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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Washington, D.C. |
 | | Robert Brent, a Catholic and nephew of Bishop Carroll, was the first mayor, and was annually reappointed by Presidents Jefferson and Madison until 1812; in 1812 the duty of electing the mayor devolved on the council, and from 1820 to 1871 on the people. | | | The first local authorities of Washington were the president, three commissioners appointed by him, and the Levy Court; the city was incorporated in 1802, with a city council elected by the people, and a mayor appointed by the president. | | | In 1817 the charters of the corporations of Washington and Georgetown were abolished by Act of Congress; for a brief time the District was assimilated to a territorial form of government, with a board of public works as the most important administrative factor. |
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| | The Scotsman - UK - Tories in attack on Brent campaign |
| | Sarah Teather, the winner of the Brent East by-election, gave the conference a polished debut speech yesterday, in which she rounded on Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, for squandering the trust of voters. | | | FALL-out over the Brent East by-election continued yesterday, with the Conservatives reporting the Liberal Democrats to the standards watchdog for producing a "disreputable" campaign guide. | | | She said her victory in the former Labour stronghold last week was borne out of the publicâs loss of trust in Mr Blair. |
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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1058542003
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| | The UK Politics Forum :: View topic - Brent East 18th September 2003 By-Election Results |
| | The Brent East seat was previously held by Paul Daisley (Labour) with a majority of 13,047 who died aged 45 of cancer in June 2003. | | | The Liberal Democrats' victory in Brent East was hailed yesterday by the party's strategy chief as the result of "an excellent campaign, an excellent candidate and above all a sign that the tide has turned against Blair and New Labour". | | | Many voters saw the by-election as an opportunity to deliver a message of no confidence in Tony Blair, they said, and it was fought by many as a referendum on the performance of the government. |
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| | Press Statements |
| | This important bye-election will be a major opportunity for voters to reject Blair and New Labours Tory policies of privatisation, war and cuts in public spending. | | | Brent East is one of the most multi-cultural/ multi racial seats, comprising of the least represented communities in Westminster today. | | | Brent East Socialist Alliance is working with local unions, the community and user groups and local staff to defend local services from privatisation. |
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| | News archive for Ballotlaw - Online electoral legislation for the UK |
| | Having received the Commission’s report, Christopher Leslie, Minister at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, confirmed in the House of Commons on 16th December 2003 that the East Midlands and the North East would be two of the regions for pilot schemes and that a third region would also be selected, having considered the Commission’s recommendations. | | | The report was submitted to the relevant Ministers on 8th December 2003, and recommended that e-voting should not be considered for use in the June 2004 elections, as no region was ready for such an innovation in voting. | | | Knight petitioned that the election should be invalidated in accordance with section 48 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c.2), as the Returning Officer had failed to “issue to” the relevant voters the materials necessary for their vote to be recorded in time. |
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| | Fawzi for Brent East |
| | He said 'The by-election will be the first opportunity for the British people to denounce Blair and his policies and his policies of war abroad and PFI, foundation hospitals, top-up fees and transport chaos at home. | | | £15,000 appeal to give Blair a kicking at by-election | | | Cheques payable to Fawzi By-election Fund should be sent to PO Box 43937, London NW2 7WD. |
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| | BBC NEWS Politics Brent 'highlights Labour's failings' |
| | Labour's defeat in the Brent East by-election is a signal that ministers have failed to listen and communicate with voters, the party's chairman has admitted. | | | But Ms May was upbeat about her party's future success saying Labour voters in Brent East had been looking for a Labour home and found that in the Liberal Democrats. | | | Ian McCartney said he was "very disappointed" that Labour had lost its first by-election in 15 years, adding that the "backdrop of the controversy over Iraq" had not helped. |
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http://newswm.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3121664.stm
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| | 2003 Labour Party Conference - Blarism on the rocks |
| | In this context, the Brent East by-election is a loud warning to the labour movement, no matter what 'analysis' the failed masters of spin cook up. | | | Assuming that broadly speaking the 36% of the electorate in Brent who voted in this election were part of the 49% who voted in the general election, then nearly 3000 people who voted Labour in 2001 voted for the Lib Dems this time, while almost 2000 former Tory voters switched to the Liberals. | | | Far more Labour voters protested by not voting - more than half of those who had voted Labour in 2001 did not vote at all - and the same will be the case in the next general election. |
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| | spiked-politics Article Brent out of shape |
| | Indeed, the fact that Brent East was Labour's first by-election loss in 15 years, despite their having been in power for seven years, indicates the sea change that has taken place in British politics, where New Labour dominates the political landscape. | | | Much has been made of Brent East's Muslim community using the by-election as a means of giving Blair a bloody nose for his war in Iraq, and no doubt there is some truth to that. | | | Significantly, it was the first time Labour had lost a House of Commons seat in a by-election for 15 years. |
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| | Sarah Teather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | She was first elected on 18 September 2003 in the Brent East by-election and re-elected on 5 May 2005 in the | | | The 2003 Brent East by-election, caused by the death of the Labour MP Paul Daisley, was set against the unpopular | | | Many expected Teather to lose her seat at the last general election, earning her the nicknames "One-term Teather" and "Two-years Teather". |
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| | Blair suffers major defeat in post-Iraq war bypoll |
| | London: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has suffered a major defeat in the Brent East by-election as voters apparently punished the government for the Iraq war and the state of public services with a 29 percentage point swing to the Liberal Democrats. | | | The defeat leaves Blair to face the party conference later this month as the first Labour leader to lose a by-election for 15 years, sources conceded. | | | The election of 29-year-old Lib-Dem candidate Sarah Teather as the youngest MP will barely dent Labour's Commons majority. |
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| | Blairista! |
| | With the Brent East by-election today The Guardian runs an opinion piece from London Mayor Ken Livingstone on how disreputable the Lib Dems really are. | | | We may have woes in Brent but as of yesterday the Local Government Act 2003 became law. | | | Some of the people on the ground in Brent East have sought to reassure me that things are not as bad as has been reported, though one party official did remark that they were convinced that David Blunkett must a Lib Dem mole to have said what he said yesterday. |
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| | UK Indymedia Army murder victim's sister stands in Brent East by election. |
| | The Justice for Peter McBride Campaign announced today that Kelly McBride, sister of the murdered Belfast teenager, would be standing as a candidate in this monthâs by-election in the Brent East constituency in London. | | | Kellie McBride, the sister of 18 year old Peter McBride from north Belfast who was shot in the back in 1992 by Scots Guardsmen James Fisher and Mark Wright, was nominated as a candidate in the Brent East Westminster by election. | | | By standing in Brent East, Kelly McBride plans to bring her demands for the dismissal of the two soldiers right to the heart of political debate in Britain. |
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| | Contents - letters |
| | The Liberal Democrats staged a sensational by-election victory early today when they came from third place to win the Brent East by-election with a 29% vote swing. | | | In the European election for London, the Lib Dems won the same number of seats and enjoyed an increase in vote share by 4% Both Labour (10%) and the Conservatives (6%) lost a huge numbers of votes, leaving them more than concerned. | | | In the London Mayoral election Simon Hughes came third, but if voters' first and second preferences were taken into account, then he came within a few hundred votes of second place. |
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| | Brent and Harrow Green Party - Recent Elections |
| | In 1999, the Brent and Harrow Green vote was well below the London average and the Brent East vote was only slightly above average. | | | Results details for the 2002 borough elections in both Brent and Harrow are summarised in the following press release. | | | Despite having fewer votes nationwide than in the 1989 election, two greens were elected to the European Parliament: Jean Lambert form the London Region and Caroline Lucas form the South East region. |
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| | The Willesden Herald |
| | Take a look for yourself at how the Brent East by-election was won and lost. | | | The Brent Conservatives don't seem to be any more switched on than the Blue Rinse Brigade stereotype we are used to hearing about, if their website is anything to go by. | | | The Conservatives are flat-lining in Brent East at the bottom of the list of possible winners. |
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| | British-Eritreans in Brent East meet Sarah Teather and Yasmin Quereshi |
| | Following the announcement of the election date by Tony Blair and the subsequent dissolution of parliament on April 11, both Sarah Teather standing for re-election and Yasmin Quereshi will be contesting the Brent East seat. | | | On Saturday 16 April, British-Eritrean constituents of Brent East in North London met with Sarah Teather of the Liberal Democrats, former MP of the constituency and Yasmin Querishi, Labour Party candidate in the coming general election due to be held on May 5 2005. | | | Regarding the increase in crime in certain parts of Brent East, she insisted that the £3 billion the incumbent Labour government may be spending on the introduction of ID cards could be spent on recruiting more police officers to tackle street crime. |
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| | UK Indymedia Labour has lost their âSafe Seatâ in the Brent East |
| | The Liberal Democrats staged a sensational by-election victory early today when they came from third place to win the Brent East byelection with a 29% swing that will shake Tony Blair's confidence on the eve of Labour's Bournemouth conference. | | | The turnout, 36.4%, was well below the 49.9% in the seat in 2001, itself 10% below the poor general election average during the second Blair landslide. | | | Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, who saw his candidate, local community nurse and Brent councillor Uma Fernandes fall to third place, will face pressure on his own leadership in Blackpool next month. |
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| | Noel Lynch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He took up his seat on 2 May 2003, replacing | | | Noel Lynch is a Green Party politician and was a member of the London Assembly. | | | Due to a fall in the Green vote, he did not retain the seat at the |
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| | Library@bvu.edu Recent Acquisitions |
| | London ; New York : Routledge, [2003] TD170.7.A38 1999x Acting locally : concepts and models for service-learning in environmental studies. | | | F334.T96 N67 1998 Norrell, Robert J. Reaping the whirlwind : the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, with a new concluding chapter by the author. | | | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. |
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http://www.bvu.edu/departments/academicaffairs/library/acquisitions/M200411.html
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| | TomGriffin.Info - Peter McBride Campaign/ Brent East by-election |
| | Brent East MP Sarah Teather has called for action from the Government in the wake of the statement by Jim McDonald, the Independent Assessor of Military Complaints Procedures in Northern Ireland. | | | Ms McBride is standing in the by-election in order to highlight the murder of her brother, Peter McBride in Belfast in 1992, and the British Army's decision to retain the two Scots Guards convicted of his killing. | | | Brent East's new Liberal Democrat MP has pledged her "absolute determination to see justice done" and "deliver a top class service for my constituency" in a special message to the area's Irish population. |
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| | An open letter to Labour Party conference delegates |
| | We all woke up after the Brent East by-election to a disastrous result. | | | In two years time there will be a general election. | | | We have the same interests as you in Labour winning the next election on the basis of policies which put the interests of working people and their families above those of a powerful, wealthy minority. |
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| | BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Kelly McBride |
| | Thursday's parliamentary by-election in Brent East was hard fought by parties determined to win the seat, but one candidate said from the outset that she had no expectation of winning and knew little of the area or the problems facing local residents. | | | Kelly McBride hopes that her candidacy will draw attention to her family's campaign to secure justice for her brother Peter, who was shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast in 1992. | | | BBC News: McBride sister to stand in election |
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| | RTE News - Labour loses seat in UK by-election |
| | The Liberal Democrats in Britain have taken one of the Labour party's safest Westminster seats in the Brent East by-election. | | | RTE News - Labour loses seat in UK by-election | | | It is the first time Labour has lost a by-election in Britain in 15 years. |
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| | NGO Watch - Media Guide |
| | •Testified before the Florida Select Committee on the 2000 Election; has filed more than a dozen briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in such high-profile cases as Boy Scouts v. | | | •Expertise: Constitutional Law, Legal History, Election Law, Abortion/Roe v. | | | • Was a Senior professional staff member for Near East and South Asia on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1992-2002); Staff writer for Insight Magazine (1987-1992); Editorial assistant for the Los Angeles Times and Reuters, in Jerusalem (1984-1985). |
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| | What You Can Get Away With: September 14, 2003 |
| | Reading about Brent East this morning, a thought crossed my mind - if, as seems likely, the Tories come third in the by-election, isn't it in their best interests (in the short term, at least) for the Lib Dems to actually win? | | | If there's any attention on the Tory vote it can easily be dismissed by talking about the 'Lib Dem by-election machine' and pointing out that their vote has held up as well or better than the Labour vote did in Lib Dem by-election victories in the 90s such as Newbury, Christchurch or Eastleigh. | | | So, the winner of the Brent East sweepstake competition is not Iain Coleman, despite the fact he was entirely correct in predicting a 1118 majority for the Liberal Democrats. |
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| | Blair suffers stinging election setback - Financial Times - MSNBC.com |
| | Tony Blair, the British prime minister, suffered a sensational defeat in the Brent East by-election on Thursday night, as voters punished the government for the Iraq war and the state of public services with a 29 percentage point swing to the Liberal Democrats. | | | British Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy, left, alongside his newest MP Sarah Teather, are seen outside the campaign headquarters, in north London, after her win in the Brent East by-election Sept. 19. | | | Blair to face the party conference later this month as the first Labour leader to lose a by-election for 15 years. |
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| | Colin Powell |
| | As part of this, Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations on February 5, 2003 to argue in favor of the action. | | | In the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election Powell campaigned for Texas Governor George W. Bush, serving as a key foreign policy advisor to the campaign. | | | He was touted as a possible opponent of Bill Clinton in the 1996 U.S. Presidential Election, but Powell declined, rumored to be on the advice of his wife. |
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