Sentences with phrase «ballot referendum»

In 2012, the group raised nearly $ 10 million and succeeded in helping pass a marriage - equality ballot referendum.

New York Jobs Now was just one of several ballot referendum committees supporting casino expansion in New York, but with its support from labor groups and casino companies, it was easily the largest and most significant when it came to media purchases, phone banking and GOTV.

In other words, the strategist leading Jung's candidacy is also working on a project that is helping to unite an anti-Semitic movement behind a crazy ballot referendum in New York.

Although federal law prohibits churches from endorsing or opposing candidates, they have the right to speak out on ballot referenda and on other issues, from abortion to zoning.

The other states legalized recreational use through ballot referendums.

Cuomo said he will push for a November ballot referendum, even after expressing concern that the lack of a statewide election could skew the turnout, with scores of city voters casting mayoral ballots.

It's primary day in Indiana, and 10 school districts around the state are posing ballot referenda asking voters to raise property taxes to help fund schools.

It is no different with ballot referendums on public school funding.

This editorial in the Bangor Daily News quotes MDI Biological Laboratory research assistant Jesse Rochester on the need for STEM jobs in Maine in making the case in favor of a June 13 ballot referendum for a $ 50 million bond to support the growth of innovative R&D companies in Maine.

Its recommendations will take the form of ballot referenda to be offered to voters in this year's general election.

New York's statewide ballot referenda tend to be on policy minutiae or increasing the state's debt.

Most voters will have several ballot referendums to vote yay or nay on, and the consequences of those decisions influence policy.

Consequently, it is imperative that the upcoming ballot referendum passes on Election Day in order for our budget to remain fiscally reductive.

To make up for the loss, many began using ballot referenda, asking their voters to raise property taxes for the schools.

ADLA was also part of coalitions that defeated damaging ballot referendums including a constitutional «right to hunt» measure in 2009 that could have overturned the law that banned traps and poisons on public lands.

Most ballot referendums proposing constitutional changes are written in very drab, and even confusing language.

With nearly 2.4 million votes cast, Issue 2, the up - or - down ballot referendum deciding SB 5's fate, was headed for a whopping defeat, 61 percent to 39 percent.

We also provide advice and counsel to clients on constitutional amendments, public policy issues and local ballot referendums.

Two ballot referendums failed.

New York state's highest court has blocked a Suffolk County ballot referendum to combine the county's Comptroller and Treasurer offices, upholding lower courts» rulings that the county improperly added an amendment to the referendum.

The pro-casino ballot referendum committee New York Jobs Now has raised $ 2 million to fund an effort boosting next month's constitutional amendment to expand gambling in New York.

The pro-casino New York Jobs Now ballot referendum committee has raised $ 725,000, according to notices filed on the state Board of Elections website.

The state Board of Elections won't appeal a judge's decision to remove the word «independent» from the redistricting ballot referendum.

A few months ago, Constitution Party of Wyoming state chair Jennifer Young criss - crossed the state to collect the required 37,000 signatures for an education ballot referendum.

Two lawsuits filed this week seek to block an Arkansas ballot referendum that would cap noneconomic damages and attorney fees in medical injury cases with a state constitutional amendment.

«Due diligence» has now morphed by default into 100,000 of you all finally having to look out for your own communal economic interests by taking that power away from the CREAcrats, and by establishing a new organization mirroring the 100,000's majority wishes, via secret ballot referendums.

For example, DeVos and her husband bankrolled the successful 2004 ballot referendum in Michigan banning gay marriage.

Ballot referendum committees like New York Jobs Now have no cap on their contribution limits under existing state law.

Governor Cuomo says he plans to offer support to a November ballot referendum to allow new gambling casinos in New York.

The single largest recipient of casino companies» donations was the New York Jobs Now Committee, a casino - backed PAC which lobbied in support of the passage of the statewide ballot referendum that legalized casino gambling last fall.

Relocating the Ulster County Family Court is going to cost between $ 8 million and $ 19 million [depending on the outcome of] the upcoming ballot referendum that allows the Family Court to move from the City of Kingston to the Town of Ulster.

And the evangelist's ministry took out full - page ads in newspapers support a ballot referendum that would ban same - sex marriage.

Like New York Jobs Now, the coalition that backs the casino expansion amendment, Justice For All is a ballot referendum committee that files with the state BOE.

A constitutional amendment must be approved by two separately elected sessions of the Legislature and then goes to voters in a ballot referendum.

STONY POINT - Rose Memorial Library Board President Jennifer Lima has been promoting a ballot referendum seeking $ 717K in funding for a new library.

The Boulder City Council voted this week to put on the ballot a referendum asking if corporations are citizens.

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF STONY POINT - Rose Memorial Library Board President Jennifer Lima has been promoting a ballot referendum seeking $ 717K in funding for a new library.

Laura Curran (D - Baldwin), said that while she supports the ballot referendum, it does little to prevent corruption before it occurs.

But none of these races will attract the $ 150 million that will be spent persuading New Yorkers to support or oppose expanded casino gambling in a ballot referendum this November.

DiNapoli would also like to see less back door borrowing, and more debt directly voter approved by voters in a ballot referendum.

It hasn't, and last week the state Senate president, long a defender of the A.C. gaming monopoly, admitted to The Record of North Jersey that he's secretly talked to Meadowlands casino advocates about a 2016 ballot referendum on the issue.

At the same time, the ballot referendum committee supporting the amendment is holding events around the state to drum up local support for the amendment.

Unlike a committee backing a specific candidate, a ballot referendum committee doesn't adhere to limits on contributions, making them closer to housekeeping or «soft money» accounts.

The committee, New York Jobs Now, is registered as a ballot referendum committee that can raise unlimited amounts of cash.

New York's top court blocked a ballot referendum that would have asked Suffolk County voters to merge the offices of comptroller and treasurer.

Leaders of the committee backing the ballot referendum that would expand casino gambling in New York do not believe the ballot language before voters next month is leading or overly rosey.

A group funded by casino companies, business groups and labor unions called New York Jobs Now spent $ 1.9 million supporting the ballot referendum.

But Briccetti, who is leading the NY Jobs Now coalition that is registered as a ballot referendum committee with the state Board of Elections, said she doesn't believe voters are being misled.