Sentences with phrase «for ballot questions»

For ballot questions as recently as 2012, issue - based ad buys were «half of what we're seeing now,» Petta said.

It is not too far - fetched to imagine the pro-Common Core forces counting on a lull in the news to make MA citizens think that MCAS 2.0 is the solution to the ballot question, so no need for a ballot question to get rid of Common Core.

Not exact matches

Last year, he and his wife, Miriam, a physician and expert in drug addiction, provided the vast majority of funding for the campaign to defeat a ballot question that would have legalized medical marijuana in Florida.

For many Canadians, the ballot question when they vote on Oct. 14 will be who can beat Stephen Harper and his Conservative crew.

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If it is possible for the Irish People to adjudicate by ballot on this question, why might we not in the future deliberate similarly on the right to life of the elderly, the homeless, the Travellers, or the mentally ill?

The question might seem a befuddling one for a ballot in the heartland, but it stems from a New Jersey legal case in which a Muslim woman went to a family court asking for a restraining order against her spouse claiming he had raped her repeatedly.

But the April 3 ballot measure asking voters to pay for the last 12 - acre parcel of the Dole estate and its 150 - year - old Italianate house has some residents questioning whether the Crystal Lake Park District belongs in the historic preservation business.

The first step in the process is gathering residents» signatures on petitions asking the Cook County Board of Elections to add the question to the November ballot, according to Ron Castrogiovanni, a spokesman for a group of residents.

CAROL STREAM — The Carol Stream Park District is beginning to seek support for an April ballot question that will ask voters if they approve of a 7.5 - cent tax rate increase to pay for maintenance of parks and equipment.

The Cary Park District, having only $ 300,000 in its land acquisition fund, voted to place a question on the April ballot asking voters for the money needed for the purchase.

The open house will be informational and informal, said Brenda Gramann, co-chairwoman of Citizens for Better Parks, a 12 - member committee that is working to see the ballot question approved.

During his tenure on the Village Board, Mr. Hesterman was instrumental in posing to voters a ballot question asking for approval to create Glen Ellyn's Village Links Golf Course, according to his daughter, Susan Edwards.

The decision halts an election board hearing scheduled for Thursday to review petitions the group filed with the DuPage County Election Commission in December for a referendum question on the March 16 ballot.

In March of 1936 the Park Board of Commissioners was presented with two petitions, one against and one for putting a question on the ballot.

Nonetheless, some experts caution that asking voters to consider two referendum questions on the November ballot might not produce the desired outcomes for either organization, in particular, if those casting ballots fear that supporting both measures would mean higher taxes.

GLEN ELLYN — A shortage of funds for capital projects has pushed the Glen Ellyn Park District Board to consider a referendum question for the April ballot.

The park district's proposed referendum question could appear alongside a November ballot request from New Trier High School asking voters to approve $ 89 million in funding for a major renovation of the aging Winnetka campus.

The four park proposals are among more than 20 questions that will be on the ballot, most of them asking for tax increases.

A question on the April 13 ballot will ask voters whether they want to approve an 8 - cent tax increase to pay for a 26 - mile trail system, operation and maintenance of parks, and the new recreation center.

Sub-headings like «the changing position of the Scottish government» and «is there demand for a further devolution question on the ballot paper?»

No major statewide or coordinated campaign questions the need for a Digital Director staff position, yet down - ballot — at the state legislative and state party level — you would be hard - pressed to find one, except in rare high - dollar races in major media areas.

As Brown prepared for Prime Minister's Questions, the former Cabinet ministers circulated a letter among colleagues calling for a secret ballot on his leadership.

The New York State Bar Association's Committee on the New York State Constitution releases its Report and Recommendations Concerning Whether New Yorkers Should Approve the 2017 Ballot Question Calling for a Constitutional Convention.

Political analysts said Curran may also have been helped by Democratic voters coming out in larger numbers to send a message to President Donald Trump; union turnout against the state constitutional convention ballot question; or by the surprising underperformance of Republican Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino, who lost to underdog Laura Gillen to give town control to Democrats for the first time in 100 years.

Mayor Bill de Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge that questions the party's process for selecting candidates.

After Spitzer appeared Monday afternoon at his petition drive with no staffers in tow — and few volunteers canvassing the area — questions remain about whether his hurried campaign will be able to collect the 3,750 signatures from registered Democrats required to qualify for the ballot by the midnight deadline this Thursday.

Other possible strong candidates for attorney general include former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (who reportedly may run as an independent), Queens state Sen. Mike Gianaris, and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who reportedly believes he could run in the Democratic primary, despite legal questions about whether he could also be on the ballot for Congress.

First - unlike the convoluted constitutional ballot measures we see in the voting booth each November, these are going to have to be presented as either one entire batch of changes (almost guaranteed to fail because everybody can find something serious enough to disagree with) or as individual questions for people to affirm or deny.

Evan Davis, head of the Committee for a Constitutional Convention, files suit against the New York State Board of Elections to obtain a court order requiring the question whether to call a state constitutional convention to be placed on the front rather on the back of the ballot this November.

But one area on which the mayor and the governor see eye - to - eye — at least for the moment — is the question of a constitutional convention, which will be on the ballot this coming November.

De Blasio should be denied a place on the Working Families Party ballot line in November, according to a planned legal challenge by the Reform Party that questions the party's process for selecting candidates.

There had been questions as to whether Spitzer could raise the nearly 4,000 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot, especially after his main adviser, former labor organizer Neal Kwatra, quit after one day.

A question on the ballot asks if voters approve selling bonds to raise $ 35.5 million for a like - new renovation.

They also question the need for the minor party lines when the candidates they are supporting are already on the ballot.

Green Party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins on Friday questioned how effective Zephyr Teachout's likely Democratic primary campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and whether she would even make it on the September ballot.

He noted, for example, that the other four constitutional questions to be put to voters on the November ballot don't read as advocacy to persuade voters.

Still, expect Democrats to question the validity of Republican petitions if Dadey moves out of the city before July 19 - the last day to transfer his name to another candidate for the ballot.

Asked for an example, she cited the fact that on the Republican primary ballot question the pollsters included the 31 percent of people who said they were planning to vote in the Democratic primary.

Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for public hearings; there's a June ballot question in Washington, D.C., and an effort is underway to get the issue on the statewide ballot in Michigan.

NYPIRG's Blair Horner says while the group is neither for nor against gambling, he's disappointed that some of the questions about how the rosy wording on the ballot came about will now be left unanswered.

David Miliband tonight issued a lukewarm vote of confidence in the prime minister after two former cabinet colleagues called for a secret ballot by Labour MPs to settle the question of his leadership «once and for all».

Of the three propositions on the New York state ballot Tuesday, voters rejected the question asking for a constitutional convention but approved public pension forfeiture and a Forest Preserve land bank.

Michael Meacher and John McDonnell both intend to challenge the chancellor for the leadership but it has been questioned whether they will have the support of 44 MPs necessary to appear on the ballot paper.

In November 2003, we were instrumental in defeating the «non-partisan election» ballot question in New York City and the raising of the debt limit for small city school districts.

The only question for 2010 was would Lazio keep Levy off the ballot.

But a last - minute ad campaign by labor unions and other interest groups ultimately dissuaded voters for voting «yes» on the ballot question.

On the other hand, Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, an upstate Republican, has for years been an outspoken proponent of holding a convention and is the only legislative conference leader in support of a «yes» vote on this year's November ballot question as to whether New York should hold a convention to edit or rewrite its constitution.

When The Marist Poll last asked this question in early February, 44 % of Democrats reported they backed Gillibrand, 27 % threw their support behind Ford, and 4 % said they were going to cast their ballot for Tasini.

Question Three on the ballot was an amendment proposal to authorize the use of «Forest Preserve Land for Specified Purposes.»