"A thing you appear to be unable to see, sir, is that I am an elective official, while you are appointed."
Unions collective bargaining with elective officials will eventually deplete a state's coffers to the point where there is nothing left to drain.
The courts, however, exercised exclusive and final jurisdiction over questions affecting the right to vote as well as contested elections of local elective officials.
In any case, Federal funding is not going to happen without the cooperation of all elective officials.
The lawsuit provoked widespread calls by elective officials yesterday for tough new scrutiny of police conduct.
"If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved."
In the first place all of our elective officials are well paid nowadays and most of them have full retirement.
No local elective official shall serve for more than three (3) consecutive terms in the same position.
Laura Bush has never confused herself with an elective official.
Both cities govern themselves independently of the province and their residents do not vote for elective provincial officials.