Sentences with phrase «of failed referendums»

Cartsens, who also serves as director of facilities for the Illinois Park and Recreation Association, predicted that Cary residents soon could face shortages in recreation opportunities, particularly in children's programs, because of failed referendums over recent years.

Part of the failed referendum proposal would have raised funds to build the 26 - mile trail system all at once.

Not exact matches

Polls ahead of the referendum had shown a tight race, but a projection for SRF public television showed the initiative failing by a clear margin of 55 % to 45 %.

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

After the Galena referendum failed to stop the riverboat's arrival, he decided to challenge the casino industry on the grounds that casino gambling is a threat to the quality of community life.

I am as leery of government by referendum as I am of government by judicial edict, though what's interesting here is that the radical pro-lifers may have doomed their own movement by failing so spectacularly in an extremely conservative, Christian - dominated state.

She asked audience members if they had considered what would happen if the referendum failed and whether it represented the interests of the entire village.

A similar, more expensive $ 48 million referendum failed in the March election with 52.63 percent of votes rejecting it out of 12,189 votes cast.

Comparing that successful campaign with the Park District's recent failed attempt, Brissa said the Park District must do a better job of getting comments from residents before proposing new programs or referendum questions.

After two hours of public comment Thursday, park board members at a special meeting voted 3 - 3 on a referendum measure, meaning the motion failed.

And as the district marks its anniversary, officials point to high satisfaction ratings in a survey of patrons and a balanced, $ 16 million budget as signs that the district is successful — despite a tax referendum that failed in April.

Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.

However, this policy of holding a referendum on AV appears to be designed to fail, as I pointed out in my blog four months ago when Gordon Brown first suggested it.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

It was only in the run - up to the ultimately failed referendum in 2014 that support for both the SNP in the House of Commons and their raison d'etre of independence soared to the crucial 50 per cent mark.

The failed EU referendum bill was a «bit of Valium designed to calm down» Eurosceptic Conservatives, a Labour peer has claimed.

If the council fails to adopt the proposition, and another 5 percent of voters sign petitions - that's roughly 1,350 additional signatures - the matter would go to a public referendum.

The referendum illustrated the breakdown of voter trust, as political elites failed again to represent the interests of their constituents.

He wrote to the Smith Commission: «The argument some use to justify our exclusion on the grounds that we currently have no «parliamentary representation» fails to appreciate that the referendum was not a parliamentary process, but an unprecedented public debate that resulted in an extraordinary level of engagement from all sections of society.»

Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.

Because of the unprecedented nature of this referendum and the large turnout, there are good reasons to believe that the polls may have failed to pick up the true picture.

Any referendum would face the insurmountable obstacle of gaining approval from the Scottish parliament - mathematically almost impossible - and even then would probably fail.

Marc Brunel - Walker (SE): If we do not succeed forcing a referendum in the Commons; if we fail to win in the Lords; if all other EU member states ratify the Treaty; and if an election is held later in this Parliament after the Lisbon Treaty has come into force we would be faced with the unacceptable situation of further integration having taken place without people being properly consulted.

In 1979, however, the Welsh Liberals suffered from the Lib - Lab pact, and support for the failed devolution referendum resulted in a poor election for the Liberals: over half of their 28 candidates lost their deposit.

Appeasing the nationalist right rarely works — something which David Cameron failed to understand with his own attempts to curb immigration through clamping down on «health tourism» or the offer of a EU referendum.

The referendum required approval by 60 % of votes and simple majorities in 60 % of the 79 districts in order to pass: final results indicate that the referendum failed with only 57.7 % of votes in favor, although it did have majority support in 77 of the 79 electoral districts.

@ 79 I agree, but think the same applies to the Tories — Cameron will blame the failings of any Tory admin on the Lib Dems and go to the people before any referendum can come through / the results put to legislation (or perhaps even call a general election on it).

When told that the governor's plan is to push for more gambling in New York regardless of whether a public referendum passes or fails this fall, with VLT casinos as the default plan, New Yorkers were even more strongly opposed, with 65 percent saying they feel that's a bad idea.

Lord Forsyth had been part of an effort to secure parliamentary approval of the referendum result if turnout dropped below 40 %, but the effort failed.

«If the referendum fails, generations of support for gaming in the Catskills will be dashed for no other reason, perhaps, than a failure to offer the best, most transparent plan, that provides the maximum information to voters.

Bloomberg spent $ 7 million of his own money pushing nonpartisan elections in a 2003 referendum that failed 70 % to 30 %, but never wavered in his belief that removing party labels in local elections would lead to better competition and decrease the power of political bosses.

Corbyn has been hit by scores of resignations and has failed to win the backing of 80 % of his MPs in a confidence ballot since Britain voted to leave the European Union in June's referendum.

Concern about the growing support for the SNP's proposals for an independent Scottish state — boosted by the discovery of North Sea oil in 1970 — led Harold Wilson's government to set in motion the devolution referendum, which took place, and failed, in 1979.

Arlene McCarthy opposes it on the grounds that «the Eurosceptics pushing for this referendum have failed to come up with alternatives to our membership of the EU.»

I think the European referendum was a test of leadership and Jeremy failed that test.

The AV and EU referendums failed to go his way, while five years of coalition with the Conservatives diminished his party such that they were wiped out at the 2015 election, with Clegg's seat, on the back of a student vote, angry about tuition fees, turning Corbynite two years later.

A bill to give voters a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU today officially failed in the House of Lords.

Speaking of Gerson's failed amendment to hold a referendum on extending term limits, Mendez says, «Alan... all I can say about that amendment is it was lame — and everyone knew it.»

There's one other intriguing possibility - which some Labour people suspect may have happened - that in a desperate moment Gordon Brown privately offered Lib Dems AV without an referendum, but failed to tell Jack Straw or any of his other colleagues or the Labour negotiators about his offer.

It also cited an instance of how Kanu allegedly incited his followers «to disrupt, disallow and boycott elections in south East states, starting with Anambra State governorship election scheduled to hold onvbNovember 18, 2017, if the Federal Government failed to hold a referendum for the realisation of the state of Biafra nation.»

Regardless of whether the referendum passes or fails, Long Island is getting video slot machines.

Delivering his post EU referendum result speech in London, Mr Farage said: «The EU is failing, the EU is dying and I hope we've knocked the first brick out of the wall.

Delivering his post EU referendum result speech in London, Farage said: «The EU is failing, the EU is dying and I hope we've knocked the first brick out of the wall.

To answer you're question, Labour lost because of the economy, on Scotland (by failing to deal with the referendum and it's fallout and by not countering Cameron's allegation that there would be a Labour SNP coalition — not likely and not as distasteful as a Tory - DUP coalition), and because they did not put enough of a policy gap between themselves and the Tories.

Brown accused David Cameron of dishonesty in failing to explain his plans in clear terms to the people of Scotland during the referendum campaign.

Nick Clegg has revealed he urged David Cameron to change the remain campaign strategy in the final weeks before the EU referendum, saying the economic - focused Stronger In campaign was «bloodless» and failing against the emotional pull of the leave campaign.

The No campaign, Better Together, with its focus - group tested slogan, «No Thanks», was essentially run by the Labour Party — chaired by Alistair Darling, the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer responsible with Brown for the deregulation of uk banks, and directed by Blair McDougall, who had organized David Miliband's failed Labour leadership bid — though its platform included local Tories and Liberal Democrats, to the embarrassment of many Labour functionaries, who preferred to claim that the whole referendum campaign was a waste of time.

«This, in the case of the EU referendum where multiple factors influence the decision simultaneously, failed to predict the eventual outcome.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

Referendum 55, a measure that gave voters a chance to decide the fate of a legislative bill passed in 2003 allowing charter schools, was failing by a large margin Tuesday night...