Sentences with phrase «ballot line position»
This, in part, is why Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins now hopes to potentially move the third - party's ballot line position up to potentially Row C, campaigning on a tax - the - wealthy, hike the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour platform.
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But with Cuomo's focus on getting 50,000 votes for the new ballot line — thus giving the party automatic ballot status for the next election cycle through 2016 — concerns are being stoked the WFP could lose influence and its own ballot position, currently Row D.
In a statement, Gipson said that getting the ballot line through the opportunity - to - ballot process is an affirmation of his environmental positions.
Serino, who has the Conservative and Independence lines, says that though she has a clear position on Common Core educational standards, and she has let constituents know it, she will not appear on the Stop Common Core ballot line.
Hawkins and Jones say they're not worried about voters who share their position on education being distracted by the Stop Common Core ballot line Republicans have introduced this year.
WFP leaders now fear Cuomo's new party line could siphon enough votes from their party that it loses its ballot position.
John Perry, his town's former assessor and a longtime fixture for his coaching of local kids» sports teams, will be the new town supervisor in Hurley after the counting of absentee ballots on Monday, November 20 gave him 13 more votes than former Woodstock supervisor and now West Hurley resident Tracy Kellogg, who was making her third run for the position on Democratic, Green and Working Family party lines.
Political parties in New York State need at least 50,000 votes on their line for governor to maintain their position on the next cycle's ballot.
WFP needs 50,000 votes on their line for governor to maintain their ballot position.
The push for the WEP is concerning to the WFP, given that it could siphon liberal votes away from the ballot line, thus endangering their position at Row D.
The Green Party and its leading presidential candidate, Jill Stein, are best positioned to secure state ballot lines across the country to provide a credible alternative to the candidates of the two major capitalist parties in 2016.
In a recent article for Jacobin, Green Party Lieutenant Governor candidate Brian Jones argues that the party made substantial progress because the party's improved showing this year allows the party to move over two positions on the ballot line from Row «F» to Row «D».
Not much, given that the 120,000 votes cast for Mr. Cuomo on the WFP line, while well clear of the threshold of 50,000 needed to assure that it remained on the ballot, resulted in its being dropped from the fourth to the fifth position, behind the Green Party, which got three times as many votes for Mr. Hawkins this time as in 2010.
In return, the governor agreed to run on the party's line, netting it enough votes in the November general election to bump its ballot position up to Row D.
Weingarten, the former president of New York City's United Federation of Teachers, said during a telephone briefing with reporters on Friday that Astorino's proposal to run on a «Stop Common Core» ballot line in the November's election might appeal to some teachers who also oppose the standards, but his other positions likely wouldn't.
McLaughlin, who lives in Troy, was given the Independence line for county executive, a ballot position considered essential by many Republicans to secure a countywide victory over Democratic candidate Andrea Smyth.