Sentences with phrase «enough votes in the state»

Public Advocate Letitia James has lined up enough votes in the state Assembly — including its powerful leader, Speaker Carl Heastie — to be named as interim Attorney General, sources told the NY Post.

A key component of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's 2013 agenda appears in jeopardy, as the governor concedes he does not currently have enough votes in the state Senate to bring an abortion rights bill he has championed to the floor.

A key component of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2013 agenda appears in jeopardy, as the governor concedes he does not currently have enough votes in the State Senate to bring an abortion rights bill he has championed to the floor.

There are currently not enough votes in the State Senate, which is ruled by Republicans and a group of break away Democrats, in order to pass public campaign financing.

It's unclear whether there are enough votes in the state Senate to pass the medical marijuana bill.

A key component of Governor Cuomo's 2013 agenda appears in jeopardy, as the governor concedes he does not currently have enough votes in the State Senate to bring an abortion rights bill he has championed to the floor.

Not exact matches

The challenge is to prevent last - minute lies that could sway enough voters to swing an election result — which, in the United States, can be a matter only of thousands or even hundreds of votes.

Soon enough, with the college graduates we have in the state (look at the map of the counties who voted in correlation to those who voted against the Amendment), we will be greater than 35 %.

Sorry to break it to you, but Latimer's a useless hack and it hurts every time he votes and its always for I'm sure he's pissed the $ 15 wage didn't go to the whole state, wasn't phased in quick enough and didn't go high enough when its really going to hurt with a vengeance those it was designed to help, but that's the anti-business stance of Sen. Latimer.

While there are all kinds of side squabbles about timetables and carve outs, the bottom line is this: There are enough votes to pass just about every conceivable compromise in the State Senate, if you include all Democrats and a handful of Republicans.

Providing funding in the Executive Budget would prove to New Yorkers, who have waited long enough for simple voting reforms, the Governor is serious about implementing early voting in New York State,» said Ethan Geringer - Sameth, Public Policy and Program Manager for Citizens Union.

Six years after receiving the most popular votes in any senatorial election in U.S. history, the five - term Democrat has seen sliding favorability ratings as liberals in the Golden State hammer her for not being tough enough standing up to President Donald Trump.

Interestingly enough, Paladino also included the names of the Republican state senators who voted in favor of the law: Philip Boyle, John Flanagan, Charles Fuschillo, Martin Golden, Mark Grisanti, Kemp Hannon, Andrew Lanza, Kenneth LaValle, Carl Marcellino, Jack Martins and Republican Leader Dean Skelos.

The Democratic Party is no longer the center left party, the patriotic party, and the pro worker party of John F. Kennedy, or Franklin D, Roosevelt, it is now the party of George Mcgovern, community organizers, hippies, free traders and globalists, dumb college students, flag burners, advocates for the legalization of all drugs and the banning of all firearms, and those who think that rural America is full of dumb idiots who are not enlightened enough to understand the benefits of free trade, who believe in the stupid idea of the nation state or stupid to not vote Democratic.

In 2010, the party's ballot line delivered nearly 200,000 votes to Democratic New York State Comptroller Tom Dinapoli — not an enormous number for a statewide race, but enough for the WFP to be taken seriously.

The unrealistic part of it is the person who only got enough votes to win one state (and only 34 % of the vote in that state) being the person chosen by the house.

Phil thinks the $ 40B NY already sends to DC above any direct benefit for our state is not enough... want NY State taxpayers to continue to support welfare queens in southern Red states where folks are so dumb they voted for the state is not enough... want NY State taxpayers to continue to support welfare queens in southern Red states where folks are so dumb they voted for the State taxpayers to continue to support welfare queens in southern Red states where folks are so dumb they voted for the Rump.

If 3 - 4 states become in doubt and unresolvable, enough that the winner no longer has 270 electoral votes, the US House of Representatives gets to pick, and it's likely they will choose their own party's candidate.

Ron Nielson, senior advisor to Gov. Johnson, said in a statement released Friday, «The national Republican Party may not want to publicly acknowledge the presence of a true fiscal conservative in this race, but they are certainly taking Gov. Johnson seriously enough to engage in a concerted campaign to get his name off ballots in key states before voters even get a chance to vote.

Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, failed in the State Senate, when both parties could not muster enough votes for an abortion rights provision.

Medina slammed him for not doing enough, but Dilan countered that he voted for rent regulations just as the most liberal people in the state voted.

The New Jersey Senate voted on Thursday to override Gov. Chris Christie's veto of a gun control bill, the first time state lawmakers had mustered enough votes in more than 50 attempts at undoing one of his vetoes.

The City Council is considering a vote on whether to adopt a measure which would give them the legal means to override the state property tax cap, It's a plan to raise enough money to keep the city in the black for another year.

According to state law, each delegate's vote is weighted based on the percentage of people who voted on the W.F.P. line in 2010 (for Cuomo, ironically enough) in each district.

Conversely, if you voted for the losing candidate and enough like - minded people in your state also voted for the losing candidate, you are more socially integrated and are at less risk for suicide.

The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes — that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538).

It is possible to win one to nothing in enough states that the candidates gets at least 270 electoral college votes, which is enough to win.

Electors were needed as a mechanism that allowed, if the need arose (nobody got enough electoral votes to get elected, a candidate died, etc.), to negotiate a solution in a timely manner (because each consultation with their home state could take weeks)

In that race, Democratic challenger Tom Perriello was certified the winner over incumbent Republican Rep. Virgil Goode, but the margin - less than 800 votes - was close enough for Goode to request a recount under state law.

Enough with using the Democratic Senators and their votes to keep the Republicans in control of the State Senate.

And some state lawmakers say there are at least 40 votes in favor of it, more than enough to pass it.

In which case, not enough people will vote for this new understanding of the respective roles of the State and society.

Cuomo's Women's Equality Act failed in the state Senate, when neither party could muster enough votes for an abortion rights provision.

In New York's 22nd congressional district, a GOP - leaning district that stretches from Binghamton to Lake Ontario, keep an eye on whether tech entrepreneur Martin Babinec, running on the largely self - funded «upstate jobs» line, splits enough votes from tea - party Republican Claudia Tenney to elect State legislator Kim Myers.

The x-factor is 1996 gubernatorial nominee Ovide Lamontagne; most political people in the state don't believe he can win but he has a following in conservative circles and could pull enough votes to have a hand in determining the winner.

On Wednesday, Public Advocate Letitia James was on her way to locking up nearly enough votes in the Democratic - controlled state Assembly to secure the replacement appointment.

If Westminster's relationship with Holyrood comes increasingly to resembles that between a federal and state parliament in a decentralised federal system, many will feel that McKay does not go nearly far enough and a more hard - edged version of «English votes for English laws» is called for.

The burgeoning third party gained ballot access in Wyoming for the first time in 2012, and its U.S. House candidate, Daniel Clyde Cummings, earned enough votes in November's general election for the group to remain a registered third party in the state through 2014.

Rump squeaked by in the electoral by winning enough swing states (by less then a point) and 46 % of the total vote.

Today, Team Trump again sought to scuttle the effort by rejecting calls for a roll call vote, declaring the anti-Trump faction the loser in a voice vote, even though its supporters had secured signatures from more than enough states — 11, all told — to force the matter.

In his 2010 gubernatorial race, Hawkins received 60,000 votes, enough to qualify the Green Party for the New York State ballot for four more years.

The eminently qualified former college professor had the right stuff, but alas, elections are about politics and this Republican didn't have enough Democratic votes in the state legislature which appoints regents.

A minor party religious right candidate might siphon off enough votes in the Southern states to hand those states to Obama considering that there would be a huge turnout of African Americans.

White House political Director Patrick Gaspard has been active in expressing concerns that in a low - turnout special election, which is set for May 22, former Rep. Ed Case and state Senate president Colleen Hanabusa could split the Democratic vote enough to allow Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou (R) to win.

«Of course most Dems will vote for Space (ha ha), but there are not enough of them in an honest state like Ohio to turn the tables.»

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- The leader of the Wisconsin state Senate says he doesn't think there's enough votes in the Legislature to override an expected veto of a bill changing who names the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources.

We need real voting reforms: automatic and pre-voter registration, early voting, a constitutional amendment to allow same - day voter registration and mail - in voting, and enough funding, training and reforms to the state and county boards of elections to stop screw - ups like the massive Brooklyn voter purge.

[29] He secured the nomination for U.S. Senate from the Conservative Party of New York on May 28, 2010, [30] but did not secure enough votes from the New York Republican party contingencies at their state convention on June 2 to appear on the Republican line in the New York primary race on September 14.

That would entail receiving $ 100 from one out of every four Democrats in the state who are politically involved enough to have voted in the 2016 presidential primary.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doesn't want to bring a bill to legalize gay marriage to a floor debate and vote in the state Senate unless he's certain there are enough votes to pass it.