Sentences with phrase «go to the voters in»

A constitutional amendment must be approved by two separately elected sessions of the Legislature and then goes to voters in a ballot referendum.

Skelos promised to support an amendment that would go to voters in a referendum, but then sources say he changed his mind.

He noted that school districts must adopt their budget by later this month so that they can go to voters in May.

Any proposals that survive that process will go to the voters in November for their action.

While the legislature will still retain that ultimate power, it won't say so on the ballot amendment that goes to voters in November.

State lawmakers approved the expansion of casino gambling last week with enabling legislation that provides and the second passage of a constitutional amendment that now goes to voters in a referendum.

The Council - created commission would take more time and its proposals would go to voters in November 2019.

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.

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.

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

If they act the part they are seeking before they get it, it will give them practice in living this success, and it will cause voters to see them in the role, which will make the election more likely to go in their favor.

Zuckerberg said Thursday that «voters make decisions based on their lived experience,» continuing, «Part of what I think is going on here is people are trying to understand results of the election, but I do think that there is a certain profound lack of empathy in asserting that the only reason that some of them are voting the way they did is because they saw some fake news.

In a Wall Street Journal editorial today, Rove beseeches the Romney campaign to go on offense with an effective message that reminds voters that the Democrats» negative campaign strategy merely aims to distract voters from the Obama administration's dismal economic record.

And that means that black women, who were our best voter according to the political people in this campaign, have watched their brothers and their parents, their fathers, and their sons go to jail and get convictions young and be forced into a cycle of poverty.

«Certainly those 10 to 15 percent who have always bought into that (populist rhetoric) think it's great but the rest, the swing voters who may have gone with the populist last year, I think aren't going with them anymore, particularly in Germany,» he added.

We're going to minor league baseball games, college campuses, barbershops, hair salons, street corners and with those we can not connect with in person, we have created an online one - stop shop voter registration tool in English and Spanish.

On Tuesday, voters in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District went to the polls to elect a new member of Congress.

In Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election yeaIn Oregon, only 36 percent of voters went to the polls in the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election yeain the 2014 primary, the last non-presidential election year.

Super Tuesday is largely thought to be when the primaries and caucuses move from local to national, as voters in 12 states and one U.S. territory go to the polls next Tuesday, March 1.

That's an improvement from a historic low in the last provincial election in 2011, when 48.2 per cent of eligible voters went to the polls.

In the first such event of a year crowded with European elections, the Netherlands prepared to go to the polls in mid-March, potentially providing an early reading of political sentiment among European voters following several populist upsets in 201In the first such event of a year crowded with European elections, the Netherlands prepared to go to the polls in mid-March, potentially providing an early reading of political sentiment among European voters following several populist upsets in 201in mid-March, potentially providing an early reading of political sentiment among European voters following several populist upsets in 201in 2016.

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.

Simcha Felder says he will stick with New York Republicans, even as voters went to the polls in special elections that could make him the swing vote.

Shawn Steel, Republican National Committeeman from California, said he didn't think a few contributions from Trump world were going to matter to voters in the three districts where members are vulnerable.

«The week that Wisconsin voters threw out Russ Feingold, the only step - grandson Fighting Bob La Follette had left in the U.S. Senate, I went to hear an Upper Midwesterner of similar pedigree, Bob Dylan of Hibbing, Minnesota.»

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

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.

Between now and the election, it is going to do everything in its power to remind voters that he is Mormon.

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.

The proportion of black prisoners is extraordinary, and recently with the whole question of Florida, the number of black voters who are actually disenfran chised in a number of ways is quite eloquent, I think, as to what's going on in your country.»

If you find yourself in either of these groups of people, please tear up your voter registration cards and not vote until you have gone back to school and learned proper reading comprehension and critical thinking.

Garrison and Sumner were never going to get the vote of the swing voter in Illinois or Pennsylvania.

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.

The folks at National Review aren't sure there was a big jump in turnout, though the Associated Press is quite emphatic that voters went to the polls in epic numbers.

The GOP has completely abandoned its social libertarian views in order to go along with religious voters» uncompromising views on abortion rights and gay rights.

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.

Voters in Ireland will be going to the polls in May to cast their vote on liberalising the country's... More

Voters in Ireland will be going to the polls in May to cast their vote on liberalising the country's restrictive abortion laws.

Voters go to the polls in Melbourne's inner city in the Batman byelection and in the South Australian state election.

Voters aren't going to punish this team too much, and most would agree it is now the best one - loss club in the country.

It just goes to show that 23.2 % of those voters are knowledgeably open minded, while 39.4 % of them are bias and that the rest of them voters (37.4 %) are clearly living in a delusional fantasy world.?

With just three games to go in the regular season, and back - to - back games against Ball State and Toledo, the Huskies will need to win over voters and pull off some style wins that will carry more weight than a 44 - point victory over UMass.

Voters in the UK go to the polls on 7 May to elect a new Parliament and so a new government.

I think the sign off from CRA above says it all... Just like when you read a voter ballot on propositions, I go straight to the source of who is behind the voice, and CRA consistently has used this «trace» argument time and again, just like the chem companies do with the lead in lipstick (I just attended the Teens Turning Green national summit, and found the debriefing almost verbatim to the CRA «counterpoint» above... it's only a «little» lead, not enough to... blahdeblah, times «x» amounts of applications per day times «x» amounts of other products with «trace» amounts, ad infinitum...)

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

«These are people who are trusted by voters to go in and do the right thing, to use the money to benefit the community.»

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.