Sentences with phrase «to elect delegates»

If we vote in favor of the convention, we'll then elect delegates who can propose amendments to the constitution.

If the «Yes» side wins, then we'll hold another vote to elect delegates in 2018.

They outlined the concerns held by their funders of the possible consequences of opening the constitution up for revision by elected delegates and subsequent public vote.

He said the process of electing delegates in each state Senate district makes it likely that delegates will reflect the state's heavily Democratic - leaning electorate.

The second appeal concerned Schulz's action asking the courts to determine the eligibility of several professional classes — included elected officials, state workers and lobbyists — to serve as elected delegates to a state constitutional convention.

If the people's answer is yes, the state would then elect delegates who would convene — likely sometime in 2019 — to consider crafting a set of constitutional proposals that would be put to voters statewide for final approval or rejection.

As mandated by New York's Constitution, if New Yorkers approve a convention, New Yorkers will elect delegates at the next general election, hence the November 6, 2018 date.

Surveying the countercultural hippies and anti-war activists streaming into the 1972 Democratic National Convention to nominate George McGovern, not as protesters but as duly elected delegates, Tip O'Neill was perplexed.

VID nominees were Nadine Hoffmann, Jen Hoppe, Cormac Flynn, Zella Jones, Erik Coler, and David Saperstein; the finally elected delegates were Jen and Cormac, with Zella and Nadine as alternates.

On one side are people who want a traditional local branch structure with locally - elected delegates going to national policymaking meetings.

The Secretary of the Committee shall, within fourteen (14) days after such meeti ng, but in no case less than fourteen (14) days prior to the date appointed for the opening of such convention, notify the Republican State Committee of the names, addresses and telephone numbers of such elected delegates.

No matter the margin of victory, New York Republicans gave Mr. Trump a restorative psychic boost after weeks when Mr. Cruz scored a big victory in the Wisconsin primary and outmaneuvered the Trump campaign in Colorado, Wyoming and elsewhere in winning and electing delegates backing his candidacy.

The union does not support a potential Constitutional Convention, which would give elected delegates a chance to re-write pieces of state law.

A Siena College poll released last week shows that 62 percent of voters statewide support having a convention in 2019, at which elected delegates would propose and vote on constitutional amendments.

A Delegate Directory is in development that will carefully share your contact information with only the other elected delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union.

«It's a way to get reform, but you have to elect delegates who are not currently elected officials,» Cuomo said over the summer.

The committee shall, upon receipt of notice from the Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee for the holding of a pre-primary convention, call a meeting for the purpose of electing delegates to such convention.

So, this Election Day, voters will vote on whether to hold a constitutional convention — or a «con con,» as it is sometimes called — and if the referendum passes, the people will then elect delegates, who would convene to potentially rewrite, or significantly propose modifications to the state constitution.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco was elected a delegate for Ohio Gov. John Kasich to the Republican National Convention, Onondaga County's GOP committee in said on Wednesday.

If voters decide they want one in 2017, they'd elect delegates in 2018, on the same day Cuomo would be on the ballot for a third term if he chooses to seek one.

As a union of educational leaders, as elected delegates to the largest AFT local, we can't just make concessions and tweaks to a broken system that fuels what we've termed (in the agenda's resolution 1) «a destructive testing mania.»

He was an elected delegate from Massachusetts to the 1995 White House Conference for Small and Emerging Business.

Muentzer warned the Bohemians of the coming day of Judgment, foreshadowed by the evils of the papacy, he advised them to elect their own Pastors who in turn should elect delegates to a General Council.

Q: Ok, so we've elected delegates, but what about the risk of all the things we can lose, like a commitment to welfare and the forever wild clause?

The shorter of the two routes — which requires voters to first decide they want to hold a constitutional convention, elect delegates, and send those delegates to Albany, and then hold a popular vote to ratify the amendment — might reach New York voters by November 2019.

My state still uses a caucus to elect delegates to a state convention where a primary is the last resort if the delegates can not nominate someone outright.

«The Committee announced the elected delegates to the congress and the venue which is the Ultra-Modern Confluence Stadium, Lokoja.

The Call to Convention issued by the Republican State Committee this year also is clear that a quorum of local committee members must be present in order to elect delegates.

At the same, not holding a convention would avoid the messy, and costly, process of electing delegates, which labor unions have vowed to do.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said he was opposed to approving a constitutional convention this year over concerns it would be controlled by special interest groups that elect delegates.

If the voters approve this in a statewide election they then, at the next statewide election, elect delegates to this convention.

Elected delegates, however, would determine the agenda if a convention is approved.

«I said the convention is a good idea and it's a way to get reform, but you have to elect delegates who are not currently elected officials,» Cuomo said.

These same extremist groups are expected to spend huge sums of money to elect those delegates (historically, sitting lawmakers and career politicians) who can be counted on to further their agenda.

They would first have to elect delegates, and those are chosen by state Senate district.

So, next year in 2018, voters would go to the polls and elect the delegates and then presumably the convention would meet, there's no limit on it, but I would assume they would probably meet the next year in 2019.

Roughly a dozen have ties to the organizing group Citizen Action; both executive director Karen Scharff and legislative director Jessica Wisneski are elected delegates.

Beyond that, they have two entirely different sets of rules for electing delegates, as well as for selecting their unelected delegates.

Fear that if you convene a convention and you elect delegates to it, the good things that are in the state constitution are put at risk.»

Further, of 204 elected delegates, 189 would be chosen from New York's 63 state Senate districts, three from each, which Democrats note are heavily gerrymandered in favor of Republican interests.

«But you have to elect delegates who are not currently elected officials.»

On the agenda: choosing delegates for the state Democratic Convention in Charleston, which in turn would elect delegates to the National Convention in Denver.

An election which is held to elect delegates to a national nominating convention is a primary election.

And he says that money could be used to unduly influence the process of electing delegates, to «wine and dine» and lobby them, as well as to finance advocacy campaigns for or against initiatives that the delegates might ultimately endorse.

If New York votes yes, we'll then elect delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 2018 and have the chance to vote on any amendments in 2019.

Critics of the idea of a new convention often point to the expected cost to taxpayers — Benjamin said the cost of the»67 convention, if adjusted for inflation, would be $ 47 million in 2015 dollars — as well as the possibility that the cast of elected delegates would be dominated by the same politicians and special interests that dominate the Capitol during the course of regular business.

As I said, it would be a convention to which the people would elect delegates.