* Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

The 2008 Federal Election saw the Conservative Party of Canada take the seat with former New Maryland MLA Keith Ashfield taking this seat with 42 % of the popular vote.

The 2008 and 2012 elections were both won by Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party candidate.

He was touted as a possible Conservative candidate for the Mayor of London elections in 2008, but turned down an offer from Conservative leader David Cameron.

Because of the split-off of the Conservative Democratic Party from the Swiss People's Party in 2008, since then the latter holds again only one seat in the Federal Council as of 2011.

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

In 2008, the Conservative Party formed a pact with the Ulster Unionist Party to select joint candidates for European and House of Commons elections ; this angered the DUP as by splitting the Unionist vote, republican parties will be elected in some areas.

Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008.

In 2008, Conservative politician Sayeeda Warsi stated that a future Conservative government would ban khat.

During the 2008 London mayoral election the newspaper and particularly its correspondent Andrew Gilligan published articles in support of Conservative candidate Boris Johnson, including frequent front-page headlines condemning Ken Livingstone.

Hanwell is in the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member: Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), was re-elected in May 2008 but lost his seat to Labour in May 2012.

Northolt comes under the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member, currently Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), who was re-elected in May 2008.

Southall is in the London Assembly constituency of Ealing and Hillingdon which has one assembly member: Richard Barnes ( Conservative ), who was re-elected in May 2008.

As of October 2008, the current membership of the Council is Conservative Party 33 ; Residents ' Association 12 ; Independent Local Residents 2 ; Labour Party 2 ; Hornchurch Residents 1 ; Rainham Residents 2 ; British National Party 1 ; Liberal Democrat 1.

After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.

Again, the area was strongly represented as a Conservative hold from 2000-2012 with the conservative candidate Richard Barnes winning the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections by quite a large margin.

He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Haddingtonshire and Ipswich and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire from 1918 to 1937. the titles are held by the thirteenth Earl of Wemyss and ninth Earl of March, who succeeded in 2008.

He also spoke for about 6 hours during the February 5, 2008 and February 7, 2008 at the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs meetings to block inquiry into allegations that the Conservative Party spent over the maximum allowable campaign limits during the 2006 election.

Crosby was later re-hired by the Conservative Party to run their successful campaign in the 2008 London Mayor election.

Conti considered running as the Conservative candidate in the 2008 London mayoral election.

Noted Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene penned a 2008 book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, detailing his occasional appearances with Jan & Dean's touring band throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

Author and WorldNetDaily columnist Jerome Corsi launched a brief campaign for the 2008 nomination but in July 2007 decided to return to writing.

In early 2008, Tork added " advice columnist " to his extensive resume by authoring an online advice and info column called " Ask Peter Tork " at the webzine The Daily Panic.

In September 2008, the Tribune considered hiring controversial sports columnist Jay Mariotti, shortly after his abrupt resignation from Tribune archrival Chicago Sun-Times.

* On December 4, 2008, about 11 newsroom employees were laid-off, with one sports columnist, Mike Downey, having departed several weeks earlier when his contract was not renewed.

* Israel Horowitz ( 1916 – 2008 ), record producer who became an editor and columnist on classical music at Billboard magazine.

* In New Zealand, political columnist Chris Trotter has theorised about the emergence of " Waitakere Man ", a traditionally blue-collar constituency who he believes switched their votes to National Party leader John Key in the 2008 elections on the premises of ' ambition ' and ' aspiration '.

On 25 March 2008, Malcolm Speed, ICC chief executive, told Gavaskar " very clearly ", during a meeting between the two at Dubai, that he would have to quit his post at the ICC if he failed to give up his job of commentator and newspaper columnist, in which capacity he has frequently criticised his employers and levelled serious accusations of racism.

In a 2008 interview with Chicago Tribune DVD columnist Louis R. Carlozo, Fernandez recalled that he landed the job working on " Speed Racer " after ghost-writing scripts for Astro-Boy and Gigantor.

At some point in the past, a sign on the bridge informed travelers, " In event of attack, drive off bridge ", New York Times columnist William Safire wrote in 2008.

Since February 2008 Hentoff has been a regular weekly ( Wednesdays ) contributing columnist at WorldNetDaily. com.

In 2008, Alterman also became a regular columnist to the Jewish magazine Moment, where he writes regularly about Jewish issues.

* Gordon Gibson, politician, columnist, and author, appointed 2008

In a column published 5 June 2008, syndicated columnist George Will wrote that a Chinese oil company was then drilling in Cuban waters from the Florida coast, a claim that was repeated by candidates in favor of offshore drilling.

The result was a bitter division in Republican ranks and a stalled bill in Congress ; columnist Peggy Noonan wrote in January 2008 that President Bush had " destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other ", by pushing immigration reform, as well as other wedge issues for the Republicans.

Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, a 2008 documentary film by Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie, former Times Picayune columnist and now HBO Tremé staff writer, bridges the pre-and post-Katrina stories of the Tremé neighborhood.

In November 2008, TASCHEN published Guts and Glory: The Golden Age of American Football 1958-1978, with an introduction by the late Los Angeles Times Sports columnist Jim Murray.

The magazine ’ s current stable of writers includes national political columnist and correspondent John Heilemann, co-author of the best-selling book about the 2008 presidential election Game Change, Steve Fishman, Jesse Green, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Joe Hagan, Mark Jacobson, Jennifer Senior, Gabriel Sherman, Christopher Smith, and Jonathan Van Meter.

In 2008 and again in 2009, columnist Regina Brett was a Pulitzer finalist for commentary.

From 2003 to 2008, he was a columnist for the weekly newspaper Los Angeles CityBeat.

In June 2008, Ken Silverstein, a columnist at Harper's magazine alleged that Broder had accepted free accommodations and thousands of dollars in speaking fees from various business and healthcare groups, in one instance penning an opinion column supporting positions favored by one of the groups.

The paper is the home of cartoonist Mike Peters, who draws the Mother Goose and Grimm strip and won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1981, and columnist Dale Huffman, who had written a daily metro column every day for more than eight years before beginning a hiatus on January 30, 2008 after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Harrison, who is openly gay, dated Advertising Age columnist Simon Dumenco from 2002 to 2008 ; the two met when Dumenco interviewed Harrison for a New York magazine cover story.

In another feature on Goold's 2008 revival, following the responses of " three Pinter virgins " who did not understand or enjoy it (" Matilda Egere-Cooper, urban music journalist: ' Obscure and exhausting ' "; " David Knott, political lobbyist: ' Don't expect to feel uplifted ...' "; and " Susie Rushton, editor and columnist: ' Where's the joke?

Long known for being the " back page " columnist for Sports Illustrated, Reilly moved to ESPN on June 1, 2008 where he is a featured columnist for ESPN. com and wrote the back page column for ESPN the Magazine.