Sentences with phrase «petition drive»

Many states have rules allowing petition drives for special considerations, like the recall of elected officials or to place an initiative on the statewide ballot.

At the end of a successful petition drive, parents will still have a struggling school to turn around, and even the most engaged will need continued help to do so.

But the legal tug of war is raising questions about the power of petition drives to effect meaningful change.

We are peaceful protesters attend town meetings, write letters to the editor of papers, hold protests and organize petition drives.

At the same time, the «Our Schools Now» group launched their own petition drive this week to provide more funding for schools through a sales and income tax hike.

Otherwise, they have to mount a pricey and time - consuming petition drive to stay in the running.

Can ballot access and presidential candidate petition drives be conducted simultaneously using the same petition form?

... There is still reason for concern that low - quality charter operators could gain control of schools by starting secret petition drives.

But at the time the movie was made, there had not yet been a successful petition drive, let alone a trigger - driven turnaround.

Yesterday also saw the Libertarian Party put out a request for donations to help fund ballot access petition drives in New Hampshire and South Dakota.

Senator launches petition drive for Assembly to follow Senate and make it a felony punishable by up to 2 years in jail to harm pets during the commission of another felony

«One of our roles is to bring everyone together,» says Purtill, who is also overseeing a grassroots petition drive against toxic testing.

Opponents of the Parent Trigger are still smarting over the successful petition drive at Compton Unified School District, which became the first of its kind in the United States.

It allows parents of children in persistently failing schools to force dramatic change through petition drives.

A coalition of nearly a dozen health groups, led by the American Cancer Society, is targeting Senate Republicans with petition drives, phone blitzes and social media posts asking them to «pick a side» between public health and big tobacco.

In Ohio, the statewide petition drive deadline for ballot initiatives seeking ballot access in 2012 is July 4, 2012.

In the spirit of Election Day, on Tuesday the «Vote Better NY» effort led by NYC Votes, good government groups, and others will launch a new petition drive in order «to modernize elections in New York.»

His many personal accolades include being the recipient of the California State Senate Recognition Award for promoting the appreciation of classic automobiles through the Valley Oak Auto Collector Car Auction and Exposition, and recipient of the Legislative Excellence Award from the National Specialty Car Dealer Association for his successful work in originating and promoting the 1997 grassroots petition drive to exempt 1973 and older autos from stringent new smog restrictions in California.

After taking a pass on challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand despite the fact that multiple polls showed him to be the Republican most likely to defeat her, Pataki launched a national PAC — Revere America — to spearhead a national petition drive calling for repeal of the health care reform bill.

The campaign includes an on - line petition drive and a series of ads that reference the Colorado high school massacre and also note that both President Obama and his GOP opponent, Sen. John McCain, pledged to close the loophole during the 2008 campaign.

The same group that collected more than 1,200 signatures to force a public referendum on West Seneca's library / community center is halting a second petition drive on the center.

Residents mounted a successful petition drive last month to force a public vote on whether the town should borrow $ 5.1 mill...

«Some in the media and some in the party in Hartford are pretending like this is not a normal process,» Smith said of his day - old petition drive.

«It's somewhat disappointing that they knew the will of the people that elected them that wanted a vote,» said Daniel Warren, who organized the first petition drive.

This is the first Justice Party petition drive that has succeeded.

Long couldn't help but get in a bit of a parting dig at state GOP Chairman Ed Cox (without specifically calling him out by name), saying the «dysfunction of the Republican Party, and with happened with leadership... cutting Rick off at every turn» gave Paladino an opening through which to mount a long - shot petition drive to force a primary — and win.

(A subsequent independent petition drive will be mounted later this summer for a third party that may or may not end up being called the «Taxed Enough Already» — TEA — Party).

SAN FRANCISCO — When billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer launched a digital petition drive to impeach President Donald Trump two months ago, some Democratic Party leaders dismissed it as an unhelpful vanity project — and even Steyer thought he'd top out at a million signatures.

NYC Public Advocate Tish James (center) joins the Three Parks petition drive to tell Senator Schumer «No compromises, no deals with Trump.»

(The Q poll didn't ask about former Rep. Joe DioGuardi, who petitioned his way onto the ballot, nor did it ask about Gail Goode, Gillibrand's primary opponent who also got onto the ballot througha petition drive).

The Green Party starts its 2012 petition drive today, September 3.

She said those voters could have died or moved out of state, which would not have been reported to the board of elections, or did not participate in any elections or petition drives since then.

At 9:30 a.m., good government groups and community - based organizations launch the statewide Vote Better NY petition drive to highlight election reform in the 2016 elections, Foley Square, Manhattan.

It seems his comment is meant to make Stefanik's petition drive seem impressive.

He has since launched a reform petition drive that is similar to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's NY Uprising PAC effort, although Koch has had better luck at getting candidates — including Cuomo himself — to sign on.

According to numerous sources in the Clarkstown Republican Committee, Sparaco was behind an aggressive petition drive to take over the Clarkstown Republican Committee with the full knowledge of the «voice - elected» current Chairman Vincent D. Reda.

Within days, the California Teachers Association launched a counter-petition drive — just as it had done successfully against a parent - trigger petition drive a year earlier in Compton.

Then there was * Unify Boston, * a months - long petition drive in which organizers gathered signatures from parents who wanted great neighborhood schools.

Do you remember hearing of a springtime petition drive in the UK in which independent booksellers were asking people to demand that Amazon pay more corporation tax there?

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Don't forget that the septics also claim that there is a consensus that global warming is not happening, based on questionable petition drives.

IL Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias Blasts Opponent for Anti-Gay Platform, Launches Petition Drive for «DADT» Repeal

Prevailed in representation hearing before the NLRB on claim that warehousemen who occasionally drove delivery vehicles should be included in a bargaining unit of truck drivers, resulting in the withdrawal of the petition