(1) They also passed a law that public officeholders possess the moral characteristics of ‘piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry, and frugality.’(2) The former prosecutor is the only contender among the officeholders who opposes the death penalty, though he has raised the prospect of supporting it for terrorists.(3) Political parties have operated infrequently in the past, and public officeholders tend to be independents.(4) Any further indictments, particularly of key officeholders , on the eve of the session or while lawmakers are in Austin could turn the session on its ear.(5) He voiced fear that the only officeholders left would be those ‘who have done nothing in their life except walk the straight and narrow, who have no creative thoughts.’(6) Almost half of GOP officeholders - including the governor, the attorney general, the chief justice and several justices on the Texas Supreme Court - were also clients.(7) The fact is the teachers don't know, the administrators don't know, and, too often, the politicians and the officeholders have no clue.(8) In 1996, the party had forty elected officeholders and ten organized state parties, only five of those recognized with a ballot line.(9) He challenged the media to put similar public pressure on those officeholders .(10) ‘Government is frequently disparaged as an inefficient bureaucratic maze serving the interests of officeholders and time-servers rather than of the public,’ he wrote.(11) Unlike officeholders , staffers do not vote on public policy.(12) He probably helps Republicans as a group but it's not necessarily in the interest of individual Republican officeholders to come under his scrutiny.(13) While recognizing these disparities, the commission - largely made up of former officeholders and political appointees - backed away from offending the states' rights crowd.(14) While he succeeded in registering millions of black voters - an effort that helped elect scores of black and white Democratic officeholders - it put the White House in GOP hands.(15) In 1996, the Green Party was organized in 10 states, guaranteed a ballot line in just five and had elected 40 officeholders .(16) The idea is to prevent the mayor, the council and other officeholders from owing legislative favors to paid lobbyists who went to bat for them at election time.
