Sentences with phrase «primary petitions»

The bill also lowers the number of signatures for a candidate to get on a primary ballot by 25 %, and shrinks the petitioning period for primary petitions from 38 days to 28 days.

A chartered plane, idling on a tarmac, waiting to carry him to New Hampshire at the last minute to file primary petitions, became the indelible image of Cuomo's indecision.

VID will launch the second Democratic Primary petitioning season on Saturday, June 9th at 9:30 am at our Clubhouse, 26 Perry St., with a kick off breakfast graciously supplied by our Assemblywoman Deborah Glick.

The April 26 Fort Wayne News - Sentinel has this editorial, which ran a few hours before the convictions in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary petition fraud prosecution.

That's why I'm supporting the Open Primaries petition to Attorney General Schneiderman and the New York State Legislature to do the right thing, and expand the New York Votes Act to include open primaries.

His presidential flirtation had ended very badly, with the governor claiming that budget gamesmanship by state senate Republicans was the reason he'd left a plane idling on the runway instead of flying to New Hampshire to file primary petitions.

SB 69 increased their primary petitions from 1 percent of the last vote for their party nominee for governor to 1 percent of the registered voters in that party.»

However, primary petitions are not checked by the elections officials, whereas independent and minor party candidate petitions are checked by elections officials.

(Either would require the valid signatures of 15,000 registered voters from around the state, though a primary petition would require signatories to be enrolled Democrats.)

Some Republican activists challenged their primary petitions, on the basis that some of the petition signers are registered independents.

Moreover, the timing of the Gromack donation is tied almost to the day when the primary petitions started to be collected and only about a week after Frank Sparaco's «Constituent Assistant» position was terminated by the Clarkstown Town Board on a motion by Councilman Hoehmann, seconded by Councilwoman Hausner and passed on a voice vote with a third vote from Councilman Borelli in the apparent stunned silence of Councilwoman Shirley Lasker and Supervisor Gromack.