Sentences with phrase «last election signed»

This is an announcement with one eye on a looming general election, but no one will forget that this is the same person who before the last election signed a pledge that there would be no increase in tuition fees.»

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Last week, many Republicans said their special election victory in a heavily Jewish New York congressional district that had been occupied by a Democrat for nearly 90 years was a sign of trouble between Obama and American Jews, among the most reliably Democratic voters in the nation.

A few months before the last election, I saw a Baptist minister on a street corner preaching with some of his church members holding signs.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

Thus, it may be beneficial to «Dance with the Devil» if your district didn't vote for your party in the last election, or they are showing signs of a swing.

Other examples from observers and social media included ballot boxes being stuffed with extra ballots in multiple regions; an election official assaulting an observer; CCTV cameras obscured by flags or nets from watching ballot boxes; discrepancies in ballot numbers; last - minute voter registration changes likely designed to boost turnout; and a huge pro-Putin sign in one polling station.

In an open letter, signed by Clive Lewis and Jon Cruddas, they argued that cooperation with other progressive parties at last Thursday's local elections could have tipped the balance in close - fought councils, just as it could have delivered a Labour - led government in 2017.

They signed up in their droves to vote in the last leadership election, but will they back Corbyn again?

Right - wing billionaires are going all out to buy Republicans this election,» read a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee email last week signed by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

After getting squeezed last year by an array of campaign committees, party committees and disparate super PACs, many of them are still sitting on their checkbooks — a worrisome sign for the party with the 2014 midterm elections fast approaching.

The committee also has agreed that Register Supporters who signed up for the last Labour leadership election will have to sign up again and pay # 25 to vote.

They'll discuss what Cox says are promising signs for the GOP from last week's election.

This is just the latest step in our renaissance, over the last few weeks with the Legislature's partnership we have passed and signed bond resolutions to fund the relocation and upgrading of our Medical Examiner's Office; funding for the new Sheriff's Police Academy; money to turn more of Building «A» into useable office space; funds for the relocation of the District Attorney's Special Victims Unit; plans for construction of a Board of Elections Storage Building and a bond to fund the replacement of the Samsondale Avenue Bridge in West Haverstraw.

On May 12, 2015, Governor Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill that reduced the petition signature requirement for newly - qualifying political parties to 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for governor in the last general election.

Ballot Access News erred when it reported that the new Florida ballot access law for minor party presidential candidates requires a petition signed by 4 % of the last presidential vote, unless the minor party is recognized by the Federal Election Commission.

A new political party must submit a written declaration signed by registered voters equaling at least 1 percent of the total number of votes cast for governor at the last preceding gubernatorial election.

1 A party is qualified if it meets one of three conditions: (1) in the last gubernatorial election, one of its statewide candidates polled at least two percent of the statewide vote; (2) the party's membership is at least one percent of the statewide vote at the last preceding gubernatorial election; or (3) voters numbering at least 10 percent of the statewide vote at the last gubernatorial election sign a petition stating that they intend to form a new party.

To put it in context, Gray Davis» recall needed 12 % of voter turnout in the last election — which meant that the petition gathers needed less than five per cent of voters to sign.

Assuming this takes effect immediately after Cuomo signs it into law, it will be in place for the NY - 26 special election — yet uncalled by the governor — to fill the seat abruptly vacated last month by former Rep. Chris Lee in the wake of his Craigslist scandal.

With the initiative method, an amendment is proposed by a petition signed by voters equal in number to 8 % of the votes for all candidates for governor at the last gubernatorial election.

«Republicans should look at the election last night and realize it's a giant stop sign on their tax bill,» a reinvigorated Schumer said at one of two news conferences at which he cheered convincing Democratic wins in gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.

«Members who have high - profile elections coming up or just are really out front on a particular issue are now feeling like they may be targets,» said Kristin Nicholson, a veteran Democratic chief of staff who last month organized a letter signed by more than 1,500 former aides urging an overhaul of Congress» harassment policies.

Indeed, as many as 164,000 people signed up to vote in the party's leadership elections on the last day of registration, with many crediting the rise of Jeremy Corbyn for this exponential growth.

The letter is a sign controversial issues surrounding education that have roiled Albany and school board meetings over the last several years will continue to be concerns raised in elections this fall.

If the party proposed anything else all we would do is start looking like Little Englanders which we did in the last two elections and end up with a Labour government that given the chance will sign us up for both the Euro and the Constitution.

The Liberal Democrats will be looking for an signs of recovery after disaster at the last General Election in 2015 which saw them dip from more than 50 MPs to just 8.

During last year's congressional election, several Aaron Woolf signs were pulled up and replaced with Elise Stefanik signs, noted Kosmider.

The Liberal Democrats are pro-European but at last year's general election supported an «in or out» referendum the next time Britain signs up to a fundamental change to its relationship with the EU.

Last week was the Labour leader's big fight - back speech, this week was meant to be about the Tory by - election defeat to Ukip and next week should have been David Cameron's Götterdämmerung with new defections to Ukip and the emergence of a letter in the press, signed by dozens of Tory backbenchers, calling for a change in leader.

Earlier this week, Cuomo's office announced that 17 of the state's 18 county executives had signed on, excepting Westchester County executive Rob Astorino, a Republican who opposed Cuomo in last year's election.

For a statewide office, the petition must be signed by registered electors, which are defined as residents of the state eligible to vote for the petitioner, numbering at least 2 percent of the total number of votes cast for United States Representative in the last general election for the entire state.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedElections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally comparedelections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

While watching it at a press screening in late November, I thought Spielberg had hit upon an accident of good timing since he must have signed onto the project before last year's election.

The defeats surprised some in the state who pointed to last fall's election of a pro-voucher state schools superintendent as a sure sign that lawmakers would pass at least a pilot voucher...

Signed by Gov. Chris Christie last month after drawing bipartisan support, Greenwald's law allowed districts to move school board elections from April to November, with the stated goal of increasing voter turnouts from what are typically only about 15 percent of registered voters.

While the election of Donald Trump raises many questions about the future of public education, state Department of Education officials remained cautiously optimistic yesterday that the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) signed into law last year will allow Connecticut schools to move in a positive direction.

Last week more than twenty - five health and community leaders, including Ita Buttrose AO OBE, Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM, Professor Ian Webster AO, and June Oscar AO, signed an open letter urging all political leaders and parties to put preventive health policy first this election.