Sentences with phrase «groups over the vote»

She has received a lot of criticism from gay rights groups over her no vote on gay marriage last year.

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When Vitter was in the House of Representatives he actually took calls from the DC Madam during roll call votes; later, Sen. Vitter expressed outrage over purported actions of the poverty group ACORN, where several staffers showed tolerance toward conservative operatives with a hidden camera who were pretending to be involved in prostitution.

Forecasts from groups such as the IMF and OECD in the run - up to the 2016 referendum were dismissed by pro-Brexiteers as «Project Fear» — intentionally over the top forecasts designed the scare the public into voting to remain in the EU.

Over the past week, two advisory firms recommended TMX Group shareholders vote in favour of the proposed merger with the London Stock Exchange on June 30, and reject the rival takeover offer from the Maple Group.

It's politically risky for the federal government to ride roughshod over state laws voted in by a majority of the people, says William McGrath, a partner at the Washington, D.C. - based Potomac Law Group.

The MP for Richmond Park hasn't been able to win over the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) vote either, and this is a problem given that this social group is on the rise in the capital.

ROZZANO, Italy, April 24 (Reuters)- Telecom Italia (TIM) shareholders will vote on Tuesday to confirm Amos Genish as CEO, while a widely - anticipated showdown between the top two investors in Italy's biggest phone group over board seats is delayed by 10 days.

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

One of the governance principles is that «Shareholders should be entitled to voting rights in proportion to their economic interest...» In other words, the Group does not favour multi-voting share structures that characterize over 80 companies on the TSX and that have been popular in Canadian IPOs over the last few years (see comments on Aritzia's IPO here).

As such, SL Group may be deemed to have beneficial ownership of the securities over which any of the Silver Lake Entities has voting or dispositive power.

ROZZANO, Italy (Reuters)- Telecom Italia's (TIM) top two investors will face off for the first time on Friday as they put their battle over board seats at the Italian phone group to a shareholder vote.

Some group of clergy who met back in Nice on several occasions over 1500 years ago because they couldn't agree on the nature of God, and that was causing such a rift in the church established at the time that they had to put it to a vote to decide what doctorine to follow, and then ended up excommunicating anybody who didn't believe that man had the right to decide the true nature of God?

It is known that younger people don't exercise their RIGHT to vote, as much as the over 40 group, or even the over 50 group.

Arsenal boss Wenger also dominates all three the demographic groups from the survey sample, securing majority votes from 18 - 34 year olds (15 per cent), 35 - 54 year olds (15 per cent) and over 55s (20 per cent).

The 6 - 0 vote comes as a blow to an organized group of residents who live near the practice field and oppose the lights, citing concerns over property values, noise, traffic and loss of the neighborhood's quaint character.

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Several labor groups, including CWA and 32BJ SEIU, left the WFP ahead of its vote on Saturday to back Nixon, an actress and public education advocate, over Cuomo, a two - term incumbent running for re-election.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

The fight over membership of the single market is set to become the next big battleground following the Brexit vote, with opposing groups of Tory MPs frantically lobbying Theresa May either for a «hard Brexit» option of leaving or a «soft Brexit» option of staying in.

According to Panelbase, over half (53 %) of this group now say they will vote Conservative, well up on the 33 % who were of this view in September last year.

Then, when Democrats still won a majority, he cut a backroom deal that allowed Republicans to take over the State Senate through the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)-- a group of breakaway Democrats who voted with the Republicans to hand them control, and with it, the power to block almost all of our key Democratic legislative priorities.

Andrew Murray, who took over from the Labour leader as chair of the anti-war group, accused him of «clearing the way for a vote to send the country to war».

While 54 per cent of young people want politicians to have higher moral standards, this increases to a whopping 80 per cent in people aged 65 and over — who are, after all, the age group most likely to vote.

True the Vote, a tea party linked group that supports restrictive voting rules, sent out a fundraising appeal Tuesday warning that «Hillary Clinton's attorney» had filed suit over Ohio's voting rules, and adding: «The stage is being set right now for a 2016 ballot box battle unlike anything we've ever seen.»

After protesting the budget Suffolk County leaders approved last fall, environmental groups have now sued the county over its use of nearly $ 33 million in funds that were raised through the Drinking Water Protection Program, a self - imposed tax that Suffolk residents have voted to levy upon themselves several times since the late 1980s.

Consider his interactions with the Working Families Party, a homegrown New York third party of unions and liberal groups that, because of the state's unique fusion voting system, has become an electoral powerhouse over the past decade.

The labor groups — still steaming over the Senate's surprise vote last month to boost the cap on charter schools — are promising candidates as much as $ 200,000 in campaign cash to take on leading charter proponent Sen. Craig Johnson (D - LI), The Post has learned.

The rank and file left leaning Lib Dem grouping has been weakened too much by haemorrhaging membership and the leaders payroll vote has already won out in other key conflicts over the NHS, tuition fees and secret courts.

«The reason I think it's important that everyone votes is because when you have an unequal voter turnout between demographic groups like we have now — people over 65 are almost twice as likely to vote as 18 - 24 year olds - then politicians look after the people that have elected them or the people that might elect them in the future.

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

Last month, east London MP, Stella Creasy, who was a target of leftwing anger last year over her Commons vote in favour of bomb attacks on Syria, said there was «emphasis by some in these groups on controlling the levers of power to select — or deselect — MPs and party officials» and concluded: «Groups like Momentum now appear to be draining the very energy from our political process they claimed to be promoting.&groups on controlling the levers of power to select — or deselect — MPs and party officials» and concluded: «Groups like Momentum now appear to be draining the very energy from our political process they claimed to be promoting.&Groups like Momentum now appear to be draining the very energy from our political process they claimed to be promoting.»

In a separate legal action, it has also emerged that a group of Labour members is taking the party to court over its decision to bar 130,000 people from voting in its upcoming leadership election.

The office of the Electoral Commission was closed down on Thursday when police and military could not control a crowd incident of the two political parties disagreeing over a group of people who had come from Damongo in the West Gonja District to transfer their votes in the Yapie - Kusawgu constituency.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a prominent liberal advocacy group that last week criticized Baucus over his vote on the gun bill, helped launch a «Draft Schweitzer» campaign on Tuesday.

Members of pressure group, Let My Vote Count have insisted they will picket at the premises of parliament and the Electoral Commission over their demands for a new voters» register.

The statement comes as Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are still trying to line up votes for the health care bill, which has stalled over the last several months, but revived after conservative groups pushed for action on the issue.

More than 30,000 people have joined a Facebook group requesting the resignation of equality minister Theresa May over her voting record on gay rights.

Only 25 % of voters aged 60 or over are supporting Khan while 39 % of this group say they will vote for his Tory rival isteadn.

Specifically, the theorem states that there's no way to design a voting system such that all three of these criteria hold: If every voter prefers alternative X over alternative Y, then the group prefers X over Y.

Three veteran members of the NYC Council's Black, Latino and Asian Caucus — Annabel Palma, Fernando Cabrera and Inez Dickens — said they were resigning from the group, citing ongoing conflict over the caucus» voting process for its budget priorities in the upcoming fiscal year.

«Whether it's voting to give free college tuition to illegals or allowing his campaign to be completely taken over by groups pushing for the passage of legislation that would give illegals the right to vote in our elections and serve on our juries, Todd Kaminsky has consistently put the «rights» of illegal immigrants ahead of the rights of law - abiding Long Island taxpayers and their families.

Just over one - third of this year's leadership electorate recall voting in the 2010 contest; we have weighted our raw data for this group to reflect David Miliband's lead among local party members.

More from The Hill: ♦ Senate rejects United Nations treaty for disabled rights in 61 - 38 vote ♦ Bennet accepts DSCC chairmanship ♦ Boehner goes on PR blitz to counter Obama ♦ Warren tapped for Senate Banking panel ♦ DeMint slams Boehner deficit counteroffer ♦ GOP leaders oust lawmakers from plum posts ♦ Internet «founding father» sounds alarm over UN treaty ♦ Health groups to Nickelodeon: Stop hawking junk food ♦ Senate Dems push climate change amendment ♦ US oil production hits 15 - year high

The rally was co-sponsored by members of the Let NY Vote coalition, which includes over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citizen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and the National Action Network, grassroots organizations, faith groups, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

Ribble's resignation comes on the heels of Rep. Tom McClintock, R - Calif., who left the group in mid-September over disagreements on the HFC strategy to vote against any continuing resolution that funded Planned Parenthood.

Supporters are pushing for the amendment as there is a concern it could be voted down amid a broader campaign against a referendum over whether to hold a constitutional convention, which is being opposed by environmental groups.

Yet over the final two months of the Brexit campaign, several pro-Leave campaign groups (Vote Leave, the DUP, Veterans for Britain — and bizarrely, a 23 year old fashion student named Darren Grimes) would spend over # 3.5 m with Aggregate IQ.

In the case of BeLeave, Darren Grimes, founder of the campaign, claims he heard about the group from friends who worked in the Vote Leave office, who he'd got to know over the course of the campaign.

The group hopes to fuel the kind of sentiment that in 2010 saw three justices of the Iowa Supreme Court kicked out of office over their votes making the state the third in the nation to recognize same - sex marriage.

The opposition, which also include pro and anti abortion rights groups, second amendment advocates and the state's Conservative Party, spent over one million dollars running ads and distributing lawn signs in the weeks leading up to the vote.