Sentences with phrase «long before voting»
But this being politics, and this being New York City, that deal is often made in backrooms long before the votes are ever cast.
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In 1924 the writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson observed that «practically every Negro vote is labeled, sealed, delivered and packed away long before election.»
«Absolutely I would vote for her, and she knows, and I would be able to call her a friend, we've known each other a very long time, long before President Clinton ran for the first time,» Norman told Tania Bryer, host of «CNBC Meets» in an interview held before Hilary Clinton announced her bid.
But they have remained too complacent for too long, and now it's doubtful whether even last week's 3 % drop in sterling can turn the popular mood around in the nine days before the vote.
The week - long vote is open to all registered members (anyone with a dot - ca domain registration can become a registered member for free, but must have become a member before the start of the election in order to vote).
They arranged a boycott, moaned and complained and so the board voted to ban all religious messages, hence Tatum then moaning again when he said «The compromise was worse than what we had before,» Tatum said, «because the compromise says Christians can no longer advertise and we don't like that.»
Priscilla risked her life for the Gospel long before women risked their lives to obtain the right to own property or to vote.
Lieberman is an observant Jew who has long made a point to put his faith before politics - even if that means a post-sunset vote in the Senate will force him to walk the four miles from the U.S. Capitol to his Georgetown home.
For at least the past decade, in both Canadian and U.S. federal elections, network newscasters have «announced» a winner long before millions of voters in the western parts of each nation had an opportunity to vote.
Other guards: I thought long and hard about putting Jimmy Butler in that other guard spot and I may wind up doing it before the real vote is taken in January.
Last I checked Mert was the long - term 1st choice CB for one of the best national teams in the world AND 2ND in the voting for ARSENAL PLAYER OF THE SEASON behind Ramsey year before last.
Remember you only have one vote per poll so think long and hard before voting!
up, the control of whose votes, long before Bin Hammam tried recently to bribe them, enabled him to get whatever he liked whenever he liked out of Sepp Blatter.
After a long debate, the board on Monday postponed the vote on transferring operation of the before - and after - school care program from Twinbrook YMCA in Schaumburg to the Park District, because the park board has not formally committed itself to the program.
The mayor had a heated closed - door meeting before the vote with members of the Senate GOP, which he has long supported.
It also reinforces the reality that the votes the Liberal Democrats have lost since 2010 — which will result in large losses for the party tonight — happened long before the campaign.
Before the election, I explained why it was one of three main institutional problems confronting a Conservative Government, and why the English - votes - for - English laws proposal is only a short - term solution to a longer - term problem here.
In Akinbade's words on that day before he sojourned to the Labour Party where he lost woefully recording only 8000 votes across 30 Local Governments and the Area Office in Modakeke, Fatai Akinbade II stated that he was no longer needed in PDP because you Omisore had captured everything in the Party and was still brandishing it to mock them.
He briefly served as a consultant to former Sen. Hiram Monserrate, but severed ties with the ex-Queens lawmaker long before his conviction on a misdemeanor assault charge and subsequent expulsion from the chamber by an unprecedented vote of his colleagues.
Why does every presidential race have to boil down to two or three frontrunners and everyone else, and with the «everyone else» part written off long before a single vote is cast?
Kenneth Raske, president of the Greater New York Hospital Association and Medicaid Redesign Team member, called the measures «long overdue» last week before the panel voted on the package.
With that law out of the way, could we be heading for yet another vote before too long?
«Pension forfeiture is necessary and long overdue and I am very pleased to have voted in support of the measure so that it can now go before voters this fall for their final approval.»
As one example, when politicians vote on something, the outcome of the vote has been decided long before the debates have even begun.
Rangel's spokesman said the congressman has not yet been told when the full House will vote on the committee's censure recommendation, which came before the week - long Thanksgiving break.
The Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation then rambled a bit about how black voters were supporting gays long before Baptist ministers were something or other (I couldn't quite follow what he said), then Rangel got back on message, adding that no matter what the polls say, at the end of the day Spitzer will not have the votes in the African American community that current polling suggests.
Before voting on all the matters facing the Council today, they'll all be discussed — including land use deals in Long Island City and Willet's Point and restaurant health inspection changes.
Candidates who were previously not registered to vote or have registered with no party affiliation can run in a party's primary, as long as they join before the deadline to qualify.
I just think the party is completly lost in control freaks looking to take the high places, it's going to take a long long time before labour gets back to the real duty serving the people who vote for you.
I hadn't heard this line of defense from her before, although she has said repeatedly — including at the AG debate Tuesday night — that she regrets her long lapse in voting, which has been cited by at least two newspaper editorial boards (the Times and the TU) as one reason why Rice didn't receive their endorsements.
«If there is not rent regulation in the budget, or an ability to believe that we are ending up with much stronger laws long before June 15th, the deadline, that may be a basis for me and many of my Senate Democrat colleagues not to be able to vote for this budget.»
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — New York State Senator George Latimer failed to vote on the New York State Budget this past spring because he departed for Europe the day before the vote was held in the Senate to go on a week long vacation in the United Kingdom with his girlfriend, New Rochelle City Court Judge Susan Kettner, Talk of the Sound has learned.
a buoyant Rangel declared in the ballroom at the Uptown Grand, about 40 minutes after the polls closed in New York and long before the problem - plagued electronic voting machines were downloaded for tallies.
Yesterday on the House floor, he called for an investigation before any further votes were taken, though he the effort was, at best, a long shot.
A day after a vote was scrapped in the U.S. Senate on a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare after congressional leaders said the votes weren't there, Trump said he expects to get the bill passed early next year «long before the November election.»
The Green Party has a long way to go before it becomes a plausible third party, but Hawkins has taken it farther than it has ever gone before, with some polls showing him with more than nine percent of the vote.
Before any vote, leadership should lay out a clear course of action for the upcoming session and beyond including a comprehensive policy agenda, communications strategy, and long - term path for the Assembly Republicans to attain a majority in the chamber.
Holding a copy of the 881 - page budget bill and decrying the lack of time to read it before a vote Thursday, state Rep. Doug Dubinsky said, «This is longer than «Atlas Shrugged.»
But as in 2009, several senators are expected to disclose their position only in the floor vote, a dramatic moment rare in Albany where most issues are decided by majority conferences long before a public vote.
The necessity of forcing Republican incumbants to expend resources long before they normally would, and already being at a substantial cash disadvantage in a majority of competitive races and also the RCCC trailing the DCCC in national fundraising, will cause many campaigns to run out of money at the end of the race of expend more energy in fund raising instead of vote getting.
But LaValle, whose county makes up 10 % of the weighted voted at the convention, believes the nomination will be wrapped up for Molinaro long before then.
«The amendment before us has lower spending, and contains a long list of systemic reforms,» said Slossberg, «given those two imperfect choices and this very difficult vote, I will be voting for the amendment before us.»
This result indicates that the three main parties share 87 % of voting intentions - how long before the poll which reads Labour 16 %, Lib Dem 17 %, Conservative 54 %?
Her two years as health secretary were turbulent and she survived a no - confidence vote in the Commons that was brought because of criticism of the applications system introduced to reduce the time taken by junior doctors to train as consultants not long before she quit.
Asked how long it may take to decide how he will vote in the presidential race, Katko said it's possible he may not make his decision public before Election Day on Nov. 8.
Hours before the Observer published fresh, damaging allegations about how the various pro-Brexit campaigns colluded, possibly illegally, in the weeks before the UK's knife - edge EU referendum, Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings published a long screed of pre-emptive defence on his blog.
A long time Reformer, Dr. Merrell voted for Ross Perot in 1992, was active in United We Stand America, and helped form the Independence Party of New York before it splintered off in 2000.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — New York State Senator George Latimer failed to vote on the New York State Budget this past spring because he departed for Europe the day before the vote was held in the Senate to go on a week long vacation in the United Kingdo
Mayo's resolution sat in committee for more than a year before it came to the legislature for a vote, where it was defeated shortly after the Times Union revealed through a two - month - long examination of municipal payrolls and other public records that at least 11 local elected officials in the Capital Region have at least three relatives each working in local government.
Given all this curious behavior, the voters in Clarkstown should take a long, hard look at Councilwoman Lasker's track record before blindly voting on row A in November.