Sentences with phrase «vote efforts on»

This training class walks a candidate step - by - step through the process, from making the decision to run, to fundraising, to Get - Out - The - Vote efforts on Election Day.

It's a familiar coalition for the Senate Democrats, with many of those groups contributing not just financial resources, but also a get - out - the - vote effort on Election Day that aided Democratic candidates.

More than $ 15,000 was spent on mailings, and another almost $ 25,000 was paid out to more than 100 campaign fields workers involved in a get - out - the vote effort on election day.

WFP, which, according to the Syracuse Post-Standard, «coordinated an intensive get - out - the - vote effort on his behalf during the past few weeks» to help Bey get over the top.»

Bey was also endorsed by the Working Families Party, which hired paid canvassers and coordinated an intensive get - out - the - vote effort on his behalf during the past few weeks.

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Republican senators formed the last - ditch effort, called the Health Care Freedom Act, after earlier votes on the Senate's healthcare plans failed.

A Republican National Convention delegate screams as the Chair announces that the convention will not hold a roll - call vote on the Republican National Convention Rules Committee's report and rules changes and rejects the efforts of anti-Trump forces to hold such a vote.

Lacking a ground game in the state, as he did across the country, Trump relied on state and local parties, such as Ferrance's, to drive the get - out - to - vote efforts.

They'll also vote on a proposal requiring it to report on its efforts to restrict emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

The charges were announced less than an hour after The Intercept published a top - secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send «spear - phising» emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.

The Russians allegedly communicated with a Texas - based grassroots organization that advised them to focus their efforts on «purple states» such as Colorado, Florida and Virginia that could be swayed to vote for Trump.

Amazon halts an expansion effort in its hometown as the Seattle City Council prepares to vote on a new tax that would be levied on large business to pay for affordable housing and homeless - assistance programs.

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

When Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) cast his now - famous thumbs - down vote on GOP health care efforts in late July, pessimism weighed even more, and in August, it was hard to find anyone in the professional investment community who thought a tax bill was even close to a sure thing.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

He points out ways in which Facebook's impact on the 2016 campaign was positive — such as its get - out - the - vote effort — and says that the media has mischaracterized the company's role.

A great way to jumpstart your link - building efforts to get that online vote of trust is to submit your business to directories, which is a great way to get your small business website on the map.

If the Company grants registration rights, information rights, rights of first offer, price - based antidilution protection, protective voting provisions or other similar rights to new investors in a subsequent financing involving the sale of additional series of Preferred Stock, the Company will use reasonable efforts to extend such rights to the Purchasers on the same basis granted to new investors.

«This effort to just jam it through, straight Republican votes on an accelerated scheduled will lead to failure.

With opposition to abortion often playing out in voting for candidates — at least in part — based on their reproductive stances, and efforts to fight abortion often playing out in courtrooms and legislation, the pro-life movement has taken on a distinctly political direction.

Huntsman, for his part, has ignored Iowa to focus his efforts on New Hampshire, which votes a week after Iowa.

Obama later congratulated the AME religion's efforts on fighting slavery and ending racially bias voting laws and procedures.

* Arming you with the information you and your employees need to make an informed decision at the polls on Election Day through Get Out The Vote efforts.

When they asked us to vote on the medal, I wrote back and said, «If you want to send the silver medal to me, fine, but don't make any effort.

After promising Theo Walcott that his future lies as a main striker in an effort to get the Englishman to sign a new contract extension, Le Prof could give Theo a big vote of confidence by starting him in this crucial match, but will he rely once again on Giroud proving that he can bounce back once again?

So, in an obvious effort to undo some of the reputational damage, LAUSD's school board eventually voted on and approved a district - wide ban on flavored milk.

The Mokena Park District's efforts to block the vote failed this week when Gov. Jim Edgar signed a bill enabling voters in Eagle Ridge Estates, Eagle Ridge Villas and Cambridge Estates, to vote on opting out of the district.

Members of the United branch of the Association of Flight Attendants were the first to vote on tentative concessionary contracts at the heart of the effort to buy United parent UAL Corp..

«With the revisions, the lower cost and the close margin, I felt it was worth one more effort to see if voters would approve a lower dollar amount this time around,» said park board President Maryfran Leno, who voted in favor of putting it back on the ballot.

The Working Families Party this month has rolled out a get - out - the - vote effort in the 37th Senate district on behalf of its endorsed candidate, Democratic Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer.

The Log Cabin Republicans were very involved in the lobbying effort last December to try to convince some GOP senators to vote «yes» on marriage — an effort that ultimately failed when the entire 30 - member conference, joined by eight Democrats, voted «no» on the measure, killing the bill in the process.

Recall that Paladino won some 94 percent of the vote in Erie County in the GOP gubernatorial primary and is banking on strong numbers in WNY to fuel his longshot effort to defeat Cuomo in the Democrat - dominated state.

Whoppi Goldberg is the latest prominent New Yorker to sign on to Fight Back PAC's campaign to legalize same - sex marriage, recording a Web video that seeks contributions to fuel the group's effort to oust senators who voted «no» on the bill last December.

Despite a sense of inevitability, he believes with a sustained effort he can win over sceptics in Parliament when expansion is voted on in 14 months» time.

«Where we have been strong traditionally, we shall work to increase our votes and where we have been weak, we shall put in extra effort to improve on our performance.

Republican congressional candidate George Phillips, whose effort to oust veteran Democratic incumbent Rep. Maurice Hinchey has garnered national attention of late, told me without hesitation during a CapTon interview last night that he will definitely be voting for Carl Paladino on Nov. 2.

Cochran's campaign dove in hard over the last three weeks — spending more than a half - million dollars on a data - driven get - out - the - vote effort.

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

Coyne's team were buoyed by this because they expected Len would not, or could not, run again, that they would be able to improve on last time's effort because they weren't starting from scratch now and the expectation that the vote on the Left of Unite would be fractured amongst a number of candidates.

Cochran's direct mail, traditional television and radio and Internet ads touting efforts to protect military and space facilities on the Gulf Coast helped net gains of about 1,100 votes in Harrison County (birthplace of NFL legend Brett Favre, who cut his own last - minute ad on Cochran's behalf) and nearly 1,250 votes in Jackson County.

Veteran reporter Joe Mahoney reported on efforts to enact early voting, «no - excuse» absentee voting, pre-registration for teenagers, and other measures championed by Kavanagh that have gained support in the Assembly but have not been acted upon by the Republican - controlled State Senate.

And Mayor Byron W. Brown, running for re-election with only nominal competition in the general election, was suddenly back on television, spending a total of $ 106,500 in little more than two weeks on ads, campaign literature and a get - out - the - vote effort for himself and his fellow Democrats running for countywide office.

Efforts to reform the house of lords have foundered on disagreement on questions of scale - how big, what proportion should be elected and on what basis - first past the post, single transferable vote, alternative vote... a fresh start would make almost anything possible.

Typically employed for get - out - the - vote efforts, the surge involves serving up display ads on behalf of a single advertiser on most or all of the Google content network pages generated within a brief period, targeting a specific geographic area.

Although timetabled for discussion, on the day of the debate this composite was mysteriously dropped from the agenda, in an effort to prevent a vote and even the mere broadcasting of the issue to delegates at the conference and to the wider media.

The duo's act of defiance brought the number of Republicans signed onto the effort to 20, just five short of the number they need to force votes on four competing measures aimed at preserving the Obama - era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.