Sentences with phrase «majority of voters approve»

By contrast a large majority of voters approve of the job being done by Nicola Sturgeon.

While a majority of voters approve of Governor Cuomo's job performance, the New York State Senate and Assembly do not fare as well.

Not exact matches

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

When voters in Florida were approving a lottery, a survey found that the majority believed the lottery was going to pay the major portion of the state budget for education.

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, are seizing on a Siena College poll released Tuesday morning that found a broad majority of voters want ethics reform and anti-corruption measures approved this year.

If the district asks voters to exceed the cap, the proposed budget would have to be approved by 60 percent of those voting rather than a simple 50 - percent majority.

The poll also showed majority support from New York City voters for Cuomo, with 56 % approving of his performance and 37 % disapproving.

Manhattan voters remain Bloomberg's strongest supporters, with 56 percent saying they approve of the way he's handling his job and a slight majority — 51 percent — saying he's kept his focus in his third term.

By an overwhelming majority, voters in the Town of Monroe approved a proposition to allow creation of a new Hasidic Town of Palm Tree.

A majority portion of the more than half - million county voters expected to turn out for the presidential election must then approve the fee.

A majority of voters in New York approve of the job Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doing, up slightly from December, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.

A majority of voters continue to back the minimum wage being set at $ 15, a proposal that still must be approved by skeptical Republicans who control the state Senate.

The School Board Association's Tim Kremer says a survey of the state's school districts finds that the vast majority are budgeting within the strictures of the tax cap, and as a result, 93 percent expect their budgets to be approved by voters on May 21.

If you can't get a simple majority of the voters to increase your budget, you should be using the same one they approved last year.

Only a third of school budgets that sought to override the state's cap on property taxes while the broad majority of spending plans was approved by voters on Tuesday, according to the state School Boards Association.

A 60 percent majority of voters is required to approve a spending plan that overrides the cap, which was first in place last year.

Siena College polling in January and February showed that the trail was the only piece of Cuomo's agenda Siena asked about that a majority of voters did not approve of (57 percent opposed it in February).

Cuomo's actions have focused on his left flank: a Siena Research Institute poll earlier this month showed that fewer than half the state's voters view him favorably, and a majority of self - identified Democrats and liberals did not approve of the job he's been doing.

A majority of voters, though, approve of the way the governor handled the capture of the two inmates who escaped from the North Country prison.

But Quinnipiac's Mickey Carroll says the voters surveyed are less enthralled with some of the action in Albany over the past month, including, an all night session of the legislature that approved, among other things new district lines manipulated by majority party legislators.

According to a report in today's New York Post, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Governor Andrew Cuomo are all on board with the idea of giving voters a chance to approve legalized gambling in New York.

The vast majority of school district budgets were approved by voters in New York on Tuesday, but it's actually a decline from last year.

Fifty - three percent of residents approve of the way Bloomberg is handling his job, a view that is shared by a majority of Republicans, Democrats and non-party enrolled voters.

A majority of New York voters polled — 59 percent — said that the NYPD has «acted appropriately» in dealing with Muslims, and 63 percent approve of the way police are doing their jobs, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

Earlier, Senate Democrat leader John Sampson of Brooklyn accused the Republican majority of being more concerned with protecting its majority power and its conservative voter base than approving what he calls a civil right supported by most New Yorkers.

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A majority of Coloradans approve of the job Hickenlooper is doing as governor including many independent voters among whom he leads Beauprez by double - digits.

Miringoff says the poll indicates a majority of registered voters in New York State approve of Cuomo's job performance -52 % - and he continues to be well - liked in the state.

A majority of registered voters in New York State — 52 % — approve of the job Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is doing in office.

A majority — 53 % — of registered New York City voters disapprove of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to increase the city's sales tax to 8.875 % while 42 % approve of the idea to increase city revenues this way.

A majority of voters, though, approve of the way the governor handled the capture of the two inmates who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility.

The Massachusetts legislature gave its final endorsement to a controversial constitutional amendment that, if approved by a majority of the state's voters later this year, would permit state aid to private - school students.

In June of 2012, a majority of San Jose, CA voters approved changes to pension and retiree health care plans for city workers.

Before voters approved that proposal, local property taxes provided the majority of school funding, which created large spending disparities between schools in rich and poor communities.

A majority of voters (54 %) approve of the job he is doing when it comes to Connecticut's public schools.

A new public opinion survey conducted by Lake Research Partners has concluded that a majority of Missouri voters do not want their state legislature to repeal or weaken Proposition B, the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, which was approved in November.

A majority of voters nationwide, plus a majority of voters in a majority of States (four out of six) must approve the referendum.