Sentences with phrase «elections under the city»

In addition, the Green Party contests Auckland Council elections under the City Vision banner, in concert with the Labour Party and the Alliance.

Not exact matches

New York would be the first major city in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a City Council commitcity in the U.S. to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections under a bill before a City Council commitCity Council committee.

More than half the money given to the candidates in last month's special election to replace former state Sen. Dean Skelos was transferred by political party committees, a long - standing practice that is under new scrutiny following criminal investigations into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's fundraising operation.

According to unofficial election night totals from the New York City Board of Elections, Vance received more than 90 percent of votes, with just under 10 percent of votes going to candidates on write - in ballots, which are still being counted.

In addition to a federal investigation into whether Campaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and election laws.

However, under New York City Board of Elections policy, these voting results are not official.

City Hall has also said they expect a renewed Board of Education to cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million annually, to account for the cost of creating new positions under the new governance structure and the expense of holding school board electiCity Hall has also said they expect a renewed Board of Education to cost the city $ 125 million to $ 160 million annually, to account for the cost of creating new positions under the new governance structure and the expense of holding school board electicity $ 125 million to $ 160 million annually, to account for the cost of creating new positions under the new governance structure and the expense of holding school board elections.

As the campaign for the next London Mayor officially gets under way, election organisers say people from the suburbs are more likely to turn out to vote than those from the inner city.

Under city Campaign Finance Board rules, any contribution that a campaign or campaign committee receives must be «accepted and deposited, or rejected and returned to a contributor» within 10 or 20 days depending on whether it is an election year.

Imagine the boost to our campaigns, for elections soon after, if our candidates were selected in open primaries that require engagement with tens of thousands of Labour voters around the city even before the mayoral election gets under way.

After de Blasio won the election, Zepeda on Dec. 10, 2013 donated another $ 4,500 to his mayoral transition committee — the maximum contribution allowed under city rules to a transition team.

The New York City Board of Elections is currently under a separate investigation by the state Attorney General as to why more than 100,000 Brooklyn voter registrations were canceled just before the primary.

In an Oct. 8, 2014, confidential memo the campaign finance attorney for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio laid out his interpretation of what was allowed and not allowed under state election law as the mayor worked to swing the state Senate to Democratic control.

Lhota, a deputy mayor under former GOP Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former head of the city transit authority, faced off against his Democratic opponent, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, in the first of three debates leading up to the November mayoral electcity transit authority, faced off against his Democratic opponent, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, in the first of three debates leading up to the November mayoral electCity Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, in the first of three debates leading up to the November mayoral election.

J. Loren Russell — Rebuilding Our BX On Twitter: @JLorenR Campaign website: J. Loren Russell — Rebuilding Our Community In this nonpartisan special election for City Council, Mr. J. Loren Russell will be running under the independent Rebuilding Our BX ballot line.

In this nonpartisan special election for City Council, Mr. J. Loren Russell will be running under the independent Rebuilding Our BX ballot line.

Records also show the mayor took in 92 contributions after Election Day totaling $ 82,461, including 13 from donors who each gave $ 4,950, the maximum allowed under city electElection Day totaling $ 82,461, including 13 from donors who each gave $ 4,950, the maximum allowed under city electionelection law.

The county takes the position that having granted the city and towns some $ 30 million a year in safety net and election expenses as agreed to under the 2014 one - percent sales - tax extender, it needs money «to offset critical county expenses,» according to the joint release.

Ahead of the Nov. 8 election, when every seat in the Legislature is up for grabs, the Senate Democrats have found themselves linked to state and federal investigations examining whether New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies violated laws as part of an unsuccessful effort in 2014 to bring the chamber under Democratic control.

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Polanco, a lawyer from the Bronx who served on the city Board of Elections under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, had about 16.3 percent.

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Under the current system for the city's three citywide primaries — mayor, comptroller and public advocate races — if no candidate receives 40 percent of the vote, then the top two candidates face off in a runoff election, as mandated by state law.

We meet Miliband on the day Lord Myners, the former banker and City minister under Gordon Brown, has used a newspaper interview to criticise the candidate's position on progressive taxation as «wrong» and suggest that he has moved away from the «classic centre left», from which elections are won.

De Blasio, who delivered his speech under a banner that read «One New York Rising Together,» his election slogan, promised to expand the city's so - called living wage, and to ask Albany for permission to raise the minimum wage in the five boroughs.

The county takes the position that having granted the city and towns some $ 30 million a year in Safety Net and election expenses as agreed to under the 2014 1 percent sales tax extender deal, it needs money «to offset critical county expenses,» according to the joint release.

Of just under 5 million registered voters in New York City (4,996,975) as of April 1, there were 8,621 registered with the Green Party, according to the state Board of Elections.

In Both the 92 and 2010 elections, there were bigger swings towards us from the middle class than the working class, for different reasons, maybe those who came to us in 92 were Ex SDP, voting for us after it's collapse, and the working class, were sticking too the Tories in Essex, as they hadn't lost so much under the recession, and weren't losing their jobs in the city, the way the middle class were, and read the Suns twaddle about labour saying they'd put the basic rate of tax, when we said we weren't going too.

Mr. Grimm, under indictment for much of the election, was up against another Brooklyn city councilman, Domenic Recchia Jr..

At 8 a.m. on Monday, the Queens Chamber of Commerce will host «Post Election Affordable Housing City Forums» at 1301 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, discussing the future of affordable housing under President Trump and Dr. Ben Carson as HUD Secretary.

The WFP is under investigation by the Manhattan U.S. attorney for work done by its for - profit arm, Data and Field Services, in the 2009 city elections.

State Republican Party chairman Ed Cox slammed the Siena poll as flawed for oversampling New York City voters and under - sampling upstate voters compared to historic Election Day voting patterns, thus inflating Cuomo's popularity.

With a Secretary of Education under President Obama who declared that Hurricane Katrina was the «best thing» to happen to New Orleans schools because the recovery turned the entire city over to privately managed charters, teachers could be forgiven for wondering how anything could get worse regardless of who won the election this month.

January 20, 2014 - Election Law: Summary of Campaign Contribution Limits Under Federal, California State, San Diego County & San Diego City Laws, Hull McGuire PC

One is former Chateauguay city councillor and local businessman Michel Gendron, who is fighting the legality of a motion presented by council to dismiss him from office over his refusal to complete an obligatory declaration of property, which all elected officials are required to do under Quebec's Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities.

[The general court shall have full power and authority to erect and constitute municipal or city governments, in any corporate town or towns in this commonwealth, and to grant to the inhabitants thereof such powers, privileges, and immunities, not repugnant to the constitution as the general court shall deem necessary or expedient for the regulation and government thereof and to prescribe the manner of calling and holding public meetings of the inhabitants, in wards or otherwise for the election of officers under the constitution, and the manner of returning the votes given at such meetings.