Sentences with phrase «petitions on the working families»

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With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

We are collaborating with other organizations to establish better policies for working families, utilizing social media, online petitions, and unique campaigns to create positive change on this critical issue.

A state Supreme Court justice today thwarted the Onondaga County GOP's effort to kick Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei off the labor - backed Working Families Party line, rejecting the party's argument that the congressman's campaign manager is not a New York resident, and therefore should not have been able to circulate WFP petitions on his behalf.

Earlier this week, Balter filed petitions to the state Board of Elections to appear on the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality party lines.

The Working Families Party launched an on - line petition urging supporters to call on New York Congressional candidates to say where they stand on Ryan's budget plan.

Teachout, a Fordham Law professor who first challenged Cuomo for the nomination of the Working Families Party, successfully collected petitions to appear on the Democratic ballot in September.

With 6,500 signatures, the group's petition called for three bills that would not only introduce a two - week voting period «to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations,» but modify ballots to make them more comprehensible and streamline the voter registration process.

Kulpa, the mayor of Williamsville, has filed petitions to run for supervisor on the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality parties» ballot lines.

She filed petitions to appear on the Working Families and Women's Equality party lines.

If fewer than 50,000 people had voted on the Working Families line for governor that year, it would have lost its ballot line until at least the next gubernatorial election, when it would have had to file petitions to get back on the ticket.

Klein filed petitions to run on four lines in the November general election: GOP, Democratic, Independence and Working Families.

Cortland resident My» shell Titus has filed a petition to run on the working families party line.

Former Democratic Party chair and election commissioner William Wood has also filed a working families petition to run for a seat on the Cortland County Legislature.

Singas, who has submitted petitions to run on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, has about a $ 796,750 closing balance.

Her legal work includes Commonwealth and international cross border insolvency advice on sensitive cases and aspects of commercial law including drafting of contracts, opinions on company law, probate family island law, winding up petitions, and alternative dispute resolution in cross border insolvency litigation matters.

There actually are a few kinds of litigation which are predominantly non-contentious, such as adoption petitions, uncontested probates, name change applications, petitions to approve the formation of municipalities, and so on, but often these types of work would be done by someone who would describe their practice area as «adoption» or «probate» or «government law» or «family law» that would speak for themselves.