Sentences with phrase «coming to a vote where»

Johnson sees the portrayal by Patrick and others of a dysfunctional public school system as a rhetorical ploy to advance narrow private interests, and he hopes that the Senate can keep the bill from coming to a vote where legislators can be pressured into a «for us or against us» position on school choice.

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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.

Mobile voting has been near and dear to Tusk's heart for some time and he has recently been promoting one company as a potential solution to the challenge of the lack of participation, particularly when it comes to local elections where turnout is often in the range of 10 to 15 percent.

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They came to supervise me in a district tournament where I was voted best player on the pitch.

The Arsenal fans have since seemingly come to a unanimous conclusion according to a poll on the Evening Standard where 78 % of them voted for Cech to come in and replace Szczesny.

By his third season he was voted the league's breakthrough player and come last summer, Ian Ayre, the Liverpool chief executive, went to Santiago where the Brazil team were based determined to come back with his signature.

Where they will die before they even come to a vote, if we don't give them some of that fantastic energy that we find when faced with something offensive like Rep. Riddle's remarks or a nursing in public incident.

Also, thanks to Carl Paladino's 2010 run, where the bulk of his support came from his native Western New York, the Erie County GOP now enjoys the largest share of the weighted vote — 11.4 percent.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

This means that we could have the odd situation where the big Unions vote against the McDonnell Amendment at the NEC but then issue instructions to delegates to vote for it when it comes to the conference hall.

When I speak to mates still living in my hometown of Sheffield — one of the largest cities where the majority voted out — most tell me that the referendum result didn't come as a surprise.

In this numbers game, the defector is sometimes to be preferred to the aborigine for, while the latter came into the party alone, the former came in with a cluster of people who would normally go where he goes and vote where he votes.

This system is designed to avoid a situation where a party receives a large share of the votes in an area but doesn't actually get many seats (e.g. coming a close second in every constituency but not winning any).

For once, not a LibDem issue, but a broader one where UKIP came third in the popular vote and may have one MP whereas the SNP is significantly overrepresented in the UK Parliament according to its share of vote.

Libous also declined to say that the decision by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos to allow the same - sex marriage bill to come to the floor for a vote last year — where it passed, thanks to «yes» votes from Saland and McDonald, along with Sens. Mark Grisanti and Jim Alesi — was a bad idea, though he did allow the Republicans knew quite well that the vote would cost them with the conservative grassroots in this election.

H / T to Maggie Haberman, who notes GOTV has taken on a whole new meaning for the Democrats since Carl Paladino won the GOP gubernatorial primary last week — particularly when it comes to upstate, where the Buffalo businessman dominated on Sept. 14, winning some 90 percent of the vote on his home turf, Erie County.

After a light hearted beginning, question topics included his expectations concerning Kathy Hochul's separate primary, where he expects votes to come from, his «position» in the John Liu / Tony Avella senate primary, reports of pressure from Cuomo's staff and allies on Democrats to refrain from endorsing Zephyr Teachout, Teachout's comment that her qualifications include «not under federal investigation», whether Teachout is qualified to be governor, whether votes for Teachout are an anti-Cuomo protest, his encounter with Teachout at the Labor Day Parade and Tim Wu's related comment that Cuomo «failed a basic test of decency and civility».

«Maryland lawmakers came to the right conclusion and voted to send the death penalty where it belongs - into the dustbin of history,» said Brian Evans, acting director of the organisation's death penalty abolition campaign.

Today's strategy session on gay marriage hosted at the Capitol by Gov. Andrew Cuomo focused mainly on what to do about the Senate, where the bill came to the floor for a full - house vote just once back in December 2009 and died, 38 - 24.

Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front - benchers to vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.

Former President Mahama is coming off the worst election defeat of a sitting president in Ghana's democracy, where he recorded 44.40 percent of valid votes cast, losing to the New Patriotic Party's Nana Akufo - Addo, who was endorsed by 53.85 percent of the electorate.

But in those seats where it came second in the by - election (as UKIP has done in Eastleigh), it went on to lose almost half its vote share at the next general election.

«I wouldn't have gotten elected unless each time at least one million Democrats came out to vote and crossed the party lines to vote for me,» said Pataki, rightly pointing out that Turner will need to attract voters from the other party to win in the Ninth Congressional District, where Democrats enjoy a three - to - one registration advantage.

Writing in the Telegraph, Chris Grayling said that there can not be a situation where Scottish MPs «come to Westminster and vote on English - only issues», influencing the destiny of health, education, justice, environment and probably taxation in England, «potentially against the wishes of most English representatives».

The tightest two - candidate race of the night came in the battle for Town Justice, where candidate Brian Hughes led Republican William Goggins by 180 votes, according to BOE numbers too close to call Tuesday night.

It will fall to the campaigns and outside interests to bring out these potential voters, which is where an enthusiasm gap, Mayer's name recognition and a handful of other variables — as trivial as the weather to as unlikely as the issues — will determine who actually comes out to vote.

If it really is the case that the European Research Group will be a «very powerful factor» in that vote, then UK citizens have the right to know its full membership, where all of its money comes from — and its full involvement with ministers in Britain's current and previous governments.

Stating that during Brexit talks it would be more important than ever to have elected MPs who were asking the right questions to ensure a good deal for Britain, Mr Blair added: «This requires the electorate in every constituency to know where the candidates stand; and the mobilisation of the thousands in each constituency to make it clear that for them this issue counts when it comes to their vote.

The measures are expected to come to the floor for a vote in the Assembly in the next month, where it could likely pass.

Deputy Director of Communications at the EC, Yusif Alhassan Ayuba, told TV3 «before we can come up with a final register, we need to do proxy so that we know exactly where people are going to vote.

I can't think of another issue where I've had more communication and it's unprecedented for so much of that to come from England and what people have been saying to me is if what you meant during the election that you cared about more than Scotland, you wanted to hold out a hand of friendship to people in England, build progressive alliances where you could, if you meant that, then please on this issue vote with us to retain the ban on foxhunting.

DeFrancisco expressed frustration with the fact that some of his colleagues said one thing and did another when it finally came time to cast their votes in the closed door conference, where he reportedly received 15 votes to Flanagan's 18, with six fellow upstaters casting deciding votes.

Lawmakers came close last year to passing a legalization bill that would have set up an insurance framework for regulating combat - style sports, but the measure never came up for a vote in the Assembly, where sponsors are confident it would pass.

But, Long supports the idea of letting the bill come to the floor for another vote, even though he would vastly prefer to see the whole controversial issue relegated to the back burner where he is convinced it belongs.

As someone who comes from a country where universal health care is taken as granted (perhaps even taken too much for granted) I find it very difficult to understand why so many people would vote this way.

Have things reached the perverse situation where in order to get elected Labour have to cut public spending for their first term although they want to increase it and the Conservatives have to increase public spending in order to get elected, usually when people vote for a different party it is because they expect something to be different from the way it was, such plans leave it wide open for the Liberal Democrats to come out and propose a series of economy measures and be the one of the 3 parties proposing the lowest levels of public spending and tax cuts targeted at the poor.

This comes on the heels of a Nassau County judge's decision Saturday to deny the Democrats» request for a hand recount in the 7th SD where Republican Jack Martins leads his Democratic opponent, Sen. Craig Johnson, by 451 votes.

Following a lengthy public session where the Ulster Town Board heard from members of the public concerned about oversight on the proposed Niagara Bottling plant, the town board voted to deny both the Kingston Common Council and Woodstock Town Board involved agency status in the plant's coming environmental review.

We can not have a situation where more and more decisions about Scotland are being taken in Scotland, and yet Scottish MPs come to Westminster and vote on English - only issues, shaping the destiny of health, education, justice, environment and probably taxation, too, in England, potentially against the wishes of most English representatives.

The only ray of hope preventing panic in the Tory ranks comes in the form of the upcoming by - election in Rochester and Strood, where former Tory MP Mark Reckless is also forcing a vote on his switch to Ukip.

People voting in border states who don't particularly wish to feel the negatives of a bunch of criminals come through where they live can not be convinced that illegal immigration is somehow a Good Thing.

Previously, a measure to give parolees voting rights came before the Senate where it was rejected.

Cameron's comments came after Brookhaven Town Supervisor Edward P. Romaine asked Suffolk County officials to consider assigning police to each of the schools where voting will take place next month.

Its prospects are even dimmer in the Republican - led Senate, where GOP lawmakers historically aligned with the real estate lobby do not let pro-tenant bills come to the floor for a vote.

The committee vote sent the Financial Choice Act to the full House, where it likely will be approved in the coming weeks.

«As I mentioned at the outset, I am the poster child for instant runoff — $ 10 to 13 million for a race where only 300,000 people came out to vote.

The closest this area came to turning Conservative was during the Scots Tories apogee in 1955, where nationally the party won more than 50 % of the popular vote.

The vote comes after a brutal budget season last fall where some residents were highly critical of the board on the tax increase, and after residents recently circulated petitions to force a vote on borrowing for the library / community center.

Mr Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.