Sentences with phrase «of signature gatherers»

«It's possible, but he's got the money to hire an army of signature gatherers,» said Baruch College's Doug Muzzio, a longtime observer of the city's politics.

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Stavisky's campaign was still in the process of figuring out what happened and said that no one was familiar with the person listed as the signature gatherer, Ashoka Bhattacharjee.

Funded by Ackerman and a secretive group of backers that is reported to have pledged or loaned the group $ 20 million, AE is already spending millions on paid petition gatherers in several states, including California where it is about to start handing in more than a million - and - a-half signatures.

Reporters noticed the absence of petition - carriers in Union Square; Spitzer had not only told reporters that Kwatra was with the campaign, but insisted to the New York Times that he would have 100 paid signature - gatherers on the streets early Monday.

Tred Hulse, a spokesman for Mastrianni, said most signature - gatherers were volunteers, but resorted to «three or four» paid staffers because the candidate declared in late - January — one of the last in the field to do so.

Paid signature gatherers collected about 16,000 signatures for petitions, according to Kevin Teeley, president of the Lake Washington Education Association.

The 21 - day signature drive was aided by paid signature - gatherers from out of state.

The group spent most of that money to pay signature gatherers to help get the referendum on the ballot.

Anticipating underhanded tactics that both sides might use, the regulations ordered that signature gatherers, the district, and its staff should be neutral, so that parents would be «free from harassment, threats and intimidation related to circulation or signature of a petition or to the discouraging of signing a petition or to the revocation of signatures from the petition.»