Another nine family members hold important elected posts in South Sulawesi.
I would way rather have an important elected official who patronized prostitutes than one who spent $60,000 of the taxpayers' money on sushi and lobster.
Mr. Gore's advisers reel off their institutional advantages -- from the power of the White House, to committed delegates to endorsements from labor groups to important elected officials -- that have dragged their predecessors across the finish line.
First, a bunch of super-wealthy New Yorkers cooked up the idea that the expressed will of the voters, imposing a two-term limit on important elected officials, should be nullified so that Michael R. Bloomberg might stay on as mayor.
The opposition National (Blanco) and Colorado parties formed a historic coalition, Party of the Coalition, in the hope of winning back the mayorship of Montevideo, an office that was considered to be the second most important elected position in the country.
Important elected office-holders and high appointed officials create bureaucratic departments to perform the humdrum tasks of national importance.
Then you have probably one of the most important elected officials we've had, Willie Brown, who was head of the assembly and became mayor of San Francisco.
They do not pertain to what she might do as governor, questions that would seem important in electing a governor.
Equally important as electing a president with the right policies is choosing one who starting on Day One can unify our divided nation so that we can tackle pressing domestic and global challenges.
