Sentences with phrase «placed on the ballot on»

The executive committee picked Macey by majority vote, he said, «to be placed on the ballot on the Republican line in the upcoming general election.»

Not exact matches

Mr. Kowalski and a cadre of rural MLAs mobilized rural Alberta Tories to vote for Mr. Klein on the second ballot of the 1992 PC leadership contest after Nancy Betkowski placed first by one vote on the first ballot.

Proposition 14 was a proposed constitutional amendment placed on tlie ballot by real - estate leaders, designed to repeal an existing open - housing law and to prevent any future Legislature from passing such a law.

Off topic but I am posting here... by taking voters off the voter roles, it not only disenfranchises them on election day, it takes them off the direct mailings that remind people to vote, including sample ballot, polling places, etc..

Here are some details about that November 2004 ballot proposal: 1) there was already in place a Utah law strictly banning same - sex marriage, which I fully supported; 2) all three candidates for the office of attorney general of Utah (the chief law - enforcement officer in the state) opposed the amendment, including the LDS (Mormon) Republican incumbent, Mark Shurtleff, mostly because they considered it a poorly drafted amendment; 3) I refused to endorse the amendment, but I did not urge people to vote «no»; 4) the leadership of the LDS Church, which has a record for being as strongly opposed to same - sex marriage as the Catholic Church, did not issue a statement urging its members to vote one way or the other; 5) inasmuch as two thirds of Utahans belong to the LDS Church, this means that the leadership of at least 80 percent of Utah churchgoers did not urge a «yes» vote on the amendment.

The site of their ministry is not the institution but the house where they live, the place where they work, and the political communities represented on the ballots in their voting booths.

For the second time this season, Alabama has received more than that: the Tide took 60 of 76 first - place votes to easily hold on to No. 1 in this week's ballot, but their average of 25.04 exceeds what should be possible in the BlogPoll calculations.

This group places 4 nominees on the All Star Ballot and should definitely have their presence felt when the actual All Stars are named..

They've placed 6 Players on the All - Star Ballot.

They placed 3 on the All Star Ballot and are just a Game back of the key 14th Seed which is currently held by Team Malvin..

They had 4 members placed on the All - Star Ballot.

They had 4 Players placed on the All - Star Ballot and they will look to help the rest of the group on Sunday Night in an effort to keep the hot - streak going against the always tough # 5 Team Zimmerman.

This group places 3 on the All Star Ballot as nominees.

Team Zimmerman had 5 Players placed on the All - Star Ballot and should get at least a couple guys eventually named to the Team.

West Virginia was No. 4 in the Week 7 BlogPoll, and earned one first - place vote; now, the «Eers are No. 17, falling 13 spots after their belly flop in Lubbock, and appear no higher than No. 9 on any ballot.

But Tech is on 70 of 76 ballots, and WVU is on 74 of 76; even if Texas Tech had gotten four No. 18 votes from those six remaining ballots, instead of none (yes, the No. 18 team got zero 18th - place votes), it would only have shaved about half a point off WVU's edge.

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

I placed theBroncos fifth on my final ballot, up four places from their No. 9 ranking inthe previous poll and just ahead of Louisville (12 — 1), whose Orange Bowlvictory over Wake Forest did not carry the same cachet as Boise's postseasonwin, and Wisconsin (12 — 1), which didn't have to play Ohio State because of theBig Ten schedule rotation and gained only 201 yards in its Capital One Bowl winover Arkansas.

Some BBWAA members will simply not give a pitcher even a 10th - place vote on an MVP ballot.

Commissioners next month are expected decide whether to place a referendum measure on the November ballot.

If her question is placed on the November ballot and enough voters are in favor of dissolving the district, Fiddyment and other like - minded Gurnee residents plan to ask the voters in the March primary if they want to re-establish a park district.

On August 14th, the Park Board of Commissioners voted to place a referendum question on the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issuOn August 14th, the Park Board of Commissioners voted to place a referendum question on the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issuon the November 6 general election ballot asking voters to choose whether or not to support a $ 39 million bond issue.

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.

The Park District Board is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to place the proposal on the March 14 ballot.

The Park Board voted unanimously last week to place a referendum question on the Nov. 2 ballot asking voters to approve purchase of the land and construction of playing fields and a facility.

Some critics, however, suggested the measures were placed on the ballot to block any recall efforts.

Plainfield Park District officials said the three advisory questions were placed on the ballot to help gauge community feelings on the issues.

He added that there was no discussion by the board — either before voting to place the issues on the ballot or since — about any of the three issues.

Park Board attorney Bruno Tabis told the board that it might not have the authority to place a referendum question on a ballot because it doesn't have home - rule powers and that authority is denied by statewide park district code.

SIlosky shrugged off suggestions that the questions were a way to avoid any recall questions, saying the board voted to place the questions on the ballot several months ago.

The Orland Park Village Board this week unanimously approved a request from the Orland Park Library Board of Trustees to place the question on the March 19 primary election ballot.

Though park officials are portraying the questions as a way to gauge community interest in a variety of issues, others suggest placing the questions on the ballot was a calculated move to avoid any recall efforts by residents.

The board majority wanted to place the question about term limits on the ballot.

The Cary Park District, having only $ 300,000 in its land acquisition fund, voted to place a question on the April ballot asking voters for the money needed for the purchase.

MUNDELEIN — Mundelein «s Fremont District 79 Board of Education has scheduled a special session Monday to decide whether to place a referendum on the November ballot to finance a new school.

The park board of commissioners has decided to place two questions on the Nov. 7 ballot.

Glen Ellyn — A Nov. 2 referendum asking Glen Ellyn voters if they want to fund a new library cleared a final hurdle when the Village Board unanimously approved placing the question on the ballot.

The opponents then gathered 2,920 signatures demanding that the bond issue be placed on the Nov. 6 ballot.

While New Trier and the park district have yet to make a final decision of whether or not to place the referendum requests on the November ballot, officials from both organizations said they are talking to each other and understand the potential challenges of asking voters to support two measures in one election.

The board of commissioners has until August to decide whether to place the question on the November ballot, the next time a referendum could be presented to voters.

Smith and other members of a grass - roots organization working to create a park district scored their biggest victory to date on Friday, when McHenry County Associate Judge Haskell M. Pitluck validated the group's petitions, allowing the question to be placed on the March ballot.

If even half of the contested signatures were removed, there would be no referendum item because it required just under 3,000 signatures, or 20 percent of the district's registered votersto be placed on the ballot.

Legislation to make it easier for voters to get a bond referendum placed on the ballot was signed into law by Gov. James Thompson.

The deadline to file nominating petitions is Monday, and two candidates are expected to be placed on the March ballot, Smith said.

A similar proposal seeking operating expenses will be placed on the ballot again this November.

Residents petitioned the Wilmette Park District to place the referendum on the ballot in hopes the village would later arrange for private redevelopment of the historic building at 1041 Ridge Rd.

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.

With 25,000 voters in the park district, 2,500 signatures were needed to get the question placed on the March ballot.

Only as long as you dutifully pass the levies they place on the ballot.

Suits filed by two Du Page County park districts to have non-binding referendum proposals placed on the November ballot could have significance throughout Illinois and provide the basis for similar actions in counties across the state.