"This is a local race and I'm really not looking for national support, " he said.
We should pay attention to the local town hall vote on the school budget and the local mayoral race.
The last time I saw him was in Butare, Rwanda, where he won a local road race, blasting away from the peloton with his teammates down a hectic highway from the capital of Kigali.
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"The race for viewers became a race for local programming, " says James, who has worked for TVB and STAR TV.
Suddenly, the old issues of race and local control seemed less pressing, and co-operation between city and suburbs more appealing.
But when a heat wave pushed temperatures into the lower 90s Fahrenheit, organizers and local officials postponed the race until another day.
Now Google is losing the race to capture local market ads that once went to newspapers.
Button's team-mate Rubens Barrichello said the decision to start the race at 1700 local time to suit European TV audiences was a major factor in the decision.
Political observers say he upset local leaders by jumping into the race before working his way up in the party organization.
Roz Wilson, resident artist at The Forge, in Middle Street, Shere, which is on the edge of the road race route, said local people had noticed a marked increase in the number of cyclists.
Similar plans already in place or being proposed across the country could be in danger as a result of the ruling, which would sharply limit the power of local governments to achieve diversity using race-based criteria.
In an unusual development for a local school board campaign, the race had captured some national attention as it pitted a reform slate favoring policies such as revamping teacher evaluation, tenure and dismissal rules, against candidates backed by labor unions.
Said John Korff, whose company spearheaded the local operations for Saturday's race: "It's a fabulous event, but it can't be staged if people aren't comfortable with the entry price, " adding that he hadn't heard glaring criticisms about the course from participants.
Race relations have a greater capacity to inflame than any other social issue, reckons Derrick Campbell of Race Equality Sandwell, a local group.
But Perry brushed off the idea on Friday, telling CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that while national conservatives may be making noise in the race against Dewhurst, the local movement will stand for the lieutenant governor.
The highlight is a Senate race between the two most successful local politicians.
He said friends had held race nights and sold arm bands at local shops.
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Those are derived mostly from people staying in hotels, and spectators lining the race route, spending money in the local economy.
Not only had many of them been confused by the ballot design for the presidential race, some precincts distributed ballots missing local contests.
And this support will not only reaffirm our commitment to states engaged in serious reform, it will also expand the Race to the Top competition to include local school districts that are also committed to change.
The volunteers were meeting their local AMs at a reception before the charity's Race for Life event in the city's Bute Park.
Because the law encourages courts to hand class action work to firms with the biggest clients, lawyers are in an arms race to line up suit-happy state, local and union pension funds.
Local Democratic candidate John Edwards Jr. (District 2 congressional race) even attended.
They are not intending to field candidates in every race, but just those where a sufficiently high profile local candidate has a sufficiently decent chance of winning.
Campaign volunteers also went to work under the radar in several local campaigns last year -- including the Charlotte mayor's race and school board races in populous Wake County -- to elect friendly Democrats and identify new voters.
Though its supporters are still mainly white, a third of its 60 members of parliament are now black or coloured (mixed-race), as were many of its candidates in these local polls.
Although this is a race for the United States Senate, his platform focuses on local issues: bringing new businesses to the state and attacking a 1997 property-tax law intended to help finance better public education.
But at this race, the 1, 505 registered members were rallying around one local woman and breast cancer survivor: Carol Chaoui.
The men's race was won by an American, the women's by a local teenager.
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