Sentences with phrase «district went to voters»
Three times in the late 1990s the district went to voters to ask for more money to deal with the costs of overcrowding and make ends meet.
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On Tuesday, voters in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District went to the polls to elect a new member of Congress.
Shawn Steel, Republican National Committeeman from California, said he didn't think a few contributions from Trump world were going to matter to voters in the three districts where members are vulnerable.
The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.
Lombard's proposal is one of four park district plans and 14 overall that Du Page voters will decide when they go to the polls Tuesday.
In March, the park district again went to the voters, asking unsuccessfully for $ 5 million to purchase land for athletic fields.
Voters said yes, and the Park District is going ahead with plans to buy the 55 - acre property off Lake Zurich Road.
He also said that whatever the cost, the park district will have to go to referendum to get voter approval for the project.
Right now, the Park District does not have the money to do anything with it, and would have to go back to its voters to ask for more money to build a golf course or water park, like they've been talking about.»
In park district referendum proposals, voters in Naperville and Woodridge agreed to increases that will go toward maintaining current services, but Bloomingdale voters overwhelmingly rejected a similar measure.
Fliers went out this week that will give Lockport Water District customers who are registered voters a chance to say «yes» or «no» to Lake Michigan water — a question this community has wrestled with for more than seven years.
The district can sell only up to $ 200,000 a year in bonds before going to voters for approval.
This is one of two mailers that went out to voters in Grisanti's Buffalo - area district.
[Updated below] A big change in the world of campaign advertising: over the past six months: the practice of targeting online ads directly at voters in a particular district has gone from being exotic to being a standard part of the political toolkit, with serious implications both for the...
He urged 7th Congressional District voters to «go out and re-elect Velázquez» on June 28.
«But ultimately it'll be up to the voters of the school district because the school board, if this bill is passed, will allow for them to decide to go to a referendum to then have a ward system,» Carlucci says.
«Prince» Anthony Weiner is in big trouble, the voters in his district are «MAD» at «Big Brother» Obama, Washington DC, etc, etc, and they see voting for the Republ - I - CAN as a way of sending a message «We are not going to take it anymore», plus I am sure there are many people who live outside the state and have seen the «PRINCE» in action on CNN < C - SPAN, etc and will be willing to send a check to him as a way of saying «BYE BYE WEINER» Before there was the «Oracle at Delphi» there was Count Vampire J. Machiavelli VJ Machiavelli http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com No More Schumer, Pelosi, Rangel, Engel «After Four Years of Scandals it is time for the Lazio Team»
Only about 19 percent of the district's 159,895 active Republican voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary.
«I think voters who care about Israel — and many good voters in this district do, of all faiths — are going to see that I'm someone who has done the hard work and is best positioned to be an advocate for a strong U.S. - Israel relationship,» he later added.
He noted that school districts must adopt their budget by later this month so that they can go to voters in May.
With a little over three months to go until Election Day, Democrat Domenic Recchia, hoping to wrest the congressional seat that covers Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Staten Island away from Republican Michael Grimm, focused his campaign on the Brooklyn end of the two - borough district on Saturday, organizing a group of volunteers to go door to door for him to talk to voters.
Every contribution goes directly toward communicating to voters in Stachowski's district.
«Voters in this district really like to go beyond party labels,» Democratic consultant Jonathan Yedin said.
So, voters in the 37th District may have two choices when they go to the polls April 24, not only for their State Senator, but a vote to see which party controls the senate into 2020.
But the same survey shows more than half of Republican voters in the South Florida House district remain undecided with about one month to go before the special primary to replace Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, who resigned his seat effective Sept. 26 to run in Senate Distdistrict remain undecided with about one month to go before the special primary to replace Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, who resigned his seat effective Sept. 26 to run in Senate DistrictDistrict 40.
He says he has been going door - to - door since September first in an attempt to talk to voters in every community in the district.
When voters go to the polls in the 116th Assembly District, it will be a referendum on Democratic incumbent Addie Russell who is running for her fourth term.
With zero party support and going against a sitting elected official with the full backing of three political parties our grassroots team worked every day to deliver an alternative to the voters of this wonderful 99th Assembly District.
While New York City voters go to the polls Tuesday to fill vacant City Council, District Attorney, and state legislative seats, as well as to vote for judges, a coalition of advocates and activists, including good government and community groups,...
In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...
A local source contacted The Bronx Chronicle said that one document turned over to federal authorities shows that some candidates in unnamed Bronx districts got more votes than the number of voters who went into the booths.
He also went door to door in his district, hung around at the local Starbucks talking one on one with voters, staked yard signs at the entrance to residential subdivisions, and attended homeowners» association meetings.
Voters in state House District 39 and House District 114 will go to the polls in special elections caused by the departures of former Rep.
Voters in state House District 39 and House District 114 will go to the polls in special elections caused by the departures of former Rep. Neil Combee of Auburndale, and former Rep. Daisy Baez of Coral Gables.
Voters in Florida House District 39 will go to the polls May 1 to fill a vacancy which has existed since Nov. 24 when then - Rep.
According to the poll, Donald Trump is winning the district by five percentage points, with 43 percent of voters going for him and only 38 percent for Clinton.
We NY - 19 voters laughed at when Sean Eldridge (who went shopping for office in the NY - 18 district before moving to the 19th) and his stupid attempt to pass himself off as a Upstater by opening Hudson Valley Investments six months before the campaign.
With less than three weeks to go until the Democratic primary for Rep. Charles Rangel's seat in Congress, he and his top rival, Sen. Adriano Espaillat, courted voters by promising to bring sorely needed jobs to the struggling Harlem and Bronx neighborhoods that make up much of their district.
About 43 percent of eligible district voters went to the polls in 2002, followed by 41 percent in the 2006 mid-terms and about 46 percent in Mr. Bishop's hotly contested and highly publicized 2010 rematch against Republican challenger Randy Altschuler of St. James.
Thirty - one of 51 Council districts participated this year, leading to $ 34 million in capital funds going towards hyper - local projects chosen directly by the districts» voters.
This point has been underscored by the voters in the 10th District that I have spoken to over the last three months as I have gone door to door to hear their concerns.»
New York's 21st District contains what Ratigan referred to as an «unusual subset» of voters, citing a 55 - 45 percent point spread that went to Obama in two elections.
News accounts reported that Ramirez and his allies went door - to - door in the 78th assembly district duping voters into letting the former district leader's campaign staff vote on their behalf, the Bronx DA charged in a 242 - count indictment.
Second, Silver is likely not going anywhere — the voters in his district will re-elect him and the members of the Assembly majority will vote again for him to be Speaker unless JCOPE or Donovan find something that was actually illegal (as upposed to unethical).
Oklahoma voters went to the polls yesterday to select nominees for governor and for the open 5th district congressional race, along with as a variety of downballot offices.
On May 15th, voters across New York will go to the polls to consider school district budgets and for the first time, schools will be under the constraint of a property tax cap, and school leaders say they've had to make «sacrifices» to live within those limits.
A flier went out to voters in the Assembly district last week in which Braunstein is pictured underneath the caption, «Albany is an embarrassment.
And although he trailed in fund - raising by a wide margin, according to recent state Board of Elections records — $ 17,185 compared with more than $ 70,000 raised by City Council attorney Deirdre Feerick and Queens Library External Affairs Director Jimmy Van Bramer — Maragos said he has made an impact with District 26 voters by going door - to - door.
New York State School Boards Association Executive Director Tim Kremer says 13 districts proposed budgets that exceeded the 2 percent tax cap and 77 percent passed: «The voters came out and said «we understand that you're gonna need more money than what the cap would allow.
«You have to give them points for creativity but Democrats still far outnumber Republicans in those districts and the likelihood that voters in any major way are going to vote on a protest line is silly,» Thies said.