Sentences with phrase «legislators voted against»

As part of this collaborative initiative, 5 Gyres will offer envelopes to beach clean up participants, so they can send found pieces of polystyrene trash to congressional representatives in Sacramento — where this year legislators voted against SB - 705, a statewide polystyrene ban.

Only three legislators voted against giving Brega nearly $ 4 million dollars to wash the buses and raise County taxes by 4 % — Democrat Meyers with Republicans Carey and Grant.

Legislators voted against the amendment 258 - 176.

Despite requests from several speakers from Cortland and across the state, legislators voted against the proposal.

Five legislators voted against the plan, saying those Oneida Indian Nation funds could be used for projects with a large economic impact for the county.

A majority of state legislators voted against a gay - marriage proposal last year.

Three legislators voted against the budget last fall: Legislator Tom Barraga (R - East Islip), Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) and Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore).

The Republican had intended to file suit one month ago, but the Democratic majority county Board of Legislators voted against it, so Astorino is going a different route.

A proposal for an earlier bar - closing hour in Erie County failed today, with seven county legislators voting against the idea and only three supporting it.

The seven - person panel's recommendations, due by Nov. 15, would automatically become law unless legislators vote against the bump, which also includes other state officials, including the comptroller and attorney general.

Had one more more legislator voted against extending the sales tax, County Executive Mark Poloncarz said the county would have plunged into a financial crisis that would have made the red - green budget crisis of a decade ago «appear minor.»

Had one more more legislator voted against extending the sales tax, County Executive Mark Poloncarz said t...

On spending legislation, the Council accorded a percentage score based on how much spending the legislator voted against.

Through the entire legislative process, only one Democratic legislator voted against the bill (In the State House) and neither Malloy nor his administration ever raised any public opposition to the common sense bill.

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The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) jettisoned its 43 - year Georgia affiliate after Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) encouraged federal legislators to vote against the Pain - Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

[126] Two new legislators who were thought to support the amendment voted against it, while nine who had supported it in January, seven Democrats and two Republicans, changed their votes to oppose it.

Malliotakis cast herself as one of the few New York City legislators to have voted against allowing a recent increase in that debt and suggested that the governor should «take some control over the MTA or dismantle it.

These legislators also voted against the tobacco 21 bill: Derek T. Shepard, 13th Disrict, Baldwinsville; Casey Jordan, 14th District, Clay; Debra J. Cody, 5th District, Clay; and Michael Plochocki, 6th District, Marcellus.

Holmquist, who voted against the bond authorization, said county legislators needed more time to evaluate the finances of the amphitheater.

The report states that legislators have voted on those numbers against the advice of their own consultants, even increasing the 2012 projections before passing the final budget.

Although Republican legislators voted to borrow the money, all legislative Democrats, including Curran, a Baldwin legislator at the time, voted against the plan.

But that changed when downstate legislators threatened to vote against it if their communities weren't included.

Legislators who voted against the plan say it will take too long to tax homeowners at a fair market value.

In last year's race for Westchester County Executive, republican Rob Astorino's campaign compiled the total number of times that his democratic opponent, George Latimer, voted for tax increase as a member of the Westchester County Board of legislators, which was 46 %, and used it to campaign against him as a «tax and spend democrat.»

The budget was approved as proposed by a vote of 8 - 3 with Legislators Lorigo, Morton and Rath voting against.

He paired the emergency money with structural cuts, loading the bills — each of which kept government running for a week — with farther - reaching measures to correct the deficit, and dared legislators to vote against them, thereby shutting down government.

The Town of Ulster board will meet in special session Thursday, October 26 at 7 p.m. to vote on whether to release the contents of a police dashboard camera regarding a charge of speeding against county legislator Jennifer Schwartz Berky on May 24.

Legislator Tom Barraga (R - East Islip), who spent over 20 years in Albany as an assemblyman, voted along with legislators Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk) and Tom Cilmi (R - Bay Shore) against the county Legislature's budget — pointing to past bailouts in New York City and Nassau County as evidence the legislation would not be much of a risk at all.

MacIsaac had been defeated in last November's general election by a narrow six - vote margin in his race against incumbent county legislator Mary Wawro.

He admonished the people against voting «skirt and blouse,» thus voting for Parliamentary candidates not from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) as that could create numerical challenges for the party's legislators.

About one - third of state legislators received a failing grade for votes on gun issues since the passage of Cuomo's SAFE Act in 2013, the group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence announced.

Serino, a county legislator, voted against a resolution to repeal the exemption, but Democrats have seized on her vote for the county budget writ large, which included built - in revenue from the sales tax.

Heastie acknowledged the meeting in part was likely to have Clinton spur state legislators to get out the vote for her in the nominating contest against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

During the GOP convention, Coughlan supporters criticized Rolison for supporting the tax, and Serino, in an online post announcing her candidacy, noted she was one of only a handful of county legislators to vote against the tax.

Advocates and faculty held a «die in» at Cuomo's New York City office on Thursday afternoon and a number of legislators say they remain ready to delay the state budget and vote against it should CUNY

The A.F.L. - C.I.O., the Conservative Party, the Sierra Club, the National Abortion Rights Action League, legislators of both parties and Change New York, the anti-tax group, were united against the measure,» wrote Richard Perez - Pena, for the New York Times, on November 5, 1997, just before the con con vote that year.

«Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views,» Mr. Schumer said, saying he had thoroughly heard out arguments for and against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

When Governor Paterson announced that, in order to save money, he would add a one - day - a-week furlough for 100,000 state workers to the next emergency budget bill, legislators had a choice: vote for the bill and pass the furloughs they opposed, or vote against it and shut down state government.

Legislators Paul Burgdorf, Todd Drake, Mark Grimm, Brian Hogan, Patrice Lockart, Frank Mauriello, Richard Mendick, Ralph Signoracci, Christopher Smith, Travis Stevens and Peter Tunny all voted against the ban.

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Later, after Nixon and Mozes split and she and Marinoni began dating, Nixon became devoted to the fight for LGBTQ rights in New York, co-founding an organization to oust state legislators who had voted against gay marriage.

She questioned Hein's shifting some $ 2.5 million in Resource Recovery Agency subsidies from the county budget away from the trash agency, a bill she voted against as a county legislator.

Plochocki, a fiscal hawk, passed a key Conservative Party litmus test by voting against pay raises for the county executive and legislators in December 2015.

The fact the bill passed 9 - 1 in July, with one legislator missing, gave Morton confidence he could override the decision, but Thursday, the vote was split on party lines with every Democrat against it.

Among the speakers, Solon Supervisor Steve Furlin relayed a vote from his town board against ash with a threat to legislators, that people will watch their votes and remember it at the next election.

Niebel was the only legislator to vote against the amendment, which passed by a vote of 16 to 1 (legislators PJ Wendell of Lakewood and Mark Tarbrake of Jamestown were absent).

Three Erie County legislators with the Republican - supported majority voted last week against extending Erie County's additional 1.75 percent additional sales tax, part of the 8.75 percent sales tax all county residents pay that must be reauthorized every two years.

It was a approved 15 to 2 with legislators Ron Lemon (R - Frewsburg) and Bob Scudder (R - Fredonia) voting against it.

The resolutions to set the public hearings passed in separate 20 - 2 votes, with Legislators Richard Gerentine, R - Marlborough, and David Donaldson, D - Kingston, voting against the measures.