Sentences with phrase «against district lines»

One trend seems to be clear, there's a rising tide against district lines that maximize the voting efficacy of underrepresented ethnic groups.

Not exact matches

There will be no District Line service to or from Fulham Broadway for our home game against Stoke on 30 December.

This is a line of attack that I expect we'll be seeing more of from Democrats against their GOP opponents around the state, depending on their districts.

State Sens. Michael Gianaris and Jose Peralta have decried the proposed lines for their current districts, which would pit the two of them against each other.

The new proposed state Senate district lines would set Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) against Sen. Jose Peralta (D - East Elmhurst), but the longtime friends say they have no plans to duke it out at the polls.

Mindy Meyer, a 22 - year - old Orthodox Jewish intern in Kings County Supreme Court, is running on the Republican and Conservative party lines against Democrat Kevin Parker in Brooklyn's new 21st Senate District, but her official website is decidedly unorthodox.

With seven candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for the 19th Congressional District — and little ideological daylight between them — campaigns are touting their candidate's electability in the November battle against incumbent Republican John Faso as they head towards a June 26 primary to decide who'll get the party's line.

Frank Morganthaler announces he's on the ballot Frank Morganthaler, candidate for Congress, will appear on the November 6, General Election Ballot on the «We the People» party line, as he faces off against Nita Lowey and Joe Carvin for the 19th Congressional District seat.

The two Republicans who will be running on both the GOP and the new party lines against incumbent Democratic Assembly members are Rebecca Harary, challenging Dan Quart in the affluent Silk Stocking District on the East Side, and Jon Kostakopoulos, challenging Rebecca Seawright, whose East Side district is just to the north of District on the East Side, and Jon Kostakopoulos, challenging Rebecca Seawright, whose East Side district is just to the north of district is just to the north of Quart's.

«If Fidler's forced to run in the new Orthodox district or against Golden, he's got a track record to run on,» said state Sen. Diane Savino (D — Coney Island), who saw her district lines change slightly under the new plan.

President Obama carried Higgins» current district with just 55 percent of the vote in 2008 and if his lines change even slightly, it could impact his re-election chances — paticularly if he has to face off against a fellow Democrat first.

Tkaczyk ran on the Green Party line in 2012, when she narrowly won her Senate seat against Republican George Amedore, a former state assemblyman who is running again for the district that stretches from the Mohawk Valley to the Hudson Valley.

Calling the GOP lawsuit «highly speculative,» and saying it failed to make a rational case against the law, a state judge ruled that for purposes of district lines and population counts, LATFOR must count incarcerated people as residing in the neighborhoods they call home rather than the prisons in which they are located.

Incumbent Gordon Wheelock is fighting to keep his 10th District seat on the Have A Voice party line, against Kelly Preston.

The redrawing of district lines that year led to Gibson, who was elected to the 20th Congressional District in 2010, into a matchup against Ulster - based Democratic candidate Julian Schdistrict lines that year led to Gibson, who was elected to the 20th Congressional District in 2010, into a matchup against Ulster - based Democratic candidate Julian SchDistrict in 2010, into a matchup against Ulster - based Democratic candidate Julian Schreibman.

The panel will consider a request by Judge Dora Irazarry, a federal district court judge in Brooklyn, who is hearing a lawsuit against the lines brought by civil rights groups.

Late in the day, the New York Public Interest Research Group also came out against the legislature's bills, saying, in a statement, «We can not say with confidence that it will lead to a better product in the form of fairer district lines».

On June 28, the Democratic Party in the 24th Congressional District will be holding a primary to determine who will run on the party line in November against Republican incumbent John Katko.

Last year, federal judges in Wisconsin ruled that in 2011 the state's Republican Party unconstitutionally drew district lines against Democrats.

Phillips narrowly lost a 2010 race against former Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D - Saugerties, in the old 22nd District before district boundary lines were District before district boundary lines were district boundary lines were redrawn.

He lost a tight race for Congress against longtime Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey in 2010, before district lines were redrawn.

Balter, of Syracuse, is seeking the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality party ballot lines in the 24th Congressional District race against Rep. John Katko.

Democrats, along with several civil rights groups, attacked the now - adopted district lines as unfairly stacking the deck against Democrats in downstate communities and said they split apart a predominately black and Latino area on Long Island to dilute its mostly Democratic voters into several Republican districts.

Three of the six Democrats seeking the party's ballot line against Rep. Elise Stefanik in Upstate New York's 21st Congressional District said Wednesday that they would not vote for Pelosi for speaker.

Would he run against Rep. Eliot Engel if Mr. Engel's district lines changed?

PepsiCo's world headquarters is in Purchase, N.Y., and lawmakers in the Westchester County area and in districts with bottling companies of all kinds quickly lined up against the tax.

I conduct an annual review of every line item in the budget every year, maintaining my own personal database of budget data, cross-referenced against local and statewide expenditure files, and analyzed in an enrollment - adjusted context vs. other local districts.

The group, appearing live on Al Sharpton's radio show while standing in his office on 145th Street on Saturday, said the congressional lines drawn by a judge increased the number of Latino residents in Rangel's district, which they said unfairly pit the two ethnic groups against one another.

* A balanced budget completed on time and without increased taxes, fees, assessment or borrowing * Full disclosure of all outside income * A non-partisan commission to redraw legislative district lines * Vote against any unfunded mandates

Frank Morganthaler, candidate for Congress, will appear on the November 6, General Election Ballot on the «We the People» party line, as he faces off against Nita Lowey and Joe Carvin for the 19th Congressional District seat.

The decision results in the Conservative line for Republican Guy R. Marlette, running in a competitive race against Loughran in the District 5.

On August 23, 2010, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines allowing federal dollars to fund projects in which embryos were destroyed to derive new stem cell lines.

Once again Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mallark are thrown into the Arena, ordered to fight to the death against 22 other opponents on live television as part of the way the Capital keeps the outlying, ever - rebellious Districts in line.

Even as education advocates nationwide fight to hold the line against district - level funding cuts, the state education departments responsible for overseeing K - 12 policy are coming under the budget ax.

There is a very fine line between offering sufficient guidance for teachers and districts to undertake substantive change, and being prescriptive in ways that work against teacher learning, decision - making, and flexibility.

It seems to me that wealthy neighborhoods are using district lines to leverage themselves against demographic shifts.

Simeon Bankoff, the Executive Director of the Historic Districts Council, Julie Finch, former wife of Donald Judd and organizer of Artists Against the Expressway, and Roberta Gratz, urban theory critic and author, will be in conversation, moderated by Robert Hammond, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Friends of the High Line and co-producer of the film Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.

The police, prosecutor, and district attorney have already spent quite a bit of time lining up a case against you including fine tuning police reports, locating witnesses, coaching the accuser, and developing other evidence.

Set against this clear line of authority, however, is the 2015 decision of Senior District Judge (SDJ) Riddle in Russian Federation v Kononko [2015], in which a narrower reading of the phrase «political opinion» was first proposed i.e. to the effect that the requested person must establish that they have personally expressed relevant political opinions.