Sentence examples for legislature candidate from inspiring English sources

Berkeley graduate study David E. Broockman teamed up with the academic titan of campaign science, Donald P. Green, to test how popular Facebook ads could make an obscure state legislature candidate.

Nebraska state legislature candidate Megan Hunt said her own 8-year-old, Alice, canvases with her and helps sort spreadsheets.

Her group has made small donations to 22 Democratic state legislature candidates, but realises that fewof them are likely to speak out on the issue.

In New Jersey, StudentsFirst, a new reform group founded by former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, spent $400,000 on two successful Democratic legislature candidates through its local arm Better Education 4 Kids New Jersey, a group recently founded by hedge fund managers that backs Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's education agenda.

In such a legislature either candidate could, with the help of state governors, probably make economic progress.

Even though it held a majority of seats in the legislature, its candidate was unable to win the vote for speaker in 1998.

State law requires governors' races to go to the legislature if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.

"His talking about his work in the state legislature while another candidate is talking about negotiating with the North Koreans was a turnoff," Professor Shaiko said.

In states where the opposite party controls the legislature, the Gubernatorial candidate runs as a check, with a modest legislative agenda.

China's legislature ruled that candidates for Hong Kong's chief executive must first be vetted via a nominating committee, a body activists worry will be a proxy for China's political leaders.

If we can change the legislature and elect candidates that share our values, then our "representatives" will truly represent us and we can lobby and educate our representatives to pass legislation we need.