Sentences with phrase «come to a vote because»

Nothing came to a vote because Skelos» fellow Republicans refused to officially «recognize» the motion that was sitting on the desk.

Not exact matches

I think that if Democrats would come out for that, then you would see a lot of rural areas that went for Trump where there's little pickup trucks going to the polls, with guys who have beards and they have ponytails and they have a gun rack in the back, and they would be voting for recreational marijuana because they know it makes sense too.

The vote will come early because the state constitution says that if legislators want to override a veto, they have to do it immediately after they return to session, but it will also mark a quick opportunity for Democrats to highlight the Republican governor's opposition to a policy they're betting voters will favor.

However, such esoteric hipster knowledge (esoteric, if only because it played on inside knowledge that was common knowledge and what everyone knew merely 15 years ago or so) comes across as mere pandering to an electorate of Gen Xers who in their indecisiveness are at best a vote on the margins — at least in terms of their actual numbers.

They won't because they know you won't come back to vote if they eliminated abortion, allowed anyone to have any gun they wanted, etc..

The time has come for politicians to stop hiding behind unjust laws that they themselves helped to enact, and to abandon that convenient shield of demanding a vote on the rights of full citizenship because they do not understand the difference between a constitutional democracy, which this nation has, and a «mobocracy,» which this nation rejected when it adopted its constitution.

He came to power — significantly — because tens of millions of religion - brainwashed Americans voted for the religious and psychologically dysfunctional man.

I had my moments of disconnect: sitting out the Eucharist because I'm not Catholic, hearing the gospel reduced to salvation from hell, welcomes that felt patronizing from people who have been praying that I come to my senses and go back to believing, behaving, and voting just like them.

I left the church because one day, they put signs out in the church lawn that said «Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman: Vote Yes on Prop 1,» and I knew the moment I saw them that I never wanted to come back.

He came in second to Pope Benedict XVI in the last election and pulled out of the vote voluntarily, because he thought, «We shouldn't be doing this, vote after vote.»

What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion What if I told you voting republican really wasn't his mission What if I told you republican doesn't automatically mean Christian And just because you call some people blind Doesn't automatically give you vision

Come election time in November, no democrats and very few independents are going to vote for Romney because he has been forced to endorse many of the far right's nutty social views.

The reality is 65 million people voted for Trump... and while a lot of those votes came from people who were legitimately frustrated with both political parties and wanted someone to shake up the system, and a lot of votes cam from traditional doctrinaire Republican voters who held their nose and voted for the guy because they wanted a tax cut, and other voters were pseudo-moralistic Evangelical hypocrites who wanted to reward McConnell for STEALING Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, there were a whole lot of Trump voters — including a lot of voters from Pennsylvania's «T» — who voted for Trump because they are racist, white supremicist xenophobes who saw in Trump someone who spoke their language and would «make america great again» (read «make america WHITE again»).

I'd vote Bielik over this lot, not on performances more because of how he's supposed to be the best thing to come out of that country for an age and a star in the making..

Chelsea is champion but the will buy De Griezman from Atletico de Madrid they have the best defence in the league, the best Midfield in the league with De Griezman, hazard and Costa they will be came invecibles that what Mourinho want to take from Wenger and do not forget that Wenger will never beat Mourinho, we just need 3 world class players just like Henry said, But Wenger have no ambitions to win the league, next year will be the same excuses why we fail again, Mourinho sold Mata even so he was voted the best Chelsea player the previous two years, and Wenger want to keep ineffective players like Walcott, Wiltshere, Diaby, Flamini, Ryo.Sanogo.Welbeck, sad but that is our fate with Wenger only problem for us the risk of loosing player like Alexis will be great if we do not win next year, we must to buy like Henry said, like Carzola is saying, we lost so many good players because they want to win and they are winning with others clubs.why we do not give ouself a chance of winning the EPL?

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

I didn't want to vote «ditch it» because I often enjoy the things you come up with, but just a normal post on Fridays would be fine too.

It's like when Americans come to Japan and pretend that their gun control laws (10 gun deaths last year) mean nothing, because they don't understand freedom (Japan is pretty democratic, and unlike the US they use that democracy to vote out their Prine Ministers about every year — pretty sure they understand democracy!).

Senate and Assembly Republicans aren't going to let this come up for a vote because they're mostly professional politicians, unemployable outside their cushy part - time gigs.

Senate and Assembly Democrats aren't going to let this come up for a vote because they're mostly professional politicians, unemployable outside their cushy part - time gigs.

Relatively little of what I said ended up in the piece, of course, perhaps particularly because I was generally skeptical that these things will matter much (if at all) when it comes to how people actually vote.

If all political parties sit unconcerned, a time will come when voting by Ghanaians would be a hard task because the country has been messed up because they refused to contribute positively to develop the country

Even though I decided not to vote, I found myself hating the Yes campaign because it came over as an awful pile of whiny «progressive» bullshit.

Rather, the party's hopes of coming second now look more distant because Labour's vote is estimated to be up by four points on both ballots.

That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.

«Everybody is quiet because they voted for this government so they are ashamed to come out to say the government is not performing.

«That is why I say the north should turn out in its numbers to vote for the NDC, not because I come from the north, but because the NDC is a party that has proven that its loves the people of the north, and brings development to the people of the north,» he added.

«Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough)(Con): The whole country will be grateful for what the Prime Minister has done, especially because he has said, if I have understood him correctly, that when he is returned as Prime Minister, without the pesky Liberal Democrats in coalition, he will renegotiate with the European Union and put a referendum to the people in which they can vote yes for the renegotiation or no to come out.

«I think he has no judgment, and I would be afraid to vote for him because if a big calamity came up, I don't know how he'd react.»

In 2004, two years after Mr. Gentile's vote on SONDA, lawyer Thomas Shanahan claimed to have had an affair with the politician in 1994, and told the Gay City News he was coming forward because Mr. Gentile's had «turned his back on the community» with his vote.

Notes The numbers in Figure 1 do not add up to 100 % because a proportion of each party's 2015 vote intention comes from people who join between 2010 and 2015.

«They were missing in action, actually, at the tie of critical mass and just came aboard once they knew they didn't have to because the Republicans had votes elsewhere.

Fed Up New Yorkers will make it a point to come out on election day and vote for Carl Paladino, thug or not, and it's only because Paladino is aware of what is going through the minds of the working class New Yorkers desperation and that is something that Andrew Cuomo disregards.

«I tried to get Nick Clegg to come and talk to us, because I thought he was a great model for Trebell, this ideologue who made this fatal error of voting for tuition fees,» he says.

Greenberg says Republicans, who are outnumbered in the state nearly two - to - one, have some advantages in non-presidential election years because fewer Democrats come out to vote.

The governor's people will shrug and claim that it's the Legislature that's obstructing his efforts to prepare for the vote, because if a convention actually comes to pass it would tend to diminish the influence of the Assembly and Senate to guide constitutional change.

The only dissenting vote came from Harlem Senator Bill Perkins, who actually praised the work on the bill in explaining his vote, before saying he was going to vote no because he was concerned with taking control away from the legislature.

`' Are we not part of the country or is it because the region is considered as «World Bank» [during elections] that come what may whether our needs are catered for or not you are sure of our votes and therefore no serious attention is given to our development projects...,» he noted.

«Latinos who are able to vote need to come out and represent our community at the polls because for every Latino voter there are many more Latinos, like me, who are not able to make our voices heard at the ballot box,» Cruz added.

Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner, said New York is lagging behind other states when it comes to voting systems and procedures because state legislators often have partisan views on voting matters.

Sen. Stewart Cousins would be wise to recall what she said just three short years ago, when she explained that «the [Reproductive Health Act] hasn't come on the floor because it doesn't have the votes to pass... I think it's really too important to put a bill out there, again, that for whatever reason, fails.»

Updade: IDC spokesman Eric Soufer responds, noting that three years ago Stewart - Cousins said of the Reproductive Health Act at the time that it couldn't come to the floor because it didn't have the votes to pass.

Because many of those who have come to UKIP from the Tories since 2010 may well have come from Labour before that, perhaps with a period of not voting in between.

Senators are starting to head to their conference room on the third floor of the state Capitol because they want to discuss some key bills expected to come up for a vote today — including Sen. John Bonacic's constitutional amendment redistricting measure — but they're pledging to walk out if Kruger shows up.

It was mentally insane to keep her as leader that after she lost 63 seats and even more so now as she not only had minimal gains this time but she's probably going to lose seats again next time because you won't have African American and Latino voters coming out to vote in such large numbers which was Obama true assets, racial identity politics (not criticizing it, just saying he did it well).

We will have a large turnout this year because the Rump has inspired many folks to come out and vote against his bigotry and nonsense.

On the property tax cap, Latimer said he voted no because it did not come with significant mandate relief to help schools and municipalities stay within the cap.

«He is endorsing Senator Saland because he has consistently had the courage to do what was right despite political challenges, especially when it came to voting for marriage equality.»

If he comes he will be knocking on doors with me of the very people who tell me they are not voting Labour because of immigration, and let him them listen and think and he will need to do it long enough to realise that he is not being set up because the more houses you do the more you realise that the message is consistent.

Saying this when it eventually comes around to Australia having another referendum Australians will most likely vote to leave because almost every politician is in favour of it (because they just want the title and are happy to dismantle a good thing for their own selfish gains) and this means that there will only be arguments in favour of abolishing it from the politicians which will massively influence the public.