Sentences with phrase «referenda campaign efforts»

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

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He knows that large numbers of people are against gambling and will come out to vote, and that referenda campaigns cost the industry effort and financial resources.

In other park district funding concerns, efforts have begun to recruit campaign workers to help pass a tax referendum proposal in April.

The proposal was put to a referendum and was soundly defeated in a campaign led by Gould, whose efforts won her election to the park board in 1993 in a special election.

Presumably the management of the company were all well aware of the Russian campaigns in Eastern Europe that presaged efforts to interfere in the Brexit referendum and the US election.

Many are pointing the finger of blame at Corbyn over the EU referendum, with Phil Wilson, the MP who chaired the parliamentary campaign to remain in Europe, accusing his leader of consistently trying to «weaken and sabotage» the pro-EU effort.

Both sides in the Scottish referendum campaign have held rallies as they make their final efforts to win over undecided voters.

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

The unions» efforts to resist change, including powerful media campaigns to prevent citizen referenda on vouchers from being adopted, have been very effective.

Phil's BBQ was mentioned in an article critical of a San Diego referendum campaign that harmed efforts to get wage - boost law adopted by the Democratic majority of the city council.

The campaigns that led up to the 1967 referendum and the significant efforts since have laid a solid foundation on which to build.