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When Jerry Brown was elected, this was the challenge that was put to him.
Democrats as well as Republicans parade their religiousness if they want to get elected.
Models can come from the media, from our elected officials ... Think of models of terrorism, child kidnapping, airline safety, car safety.
It goes to 1953 when American CIA exercised a coup and removed a democratically elected leader, Dr. Mossadegh.
And what happens as a result of this is, when those parties are elected, and inevitably they fail, or inevitably they make political mistakes, democracy takes the blame for their political mistakes.
When a politician stands up campaigning for elected office and says, "I want to fix our health system.
It's not simply corruption and waste that you create; you essentially replace the priorities of the Afghan government, the elected Afghan government, with the micromanaging tendencies of foreigners on short tours with their own priorities.
Sadly, once elected, many of these faith-based organizations are ignored.
When your elected officials are appropriating their budgets, ask them: Are you fulfilling treaty obligations?
So she elected to undergo a focused ultrasound procedure in 2008.
And like a lot of people, I thought government was basically about getting people elected to office.
But Abraham Lincoln was elected president, and then he passed the Emancipation Proclamation, and now they're free.
And she was brilliant, she was one of the, at the time, the youngest Fellow to be elected to the Royal College of Physicians.
I was recently elected, as Emeka mentioned, as the President of the South African Chamber of Commerce in America.
They weren't even being monarchical, they had the idea that you could be elected king for a fixed term.
I am even more thrilled by the fact that least year our student body elected a woman to be the head of Student Government.
It's the first time in the history of Ghana that a woman has been elected head of Student Government at any university.
It says a lot about her peers who elected her.
The end result was six ministers resigned, the first speaker of the house in 300 years was forced to resign, a new government was elected on a mandate of transparency, 120 MPs stepped down at that election, and so far, four MPs and two lords have done jail time for fraud.
In Iceland, she was one of the protesters who was outside of Parliament when the country's economy collapsed, and then she was elected on a reform mandate, and she's now spearheading this project.
In Britain, it could mean looking to the French, learning from the French, getting directly elected mayors in place in a French commune system.
So if you think about this as the problem of a dysfunctional, hyper-polarized institution, well, the first step is, do what you can so that fewer hyper-partisans get elected in the first place, and when you have closed party primaries, and only the most committed Republicans and Democrats are voting, you're nominating and selecting the most extreme hyper-partisans.
It's not as many percent as the number of women we've just elected to Congress, so that's good.
Rather, it was a form of political action in a context when the city budget I had available after being elected amounted to zero comma something.
I was elected in 2002 and, at the end of my first year in office in 2003, I got a call from one of my staff members, who said, "Gov, we have a big problem.
What we can say, number one, as the Supreme Court said in Citizens United, that people have the ultimate influence over elected officials, because, after all, there is a general election, but only after the Lesters have had their way with the candidates who wish to run in the general election.
Well, as the Supreme Court said in Citizens United, we could say, of course the people have the ultimate influence over the elected officials.
When Connecticut adopted this system, in the very first year, 78 percent of elected representatives gave up large contributions and took small contributions only.
I had just been elected prime minister, but I had the unhappy privilege of revealing a truth that our deficit was not 6 percent, as had been officially reported only a few days earlier before the elections by the previous government, but actually 15.6 percent.
Governments get elected, and then they fall below 50 percent approval in a few months and stay there and get worse until the next election.
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