Sentences with phrase «elections costing more»

And with elections costing more and more each year, public officials and candidates throughout the country feel more and more beholden to those with the deepest pockets.»

Running the election cost more than # 90 million, according to the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

Not exact matches

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Borrowing costs jumped following the surprise election of President Donald Trump, and Wall Street firms are being more cautious as new regulations kick in requiring them to hold a stake in the mortgages they sell off.

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government rises from the spring legislative session today after driving up families» costs, shedding more B.C. jobs and breaking key election promises.

This has more potential to cost him the election than the talking heads are acknowledging.

this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

The presidential endorsement not only cost the journal its tax deductible status for two years, but also led to a more realistic understanding of politics and less willingness to wed Christian goals to the election of particular leaders.

Meanwhile the cost of campaigns would plummet, as paying for more TV time would no longer provide the only route to winning an election.

The City of Chicago is planning for more than 70,000 people to mob an election - night rally in Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an event that will involve police and firefighters working overtime, blocked streets and at least $ 2 million in extra costs.

Perhaps more important was that the conference marked out the ground on which the parties are likely to try and fight the next election — the Conservatives will ask for time to finish the job of fixing the economy, Labour will focus on trying to reduce people's cost of living.

Cameron's commitment to spending more on health than the rate of inflation every year of the next election will still leave the NHS under significant cost pressure as it tries to deal with the soaring demands of an elderly society.

County boards of elections are worried about the three - primary possibility in 2012, a scenario that could cost them more than $ 100,000 apiece.

«Being able to go two weeks beforehand if they choose to write the Board of Elections won't cost any more money, and it would allow people a choice,» Little said.

Look, if this magazine cover costs Barack Obama the election, we have WAY more serious problems to talk about.

«The Speaker's take - it - or - leave - it negotiating position is even more surprising given that the New York City Board of Elections said they would be forced to shell out untold taxpayer dollars to cover the overtime costs necessary to comply with holding just the congressional primaries in June.»

«However, we do know these proposals will dramatically increase costs for local county boards of election, putting even more pressure on taxpayers.

The 2016 elections in Ghana, where 15.7 million were registered, cost $ 12 per voter, while Tanzania, a country with a bigger population and more voters than Kenya, spent $ 300 million less on its 2015 elections.

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In fact, the lower - profile the race, the more likely were social channels to matter, since down - ballot candidates can (and do) use Facebook and Twitter in creative and cost - effective ways to reach voters and influencers in elections ignored by most news media.

According to him, politicians in the country will go all out to get power at all cost, and for that to materialize, they will kidnap children and subsequently use them as sacrificial lambs in order to get more votes in the coming election.

Eric Pickles review recommendations to include engaging more with young people after Labour surge cost Tories in election

He still refused to confirm a CNN report that protecting Trump is costing the city more than $ 1 million a day, referring again to the figure the city put forward for the period from the November 8 election to January 20: roughly $ 35 million.

The No campaign makes inflated claims about costs and it says it will lead to more coalitions, when the evidence is that every election since 1945 that has resulted in a majority government would have done so under AV.

In fact, it's the ghosts of the 2014 Democratic primary that are more likely to come back to haunt him in 2020 for two reasons: First, because criticisms from the left on his attempts to appease rural conservatives are largely accurate; second, the exposure of his vulnerability from the left forced him into taking positions which may cost him in a general election.

«Council tax responsible for «soaring living costs» Main Conservatives field more candidates than Labour and Lib Dems in local elections»

Gov. Scott Walker's June recall election and the primary held a month before it cost taxpayers more than $ 13 million.

Imposing state of emergency on Anambra state if violence erupts and if the election fails to hold will cost IPOB and the state more than they can imagine.»

A major election battle ground has now been joined by the three major parties: expect to hear a lot more about the cost of living.

This is typically viewed as an even more unacceptable answer in terms of cost grounds for large elections, but is sometimes used by clubs and societies.

As a point of comparison, the average person is only willing to pay a dollar to avoid a one in ten million chance of death, so assuming you value your survival over the outcome of the Presidential election, the von Neumann - Morgenstern rationality axioms state that it's irrational to vote if it costs more than a dollar to do so (for instance in terms of gas costs and the cost of your time).

ConHome ran an unsuccessful campaign to encourage more help for low income candidates to become Tory MPs after we found that the cost of becoming a candidate (over # 40,000 at the last election) might discourage people with, for example, backgrounds in lower - paid work or who have been home - makers.

Doheny doesn't yet have competition for the GOP nod, since the man he defeated in the primary last year, Doug Hoffman, (the Tea Party darling of the 2009 special election, who forced former Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava out of the race and then split the vote with her, costing the Republicans a seat they'd held for more than a century), hasn't yet decided whether to run.

If you were going to the effort of a Constitutional amendment (a / k / a super-majority); adding a simple set of dissolution triggers to the Constitution would be more cost effective than recall referenda (elections to have elections).

Some analysts believe the new districts could cost the GOP up to five U.S. House seats, more than undoing the four they won from Democrats in the November 2010 election.

She noted that the runoff election against her opponent, State Senator Daniel Squadron, ended up costing more than the yearly budget for public advocate.

David Cameron's decision to back Gordon Brown's plan to make the well - off pay more income tax could cost the Tories many votes at the next Election, Norman Tebbit warned last night.

«We have other expenses that have gone up... [more] than the costs that were saved through the efficiencies generated by the county takeover» of welfare and election expenses, Quigley said.

This means in 2011, at the point in the electoral cycle when costs should have been at their lowest, Labour was employing 67 more staff than the Tories had had to fight the general election and spending # 1.4 m more on its wage bill.

The high electricity tariffs were a major part of the NPP's campaign ahead of the 2016 elections, with many of the party's communicators claiming that electricity cost more than rent.

The report says its estimates are conservative because there will almost certainly be additional costs — more polling stations because AV ballots take longer, additional election staff training, and customised machine - readable ballot papers.

«Certainly there's an effort to save money, reduce the number of elections, have an election at a time when maybe it will be more cost - effective than if you had it at another time,» said Richard Berg - Andersson, researcher for thegreenpapers.com, a website that tracks elections in all 50 states.

Barring more big federal bailouts — which this year's election would seem to make ever less likely — school budgets are going to be strapped for years to come and cost - cutting, together with eking greater value out of the remaining dollars, is going to occupy the education - policy center ring.

Labour's school policies could cost more than # 1.8 bn to implement should the party win the general election, the government has claimed.

New research from my colleague Mark «Jay» Williams at the Common Sense Institute of New Jersey shows that those voters are given incomplete information before walking into the voting booth, and that per - pupil school costs are an average of $ 3,500 more than what is proclaimed to voters in the «User - Friendly Budget» advertised before Election Day.

You're never required to do this, so you shouldn't make this election if it will cost you more than the benefit you get from avoiding paperwork.

Those costs could be reduced, and the election process could be made more open, if the Securities and Exchange Commission would allow «proxy access.»

sony needs to keep microsoft out at all costs because microsoft flip flop more often than a us election cycle jumping on fading trends and abandoning them just as quick.

API conducted an election night survey of actual voters, and the findings reveal that more than 80 percent of voters agree that U.S. oil and natural gas production can help achieve each of their most important priorities: job creation, economic growth, lower energy costs, and energy security.

The cost of setting up a pilot project in a by - election is mentioned later (~ $ 2 million and more than six months» planning).