Sentences with phrase «from petition efforts»

«Our volunteer base was drained from petition efforts in June and July and a lot of them signed petitions, so it was tricky.

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In California, efforts to expand the list of those who could petition for restraining orders to include co-workers and employers drew opposition not only from pro-gun groups like the National Rifle Association but also from the A.C.L.U.

TLT: As you probably know, two food bloggers are asking Kraft to drop two petroleum - based yellow food dyes from its mac - n - cheese product and they've garnered 280K petition signatures in support of their effort.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.

During last summer's effort to secure the Independence Party line for Republican Sen. Terrence Murphy — whose district in the Hudson Valley and Westchester is about a two - hour drive from the Capitol — 40 state Senate GOP staffers gathered signatures, his petitions show.

But circulating petitions is an expensive effort, and it's not immediately clear how it will work in terms of reimbursements from the state commitee, which is not swimming in cash by all accounts.

In response, Rockland Democratic Party Executive Director Theodore Collins, himself disqualified from an effort to get on the ballot in the Spring Valley trustee race, hit back hard against Lacorte, pointing out the candidate declined to participate in a pre-filing review of his petitions offered through the County Democrats.

And, assuming her petitions aren't thrown out in a legal challenge, she will be taking on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in a primary — an effort a number of better - known Democrats have toyed with taking on, only to step aside in the face of tremendous pressure from the White House on down.

The governor then filed petitions to create a new «Women's Equality Party,» which many insiders view as an effort to siphon votes from the WFP in order to keep it from receiving the 50,000 votes it needs to maintain its ballot line.

With Occupy Sandy and the Transit Forward Coalition, we coordinated bus trips to the Rockaways to support clean - up and relief efforts, and spearheaded an effective petition campaign to demand action from elected officials.

If the Legislature doesn't approve the measure, Fried said he will personally lead an effort as county executive to gather petitions from Rocklanders to bypass the legislature and get this item on the ballot so that the people could decide.

In an effort to exclude black candidates, already excluded by the all - white Democrat Primary of that day from the General Election as well, the Georgia General Assembly in 1943 adopted a 5 % petitioning standard.

He accused Cox of plotting to scuttle his petition - gathering effort, and said he received this information from former LG - turned - governor candidate Myers Mermel.

Congress should adopt a bankruptcy - like mechanism that permits school districts to petition for relief from vendor agreements, contractual obligations, and other impediments that constrain their efforts to improve schooling.

In opposition to Preston's efforts, a petition supporting Amazon titled «Stop fighting low prices and fair wages» has appeared on Change.org with signatures from a number of top - selling, self - published authors including Hugh Howey (Wool) and Barry Eisler (Fault Line).

Your creditors will receive a notice from the court that stops their collection efforts and dunning in approximately fifteen (15) days after you file your petition.

But look far more carefully into this, and the widening situation around it leads to a maddeningly tangled source situation that ultimately does nothing to alleviate the problem of the smear of skeptic climate scientists — including efforts to discredit the Oregon Petition — appearing to be intertwined with a small clique of enviro - activists who have barely any separation from Ross Gelbspan.

Presumably in an effort to get earlier and ultimately more attention from the Supreme Court clerks evaluating cert petitions, Samsung yesterday filed (once agai well ahead of a deadline) an optional reply brief in support of its request that the Supreme Court review the Federal Circuit's en banc decision in the second Apple v. Samsung case (this post continues below the document):

Recently, after a Change.org petition from an outraged GainBitcoin investor surfaced, the group behind the scheme launched an Ethereum ICO (initial coin offering) in an effort to keep the probable scam going.