Sentences with phrase «convention vote»

In 2010, those two made up just over 19 percent of the weighted convention vote, which was calculated based on turnout in the 2006 governor's race.

The county party is a hot commodity among would - be candidate because it controls the largest share — just over 10 percent — of the weighted convention vote.

With the state Democratic Convention slated for May 25 - 27, Rice is close to getting the 25 percent of convention votes needed to automatically get on the ballot, observers said.

The Green Party of New York (GPNY) State Committee made a decision at its quarterly meeting on Saturday, September 16 to issue a statement that it would decline to endorse either the pro or con side of the New York State Constitutional Convention vote in November.

The Brooklyn Democratic Party's nod is in hot demand because it represents a sizable chunk of the weighted state convention vote — 9.146 percent, to be exact, assuming all the state committee members vote as a block.

More than 800 delegates to the State Federation's Constitutional Convention voted on the following motion:

This morning I reached Mermel, who claims to have locked down close to 70 percent of the weighted GOP convention vote for his LG run, but he declined to comment on either Haberman's report or the announcement later today that GOP gubernatorial hopeful Rick Lazio has tapped Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards as his preferred running mate.

At 8 p.m., SUNY Buffalo Law Fellow Jeff Wice discusses the state constitutional convention vote at the Staten Island Young Republicans meeting at Canlon's Restaurant, 1825 N. Railroad Ave., Staten Island.

The Southern Baptist Convention voted last summer to back refugee resettlement, and its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission leader Russell Moore recently wrote to Trump: «As a nation, we must seek to resolve the tension created by these two values — compassion for the sojourner and the security of our citizens — in a way that upholds both values.»

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won the endorsement of the state's left leaning Working Families Party in a messy convention vote that stretched to nearly midnight on Saturday night.

Before the dinner, Trump met with GOP county chairs who together account for about 60 percent of the weighted party convention vote.

This brings Dinallo to 9.05 percent of the weighted Democratic convention vote.

GRANDE PRAIRIE — Moments after the CUPE Alberta convention voted (unanimously) to support the Alberta NDP in next year's provincial election, Premier Rachel Notley was received with cheers, chants, hugs and multiple standing ovations by delegates.

UPDATE3: Jimmy Vielkind notes on CapConf that Mermel says he also has the support of Cortland County, putting his (extremely theoretical) weighted convention vote tally at 5.21 percent.

Committee members remain divided on the idea of a 60 % reduction: Some, like longtime party leader Leah Daughtry, support eliminating superdelegates altogether on a first ballot convention vote.

As the fight for the GOP weighted convention vote comes down to the wire, the support of each and every committee person is in play.

Teachout, who worked on former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, but was relatively unknown in New York political circles, was empowered by the fact that she received just over 41 percent of the weighted WFP convention vote.

«He broke all the promises, the major promise being to move the constitutional convention vote up to 2011 when he was extremely popular,» Samuels said.

That's a claim with which I'm sure Lazio's supporters would quibble — particularly if the party indeed is moving forward with a vote that appears structured to benefit Levy, who needs just over twice the 25 percent weighted convention vote Lazio requires to get onto the ballot.

That was the case in Westchester and Nassau counties, where anti-Trump sentiment and the constitutional convention vote spurred Democratic victories in key races.

A final convention vote had Corcoran winning 44 - 29 with backing from the Albany County Democratic Party, versus Walsh's support from the City of Albany mayor, Kathy Sheehan.

A candidate must receive two - thirds of the weighted AFL - CIO convention vote to receive its nod.

In contrast, delegates at the NEA convention voted down the leadership's recommendation to allow private school employees to join the union, although they did approve membership for workers in private preschools.

Since the NAACP at its national convention voted on a resolution that placed a moratorium on charter schools, the backlash from charter advocates has been angry, well - financed and sometimes just plain mean leading up to a vote of ratification by the national board, which occurred this past weekend.

Blakeman is so far the only contender who has claimed to already have hit the 25 percent mark of the weighted convention vote necessary to get onto the ballot.

By my count, she's now at 3.18 percent of the weighted GOP convention vote.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo won the endorsement of the state's left - leaning Working Families Party in a messy convention vote that stretched to nearly midnight on Saturday night.

(CNN)-- Members of the Republican Party of Virginia's State Central Committee voted Friday to eliminate the statewide primary in favor of a party convention vote to choose its nominees in the upcoming 2013 campaign.

Orange County accounts for just 2.36 percent of the weighted state convention vote.

Lazio 53.96 percent of the weighted convention vote at the Conservative con - fab, and Edwards got 52 percent — enough to become the official designees.

Citizen Groups Create Multiyear Campaign to Promote Awareness of the 2017 NYS Constitutional Convention Vote, Rockefeller Institute Press Release, September 14, 2015.

Blakeman announced several weeks ago that he has securred more than 25 percent of the weighted convention vote necessary to get onto the ballot.

Convention votes, though determined of course by simple majority, only expressed the synod's understanding of what the Word of God said.

The SBC's most recent resolution on alcohol came in 2006, when the convention voted overwhelmingly to exclude Southern Baptists who drink from the convention's boards and committees.

He told me he has nothing against Wilson, but questioned whether the former hudge fund manager and newcomer to GOP politics would be able to make sufficient inroads among the party rank - and - file to get 25 percent of the weighted convention vote.

(The rumor was being pushed by the Turner camp, and would be very helpful to the congressman's quest to get 25 percent of the weighted convention vote to get onto the ballot as it would free up two vote - heavy counties now backing Maragos: Nassau and Suffolk).

Teachout, as you'll recall, failed to receive sufficient support at the WFP's May 31 convention to get onto the ballot, but she did get 41.3 percent of the weighted convention vote to Cuomo's 58.7 percent.

Heading into next week's GOP convention in Manhattan, Bruce Blakeman so far leads the endorsement race, with 22 chairs / counties representing 31.7 percent of the weighted convention vote.

Carvin only managed to land the endorsement of one GOP county committee — his home organization, Westchester, which accounts for about 5.3 percent of the weighted convention vote.

However, Delaware County is worth just.51 percent of the weighted convention vote, bringing Levy just past the 28 32 percent mark, according to CapConf's tally.

Blakeman was the first to announce his candidacy and the first to claim he had 25 percent of the weighted convention vote, but there's not a lot of excitement about his candidacy.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy emerged from today's GOP county leader confab and insisted to reporters that he and primary rival Rick Lazio are deadlocked in their fight for the dominance in the party's weighted convention vote, Capital Tonight's Kaitlyn Ross reports

Long, who landed Erie County GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy's backing this week — a whopping 11.7 percent of the convention vote — is close to the 25 percent mark.

An actual Republican needs 25 % of the Convention vote to get on the ballot.

During an interview with me that will air in full on «Capital Tonight» this evening at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Levy again insisted that he and Lazio are tied at 40 percent of the weighted convention vote.