Sentences with phrase «go to the voters for»

The district can sell only up to $ 200,000 a year in bonds before going to voters for approval.

For this amendment to go to the voters for their approval, it would have to be given second passage by the Legislature elected in 2006.

But the amendment can't take effect until after November 2013, at the earliest, because it must be passed at another legislative session and then go to the voters for approval.

Not exact matches

Instead, enough voters switched, stayed home, or went for third parties in the final days to cost me the state.»

But with the Republican bill in need of major surgery, the politics for the president are straightforward: Going after the industry, one of the country's least popular, would fulfill a promise he made to cash - strapped voters; it would allow him to highlight the unsavory deal the Obama administration cut with the sector to buy its neutrality during the original consideration of the law; and it would generate tens of billions of dollars Republicans could use to preserve some coverage for the estimated 24 million who'd lose it under their initial proposal.

Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

Sure, there's plenty of time for voter's remorse after the fact, but if folks don't like you to begin with, there's not going to be an «after the fact.»

The danger for Mr. Romney is that if these charges go unrefuted, they could discourage swing voters from going for him this fall when they decide whom to support.

But with so much data for a campaign to sift through, «you can't go through 30,000 points of data and go: «Did you acquire this piece of data on this voter ethically?»»

MH: Because they need altogether about $ 5 trillion to create... If they're going to create 500 billionaires to run the country for the next century and to create really a new feudal class they need $ 5 trillion and they don't want the people to know what's occurring because if they did the voters would get so upset they'd create probably a new political party, an alternative.

The German voters are very much in favor of more fiscal discipline, making it hard for the German government to openly consider any debt restructuring, which ultimately seems like the only way to go.

The Church of England has released a special prayer before voters go to the polls for the EU referendum on June 23rd.

How funny... he managed to pause right at the exit of the church door... for all the world to see him... in a perfectly orchestrated photo shoot... 45 days before voters go to the voting booth.

While Silverman warns viewers about being kept out of the polls, introducing herself as «your Jewish friend Sarah,» Jackson, who voiced the recent bedtime story for parents «Go the F**k to Sleep,» rhymes his warning to voters, in a video that's been seen over a million times on YouTube.

If life is good for the non-rich, voters tend to go along with, or even endorse, the system.

What bothers me most is that this non-issue is going to be the deciding factor for some voters.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

That is because the voters that are up - for - grabs in our politics are not going to seek out speeches by politicians, or hour - long pieces of Planned Parenthood videos on YouTube.

The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

As surveys indicate, many voters will go to the polls, not to vote for a candidate, but to vote against a candidate.

Think of the Obama voters you know who don't want their taxes raised, don't think government works very well, and oppose late - term abortion, but who are going to vote for Hillary Clinton because they think of conservative politics as a battle between the grasping rich and the violently racist.

With every election cycle, the number of voters who grew up and went to school before there were national standards for public science education is decreasing.

When voters in Florida were approving a lottery, a survey found that the majority believed the lottery was going to pay the major portion of the state budget for education.

Though voters clearly made the right decision, it just goes to show you that anything is possible for the four teams who qualify.

Baseball players have been exhibiting monumental deficiencies of integrity and character for well more than a century, and it's just now that Hall of Fame voters are going to take those words seriously?

The board of commissioners unofficially decided to go back to voters after representatives of the three largest youth athletic organizations, for baseball, football and soccer, asked them to reconsider the issue.

In March, the park district again went to the voters, asking unsuccessfully for $ 5 million to purchase land for athletic fields.

He also said that whatever the cost, the park district will have to go to referendum to get voter approval for the project.

Right now, the Park District does not have the money to do anything with it, and would have to go back to its voters to ask for more money to build a golf course or water park, like they've been talking about.»

Three times in the late 1990s the district went to voters to ask for more money to deal with the costs of overcrowding and make ends meet.

Fliers went out this week that will give Lockport Water District customers who are registered voters a chance to say «yes» or «no» to Lake Michigan water — a question this community has wrestled with for more than seven years.

Marist decided to play it safe by also polling registered voters (that's how Siena went, saying it's too early for the «likely» route), and those numbers are: 55-29-10, 6.

For instance, he discussed the fact that electoral campaigns spend a huge amount of effort building up volunteer lists, email lists and voter target lists, but that the data tend to go away as soon the election is over (particularly if the campaign loses).

In practice the line between person and project blurs a little since issues important enough to bother with and having few enough plans to make a reasonable vote normally have individual champions or leading thinkers who make the explanation to the voters what voting for that plan means, and nobody wins votes without some hints about what direction they are planning to go in.

The outcome is likely to illustrate the inability of the electoral system to reflect the desires of the voters or produce a clear electoral outcome (in other words the main argument for FPTP seems to be going out the window).

The days of the puppets are over and I feel that's what voters are really going to look for this November; passion, values, representation, independence.

Democrats COULD have embraced the law and highlighted people who were going to the doctor for the first time in years, many of whom were the lower - income white voters who've been fleeing the party in droves.

All the credit must go to the Ghanaian Voters who decided to support the Right Vision of President Akufo - Addo by voting massively for him.

So the optimal strategy for candidates is to win the support of people who can get lots of voters along to a meeting to go to vote.

Removing names by due process, using the quasi-judicial methods outlined in the Public Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations, 2016 (C.I. 91) and by the Supreme Court, is the democratic, constitutional and civilised way to go; unless we are already fed - up with the Rule of Law and Due Process and are longing and yearning for the return of dictatorial rule.

The DCCC's Brandon English came back with an excellent reply, that the fundraising paid for millions of voter contacts that would otherwise not have taken place, and that the D - trip will be going through the voter file once the data's available to try to quantify any effects.

The TV people tell me that DC's going to go for Obama, a not unexpected result — while this may not quite be Chocolate City any more, it sure as hell ain't vanilla either — but Clinton's folks aren't giving up on on Latin voters, who've held strong for her in other areas.

The atmosphere is charged in Kogi State at the moment as the voters are in high spirit for the poll exercise to go into full swing.

Voters in the Staffordshire constituency go to the polls this Thursday in what former Ukip leader Nigel Farage said would be a «fundamental» test for his party.

This degree of supporter influence seems to have gone too far, however: Royal's desire to be a «platform for the people» led French voters to see her as being blown by the winds of opinion rather than having strong convictions herself.

But he went on to suggest that two unaccounted for groups - the 23,000 Gibraltarians with the right to vote, and possibly 200 - 300,000 expatriate voters living abroad - could give an additional boost to Remain.

If you support a traitor like Rump and you turn your back on the citizens of your state to provide tax cuts for the wealthy that virtually assure that after November the Pubs will be going after Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security as being too expensive you should be concerned about a negative response form voters.

Therefore, no focus on voter registration drives — you know most of the population is going to vote so the main goal is to convince them to vote for you.

While Carl Paladino seems to be trying to find a happy and sane place on the spectrum between kind and gentle and mad as hell, the same could be said for Andrew Cuomo, who is trying to identify with frustrated voters without going overboard.