Sentences with phrase «last voting group»

We can expect even more giveaways to pensioners, the last voting group which can be relied on to vote for the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

Newman, who had the backing of an array of national abortion - rights groups and two members of Illinois» congressional delegation, campaigned heavily against her opponent's voting record and promoted herself as a champion of «working families, healthcare for all, and everybody's rights,» she told Business Insider last year.

Last month, Dimon prevailed at the bank's annual meeting when only 32 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal — backed by activist groups after the «London Whale» trading losses — to strip him of the chairmanship.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

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).

Francis was a big promoter of last year's peace deal with the rebel group but in visiting Colombia he will have to be sensitive to the viewpoints of the large number of conservative Roman Catholics who voted against the accord in a nationwide referendum.

Last week, the group wrote a letter to the mayor and city council of Temecula, California, urging officials there to approve the construction of a 25,000 - square - foot mosque project ahead of a vote on the matter this Tuesday.

Last week, the group announced it is partnering with other socially conservative outfits to spend $ 240,000 in TV ads «highlighting pro-abortion health care votes of so - called «pro-life Democrats.»»

There were 1,546 official religious groups in Crimea when citizens of that region voted overwhelmingly last year to leave Ukraine and join Russia.

Keller wrote in the New Yorker that pollsters have re-identified the term as they've highlighted a specific voting bloc, with 80 per cent of this group voting for Trump and a similar percentage for Roy Moore last week.

Late, late last year, a group of our writers were asked to vote in six categories as we launched CaughtOffside's 2015 football awards.

The Village Council last month voted unanimously to approve the project with minor revisions, despite opposition from environmental groups and residents.

Baby Milk Action and its partners in the International Baby Food Action Network and the Baby Feeding Law Group are delighted that members of the RCPCH voted last night to end RCPCH dependence on the sponsorship of baby food companies.

Schneiderman won kudos from the group for voting to pass the Hate Crimes bill and SONDA, sponsoring the Dignity for All Students Act, which recently passed the Senate, and delivering a «passionate and emotional speech» on the floor before voting «yes» on same - sex marriage last December.

Whoppi Goldberg is the latest prominent New Yorker to sign on to Fight Back PAC's campaign to legalize same - sex marriage, recording a Web video that seeks contributions to fuel the group's effort to oust senators who voted «no» on the bill last December.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general election).

People who are bothering to actively seek information about the candidates, even at the last minute, are obviously thinking about their vote and would seem to be more likely to be opinion leaders in their peer group.

The power, which was compared by human rights groups to the policies of Saddam Hussein, was rejected by the peers last month when they voted to send the clause to a parliamentary committee.

What's more, despite all the predictions that youth turnout would be down, voters 18 - 29 made up 19 % of last night's voting population — up from 18 % four years ago — and President Obama took 60 % from that group.

Separately, Dave Weigel confirms that «SaveMyCare, an independent pro-Democratic group, has purchased a half - million dollars of spots in 24 districts where Hillary Clinton won at least 45 percent of the vote last year», though it's unclear from his article whether these are digital, TV or both.

A number of state Senate Republicans weren't happy with a breakaway group of Democrats aligned with them after they voted en masse against a GOP budget proposal last week that included many initiatives the independent Dems had sought.

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.

This May will be the first time 16 - and 17 - year - olds will be eligible to vote in a Scottish Parliament election and follows a change in the law last year which allows this age group to vote in all Scottish parliamentary and council elections.

A coalition of liberal groups is releasing new polling to show that health care could be a key issue in the midterms, and that a vote for the Republican health care plan last year could come back to hurt GOP incumbents.

Last week, pushback from conservative groups helped to topple the House leadership's attempt to pass a continuing resolution that would have forced on the Senate a symbolic vote to defund Obamacare.

A liberal outside group is targeting incumbent Republicans for their vote in support of the tax legislation that was passed last year.

Farage last night described Vote Leave, which is backed by several Conservative ministers, as the choice of the Westminster establishment, but insisted the split between the two groups would not affect the final result.

A handful of Democratic House female members did an absurdly normal thing together one night last week: Instead of splintering off to fundraisers, the group of perennially vulnerable incumbents met for a laid - back dinner at a Thai restaurant on Barracks Row after evening votes.

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.

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 comment I made to the press was inclusive and rebuts the idea of a «formal» group or any faction but recognises that perhaps on other major European votes, some of the MPs who voted for the Motion last Monday, may or may not vote along similar lines in the future.

It is not isolated from Labour's individual membership — nearly 40 per cent of whom voted for Socialist Campaign Group candidates in last October's NEC elections and, for the first time since the early 1980s, the middle ground in the party is moving to the left.

Capelle, who led the crusade to get a vote in the State Senate on the issue of gay marriage last fall, is leaving after one of the group's most significant recent defeats.

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.&raLast 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.&ralast 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.»

Cummings's strategy was to target people in the last days of the campaign and Vote Leave gave the smaller group # 100,000 in the last week.

Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.

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.

The Bronx pol managed to receive his per diems — payments for each day spent in Albany — despite missing 173 votes last year, about 15 % of the total votes held during the year, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.

While the landlord interest group ran a previous ad campaign in the lead up to last year's rent freeze, the RSA plans to continue the negative spots after this year's vote — all the way up to the next mayoral election in 2017.

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

Yet this is the policy position with which it is going into the Smith Commission, the group set up to fast - track more devolution to Scotland following the No vote in last month's referendum under the chairmanship of Lord Smith of Kelvin.

Last week's vote on tuition fees will only increase this group's anger with its Lib Dem partners.

On April 6, Pro-NPP pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) embarked on a demonstration in what it described as the last resort to push the Electoral Commission (EC) to clean the voter's register ahead of the parliamentary and presidential polls in November.

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.

Nunes had been gaining strong support from gay rights groups who decried Huntley's no vote on the gay marriage bill last year.

But a last - minute ad campaign by labor unions and other interest groups ultimately dissuaded voters for voting «yes» on the ballot question.

Her group joined other progressive elements in opposing a constitutional convention the last time the vote was held, twenty years ago.

The pro-traditional marriage group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms says the end to McDonald's senate career means «values voters» have followed through with their warnings against Republican senators who voted for gay marriage last year.

Last night ITV announced it was to host a live TV event featuring David Cameron and Nigel Farage, but none of the Tory figureheads of the official group, Vote Leave.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.