Sentences with phrase «introducing himself to voters in»

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.

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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.

The Senate GOP has introduced a $ 5 billion bond act to go before voters in November.

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).

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.

Attorney General Schneiderman has been a leader in the fight to reform New York's antiquated voting laws, detailing New York's voter access issues in a 2016 report, and introducing legislation to protect and expand voting rights.

The Conservatives are set to woo countryside voters by pledging to introduce «shire deals» for local authorities in their general election manifesto.

In 2017, Somaliland introduced advanced voting technology, using the sophistication to clean its voter register.

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.

«The kickoff to the campaign was a huge success as we introduced voters to Cynthia's progressive agenda, leading to massive gains in the polls and causing Andrew Cuomo and his surrogates to melt down,» Nixon spokeswoman Sarah Ford said.

Matthews introduced herself to voters when she kicked off her campaign in June.

While James is a well - known figure in New York City politics, she will have to introduce herself to noncity voters and appeared to already have the upstate challenge on her mind, Wednesday.

In his endorsement, Sanders touted Abrams» proposals to expand the pre-kindergarten program, raise the minimum wage, introduce automatic voter registration and eliminate cash bail.

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.

On their face, the tours serve to introduce the relatively little known leaders to voters, but also check in with members on their turf (a few fundraising stops probably don't hurt, either, though Heastie does not have any planned on his trip).

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.

A full list is available at letnyvote.org.Attorney General Schneiderman has been a leader in the fight to reform New York's antiquated voting laws, detailing New York's voter access issues in a 2016 report, and introducing legislation to protect and expand voting rights.

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.

The bill introduced on Thursday can be seen as Storobin doubling down on his effort to keep those voters in the fold as he gears up for yet another election this fall against Felder.

After Warren introduced the president at a Boston campaign event, Obama took the stage and urged voters to support Warren in her heated challenge against Republican Sen. Scott Brown.

Quinn has helped push Cuomo's new Women's Equality Party in recent weeks, headlining events for the newly created party and stumping for Cuomo's running mate, Kathy Hochul, as she introduced herself to downstate voters.

Katko's campaign released radio ads in April to introduce him to central New York voters.

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.

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.

It's unlikely Eagle will be a hit with young voters either — having voted both to introduce tuition fees in 1998, and then to treble them in 2004.

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.

Mr. Sharpton, in introducing Mr. Cuomo, also seemed to hint at the scramble between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon to win over black voters — and seemed to take a swipe at Ms. Nixon for merely «talking about» being progressive, although he did not mention her by name.

Despite cross-party support a private member's bill introduced in November failed to gather enough parliamentary traction to move government policy on general elections, where voters must be 18.

More than three in five voters support David Cameron's wish to introduce gay marriage, according to a poll conducted for the Guardian.

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.

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.

Bay Woof followed the two - pronged approach introduced in 2016 that allowed voters to nominate, in an open - ended fashion, their favorites in categories as phase one.

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.

Meanwhile, Rep. Leach introduced legislation, which was signed by Governor Ducey last month, that will limit financial penalties for utilities who fail to meet renewable energy standards if voters decide to increase them in November.

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.