criticize Trump for something or other.
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Oh, and also because Jr.'s connected to the White House and it's frankly unfathomable that any elected official or their family members wouldn't know when the most important day of a politician's career takes place.
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To most people, the news that a prominent incumbent elected official is backing Clinton will come as no surprise — she is the overwhelming choice of the Democratic Party establishment and has consistently outmatched Sanders in endorsements.
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I am saddened that an elected official who holds a special trust from voters and is the chief prosecutor in our capital city would allegedly engage in conduct causing felony and misdemeanor charges to be filed.
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While there is something quaint and quirky about presidential press conferences, they show the elected official on his (or her) feet, engaged in a spontaneous exchange with a roomful of knowledgeable and, yes, often adversarial people.
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Rubio drops out of race Many analysts, and Rubio himself, may chalk up his many losses to a smoldering anger among voters who are turning to Donald Trump and shunning every manner of traditional elected official.
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"At no time have we discussed the pediatric cardiac standards with the governor or his office, or with any elected official or anyone on their staff," Tenet's Shelly Weiss Friedberg wrote in an email to CNN.
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ABC's new series, premiering Wednesday, centers on Sutherland's eponymous "designated survivor" Tom Kirkman, who is sworn in as president – despite never having served as an elected official – after an explosion kills nearly the entire U.S. government.
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But since she's an appointed rather than an elected official, it's up to the council to decide if she will be re-appointed as chairman of the commission for her next and last two-year term.
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"An openly LGBTQ elected official forming a presidential exploratory committee is a historic and powerful moment for the LGBTQ community and the entire country," Annise Parker, president and CEO of the group, said in a statement.
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The last thing any elected official wants is to suggest that the voters are wrong and to overturn their decision about the most important decision a party can make, the choice of its nominee for president.
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"I ask every member of the Senate, every member of this Congress, every elected official and every citizen: Let's work harder to find a way to end the violence," Van Hollen said from the Senate floor.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former top elected official on New York's Long Island was convicted on Friday of taking bribes to help a local businessman obtain millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded loans, federal prosecutors announced.
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That's a tough one to apply to a democratically elected official who never resorted to force, and the German courts can decide to transfer Mr. Puigdemont on the condition that he not be tried for rebellion.
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But because old-school politics seems to be on the way out, it's also a considerable personal win for Clyburn, who has proven himself to be the rare modern-day elected official who voters care about.
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In 2011, the Public Religion Research Institute asked voters if an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.
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Arroyo's climb back to become the nation's fourth most powerful elected official will further strengthen Duterte's hand due to her political clout and good relations with some of his biggest critics, particularly among influential Catholic bishops.
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"I've been an elected official 28 years and I've worked on state, local and federal campaigns for those 28 years," said Mr. Alexander, whose primary job is as pastor of Wayside Chapel Baptist Church in Florence.
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Unlike Mr. Weld, Mr. Sanford has been a big-name player and an elected official in Republican politics in the Trump era, the Tea Party-dominated period that preceded it and the two decades before that.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - An elected official of a New York City suburb was convicted on Friday of what authorities have called the first criminal securities charges brought over municipal bonds, a spokesman for federal prosecutors said.
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The Disclose Act also includes a new requirement forcing sponsors of "electioneering communications" to declare whether their ads are "in support of or in opposition" to a named elected official, even if the ads are neither.
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His integrity and commitment to putting country above all else as an elected official is an example I have tried to embrace during the comparatively short time I have had the honor of holding political office.
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I'm not going to postulate further because I truly don't know what it should look like, but as an elected official experiencing this problem right now, I know that platforms can and should change for the better.
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is many things: elected official, liker of Twitter porn, awkward hugger, Simpsons hater, memeable face haver, possible native Canadian, potential son of JFK assassination conspirator, and maybe, just maybe, the Zodiac killer.
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They asked that Warren consider supporting a constitutional amendment that would make the United States Attorney General an elected official, to ensure that the person in that role is independent of the President of the United States.
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Steve Bullock announced Tuesday that he is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, distinguishing himself among nearly two dozen candidates as the field's only statewide elected official to win a state that President Donald Trump carried in 256.2.
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Harris reflected on how much she learned about racial discrepancies around HIV/AIDs from Jim Rivaldo, her former campaign manager who also worked for Harvey Milk, the famed first elected official in California who identified as gay.
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Callan said he thinks the plaintiffs will argue that Mosby, an elected official, did become an investigator because of her belief that police were not properly pursuing the case and her desire to appease her political constituency.
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Delaney, who announced a presidential bid in 2017 -- more than a year before any other elected official declared their intentions to run for president -- is a self-made millionaire and is primarily funding his own 2020 campaign.
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Not that many cases are reported, but there are cases I can look up in the pages of law books that talk about someone being prosecuted for making a threat to the president or another elected official.
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But much of the outrage is missing the fact that it wasn't just Marino, Blackburn, or Hatch but every single elected official at the federal level who deserves at least some of the blame for this law.
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That creates a level of pressure that's hard for any human being to resist, because the elected official is literally dependent on that small number of people, even more than on voters, for his or her job.
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"An elected official, a representative of the United States, went on a secret trip to meet with the brutal dictator who murdered nearly half a million of his own people – it's reprehensible and cannot be justified," Rep.
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"Any elected official or consultant worth their salt can tell you this outpolls infrastructure, the wall, tax breaks," said Ben Wakana, executive director of the advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs citing issues important to the president.
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"We have a president that says he got elected on a promise to build a border wall," said the top elected official in Hidalgo County, Richard Cortez, who serves as the county judge and is a Democrat.
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"But to watch an elected official – who claims to represent the people of this state, baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote – has been truly appalling," she added.
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You know, one's an elected official with a very public persona, one's a CEO with a fairly private persona and driving messaging inside the private persona where your clients don't really want to see you make news.
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It's also because whoever wins will be the highest-ranked elected official in the swingiest state headed into 2020, and will play a major role in how the state's legislative and congressional lines are drawn in 2021.
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But Kozanchenko persevered, and, in 1974, she became the first openly LGBTQ elected official in the United States, a legacy carried on by other trailblazers like Althea Garrison, Harvey Milk, Elaine Noble, Park Cannon, and Kate Brown.
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San Francisco's Castro District was one of the first gay neighborhoods in the US. Politician Harvey Milk — the first openly gay elected official in California — ran his campaign headquarters out of a camera shop in the neighborhood.
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So the next time you hear an elected official cite big returns on investment as their reason for offering a company billions in incentives to open a factory or office, remember they aren't telling the whole story.
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"Governor Cuomo has the strongest progressive record of any elected official in this country—period—and we look forward to building on that record in the third term," Bill Mulrow, Cuomo's 2018 campaign chairman, told the Journal.
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The deeply personal back-and-forth will almost certainly rupture what had been a friendship with a fellow real estate developer turned elected official, one of the few genuine relationships Mr. Trump had developed on Capitol Hill.
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Why it's not normal: It's not normal for the president to publicly threaten, even jokingly, to end the career of an elected official for disagreeing with him, especially on an issue whose reform has received bipartisan support.
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But voting, the most symbolically weighty act any elected official can take, has been another matter, even if the idea of hundreds of House members and 100 senators gathering on crowded chamber floors is an epidemiological nightmare.
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Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, in turn has felt that Mr. Byford has been reluctant to embrace new technology and needed to understand the governor's role as the elected official most responsible for the performance of the subways.
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"She was the top senator or elected official in 21 when it came to galvanizing MoveOn members to give to candidates," Mr. Sheyman said, noting it showed her appeal to activists and donors beyond her existing list.
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" Back on the fourth floor, Mr. Williams said it was his duty as an elected official "to make sure that everyone is being taken care of, and that there's justice, there's equitable policies and that there's protections.
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The ruling set a precedent that any elected official — from a local mayor to the president — who blocks a constituent on Twitter could be found guilty of violating that constituent's First Amendment rights, Axios' Sara Fischer notes.
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Government can help spur change, but as a retired physician and elected official, I know that for change to be durable and meaningful it must stem from and have buy-in from the grassroots — the ground up.
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Ritchie Torres, the youngest elected official in New York City, grew up in a small apartment in Throggs Neck Houses, a public-housing project in the East Bronx, with his mother, his sister, and his twin brother.
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If you are a candidate for office or an elected official who has engaged in sexual misconduct, you should step aside — whether you sit in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate or the Oval Office.
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