Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan races»

A look at those 8 and the efforts to move to nonpartisan races is below.

There has been no attempt to change this from nonpartisan to partisan, although several bills were introduced to change the nonpartisan races to gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.

Not only does SB 650 end nonpartisan judicial races, it would also end all nonpartisan races from local board of elections to boards of education and the like.

Efforts to end these and move to nonpartisan races have gone effectively nowhere.

Several committee members cited to trial judges, who are elected in the state in nonpartisan races, as «accountable» and specified that they did not want term limits applied to trial court judges.

You should always be careful in extrapolating results from a state Senate special election or a nonpartisan race for the state Supreme Court.

In addition, Casey Copeland was re-elected to a second two - year term as Prairie Grove Alderman (nonpartisan race).

The supposedly nonpartisan race turned out to be a partisan - driven slugfest heading into the fall midterms.

After narrowly edging out current chief Terry Bergeson in a nonpartisan race that wasn't decided until two days after the Nov. 4 election, Mr. Dorn said one of his top priorities would be revamping the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, or WASL.

As they prepare to compete along with a Republican candidate in the June primary, however, Tuck and Torlakson's backgrounds and perspectives on a handful of hot - button issues are making the nonpartisan race a referendum on whether change is coming quickly enough in a state where the traditional might of labor unions is being challenged by increasingly restive education reformers.

Not exact matches

Another factor in this race: The Campaign for Primary Accountability, a nonpartisan super PAC that targets incumbents, is devoting some of its significant resources to supporting Espaillat.

City Council special elections are nonpartisan, but the Queens Democratic Party is expected to play a significant role in the race.

But usually, when he's asked about the presidential race, Cuomo replies in general, almost nonpartisan terms.

Green Party candidates in the United States have primarily won elected offices at the local level; most Green officeholders have won nonpartisan - ballot elections (races in which candidates were not identified on the ballot as affiliated with any political party).

And the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election forecaster, has shifted the race toward Democrats.

In the most Republican Congressional district in New York, vulnerable Democratic Rep. Kathy Hochul was tied with Republican challenger Chris Collins in a horse - race matchup, according to a new nonpartisan poll.

The Queens Democratic Party's endorsement is likely to sway the outcome of the race, even though City Council special elections are technically nonpartisan.

It's nonpartisan, and covers everything from town races, state legislative races, to state - wide races, and has great maps to boot.

Jennifer Duffy, who analyzes Senate races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said that Paul's comments underline his political inexperience.

Mr. Borelli would be an instant front - runner if he entered the open race and a favorite to win the endorsement of the Staten Island Republican Party, though Council special elections are nonpartisan.

The nonpartisan Cook Political Report is calling three Congressional races in upstate «toss - ups.»

Copyright 1988 A spokesman for Washington's secretary of state said that all votes had not yet been counted in the race to succeed Frank Brouillet, who is retiring from the nonpartisan post.

In this year's race for Senate, Fayard has earned the endorsement of the Independent Women's Organization of New Orleans, and the nonpartisan Alliance for Good Government.

The race is officially nonpartisan, but support in Evers» past two runs has largely broken down along party lines.

Benita Dodd, vice president of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a nonpartisan research organization, told The Daily Signal in an email that the state's 6th District race was largely civil despite what many partisans saw as high stakes.

HB 1256: make Justice court races nonpartisan.

Instead, those races would go back to being partisan unless the legislation specifically authorized nonpartisan elections again by statute.

At the same time it repeals nonpartisan elections for all other judicial races.

North Carolina recently became the first state in nearly a century to switch from nonpartisan to partisan judicial races.

Every effort West Virginia has taken in the last several years (enacting public financing of supreme court races and moving to nonpartisan judicial elections) North Carolina has done the opposite (repealing public financing of appellate races and efforts to move back to partisan judicial elections).

With the expecting signing this week of a bill to transition West Virginia judicial races from partisan to nonpartisan, the number of states with partisan judicial races for their courts of last resort (usually called supreme court) will decrease down to 8.

CIRCUIT JUDGE RACES AS OF JAN. 26, 2014 Bill Adkings Humes Ridge Road Williamstown, KY 41097 Circuit Judge 15th Nonpartisan 12/5/2013 R. Leslie Knight P.O. Box 17 Dry Ridge, KY 41035 Circuit Judge 15th Nonpartisan 11/6/2013 John Brent Threlkeld 6 LaPine Avenue Williamstown, KY 41097 Circuit Judge 15th Nonpartisan 1/23/2014

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