Aquino was elected to office on the hope that he can change all that.
Some 20 states allow government workers, if elected to office, to retire from their previous jobs and start collecting pensions while also collecting their legislative salaries.
When Gutierrez was elected to the Montgomery County school board, she became the first Hispanic elected to public office in Maryland and the first El Salvadorian elected to office in the United States.
When I was elected to this office, America imported 11 million barrels of oil a day.
Norquist, 56, has never been elected to public office or held a Cabinet post.
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When Chirac, 74, was first elected to local office in 1965, half of today's French population was not yet born.
"It's always a big deal when a woman is elected to high office, but this was a significant shift, " Maloney said.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson interestingly appears on the poll -- the only one on the list who's never been elected to public office.
How many women have I helped get elected to political office?
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Does anybody really claim the primary activity of these organizations is anything other than getting their favorite candidates elected to political office, or defeating those they disagree with?
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Stephen Benjamin, former director of the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services, is poised to be the first African-American elected to statewide office since the Reconstruction era.
She has never been elected to public office, but she is very much part of the city's political upper class, having worked for two mayors, Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young.
As such, she becomes the first third-party member of the Assembly, the state's lower legislative house, since 1917, and the first Green elected to partisan office in the United States.
Having made my decision, the weight that has been lifted from my shoulders now hangs heavy on my heart, but I was not elected to this office to be something that I am not.
Now, first of all, what I want to do is, in a decade, I want us to have cut by one-third the amount of oil that we imported when I was elected to this office.
The first openly gay man to be elected to public office, Milk left a legacy of determined enfranchisement that lives on in the more than 600 openly gay or lesbian elected officials serving now in North America.
Milk became one of the first openly gay men elected to public office in the United States when he won a seat on the board of supervisors in 1977, inspiring a generation of activists with his uncompromising call for gays to come out.
Such a tax would help to remind our elected officials that the purpose of elected office is to serve the public, not themselves.
She was the first African American elected to Florida statewide office, according to her official biography.
Voters evaluated his record, who he is and his positions and his vision and elected him to this office.
Sean Penn won best actor for playing Harvey Milk in "Milk, " the story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office.
On both of these vital issues, our economy and our national security, it falls upon those of us in elected office to take action.
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Herbert Hoover is the only business executive to be elected to the oval office, and then only after serving in the cabinet during the 1920s, one of the great boom eras in American history.
Earlier this fall, there was speculation that Chelsea might be preparing to run for elected office.
But Mr Weld cannot aspire to any higher elected office than governor of Massachusetts.
Mr Clinton was the first Democrat to be elected to two full terms in office since Franklin Roosevelt.
The two brothers also have served in public office, elected to the St.
Opponents had argued that Musharraf ought to be disqualified under a constitutional ban on public servants running for elected office, which they said applied to him because he was still army chief.
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