Sentences with phrase «convention referendum»

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

While the last convention referendum failed in 1997, political consultant Michael Dawidziak attributed this year's frenzied anti-convention campaign to a new factor not then in play: the internet.

I was research director for the Constitution Revision Commission created by Gov. Mario Cuomo in anticipation of the vote in 1997 on the mandatory convention referendum question.

He has proposed increasing the frequency of constitutional convention referendums, currently set for every 20 years with the next one scheduled for 2017, down to 10 years, [50] with the next one moved up to 2011.

The New York State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse issues a press release, picked up by the Wall Street Journal, reporting on the first campaign finance disclosure reports by committees for and against the Nov. 7, 2017 constitutional convention referendum.

At its annual meeting, Citizens Union, New York's oldest good government group, launches its campaign for a yes vote on New York's upcoming state constitutional convention referendum.

In 1997, the last time New Yorkers voted on a constitutional convention referendum, opponents poured more than $ 750,000 into an advertising and direct mail campaign in the two weeks before voters went to the polls.

A super PAC supported by the International Association of Firefighters this week began funding an advertising campaign opposing the approval of a constitutional convention referendum that's being considered by voters next Tuesday.

The convention referendum is put before voters every 20 years.

The statement is the first confirmed indication of how the governor planned to vote on the convention referendum, which is held every 20 years.

The governor's office on Monday confirmed he would be voting against the convention referendum.

It falls within an historical rejection of the convention referendum, which voters generally have not approved when given the opportunity.

To get a sense of how big the rejection of the constitutional convention referendum was, consider Monroe County.

Kennedy had previously been on the record, of sorts, in favor of the convention referendum, contribution money to a committee backing the vote in favor of it.

Samuels had funded a push to pass the convention referendum in order to usher in changes to state government, including overhauling campaign finance laws and providing protections to the LGBT community and bolstering the rights of women.

Some con con supporters and opponents — including those who back proposals 2 and 3 — worry the push to oppose the convention referendum would lead to a cascade of no votes down the ballot.

Also at 6 p.m., Columbia Law School and the Rockefeller Institute of Government hold forum on «Constitutional Convention Referendum 2017 and Home Rule within the Empire State,» Jerome Greene Hall, first floor, Columbia Law School, 435 W. 116th St., Manhattan.

Registered voters overall support a convention referendum by a narrow 45 percent to 33 percent split, with 22 undecided.

The Conservative Party, along with a range of right - leaning groups such as the Rifle And Pistol Association and abortion opponents, opposed the convention referendum, which was soundly rejected in a landslide by voters.

«The campaign to defeat the convention referendum has created some of the oddest political bedfellows in recent memory.

NYers say no to constitutional convention The constitutional convention referendum has been rejected, NY1 projections show.

Also at 11 a.m., a broad - based group of environmental, anti-fracking and conservation organizations hold a press conference to explain why they are urging New Yorkers to vote «no» on the constitutional convention referendum, LCA Press Room, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

The convention referendum, being considered next month by voters, is placed on the ballot every 20 years.

Opponents of the convention referendum had argued this method of changing the constitution — an amendment approved by two separately elected sessions of the Legislature and then by voters — is the preferred method of improving the state's governing document.

Blaming the con con is at odds with the stance taken by Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who said in an interview last week the convention referendum turnout had little impact on the corruption issues in Nassau County.

If last month's Siena poll is any guide, the constitutional convention referendum will go down in a landslide.

Labor unions continued to be the predominant backer of the main opposition coalition to the constitutional convention referendum that is being put before voters next month.

«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.

A state constitutional convention referendum has the ingredients of a collective action problem: concentrated benefits for opposing one and diffuse benefits for favoring one.