Sentences with phrase «legislature with their supporters»

However, the cash - for - honours affair has revealed the flaws in this system, which allows political parties to fill one chamber of the legislature with their supporters.

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Last month, Maduro's government held a vote to replace the opposition - controlled National Assembly with an entirely new legislature filled with his supporters.

When an Espaillat supporter, after prefacing his question with a reference to «middle east... dictators... in power for such a long time, 30 years, 40 years» asked «when is too long», King first noted Espaillat's 18 years in the state legislature, but then veered off message saying that «if someone wants real change» they should consider the third candidate, Michael Walrond.

Senator Jose Peralta, one of the legislature's top supporters of the Dream Act, has broken with the traditional Senate dress code to wear a t - shirt urging the Act's passage each day that the Senate has been in session this year.

«If Prop 1 passes, we're stuck with what supporters admit is an inadequate system, and any attempt to augment it would require two consecutive votes from the legislature and another voter referendum.»

As for his own future plans, Hawkins said, «All I know is that in the coming months I will be meeting with our campaign supporters around the state to help local organizing and I will be speaking out on the issues before the legislature.

This year, charter school supporters met with 119 legislative offices, just one office shy of the full 120 members in the legislature.

This fall, a proposed Constitutional amendment will be on the ballot, which supporters believe will force the legislature to spend more state dollars on education and empower a Hinds County judge with... READ MORE

This hour - long feature documentary, Consider The Alternative provides viewers with a balanced understanding of publicly - funded charter schools from those who can speak about it best: charter school supporters, public school teachers and administrators, members of the legislature, the Nebraska State Board of Education and a parent moving through the education system.

• Women's health supporters in Ohio turned out in droves to voice their opposition to the legislature's attacks on Ohio women, with more than a hundred people demonstrating at the capitol.

With broad support from Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund supporters, the state legislature and Governor Baker, the passage of the ACCESS law demonstrates the collective desire to fight back against Trump's anti-woman agenda and to solidify Massachusetts» role as a leader in health care access and equal rights for all.