Sentences with phrase «of citizen petitioning»

About half the states in the US, however, do allow for some form of citizen petitioning.

The question of why right wingers have not copied this kind of citizen petition site, is something that has baffled us at Care2 for years.

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Quartz notes Carusone also published a petition in 2012 calling for Macy's to drop Trump's merchandise in the wake of his comments suggesting Barack Obama might not be an American citizen.

The company also sent the FDA something called a «citizens petition,» signed by 16 nutritional experts, which challenged the FDA's standards regarding the use of fats, in particular healthy fats.

His petition, signed by 750,000 in 143 countries, urges that the rights of Christians and other minorities as citizens of Middle Eastern countries be recognised, and that they have access to «dignified» living conditions.

Nestlé USA has joined a growing number of food manufacturers backing a citizen's petition from NuTek Food Science asking the FDA to allow «potassium salt» as an alternate name for potassium chloride on food labels.

However, we would like to join the ranks of people, including the more than 6,000 supporters who have signed the petition to stop the destruction of field trials of GM crops, in calling for anti-GM activists and other concerned citizens to not take action that could delay the assessment and ongoing research of Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency and reduce the damage it can do to the precious vision and eyes of children.

Last week, the parents of two young men who died earlier this year after ingesting caffeine powder met with Food and Drug Administration officials to deliver a citizen petition urging the agency to ban the sale of powdered caffeine.

But when that parent bands together with other, like - minded parents, or when that one concerned citizen starts an online petition and garners thousands of signatures, then they become a force to be reckoned with.

-LSB-...] number of citizens and organizations have filed a petition (see it here) with the FDA to keep the current rules in place and allow us as consumers (especially for our -LSB-...]

In their 2009 citizen petition, IDFA and NMPF point to various state policies and proposed national guidelines restricting the number of calories and grams of sugar in flavored milk in school, and then conclude that, without the use of artificial sweeteners, flavored milk will be barred from school meal programs.

And in support of its citizen's petition, the industry's main arguments, offered without a shred of supporting evidence, do focus on children.

A group of Cary residents called Citizens for Better Communities collected a petition with about 1,900 signatures asking that the Park District condemn the property, Renner said.

Holmquist, speaking on behalf of a group called Citizens for Beautiful Suburbia, said the petitions were signed by people who live in Orland Hills, Orland Park, Tinley Park and «the greater south suburban area.»

Needing 2,353 signatures - 10 percent of the park district «s registered voters - citizens submitted petitions with 2,920 names to the park district on Aug. 20.

But on Tuesday, three citizens filed objections to the petitions, claiming they are riddled with forgeries and reveal an overall «pattern of fraud,» according to a filing with the Election Commission.

Patrick Flynn, a former commissioner who formed an organization called Citizens for Better Government with former treasurer Ray Conway, said about 50 of the 62 people who attended the meeting Thursday have signed petitions asking Commissioners Mike O'Neill, Dale Larson and Robert McKenna to leave the Park Board.

«Citizens who signed the on - line petition agree that releasing her from prison would minimize the lives of those killed and is a slap in the face to all law enforcement officers who dedicate their lives to protecting our communities.»

This doesn't begin to account for the large number of Catholic Majority countries that will have their citizens petition their governments hard to rally (The United States is one of the few Christian Majority Nations with a Catholic Minority... the rest are usually reversed).

The first amendment affirms the right of citizens to speak freely and to petition the government to redress grievances.

«The letters are titled «Notice of Legal Information Warning», signed using the ironic name «Concerned Citizens for Good Government» and warn that «there is reason to believe that your (petition) signature has been obtained against the law,»» wrote Horacio Gutierrez, Rivera's campaign strategist.

Yes, this is the result of the official «We The People» petition site, in which everyday citizens start petitions which the Obama administration promises to reply to if enough people sign.

The New York Times has an excellent editorial by Jennifer Boylan https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/opinion/trumps-contempt-for-transgender-heroes.html?mwrsm=Facebook Here is a statement from State Senator Brad Hoylman, the only openly LGBTQ member of the NY Senate: https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/brad-hoylman/hoylman-denounces-trump-his-discriminatory-ban-transgender Here is a good petition to sign: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/784/587/976/ Finally if you want to hear about more events taking place in the ongoing fight to protect the rights of transgender citizens, consider joining TransPAC: https://transpac.nationbuilder.com/

With the combination of cutting - edge digital technology and a large audience of highly - engaged activists, StandUnited is poised to redefine how the petition process can empower citizens, voters, taxpayers, small businesses and other like - minded activists to speak with a unified voice.

Petitions are also commonly used by a number of parliaments (the UK parliamentary process is unfortunately particularly poorly designed) and local governments, providing citizens with the opportunity to petition their representatives to consider a particular matter.

If a petition on an issue pertaining to the constitution collects a specified number of signatures from citizens (or those authorized) within a specified time period, the petition launches a constitutional convention.

«And the only way this community gets a choice is if we — people like myself, Rachel Barnhart, Robin Wilts, and anybody else, Joe Morelle — is if those people file those petitions and I'm going to need, everybody will need 1,250 signatures in order to give the citizens of this community a choice.»

We are hopeful that Secretary of State Matt Dunlap will approve the petition without delay, so the 300 Maine citizens who've already signed up to collect signatures on Election Day will be able to do so.»

The gravamen of their petition is that in exercise of my rights as a citizen of Ghana under the 1992 Constitution, I wrote four articles published on 2nd November 2016; on or about 15th November, 2016; on or about 29th July 2017; and on or about 7th August 2017 which were «carefully designed by to expose the Party to public hatred, ridicule and opprobrium and to lower its reputation in Ghana and elsewhere.»

Sanders supporters — the bulk of which are senior citizens and members of the local democratic clubs — outright refused to carry the petitions with Shirley Huntley's name on them.

A room full of incensed citizens presented the town board with a petition signed by 800 Woodstockers asking the council

«I want to see citizens able to initiate inquiries, ask questions direct of decision - takers and have petitions debated... in short, people power to replace unelected quango power so that government is servant and not master.»

Standing outside the Board of Elections office in downtown Manhattan with four boxes full of petitions, Spitzer thanked the citizens of the city for «an outpouring of support.»

At the time, the Dudley was the second library in the city and a direct result of a petition circulated by citizens in South Buffalo who claimed that they wanted library privileges even though they were far removed from the main library in downtown Buffalo.

My fears that the chaos at the Commission would lead the present young crop of the NDC to self - destruct was confirmed when I discovered on 29th and 31st July 2017 respectively that the author of the second petition for the removal of the two Deputy Commissioners was Emmanuel Korsi Senyo, the concerned citizen, who had acted in the past as an NDC surrogate commencing action against the General Legal Council in the Supreme Court in defence of Francis Sosu, who had contested the primaries in my constituency, Madina, for the NDC.

To clarify: A citizen may gather a set number of signatures, on a petition, to have an issue or item placed upon a ballot for...

The government hopes the introduction of citizen's juries and greater use of petitions and consultations will lead to lowered crime, improved public health and an end to disillusionment with politics.

A citizen petition calling for the official return of the TZ name has over 108,000 e-signatures as of May 2: click here to see petition.

Alexandra Runswick, Director of Unlock Democracy, argues that setting up a petitions committee could help connect citizens to directly parliament.

When 3,500 citizens of Clarkstown signed a petition asking for a Term Limits referendum to be placed on the 2011 ballot he insulted their intelligence by saying that anyone coming out of a supermarket «just wants to sign a piece of paper so they can get on with their lives».

Every day the number of people who walked up unsolicited on the street and said we want to sign this petition; we want to show that citizen democracy works, was impressive.

CHRAJ was petitioned by the youth wing of the Convention People's Party (CPP), the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), and a private citizen to investigate the matter.

«We will not succeed in placing Green candidates on the Georgia ballot without the participation of citizens willing to carry our ballot access petitions,» said Al Herman, Secretary - Treasurer of the Georgia Party.

A private citizen, Gilbert Akpabey, in a petition addressed to President John Mahama, accused the former Executive Director of EOCO of embezzling monies meant for investigations.

Shittu in the petition dated 18th December 2017, said, «I am constrained to bring to your notice the unsavory development in our great party in Oyo State and the unbecoming behavior of Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who is expected to provide sound moral and exemplary leadership to the citizens of our dear State.

My recommendation to the citizens of Virginia - petition to impeach this governor and the lt. governor before you lose your rights to have a television set.

During the 2011 election campaign while running against a strong advocate for Term Limits, Republican Ralph Sabatini, Supervisor Gromack defended his action by saying that the citizens petitioning him belonged to the «Tea Party fringe group» and then implied that Clarkstown citizens were so stupid that they would «sign a piece of paper just to get on with their lives.»

Two Pfizer employees were praised as «quite brilliant» for «sending their key physicians to sightsee» during Furberg's ALLHAT presentation at the annual American College of Cardiology conference in California in 2000, according to e-mails entered into the public record after a citizen's petition to the FDA.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

Under the European Citizens» Initiative, a million signatures triggers a meeting of the EC to consider the petition.