Sentences with phrase «green voting base»

«There is a potential division in Labor on any emission trading scheme between its inner - city tertiary educated green voting base and its suburban and regional supporters who are employed in manufacturing and mineral industries.

That said I'll be interested to see what sort of ETS Garnaut can come up with to allay all my concerns about the current mythological creature the «inner - city tertiary educated green voting base» have been worshipping for so long.

Not exact matches

If people feel so strongly that despite there wish to vote Lib Dem of Green they wish to support the Labour Party on the basis that they hate the Conservatives they are at liberty to do so (too much Liberty which a PR HOL would address).

Working Families will draw organized labor votes, workers and cash, while the Greens will reinforce Schreibman's environmental base.

Unlike the Senate District 61 DFL local party, whose endorsement was based on a vote of its Central Committee, the Senate District 61 Green Party actually had all members vote for the endorsement.

This means the two Green MSPs will vote with the 47 SNP MSPs on an issue by issue basis and support the nationalists in any no confidence motion.

Syracuse - based Green Party activist Howie Hawkins is set to launch another bid for governor next week following a 2010 campaign that resulted in receiving 59,906 votes.

Based on 2012 turnout levels, the Greens would need about 6.5 million votes, or 6 million Sanders - loving Democratic defectors to add to her 2012 tally.

Hawkins garnered 176,269 votes (5 percent) for governor, but noted that the Green candidate for attorney general received 76,697 votes, which is closer to the party's base level of support, he said.

Labour — downgrading again to 265 - 275, based on the SNPs» continued surge and Conservatives doing better in our seat - voting question as the election draws near and views are localised: SNP 45; Lib Dems 30; Ukip 6; Green 1; Respect 1.

On May 30, the Oregon Green Party filed a lawsuit in state court, arguing that the Secretary of State is misreading the definition of «political party» and that the party is ballot - qualified based on its vote in 2008.

Thus my prediction is the Lib Dems will lose vote share and come forth due to Tory tactical voters abandoning them for the Tories and Labour / Greens squeezing their base vote.

The 15 U.S. - based organizations – 350.org, Climate Hawks Vote, CREDO, Earth Guardians, Friends of the Earth, Green America, Honor the Earth, Institute for Policy Studies, League of Conservation Voters, The Hip Hop Caucus, Oil Change International, Potlach Fund, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, and the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN)-- represent more than 13 million combined supporters.

True, there is a split along party lines in the US, but the question to be asked is whether the split is based on green ideology or whether green ideology is what splits the political vote (do you support AGW meme because you are a Democrat, or are you a Democrat because you support the AGW meme?).

«I can't vote for a bill unless my refineries [are protected]; because of the nature of my district, it's a job base and a tax base,» Green told Dow Jones.

He boasts an impressively terrible score from the League of Conservation Voters, based on his green voting record: just 3 %.

«In B.C., the issue of whether they'll go to card - based certification is very much still in play,» he says, noting the NDP government wants to follow Alberta, Ontario and federal changes but the Green party, whom the NDP doesn't have votes to do it without, aren't currently in favour.

So one of the fundamental principles that the Democrats base their support for this disallowance motion on is the fact that the State regimes are based on legislation which, at the end of the day, will not hold up», Senator Woodley as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19520 The speaker from the Greens party said «I will be voting for this disallowance because the regulations brought forward from Western Australian legislation do not uphold the spirit of the legislation that has gone through this parliament in the last decade of the High Court rulings that Indigenous people should have a real say in what is happening on their land», Senator Brown as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19524