Sentences with phrase «allowed state political parties»

An amendment to state campaign finance law months before the 2014 campaign season began allowed state political parties to make unlimited payments on behalf of most candidates for organizational expenses.

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The email comes as party leaders from across the state and the political spectrum question or outright oppose ending the law, which allows members of one political party a waiver to run on another ballot line.

New York is one of eight states that have «electoral fusion» — which allows more than one political party to support a common candidate.

In January, the Alaska Democratic Party adopted a rule change that would allow for candidates not affiliated with a political party to run in the state's Democratic priParty adopted a rule change that would allow for candidates not affiliated with a political party to run in the state's Democratic priparty to run in the state's Democratic primary.

As Tory election strategist he is keen to make political ground over Labour's inclusion of the pension in the welfare cut, because it allows the party to highlight how the opposition plans to cut the basic state pension in real terms.

A total of 25 states allow candidates to use political party designations in non-presidential elections.

«We are one family and must not allow internal political bickering to affects our party in the state.

State Democratic Party Executive Director Geoff Berman said the question of when to allow voters to switch registration to vote in a party primary should be dealt with by the Legislature, not by a political pParty Executive Director Geoff Berman said the question of when to allow voters to switch registration to vote in a party primary should be dealt with by the Legislature, not by a political pparty primary should be dealt with by the Legislature, not by a political partyparty.

It is important also to state that the University has a policy that allows all political party affiliates on campus to invite their leaders to speak with them without any difficulty after they have followed the laid down procedures.

When gaining the endorsement of the labor - backed Working Families Party, he pledged to enact the public financing of political campaigns statewide, the DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants, allow local governments to raise the state's minimum wage and accelerate the timetable for increasing the wage itself.

A lot of state Senate staffers are notaries — a designation that allows them to authenticate legal documents and gather signatures for minor political parties, with many traveling long distances to volunteer for campaigns.

He began with a statement concerning the stabbing of two young children in Brooklyn and then answers questions concerning that incident, the proposed state law to allow municipalities to further raise the minimum wage and whether he would pursue a $ 13 minimum wage for New York City, how that proposed law fits into the political deal that gave Governor Cuomo the Work Families Party ballot line, a young boy hit and killed today by a car and how Vision Zero addresses that location and the large number of shootings in the City this past weekend.

«Aware that the right of self - determination in international law is the legal right for a «people» that allows them to attain a certain degree of autonomy from a sovereign state through a legitimate political process, we strongly demand for a referendum to take place in a politically sane atmosphere where all parties will have a democratic voice over their future and the future of the nation.

Mississippi allows groups to become qualified political parties, simply by demonstrating that they have party officers in the state.

The Kaduna state governor does not see eye to eye with all the federal law makers from Kaduna state because they accused him of taking over the party structure in Kafuna as against the legal provisions that allows for internal democracy within political parties.

In addition the petitioning allows the Reform Party to improve its ability to be part of political discussion in the United States.

Adebayo said «All Progressives Congress is a coalition of different political groups and interests and this is the first time there will be a serious gubernatorial contest under the platfor;, the second term of Ogbeni Aregbesola came at the formative stage of the party hence every interested individual should be allowed to put whatever ideas they have for the growths of the State on the table and allow the party to decide who flies its flags according to the laid down rules of the party's constitution; the zoning should be outrightly jettisoned as it is alien to our party's constitution».

Richard Lee Winger (born August 27, 1943) is an advocate in the United States for minor political parties, in particular for what he considers more equitable laws allowing access to the ballot for minor parties.

More specifically, Schneiderman is calling for higher contribution limits, the closing of a limited liability corporation loophole which he says «allows wealthy interests to funnel limitless amounts to campaigns,» as well as for the elimination of the housekeeping committees used by the state's political parties.

Half a century ago, the state law that allowed minor parties to cross-endorse major - party candidates was a boost to political competition.

Certain states permit fusion voting, which allows multiple political parties to nominate the same candidate.

Moreover, while Art. 3 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 73 guarantees sex equality, only the Optional Protocol allows complaints by individuals coupled with state parties.74 Nonetheless, only those states that have expressly signed and accepted this Optional Protocol can enable individuals or groups of that state to report breaches of the Convention.

As the United States» government shuts down over one political party's reluctance to allow health care coverage for poor people, it is fitting to spend a few minutes thinking about health and the way Americans eat.