Sentences with phrase «city voted overwhelmingly»

New York City voted overwhelmingly for Bill and Hillary Clinton when large swaths of the country considered them a Starr - crossed couple.

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Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three - year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years.

While Biaggi voted in the general election's of 2016, 2014 and 2012, she did not vote in any of the Democratic primaries, often the where the real race takes place in New York since voter registration in the city is so overwhelmingly Democratic.

The WFP's small pro-Cuomo faction tried and failed to both delay the nod for a month and keep the party's ballot line blank, but eventually the committee overwhelmingly voted 91.5 percent to back the «Sex and the City» star and activist.

Party chair Mark English blamed the loss of a Democrat in a overwhelmingly Democratic city, on Republicans who didn't stand by their candidate, but instead voted for Walsh.

I think that in a city that this is overwhelmingly Democratic, there is a limit to how many votes anybody can get that's not on the Democratic line.

MIDTOWN — Signaling defeat for the «World's Most Famous Arena,» the City Council voted overwhelmingly Wednesday afternoon to limit Madison Square Garden's new operating permit to just 10 years.

«The Governor even had the Chutzpah to suggest the City Council's vote for the BYOBag law was some sort of fluke and shouldn't count,» Kellner wrote, referencing a comment Cuomo made that the council vote on the bag fee bill was a close one while the legislation imposing the moratorium overwhelmingly passed the state Legislature.

Mr. Crespo's 2011 vote against same - sex marriage is notable because the bill passed the Assembly with relative ease and was overwhelmingly supported by New York City lawmakers.

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Instead, he made it sound like Clinton has to pass some sort of liberal litmus test in a city that overwhelmingly voted for her twice in two Senate elections.

Frustrated by a lack of progress over a new contract, faculty members and employees at the City University of New York voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if a mediator was unable to broker a deal with the administration, their union said.

NEW YORK — The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto of prevailing wage legislation, paving the way for a courtroom showdown between his office and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

That's because the New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would raise the purchasing age for cigarettes, certain tobacco products and even electronic - vapor smokes from 18 to 21.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Two of the city councilors who most frustrate Mayor Stephanie Miner were rejected Saturday by the Syracuse Democratic Committee, which voted overwhelmingly to endorse two challengers to run in their places in November.

Even though Scotland and inner city London overwhelmingly backed Remain, major cities like Sunderland, Birmingham, Nottingham and Sheffield all voted to quit the EU.

That city's merit - pay plan proposed in 2002 was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though it did not base bonuses on student test scores.

Members of the United Teachers - Los Angeles last week voted overwhelmingly to authorize their board of directors to call a strike if union leaders are unable to negotiate a salary agreement with the city's school board.

In June, ChiACTS members overwhelmingly voted in favor of the merger, in spite of the fact that CTU actively opposes charter schools and many of its members would be happy to see the city's charters shut down.

Teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize the first strike in 25 years if the city and the union can't come to terms this summer.

This was critical not only in turning a substantial constituency against charters, but also in showing that the Yes campaign's narrative of voting yes to support inner - cities is backward because inner - city voters overwhelmingly opposed question 2.

The ordinance passed overwhelmingly with a 49 - 1 vote in City Council.

With more than 70,000 votes counted across Adams and Arapahoe counties so far, voters have overwhelmingly said no to Aurora ballot question 2D, which would lift the city's 9 - year - old ban on the dogs.

Led by the bill's sponsor, Councilmember Rosie Mendez, and Health Committee Chair Corey Johnson, both of whom are longtime friends to animals, the Council overwhelmingly voted (43 - 6) to pass 1233 - A to ban wild and exotic animal performances in the city.