Sentences with phrase «launches petition drive»

IL Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias Blasts Opponent for Anti-Gay Platform, Launches Petition Drive for «DADT» Repeal

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox insisted following the failure of his preferred candidate, Steve Levy, to make it onto the ballot at the convention today that the party - switching Suffolk County executive's gubernatorial campaign is finished and he will not be trying to launch a petition drive for an independent bid.

NYCLASS, at least so far, has also met its match in the Teamsters union, representing the carriage drivers, and the Daily News, which has blasted the group in scathing editorials and launched a petition drive to keep the horses in Manhattan.

(Remember that former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, he has the Conservative Party line and failed to get onto the ballot at the convention, has launched a petition drive to get into the GOP primary against Malpass and Blakeman).

Calls for Voter Reform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.

Amid complaints of disruption and angst in the classrooms, the state's major teachers union launched a petition drive asking parents to protest the use of a new set of standardized tests.

A coalition of Michigan education groups has launched a petition drive to pressure the legislature to vote on a guaranteed annual funding increase for schools and colleges.

The group says it will launch a petition drive this year.

Defective by Design, an anti-digital rights management (DRM) initiative founded by the Free Software Foundation in 2006, has launched a petition drive aimed at persuading Amazon to remove digital rights restrictions from the books that Kindle owners purchase and download from the Kindle Store.

They have formed Central Florida Action for Animals, a group that has launched a petition drive against the county pet law.

An allied group launched a petition drive to have Dr. Soon fired.

Supporters have launched a petition drive for his reinstatement and started a Facebook group in his support.

Not exact matches

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook), Assemblyman Dean Murray (R,C,I - East Patchogue) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), today took their efforts to the next level to inform parents of their rights to have their children refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests by launching a new statewide petition drive: RefuseCommonCore.com.

Republicans Assembly members launched an online petition drive, urging New York parents to reject Common Core tests.

Revere America's national petition drive to collect one million signatures of like - minded Americans who want to repeal and replace ObamaCare was launched in Boston on April 18th — the 235th Anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride and has since traveled coast to coast holding public events and rallies.

At 9:30 a.m., good government groups and community - based organizations launch the statewide Vote Better NY petition drive to highlight election reform in the 2016 elections, Foley Square, Manhattan.

After taking a pass on challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand despite the fact that multiple polls showed him to be the Republican most likely to defeat her, Pataki launched a national PAC — Revere America — to spearhead a national petition drive calling for repeal of the health care reform bill.

DeFrancisco also slammed Gov. Cuomo's launch of a petition drive urging the President to denounce the white supremacist rally.

A group of former Ketner campaign staffers and allies had been collecting signatures on her behalf, and even launched a campaign - style website for the petition drive.

He has since launched a reform petition drive that is similar to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's NY Uprising PAC effort, although Koch has had better luck at getting candidates — including Cuomo himself — to sign on.

Within days, the California Teachers Association launched a counter-petition drive — just as it had done successfully against a parent - trigger petition drive a year earlier in Compton.

At the same time, the «Our Schools Now» group launched their own petition drive this week to provide more funding for schools through a sales and income tax hike.

This new coalition has launched what they call «Testing Resistance & Reform Spring» (actionnetwork.org/groups/testing-resistance-reform-spring) in an effort to support testing boycotts, rallies, opt - out organizing, town hall forums, and petition drives.

Then, the Stop Puppy Mills Ohio coalition will launch the main petition drive — seeking 400,000 signatures of registered voters required for qualification for the November 2018 ballot.

On January 25th, merely a week ago, the HoMM community (which quaintly calls itself the «HoMMunity») started a petition drive to delay Ubisoft (disclaimer: ultimately my employer) from launching Heroes of Might and Magic V in it's current beta state.

Brandston told Freedom Action, which has launched a grassroots petition drive to repeal the ban: «In my travels through 60 countries working on almost 3000 lighting projects, most knowledgeable people I know do not like Compact Fluorescent Lamps and are stockpiling a lifetime supply of incandescent lamps to protect the habitability of their homes.»