grassroots candidate

He cast himself as a grassroots candidate eager to bring reform.

He characterizes himself as a grassroots candidate who will bring reform to a dysfunctional political system both here and upstate.

Angle, ironically, went from being the most grassroots candidate imaginable to being, in the realm of political technique, almost totally dependent on television advertising.

All Grassroots candidates would end marijuana/hemp prohibition and re-legalize cannabis for all its uses.

In 2010, Grassroots candidate Chris Wright was on the ballot in the governor's election, signifying the possibility of the minor political party being re-organized.

In 2008, Ned Ryun founded American Majority, Inc., an organization devoted to identifying and training grassroots candidates for state and local elections.

Proponents argue that excessive spending breeds corruption, hinders grassroots candidates and keeps wealthy special interest groups in the hip pocket of the candidate [source: Common Cause].

American Majority Action is affiliated with American Majority, a nonprofit political training organization that identifies and trains grassroots candidates and activists for local and state campaigns.

Coggins was popular while as Mayor, though his sometimes strained relationship with the city council led to a challenge during his 1977 re-election campaign by a grassroots candidate, Isabella Cannon.

Although he was new to the party and socialism, his experience as a grassroots candidate and an elected official as well as his media savvy may have been what helped him get the nomination over party veterans.

One publicly recognized grassroots candidate, Jeff Anderson of Acworth, Georgia, has yet to file state paperwork but has been conducting a personal and internet campaign for the 11th District seat since October, 2009.

Klees ran as a grassroots candidate, arguing that the party had been the captive of unelected backroom consultants during the Harris and Eves years and had cut off not only party members but backbench MPPs.

In the 2006 congressional primaries, Emanuel, then head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, made national headlines for engineering a run by Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran with no political experience, against grassroots candidate Christine Cegelis in Illinois' 6th District.

The court's decision, championed by conservatives, seems to have shifted the balance of power in the Republican primaries away from grassroots candidates who rely on a wide base of small-dollar donors to the establishment candidate, who benefits from seven-figure ad campaigns with the help of a few hyper-wealthy allies.

Where a strong mayor system applies, the larger number of suburban residents will likely also control that post, and the need to campaign over a larger urban area will tend to exclude grassroots candidates or anti-poverty activist candidates not funded nor supported by wealthier suburban voters or real estate developers.