Sentence examples for democratic legislature from inspiring English sources

He himself was a mayor at 31 and in 2001 became Nassau's youngest county executive, and the first Democrat with a Democratic legislature since 1917.

On Wednesday he vetoed 12 bills, 11 of them sponsored by Democrats in the heavily Democratic legislature.

Some of the most important pieces of legislation of his tenure have gotten through the Democratic Legislature with mostly Republican support, while most Democrats voted against them.

Some of the most important pieces of legislation of his tenure has gotten through the Democratic legislature with mostly Republican support, while most Democrats voted against them.

On average, 57percentt of state senate members and 56percentt of state house members are democrats and indeed about 56percentt of the sample has a democratic legislature.

In Illinois, a Democrat beat Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who had spent years feuding with the Democratic legislature over his cuts to Medicaid.

And it was the democratic legislature--85% democratic, they could have passed any law and overridden any veto--they wouldn't touch it.

Prodded by the Arkansas Supreme Court and an eighty-per-cent-Democratic legislature, Huckabee oversaw a major redistricting of public schools when he was governor.

Governor Jerry Brown and the overwhelmingly-Democratic legislature didn't just wake up one morning and decide to pass the most comprehensive minimum wage hike in the country.

He excoriated the outgoing Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis and the Democratic Legislature for actuating a sales tax hike, and blamed them for the state's economic decline.

The heavily Democratic Legislature has voted to override Gov. Lincoln Almond's veto of a $2.64 billion state budget.