Sentences with phrase «constitutional convention next»

If 50 legislators approve it, it goes to a second constitutional convention next year, with another 50 votes needed for it to go on the ballot.

Samuels said Cuomo's role is critical as voters decide on the November ballot whether to hold a constitutional convention next year.

«Today I call on Gov. [Andrew M.] Cuomo to tell the people of New York without any equivocation whether he supports a yes or a no vote on the Constitutional Convention referendum this Election Day,» said Bill Samuels, a major campaign contributor for decades who created an advocacy group to hold a constitutional convention next year.

If voters decide to hold a constitutional convention next month, they'll elect convention delegates in 2018.

DeFrancisco told syracuse.com in an interview that a constitutional convention next year would likely have the same result as in 1967, when voters ultimately turned down the initiatives that came out of the convention as a single ballot proposition.

Labour has tried to park the issue through promising to hold a constitutional convention next year, but shadow cabinet members have struggled in media interviews to give a clear response.

Not exact matches

By a wide margin, 57 - 25 percent, likely voters say they will vote «no» on the Constitutional Convention proposal on next week's ballot.

Mulgrew also warned delegates about the dangers of voting next November to hold a New York State constitutional convention.

Opponents of both the constitutional convention and marijuana legalization efforts said Dewald offers another incentive for voters to reject Proposal 1 next month.

The governor said the next route is to hold a constitutional convention when the next opportunity comes up in a couple of years.

Next week on Election Day, New Yorkers will decide whether or not to hold a constitutional convention.

But Miliband's call for a constitutional convention, which would not be completed before next May, endangers the timetable for swift reform he promised last week.

«I don't see anything different in the way things would be handled in a constitutional convention in 2018,» said DeFrancisco, who is considering whether to run for governor next year.

Support among voters for holding a constitutional convention has plummeted, with a majority opposing next Tuesday's referendum, a Siena College poll released this morning found.

Voters next month will consider a constitutional convention referendum, placed on the ballot every 20 years.

Businessman and Democratic activist Bill Samuels on Friday said he is not considering a run for governor next year and is instead focusing on an upcoming referendum for a state constitutional convention this November.

New Yorkers Against Corruption, the group that opposes a constitutional convention, launched its first ad opposing next month's referendum.

Labor unions across New York are rallying their resources to oppose the approval of a constitutional convention, a referendum that voters will consider next month.

Voters next month will consider the approval of a land bank for the Adirondacks, but supporters fret its fate amid a broader push against the constitutional convention.

The move has been backed by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, but is opposed by Ed Miliband who has instead called for a constitutional convention addressing the issue next year.

Instead he called for an unwieldy «constitutional convention'to consider changes in the wake of the historic independence referendum and which would not report back until the end of next year.

The answer to all of these concerns is to make a manifesto commitment to holding a constitutional convention some time in the next Parliament.

lawn signs for the next opportunity to vote for a constitutional convention, in 2037.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- A new survey from Siena College shows big opposition to a constitutional convention among likely New York voters in next week's election.

The first panel focused on New York, which on November 7, 2017 has the next referendum on whether to call a state constitutional convention.