Sentences with phrase «because district lines»

Susan Lerner, executive director of the good - government group Common Cause, said it's hard to judge whether the percentage is abnormally high, particularly because district lines have just shifted.

According to a source familiar with the results of these polls, Hanna's numbers improved in the Binghamton and Utica portions of the district — two areas on which his TV ad buys have specifically focused, in part because the district lines changed significantly in the court - drawn congressional map used for the fist time in the 2012 elections.

Not exact matches

This fall, when youngsters line up in the cafeterias of Chicago Heights Elementary School District 170, they will be served leaner, more nutritious meals because of new federal guidelines regulating school lunches.

The Park District also has communicated with ComEd because the park parallels the utility's distribution lines.

Because one measure of political gerrymandering is the relative «compactness» of a districts, since complicated demographic juggling often yields boundary lines that drift all over the map.

In a densely populated urban or suburban area, for instance, broadcast TV advertising is impractical for many campaigns because too many spots will be wasted on viewers outside district lines.

I'm referring exclusively to the lines for legislative districts, because state lawmakers don't directly benefit from the way congressional lines are drawn.

Further complicating matters - because of court action, no date for next year's primaries has been set yet, and Governor Cuomo is threatening to veto the legislature's new district lines.

Just days later, the former district attorney took a harder line: «Rangel should think about stepping down because this situation is beginning to affect our ability to govern.»

Joe Crowley (who has a lot on the line in the NY - 9 race, because he would benefit enormously if the district is drawn out of existence in 2012), to Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand to Rep. Kathy Hochul have emailed / campaigned for Weprin.

Despite all the speculation on whether Gov. Andrew Cuomo will stick to his pledge to veto LATFOR's gerrymandered and politically influenced district lines, there's a growing possibility that he'll never get the chance because the maps — as they currently stand — might not make it out of the Legislature at all.

Lorigo also goes into detail about the proposed lines for the 60th Senate district, which he says will favor Swanick because he represents large portions of the new seat currently in the Erie County legislature.

Republican Langworthy says it's a difficult race for his party because the district is heavily Democratic and sprawls across Erie County, from the Niagara County line to Brant.

«My district is competitive, and that's a good thing... because it forces people to talk to a broader sense of the community,» Hurd said Saturday as the closing witness in a trial over whether the district lines should be redrawn.

The Republican gubernatorial hopeful, citing six recent state Board of Elections decisions tossing Democratic Senate candidates off the WEP ballot line because of unlawful nominating petitions, said that both the US Attorney's Office and district attorneys where the Senate races are being held should seek to hold those responsible criminally liable.

Because if the courts draw the lines they could end up with no district to run in and a primary they can not win.

A declaration that the statements that Plaintiff is «managerially and administratively inept» because Plaintiff has no respect for the organisational structure of the Electoral Commission, «has poor human relations not befitting of any leader in public space», has «unilaterally transferred District Electoral Officers perceived to be pro-NPP», ``... polarized the Commission along political lines» and disunited its members out at paragraphs 11, 12, 13, 20, 21 and 26 of the petition attached to Defendant's letter conveying the petition to his Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana are defamatory of Plaintiff.

The problem is that I don't think you can actually do that because there are member items that span council district lines, there are member items that are shared by council members.

District Attorney Dan Donovan made the request to modernize his office's system — which records footage during grand jury proceedings, trials and line - ups — because the current system installed in 2005 was nearly obsolete.

Elected officials and political insiders pay close attention to this arcane process of map - drawing, because they understand well that new district lines could result in major shifts of political power.

Buts some voters said that they had trouble casting their ballots, either because of faulty voter rolls or other confusion caused by the once - in - a-decade redistricting process that shifted district lines.

Because of course the bottom line is that his candidate ran in a district that included Brooklyn, and lost badly, in a race that the whole country was watching.

«Darrel Aubertine is viewed favorably by most voters in his district because he is an independent leader who takes on the tough issues and works across party lines to get the job done.

In fact, Yuh - Line Niou has generated massive support from progressive leaders in this district and across the city because she represents a break from the past and a new, more responsive voice for downtown residents.

Joseph Concannon, a retired NYPD Captain running on the Reform Line for City Council District 23, claims the city's Campaign Finance Board refused to include his picture on their online voter guide because he had an American flag pin on his lapel.

She said because the county has independent redistricting, which requires that new legislative district lines be drawn after every census, term limits are unnecessary.

Of the 4,444 signatures gathered, 3,160 were ruled invalid, most because they were gathered from outisde the 46th Senate District, leaving Tkaczyk with only 1,284 signatures, well short of the 3,000 needed to secure the line, Amedore said in a press release.

«So your position is, a decision was made very early on before voters had a say, and that's fine because the DCCC knows better than the voters of the 6th Congressional District, and we should line up behind that candidate,» asked Tillemann during the conversation.

This month, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected district lines drawn by a Texas court because they gave no weight to a (roundly criticized, obviously gerrymandered) plan passed by legislators.

That's because newly drawn lines for the congressional district now stretch into the Bronx, and Hispanics are now a majority of the entire district.

The governor has admitted, though that a veto would be «chaotic», because then the new districts would be designed by the courts, so the only alternative is to win rapid agreement with lawmakers on new lines early in the New Year.

«We're all here because it is our hope,» he said and hinted at a run for Assembly or Congress, or a reelection to City Council pending on how the district lines are redrawn.

Groups in favor of independent redistricting have been concerned for months that Gov. Andrew Cuomo might not want to veto LATFOR's district lines because it could send things into chaos right before a possible Spring primary.

«They are our first line of defense because they are the first ones to find the neglected swimming pools that are virtually hidden from public view,» Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District spokeswoman Deborah Bass told the Contra Costa Times on Monday.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson has urged black parents to follow the example of the three Hartford, Conn., parents who have been charged with «stealing an education» because they enrolled their children in school across district lines in suburban Bloomfield.

Because of the new law passed earlier this year allowing students in school districts rated «C,» «D,» or «F» to cross district lines to attend a charter school, students from every neighboring school district outside of the Sunflower County Consolidated School District would be eligible todistrict lines to attend a charter school, students from every neighboring school district outside of the Sunflower County Consolidated School District would be eligible todistrict outside of the Sunflower County Consolidated School District would be eligible toDistrict would be eligible to attend.

But they chose not to come to Mississippi because of the limited pool of students that would be available without crossing district lines.

I've argued in earlier columns that because charter schools aren't bound to geographic zones, they should be strategically placed to integrate areas where racial and economic segregation is reinforced by district lines.

This is a shame because the data the districts submit make a strong case for federal investigations — especially when one understands the long history of racial bigotry in the Eastern Shore of the Old Line State.

Any district school board employee shall be entitled to illness - in - line - of - duty leave when he or she has to be absent from his or her duties because of a personal injury received in the discharge of duty or because of illness from any contagious or infectious disease contracted in school work.

4 Ironically, charter schools held an early promise of becoming more integrated than regular public schools because they were not constrained by racially isolating school district boundary lines.

Because experienced teachers from throughout the district weren't lining up to transfer here, the school was left scrambling to staff classes.

The Court ruled that school district lines could not be crossed to desegregate schools absent proof that states had essentially gerrymandered school district boundaries — which was hard to show because, in most places, there was no need alter district boundaries.

He says the district needs the guardian program to keep students safe because Cooke County is so large (it's almost 900 square miles and runs from just north of Dallas to the Oklahoma state line) it could take sheriff's deputies several minutes to respond to something like a shooting at the school.

Well, human appraisers can often spot where a very nearby comp is completely off - target because it's across a city or neighborhood line, in a very different school district, or otherwise in a location that makes the comp property's value significantly different from yours.

Because of population shifts identified in the 2000 U.S. census, jurisdiction lines of hundreds of congressional districts are being redrawn, and that's shaking up races all across the country.