Sentences with phrase «board election contest»
Independent candidates were the clear winners last week in the heated school - board election contest in Princeton, N.J.
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With a proxy contest looming, activist investor Voce Capital has released yet another broadside against target company FBR & Co., this time in the form of a comprehensive presentation detailing the rationale behind Voce's campaign and advocating for the election of the hedge fund's three board candidates.
Finally, by making it necessary that elections be conducted as contests of like against like (female against female, minority against minority, etc.) the system extended vast powers to the nominating process and enabled those in power to recruit just those board members most likely to agree with their purposes and keep them in power.
Monday was the last day for candidates to file nominating petitions for the April 13 election, which will feature races for various village positions as well as contests for school boards, park district boards and library boards.
A state Board of Elections memorandum made public last week details allegations of a complex partnership between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a number of political consulting firms and labor unions and also county Democratic committees to influence contested state Senate races in 2014.
Several Long Island villages hold elections for mayor and board seats on Tuesday, including contested elections in six villages.
Party Designating petitions were filed at the NYC Board of Elections on Thursday and it is time for my annual report on this year's likely upcoming Primary contests in the City.
He said, «I am not willing to put the State Republican Primary Board, the Secretary of State's Office and Division of Elections, the County Election Commissions, the campaign staff, my volunteers, my family and the public through additional weeks of litigation, with uncertainty as to who the nominee will be... A contest would not be the right thing for the Republican Party and the conservative cause in Tennessee.»
Of the 124 districts holding budget votes across Nassau and Suffolk counties, 59 had contested school board elections as well, and 62 put up special ballot propositions.
My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.
The state Board of Elections has received three objections contesting the «natural - born» citizenship of presidential candidates and Sens. Ted Cruz and / or Rubio submitted in hopes of knocking them off the April 19 Republican primary ballot.
The Special Adviser on Political Matters to a leading National Chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George, Uthman Shodipe - Dosunmu, has denied the rumour making the rounds that his principal has been removed as a member of Board of Trustees of PDP because of his bid to contest the party's national chairmanship election at the convention, coming up on December 9.
Also, a member of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, said Fayose could not contest in the party's primary poll for the 2019 presidential election.
Nassau Board of Elections Chief Clerk Bonnie Garone said Monday that the county's results were still unofficial, adding that there are still 19 contested absentee ballots at play in Nassau.
Ms. Harris, a retired city corrections officer and longtime youth group leader, defeated Ms. Regina - Potter by roughly 1,500 votes in a hard - fought contest for the seat covering Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, Brighton Beach, Coney Island and Seagate, according to unofficial Board of Elections results.
The race will likely be decided by a state Supreme Court judge who arrived at the Board of Elections in Yaphank about 3 p.m. Wednesday to start making calls on contested absentee ballots sent to the district by mail.
Another candidate aligned with the Buffalo School Board majority was knocked off the ballot Monday in the latest twist in a fierce contest for control of the board.The continued challenges to petitions of would - be candidates underscore the dramatic politics that make this an unusually tense election, drawing interest from political, labor and business factions not typical...
Finally, the assemblyman stepped out onstage with his family, and made it clear that — thought the city Board of Elections had called the contest for his opponent — he was not willing to admit defeat yet.
According to the Chautauqua County Board of Elections, the two villages without March election contests... [Read more...]
TICONDEROGA — With all of the party designating petitions into the Essex County Board of Elections, only one supervisor's seat is being contested on the 2017 ballot.
There are no contested races of any kind in the Bronx or Manhattan, according to the Board of Elections» lists of candidates.
Last week, we reported that the upcoming election to lead Community Board 3 was shaping up as a two - way contest between current Chairperson Gigi Li and challenger Chad Marlow.
Financial contributions in this year's Buffalo School Board election soared past the amount given in previous district races, with donors putting more than $ 156,000 into the six contests.
Not only did the Democratic and Republican contests include candidate competition around the city and state, but the city Board of Elections added an entirely other bit of far less welcome drama.
In a year in which «none of the above» often seemed to be the people's choice in many election contests, the school - board elections in Kentucky last week provided the perfect counterpoint — «nobody» was a major candidate.
Candidates who supported hotly contested school - privatization ventures in Hartford, Conn., and Wilkinsburg, Pa., retained control of the school boards of both cities in last week's elections.
Prior to GO being founded in 2010, there were few contested school board elections in Oakland.
«This year's school board elections have involved vigorous campaigning and far more money than usual — and, unlike recent election years, all four races were contested.
The Holtz - Humprhries controversy in the last week of the race, contested school board races in Madison and a burst of political interest following the election of Donald Trump as president may have contributed to a larger turnout than usual in spring primaries.
These provisions include «poison pills,» blank check preferreds, super voting common stocks, staggered elections for Boards of Directors, super majority voting provisions, preventing stockholders from convening special meetings, and having the company itself finance all of management's expenditures where there is a contest for control.
Tang Capital Partners has ended its proxy contest by withdrawing its nominations of director candidates for election to VNDA's Board of Directors and its stockholder proposal to liquidate VNDA.
Rockville, MD. (May 7, 2009)-- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VNDA)(«Vanda» or the «Company») announced today that Tang Capital Partners, LP («TCP») has ended its proxy contest by withdrawing its nominations of director candidates for election to Vanda's Board of Directors and its stockholder proposal to liquidate the Company.
4 out of the 7 board seats are being contested in this election.
Five (5) days later on August 23, 2001, FPL Energy pleaded no contest to violating Wisconsinís Election Laws in connection with an FPL Energy consultantís calls to hundreds of Town of Addison households just before the April 2000 election in an effort to illegally influence the Addison Town Board elections by promoting certain candidates that apparently favored its «wind farm» pElection Laws in connection with an FPL Energy consultantís calls to hundreds of Town of Addison households just before the April 2000 election in an effort to illegally influence the Addison Town Board elections by promoting certain candidates that apparently favored its «wind farm» pelection in an effort to illegally influence the Addison Town Board elections by promoting certain candidates that apparently favored its «wind farm» proposal.
Notable mandates: Successfully represented Toronto mayor Rob Ford in a libel and defamation action; representing former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj in litigation proceeding contesting election in Etobicoke Centre; acting on the establishment of a large residential real estate private equity fund; a complex reorganization of an existing real estate private equity fund into private REIT, the investors in which include several of Canada's largest pension plans and mutual funds; acted for the purchaser in excess of 230 quick service restaurants in Ontario, B.C., and Quebec; acted for management in a proxy dispute involving an interlisted TSX and ASX company, involving various interest holders in several international jurisdictions; represented Pharmascience Inc. at Federal Court of Canada; represented clients such as Apotex Inc. in trademark dispute; represented Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association in matters before the Trademark Opposition Board.