| Fiscal prudence from politicians might sound like an electioneering mantra to some, but its a badge of honour to me. |
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| The challenge now is for all parties to continue electioneering on issues and selling their manifestos. |
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| While the public might be willing to tolerate electioneering from a candidate, the incumbent was a different matter. |
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| He used to appear before voters during electioneering in formal dress with a necktie, and he did on TV too. |
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| But some experts were quick to accuse the chancellor of shameless electioneering. |
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| A narrow focus on electioneering is at best ineffective, and at worst disastrous. |
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| On the other hand, parties like the ruling National Conference and Congress are more experienced in electioneering. |
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| This underlying social and economic reality found direct expression in Howard's electioneering. |
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| That's called electioneering, and you can't do it within 50 yards of a voting booth. |
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| Neither side should be using school computers or any other equipment or facilities for electioneering. |
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| But council officials have told him to remove them after receiving a complaint about using stalls for electioneering. |
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| This was first of all an electioneering budget which eschewed electioneering. |
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| The presence of policemen would be a boon particularly during electioneering by candidates. |
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| However, political parties may be tempted to save money by electioneering from the Scottish parliament. |
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| It's been the law since 1907 that you can ban corporations from electioneering. |
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| It has come to be thought of as a stinging insult to tell a party here that it is electioneering and politicking with the peace process. |
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| I say thankfully because I'm not looking for electioneering when I tune into Bill Maher. |
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| Emerging from years of exile, the leaders, both young and old, are out on the streets jumping headlong into electioneering. |
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| However, US trade officials denied the timing of the complaint had been influenced by electioneering. |
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| That is, that elections are as much about electioneering as they are about principle. |
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| He rejected claims that the announcement a week before the polls was just another bit of government electioneering. |
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| The pre-budget package was a rather nifty piece of electioneering, and helped steal the thunder of the opposition parties. |
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| No state or federal laws forbid such electioneering activities, no matter how criminal the corporation. |
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| He dislikes electioneering, is awkward in explaining his vision and is a poor public communicator. |
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| This smacks of electioneering gone wrong to me, and further erodes the health minister's reputation. |
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| Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence. |
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| Just another electioneering pack of lies designed to mislead people into enabling yet a further layer of politicians to line their pockets at our expense. |
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| Politicians are electioneering, but there's no election date. |
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| People are not fooled by this and they can see through these electioneering moves. |
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| This is where I see that the Prime Minister is playing with taxpayers' dollars for electioneering and votes. |
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| As my colleague just said, there are elections coming up and so this was probably electioneering. |
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| The accusation of electioneering applies to autocratic leaders, not to democratic leaders. |
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| An astronomical increase in spending does not equate to a vision for the country, but in fact equates with simple vote buying and electioneering. |
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| While child care makes for good electioneering, delivering child care is a somewhat daunting enterprise. |
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| In other words, the art of electioneering is stacked in favor of the Democrats. |
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| Beside a trip to Kissimmee, Fla., his electioneering bar crawl took him last weekend to the Gators Dockside Bar in Orlando. |
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| In practice, the IRS seems to take a rather lax view of what constitutes electioneering. |
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| Congress's intention in discussing global warming is no longer legislating, but electioneering. |
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| They are debating whether their president is finally cutting the country's warlords down to size, or whether he is just electioneering. |
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| Yet despite his role as a professional politician, or because of it, Bingham's paintings of electioneering are infused with a sense of critical distance. |
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| But the electioneering insinuations are a quick and dirty causal leap. |
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| This short length of term places First Nations communities in an almost continual state of electioneering, and it undermines the Band Council's stability as well as their efforts to develop long-term projects. |
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| We can hear electioneering language coming from him already. |
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| Even a contortionist could not make Mr Brown's electioneering position on spending fit the budget arithmetic of his own chancellor, the heavily-eyebrowed Alistair Darling. |
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| It is rooted in voodoo economics and one which shafts my province of British Columbia in favour of the government's cheap electioneering in other parts of the country. |
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| This time, the sound and fury of electioneering cannot disguise the narrowing policy gap between the parties. According to Mr Hague, the Conservatives remain a tax-reducing party, committed philosophically to a smaller state. |
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| It serves as further proof that the Conservative government is more concerned about electioneering for the short term than helping the average Canadian succeed now and in the long term. |
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| The fly that bit the American Government, if I can put it like that, is more of an electioneering insect rather than a citrus fruit parasite from the Mediterranean. |
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| The most constitutionally vulnerable component of the new soft money restrictions is the provision limiting party electioneering communications that go beyond express advocacy. |
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| How can my hon. colleague suggest that we were solely motivated by electioneering in calling for this debate when we took the time to bring before the House this issue of great concern across Quebec and Canada? |
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| This enabled them to use unlimited individual, corporate and union soft money contributions to pay for electioneering ads in the ostensibly publicly funded presidential election. |
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| New Jersey does ban electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place. |
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| Bill C-67 formalizes this government's recurring practice of underestimating its surplus so that, at year-end, it can spend this money for electioneering purposes, in direct contradiction to the budget consultation process. |
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| That is the very amount we are scattering on needs of visibility and electioneering, that is, needs of very little importance which testify to this government's lack of vision. |
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| With it, the federal government try to bury the issue so each and every year it can announce new electioneering measures to divert attention from all the scandals that besmirch it. |
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| An electioneering budget is an argumentum ad crumenam, and most elections in democracies have a strong element of this old argument. |
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| Council also calls upon the candidates for the two elections due on 30 July 2006, to conduct responsible electioneering campaign and to respect the existing institutions and scrupulously comply with the existing rules. |
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| Disraeli took no public part in the electioneering, it being deemed improper for peers to make speeches to influence Commons elections. |
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| It was a point of pride of a first half year busy with electioneering that the legislative elections on 21 May 2008 consecrated the surprise and unshared victory of President Saakashvili's party. |
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| Are we seeing more Liberal electioneering? |
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| I hope your electioneering riotry has not, nor will mix in these tumults. |
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| The cost of electioneering in St Ives seems eventually to have led to Buckinghamshire and Bolton withdrawing, and by 1784 Praed was considered unchallenged as patron. |
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