Sentences with phrase «of an early voting fund»

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Einhorn, fund manager for Greenlight Capital, accused Apple of cash hoarding earlier last week and is encouraging shareholders to vote against Apple's proxy because he thinks proposition two will kill the option of Apple issuing preferred stock.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

Because everyone knows that, rationally, Congress will vote to increase the debt ceiling in the last stage of the game, that affects how the earlier stages of the game are played: Congress votes for new programs, anticipating that funds for the new programs will be paid for by borrowing.

In early June, the board voted 4 - 1 to hold a referendum on a proposal to restructure the district's corporate fund to spend $ 11 million on the construction of a new recreation center, a senior center, an aquatic center and ongoing park development.

The Assembly and Senate both voted into the early hours of the morning, passing several noncontroversial budget bills — for example, a transportation funding measure that did not include anything for the MTA, which is an area that has caused considerable consternation this session.

Implementation of early voting needs to be adequately funded to be viable and must be included in the Executive budget,» said The Reverend Peter Cook, Executive Director of the New York State Council of Churches.

We applaud Senator Kavanagh for making early voting a priority issue and for urging the Governor to fund this reform in the state budget,» said Jennifer Wilson, Legislative Director for the League of Women Voters of NYS.

New York should catch up by enacting early voting so voters can vote on days other than Election Day, and put the funding in the budget to ensure it is effectively implemented,» said Alex Camarda, Senior Policy Advisor of Reinvent Albany.

In coalition with Let NY Vote, we ask Governor Cuomo to commit to helping ensure constitutional rights across all of our communities by including funding for early voting in the Executive Budget.»

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

What Cuomo's executive budget lacks is funding for the adoption of early voting.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is putting his money where his mouth is by adding funding in his 2018 - 19 state budget proposal for the implementation of early voting in New York.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

The funding could help counties that have been wary about early voting because of the additional costs involved.

«I'd like to thank Governor Cuomo for adding this funding to his budget proposal and recognize all of my colleagues in the legislature and the advocates, especially the Let New York Vote Coalition, who have worked tirelessly to make early voting a reality in New York.

Dustin Czarny, an election commissioner from Onondaga County and chair of the state Election Commissioners» Democratic conference, lauded Cuomo's early voting proposal and the funding that was added to the executive budget.

The Republican - led Senate may be on board now that Cuomo proposed funding the implementation of early voting.

«This piece of funding is needed to make early voting a reality in our state.

«The League has supported early voting for several years and we are thrilled to see that the governor recognizes the importance of this program by providing seed funding and thereby avoiding passage of an unfunded mandate,» the league said in a statement.

(Ed Day responds to Legislature Committee's unwillingness to request change in funding of early voting law.

House Speaker John Boehner is expected to move soon — as early as tomorrow — to bring up the clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for a vote on the House floor.

The sore loser — who finished a distant fourth in the September Democratic mayoral primary after eeking out a mere 7 percent of the vote — and his campaign committee filed the Manhattan federal court suit claiming his civil rights were violated a month earlier when the Board withheld the funds.

Members deliberated and passed a series of resolutions regarding the NY SAFE Act, funding for county 9 -1-1 communications, public health article 6 reforms, early voting, IDA reforms, Medicaid costs, and home rule authority.

Even before the EU vote, which caused the Dow Jones to drop by more than 600 points Friday, DiNapoli's office earlier this month reported that the fiscal year that ended on March 31 was the worst since 2009 for the $ 178 million state pension fund, which had a paltry 0.19 % rate of return on investments.

She gave an early indication of how she may have voted early Friday, announcing a deal she helped broker to secure $ 15 billion in funding to states for those services — including care for new mothers — during the transition process away from the ACA.

, announced in January, would provide state funds for counties to establish a 12 - day period of early voting before Election Day.

Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.

Zeldin said the vote Demos cited was a $ 3.5 million re-appropriation of Medicaid funding from an earlier budget.

We need real voting reforms: automatic and pre-voter registration, early voting, a constitutional amendment to allow same - day voter registration and mail - in voting, and enough funding, training and reforms to the state and county boards of elections to stop screw - ups like the massive Brooklyn voter purge.

Beyond the payroll tax and charitable donation programs, Cuomo offered up ideas to reduce traffic congestion in New York City, expand availability of flu vaccines for children, impose restrictions on sex offenders, provide funding for an early voting program, ban synthetic marijuana sales and target physicians who engage in medical misconduct.

Common Cause joins with over 30 organizations from across the state in urging the legislature to include funding for early voting in the final budget and bring New York's antiquated system of elections into the 21st century,» said Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY.

Today the charter school movement achieved an important win: the State Board of Education voted to give qualifying charter schools earlier access to the recent increase for Permanent School Fund bond guarantee program.

Next month, members of the teachers union will also vote on a new initiative to demand various things from LAUSD such as better pay, reduced class size, restored funding of early childhood...

As a battle brews between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Legislature over pre-kindergarten funding, the Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) board voted Tuesday to keep the federal government's version of early education, Head Start and continuing 15 of their preschool programs.

Ross, whose fund specialises in distressed assets, was among a group of North American investors who bought a 35 percent stake only months after Ireland signed up to an EU / IMF bailout in an early vote of confidence in the debt - ravaged country.