Sentences with phrase «introduces herself to the voters of»

Hochul, standing in a brightly lit kitchen, then introduces herself to the voters of the 26th district: «I'm Kathy Hochul and I guess this is what you'd expect from an Albany politician.

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On May 18, Swiss voters will decide if they want to introduce the world's highest minimum wage to their country where the cost of living is extremely high and the unemployment and poverty rates very l...

Schwerin went on to say that adviser Minyon Moore had raised tough questions about the wisdom of making the speech because it could «unintentionally end up elevating questions that aren't yet being widely asked and introduce new damaging information, especially super predator, to a lot more voters.»

Another aspect of the Swedish elections: voters in Stockhold back an already - introduced measure that changes a fee to motorists entering the city.

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.

Despite introducing a more flexible electoral registration system, Labour failed to stem the collapse in the numbers of voters who are missing from registers.

Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana have campaigned for months for their world - famous running mates, but the lesser - known vice-presidential candidates will be effectively introduced to voters tonight at 9 p.m. at a debate that colleagues predicted will put substance before mudslinging.

It's a positive piece of campaign lit to introduce the little - known political newcomer to Bronx voters.

The 2010 coalition agreement promised to: «Bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by - election where an MP is found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by - election signed by 10 % of his or her constituents.»

Internet voting was first introduced in the local elections of 2005, when more than 9 thousand voters cast their ballot via the Internet (this corresponded to about 2 per cent of all participating voters).

Peers voted for the second time to introduce a new requirement for voters to sign for their ballot papers last night, setting up another clash with the House of Commons.

With huge numbers of young people using the service, these features can help you introduce your campaign to a whole new pool of voters and / or supporters.

Legislator Bill Lindsay III introduced legislation last week to schedule a 2017 referendum asking Suffolk voters if they want to reduce the size of the legislature from 18 seats to 13.

A party that has struggled to increase its appeal to female, Hispanic and black voters featured a diverse lineup of speakers throughout the week, concluding with Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who introduced Mr. Romney on Thursday evening.

According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, 10 states and the District of Columbia have approved automatic voter registration, and 32 states have introduced legislation to create automatic registration.

ALBANY — Already riding an enviable lead in the polls and with his Republican opponent still struggling to introduce himself to voters, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has entered the final four months of his re-election campaign with an enormous monetary advantage, according to state financial disclosures released on Tuesday.

As the following graph of opinion poll trends during the 2010 campaign shows, so - called «Cleggmania» peaked immediately after the first debate, when he did most to introduce himself to most voters: his poll ratings, and his party's, surged, while both the Conservatives and Labour fell.

«The Commission will continue to introduce more imaginative approaches to addressing the special needs of certain categories of voters, especially marginalized and vulnerable groups.

Senate Republicans, who are pointing to today's Quinnipiac poll that shows voter opposition to publicly financed campaigns, are yet to introduce their own reform legislation, but are expected to make some sort of proposal in the coming days.

The parties will bring forward early legislation to introduce a power of recall, allowing voters to force a by - election where an MP was found to have engaged in serious wrongdoing and having had a petition calling for a by - election signed by 10 % of his or her constituents.

Alternative Vote (known as preferential vote in Australia) was deliberately introduced in order to thwart progressive voters: first tried in the Corangamite by - election of 1918, as it allowed competition between the two conservative parties without putting seats at risk to the Labour Party.

Florida Governor (R, Aug. 24): Wealthy former health care executive Rick Scott has spent better than $ 23 million of his own money on ads that have introduced him to Sunshine State voters and catapulted him past state Attorney General Bill McCollum in the upcoming gubernatorial primary.

J.C. Polanco releases first video ad of his campaign for NYC Public Advocate 60 - second spot introduces Public Advocate candidate to voters, highlights priorities J.C. Polanco, the Republican and Reform Party candidate for New York City Public Advocate, today unveiled his -LSB-...]

Councilman Jumaane Williams plans to introduce the legislation by the end of the year to allow Council members to serve three four - year terms instead of the current two, if voters approve the idea in a referendum.

Over the past three months, she has introduced herself to voters outside of Yonkers, and they have embraced her candidacy, as evidenced by the large number of volunteers who have stepped forward to help her campaign — numbers unseen in any State Senate race before.

Surprising, then, that the Bill in question was introduced by a backbench Labour MP and its main objective is not to reduce the deficit or «make work pay», but to tackle the problem of unregistered voters.

The push for voter registration reform, namely making it easier to register to vote, was first proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State address as part of his broader ethics reform package introduced at the time.

Mr Cameron said a Tory government would introduce true reforms such as referendums on council tax increases and the «right of initiative» - allowing voters to propose new laws.

Just yesterday, Mayor Bill de Blasio offered a ringing endorsement of Ms. Hochul as a way to introduce her to downstate voters.

Michael Morosi had the chance to introduce candidate Lamb to the voters and to answer several of their questions.

The veteran lawmaker, who earned 74 % of the vote, admits he had to introduce himself to thousands of new voters.

Tkaczyk, on a much smaller budget — some say a fifth of Amedore's though that's now changing — had been content to introduce herself and her family to voters, barely mentioning her foe.

Since he's now a senior Minister in two departments, and has a worldview untainted by fashion and a way of expressing it unconstrained by inhibition, I am surprised that Hayes has not been better introduced to voters by lobby journalists and others.

So unsurprisingly the Coalition agreement contained a commitment to introduce a referendum on AV, a commitment to reduce the size of the House of Commons from 650 to 600 members and to equalise the size so that there were approximately 76,640 voters in each one.

A Conservative backbencher who claimed MPs should be talking about issues that matter to voters ahead of the rebel EU amendment on Europe, is to introduce a bill paving the way for a referendum on the UK's EU membership.

But by the time he reemerged in early - summer to introduce himself and his policies to voters, the GOP had already begun to weave a narrative that dogged him throughout the campaign — that of the urbane millionaire.

Akshar introduced himself to the voters in an ad, where, dressed in jeans, he wielded a chain saw, that he takes from the bed of a pick - up truck.

The coalition is as muddled as New Labour in its own way, and Harriet Harman, one of nature's nannies, was right when she condemned ministerial plans to introduce voluntary voter registration on Thursday.

The changes on Tuesday, as part of a mini-reshuffle after Jenny Willott resigned as a whip, came after Baker intensified his attack on the home secretary by saying he had struggled to introduce policies in the face of a Tory «lurch to the right» in pursuit of Ukip voters.

He suggested that voters should be able to express a complete set of their preferences; no single voter should be allowed to dictate the outcome of the election; if every voter prefers one candidate to another, the final ranking should reflect that; and if a voter prefers one candidate to a second, introducing a third candidate should not reverse that preference.

Meantime, legislation introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives last year by Rep. Rush Holt [D — N.J.] that would require voter - verified permanent paper ballots (amending the tech - friendly but misguided Help America Vote Act of 2002) is languishing in committee and will not impact this year's elections.

As a result of the legal wrangling of the past few months, the question actually put to the voters was whether they wanted to abrogate a law passed on 26 May — and introduced by Berlusconi — which postponed the new nuclear strategy by a year.

Rep. Roy Ragland, a Republican, said in an interview last week that he introduced the School Textbook Marriage Protection Act after state voters «overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution in November defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.»

Now voters have the opportunity to improve the quality of education in Washington state, or at the very least, introduce an idea capable of augmenting the student experience.

According to Beth Sullivan, President of Education Voters of America, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa introduced the Keep Our Education Working Act (S. 3206), which would create a $ 23 billion Education Jobs Fund to help keep teachers, principals, librarians and other school personnel on the job as states face crippling budget shortfalls.

Animal welfare advocates including North Carolina Voters for Animal Welfare, Susie's Law, the ASPCA ® (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Humane Society of Charlotte, SPCA of Wake County, United Animal Coalition and The Humane Society of the United States applaud Rep. Jason Saine, R - 97, for introducing a bill to ensure that dogs are treated humanely in commercial breeding facilities.

More Nature Introducing Discovery Green for Earth Day Rasmussen Survey: Nobody Listens to Scientists, Only 34 % of US Voters Believe Global Warming is Caused by Human Activity Breathtaking!

News reports indicate that at least two members of the New Jersey Senate plan to introduced a constitutional amendment to require New Jersey supreme court justices face voters in yes / no retention elections.

As a countermeasure, the government introduced an oath system to replace the practice of «vouching» — a voter who has ID, but can't prove a current address, can sign an oath attesting to where to they live (item 3 above).

- If an initiative petition, signed by the required number of qualified voters, has been filed as aforesaid, the secretary of the commonwealth shall, upon the assembling of the general court, transmit it to the clerk of the house of representatives, and the proposed measure shall then be deemed to be introduced and pending.