Sentence examples similar to Past officeholder from inspiring English sources
Mr. Bloomberg's absolute approach to such questions differs from that staked out by current and past officeholders in New York and the country at large.
Also, more than a dozen other potential candidates have signed up with the city clerk but none has the name recognition of current or past officeholders.
Inevitably, Americans compare past presidents with the current officeholder.
Over the past seven years, 29 state officeholders have been convicted of a crime, censured or otherwise accused of wrongdoing, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.
Every California governor in the past half-century has been either a veteran state officeholder or a celebrity.
But your suggestion that current officeholders apply a new standard for the acceptance of past campaign contributions and refund those contributions after the election has been held, after campaign budgets have been expended, after campaign debts have been incurred based on money contributed and legally received, is unfair and unreasonable.
In the not-so-distant past, a variety of politicians endorsed mandatory tax disclosure, both for candidates and officeholders.
Roter points out that New York is certainly fertile grounds for such a museum, with 29 officeholders convicted of a crime, censured, or accused of wrongdoing in the past seven years alone -- to say nothing of its long and storied history of political corruption reaching back to the Tammany Hall era.
Joining Mr. Bush on Monday were Democratic elders and former officeholders, people like Mr. Powell, who served in the more cordial Washington of decades past.
