Sentences with phrase «fight against the referendum»
But James Strang, a former park board member who is helping lead the fight against the referendum, said that if the district is dissolved and later re-established it «will take a year or two «to get programs running again.
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Mr Huhne, who narrowly lost the leadership fight for the party against Mr Clegg, was a robust defender of Lib Dem policies in government, not least during the AV referendum, when he led the attack against Tory campaign tactics.
Wilson (1998 - 2002) fought a gallant rear guard against Blairite politicisation which Turnbull (2002 - 05) continued., O'Donnell (2005 - 11) oversaw the transition from Blair to Brown and the first peacetime coalition since the 1930s and finally Heywood (2012 to the present) motivated the coalition and oversaw two referendums.
The Scottish independence referendum is not just a fight against nationalism.
Were the party to elect Lamb, it would signal a change of direction on Europe — he did not vote against the triggering of article 50 and has said the party's job should be to fight for membership of the single market rather than a rerun of the referendum.
If Tory dissenters and UKIP enjoy the experience of joining forces to fight against the EU, a referendum has the potential to reconfigure the centre right, especially if Labour also succeeds in using a pro-EU, business - friendly message to recapture the middle ground.
And if the dinosaurs like Prescott fight bitterly against any extension of democracy and win, how much chance will there be of a referendum on real democracy in the future?
Mindy has battled against the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) on the state referendum front serving as the campaign manager for The Alliance for Truth Campaign Committee which was at the forefront of the hard fought campaign opposing the HSUS - driven «Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act» (Proposition B) in the Missouri 2010 election and recently helped defeat the HSUS sponsored «Your Vote Counts» referendum promoting direct democracy.
In Richmond in 2012, for instance, the ABA group fighting a soda tax referendum on the ballot was called «Community Coalition Against Beverage Taxes.»
Tom also led the fight against J.A.I.L. for Judges — a referendum that would have had a citizen's committee review whether the South Dakota Supreme Court «followed the law,» and would have threatened judges with the loss of their jobs and pensions if it were found that they didn't.