Sentences with phrase «petition signatures gathered»

New York State Senator David Carlucci challenged over 1,100 petition signatures gathered by Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporters.

Tight lips at the Board of Elections as they work to verify signatures hurriedly BY SARA GILBERT New York State Senator David Carlucci challenged over 1,100 petition signatures gathered by Democratic candidate Grant Valentine and his supporters.

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Quartz reports that a petition calling for Macy's (M) to drop Donald Trump's merchandise has gathered over 700,000 signatures.

An online petition too has been filed which has gathered the signature of tens of thousands of traders.

Another petition, by CitizenGO, has gathered more than 625,000 signatures.

The European intitiative People4Soil will start a EU - petition and gather 1 million signatures.

A Change.org petition set up to promote his culinary - educational revolution has gathered over a million signatures.

Students at Northern Arizona University are the latest to push for the greener, healthier choice with a bid to gather 1,500 signatures on a petition in support of meat - free dining one day a week.

A petition on the website change.org, written by a team of internationally renowned scientists, quickly gathered thousands of signatures.

Apart from on the social networks, Indian Arsenal fans took up the issue on even online petition platforms, gathering signatures asking for people to sign a petition to force ESPN - Star to live telecast all Arsenal games live in the future.

As of early February, the students had gathered 2,000 signatures for their petition.

The first step in the process is gathering residents» signatures on petitions asking the Cook County Board of Elections to add the question to the November ballot, according to Ron Castrogiovanni, a spokesman for a group of residents.

The group, which boasts as many as 30 members, gathered 140 petition signatures from registered voters living on the east side of Lake in the Hills.

Haley Morris, inspired by a book about a young activist, had gathered petition signatures asking for the return of flavored milk.

The residents gathered more than 5,400 signatures on petitions to persuade the Wilmette Park District to place a $ 25 million tax referendum question on the March 19 ballot to buy the land.

Blievernicht, who is gathering signatures for a petition to decide such matters by referendum, told Village Board members this week that he is concerned about their plan to sell bonds for capital improvements.

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.

He gathered more than 200 signatures on a petition to stop the practice and spoke at two public meetings.

Those that don't may no longer receive donations from the state party or get help from local Democratic clubs gathering signatures on nominating petitions.

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.

Doing that would shorten the time opponents have for gathering petition signatures needed to place the bill before voters in a referendum, making it more difficult to pull off a referendum.

ALBANY — Cynthia Nixon said Monday she is likely to try to secure a spot on the Democratic gubernatorial primary ballot by gathering petition signatures rather than contesting Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at the party primary next month.

Paladino is now in the process of gathering the signatures needed to petition his way onto the GOP ballot.

Carl Paladino says he is confident he will be on the GOP Primary ballot, after gathering roughly 28 thousand signatures for his petition, which is roughly 13k more than the required 15 thousand.

A petition book opened to gather signatures to be presented to President Mahama seeking pardon for the trio has been signed by leading members of the NDC including ministers of state, which currently being studied by the Council of State for advice after President Mahama forwarded it to the Council.

The Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) on the other hand is also gathering signatures to counter the petition by the NDC.

He was forced out of the race because he failed to gather sufficient signatures on nominating petitions to withstand challenges from D'Amato's campaign.

NY Union Proud (NYUP), the slate of insurgent union members competing for the leadership of PEF, has gathered the requisite petition signatures needed to make the ballot.

The petition signatures are often gathered on weekdays, sometimes far afield.

On Tuesday, July 5, for instance, three Albany - based staffers were on Long Island gathering signatures for ex-Republican state Sen. Michael Venditto, his petitions show.

To succeed, she will have to gather at least 1,250 valid signatures from registered Democrats before a deadline at 5 p.m. Thursday for petitions to be filed with the state Board of Elections in Albany.

During last summer's effort to secure the Independence Party line for Republican Sen. Terrence Murphy — whose district in the Hudson Valley and Westchester is about a two - hour drive from the Capitol — 40 state Senate GOP staffers gathered signatures, his petitions show.

Weisberg had also gathered signatures for a petition for the Working Families Party, where he only needed 11 valid signatures.

Astorino, the current Westchester County executive, would have to gather at least 15,000 petition signatures over the next five weeks to create a Stop Common Core line on the statewide ballot.

Coll — a detective assigned to the Emergency Services Unit and an adjunct professor of American and constitutional history — said his petition has gathered more than 300 signatures.

On viewing Mr. Cabrera's petitions, the Observer a number of similar - looking signatures collected along Andrews Avenue, nearly all of them gathered by the carrier Mr. Rivera's team attempted to subpoena.

Cuomo allies would have to gather at least 15,000 petition signatures by mid-August to create a «Women's Equality Party» line on the statewide ballot.

This total represents the number of signatures gathered across the nation so far on ballot access petitions.

As observers wonder whether newly - minted candidate Eliot Spitzer will even be able to gather the nearly 4,000 signatures he needs to make it on the primary ballot, the city's mayoral candidates began submitting their piles of petition forms to the city's Board of Elections Tuesday afternoon — and it appears Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Liu are leading the pack.

His candidacy has been married by his guilty plea to a misdemeanor violation of state election law for gathering phony petition signatures.

But Weprin said when he saw Friedrich gathered about 1,100 to 1,200 signatures, his campaign decided not to challenge the petitions.

As former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul gathered with a cadre of elected officials at City Hall to tout more than 100,000 petition signatures for a new Women's Equality Party, her long - shot primary challenger for lieutenant governor, Tim Wu, blasted the party as a «sham.»

But he was kicked off the ballot after failing to gather enough valid petition signatures for the Independence Party line in the November election.

«In the end, when and if I choose to run, there will be people with me,» said Cappelli, who has until July to gather petition signatures to get on the ballot.

Lawmakers have already moved to shorten the time frame for gathering petitions, and have reduced the number of signatures required to qualify for the ballot.

Grasso noted Doheny could petition his way into a primary by gathering the valid signatures of 1,250 enrolled Republicans.

Peters announced near the end of April that she had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot by petition.

Mr. Spitzer, carrying a clipboard with a single petitioning sheet, was swarmed by dozens of cameras in front of the Union Square subway station and then trailed through the green market as he attempted to gather petition signatures from voters.

The petition currently has just over 50 signatures, but the goal is to gather 5,000 and then to send them to local elected officials including Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Staten Island Borough President James Oddo, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letitia James and City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.