Sentences with phrase «petition drives»

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

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

This new coalition has launched what they call «Testing Resistance & Reform Spring» (actionnetwork.org/groups/testing-resistance-reform-spring) in an effort to support testing boycotts, rallies, opt - out organizing, town hall forums, and petition drives.

Instead of prompting reform - minded unity, both petition drives have been criticized for creating «chaos and division» in the community.

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

Through votes, school board meetings, petition drives, and direct advocacy, all citizens, at least in principle, can influence public education.

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

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

And speaking of petition drives, the group will be starting a petition drive soon for a vote on upsizing the Town Board, and the group's organizer has an online petition calling on the state comptroller to investigate West Seneca's finances.

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.

We're starting these petition drives for full party access early so we can get them out of the way efficiently before the frantic peak period in 2012.

Petition drives are already under way to place Barr, McKinney and Nkromo on the 2012 General Election ballot.

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.

«As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a single - minded agenda: Take away women's health care, destroy Planned Parenthood, and block women's access to safe abortion care,» the Planned Parenthood Action fund wrote in a recent petition drive.

The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

To clear up alleged miscommunication during the petition drive, the Park Board invited residents to attend a board meeting and question board members about spending, rather than making decisions based on apparent rumors.

He argued that a successful petition drive would guarantee that at least some questions regarding the proposed Newton Park facility would be on the November ballot.

Ironically, the petition drive was organized by park district instructors and patrons concerned that the swimming pool at Dellwood Park and some of the programs there might be shifted to a new facility at Lockport East High.

But if the district «s suit fails and the petition drive is successful, the referendum questions favored by the petition drive organizers would appear on the ballot, according to officials.

The new law reduces the number of signatures required for a referendum to 7.5 percent of the registered voters from 15 percent and increases the number of days for a petition drive to 30 from 21.

The three citizens who filed objections to the petition drive — including Board President Jack Durkin — produced a 418 - page analysis Tuesday detailing what they say are the petitions» shortcomings.

NEW LENOX — A petition drive asking three New Lenox Park District commissioners to resign began last week at a meeting called by two former park officials.

The controversy erupted last month when Kallas successfully organized a petition drive demanding that the Oakbrook Terrace Park District reject plans to convert a tennis court at Heritage Park into...

Some residents opposed to the project had organized a petition drive and gathered more than 1,000 signatures asking for a public...

Some residents opposed to the project had organized a petition drive and gathered more than 1,000 signatures asking for a public referendum on the tax increase that would be needed to pay for the building.

«If you put in a path, they're going to party even more along the banks,» said Nikola, who helped organize the petition drive.

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.

In the meantime, Ognibene remains on the independent Taxpayers Party line that Paladino created through a petition drive.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox insisted following the failure of his preferred candidate, Steve Levy, to make it onto the ballot at the convention today that the party - switching Suffolk County executive's gubernatorial campaign is finished and he will not be trying to launch a petition drive for an independent bid.

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.

John Tobacco says his petition drive to force an Independence Party primary with Rep. Mike McMahon is going well.

This e-mail is being forwarded around by Warren Redlich, who is also trying to petition his way onto the ballot and has been endorsed by the Libertarian Party (which doesn't have ballot status, hence the petition drive).

Skelos and other Senate GOP lawmakers have begun to push back against the notion that they aren't in favor of the cap by staging an online petition drive and accusing Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver of holding up the bill.

(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).

This petition drive will become the measure of our commitment.

Carvin has said he's willing to spend $ 1 million on his campaign, which would theoretically be enough to fund a petition drive — and then some.

A petition drive is underway to name one of the future new Staten Island ferryboats after Firefighter John G. Chipura, a Staten Islander who died in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.

There is in fact a petition drive directed at state legislatures by politically conservative groups who are particularly interested in adopting a «balanced budget» amendment.

Paladino admits he's unlikely to get onto the ballot at the GOP convention this week, saying he intends to take his case «directly to the Republican primary voters» with a petition drive.

Before leaving, Kwatra did not set up a paid signature - gathering operation, a source close to the campaign said, because Kwatra was tasked solely with handling day - one media, and did not at any point have a hand in the petition drive.

Linden also did not identify who on Spitzer's campaign is running the petition drive operation.

After Spitzer appeared Monday afternoon at his petition drive with no staffers in tow — and few volunteers canvassing the area — questions remain about whether his hurried campaign will be able to collect the 3,750 signatures from registered Democrats required to qualify for the ballot by the midnight deadline this Thursday.

As the State Senate today passed «Kirby & Quigley's Law» by a 59 - 2 vote, Senator Jim Tedisco (R,C,I,REF - Glenville), the author and lead sponsor of the bill, has announced a new online petition drive to harness the power of the people to urge the Assembly to bring the public safety measure to the Floor of the New York State Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.

MassResistance mounted a petition drive for a referendum to reinstate the law in October 2008, but failed to collect enough signatures.

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

Haggerty, who was instrumental in the petition drive that got Paladino onto the GOP primary ballot, is fighting the charge.

The petition drive is backed by a Google ad buy targeted in a dozen districts, including SD 43 (Joanne Yepsen vs. Sen. Roy McDonald), SD 44 (Susan Savage vs. Sen. Hugh Farley), SD 6 (Dave Mejias vs. Sen. Kemp Hannon) and SD 9 (Tony Avella vs. Sen. Frank Padavan).

As the State Senate today passed «Kirby & Quigley's Law by a 59 - 1 vote, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) has announced a new online petition drive to harness the power of the people to urge the Speaker of the Assembly to bring the bill to the Floor of the New York State Assembly for a debate and up or down vote.

Although several voters approached to offer their support, Spitzer was also heckled by a loud bystander for the first 10 minutes of his petition drive.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Al Graf (R,C,I - Holbrook), Assemblyman Dean Murray (R,C,I - East Patchogue) and Assemblyman Ed Ra (R - Franklin Square), today took their efforts to the next level to inform parents of their rights to have their children refuse to take the Common Core standardized tests by launching a new statewide petition drive: RefuseCommonCore.com.