Sentences with phrase «right as a voter»

If the schools are not producing, it is your right as a voter to select new board members who will see to it that your students and your schools succeed.

Lobbying your elected representatives as an individual or as part of a group is your right as a voter.

Not exact matches

As such, it is likely that the center - right candidate from Forza Italia, Paolo Romani, is elected due to the alliance gaining more voters than the Five Star Movement back on the March 4 vote.

The nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is worrisome but court battles over states» rights and decisive voter support for legal cannabis make tough enforcement problematic for the Trump Administration.

The loss of that clause, which liberals had seen as a crowning achievement of the Civil Rights movement, makes it easier for states to adopt voting laws that can have an adverse impact on minority voters.

As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.

In recent years, immigrant rights protests shrank as groups diverged and shifted their focus on voter registration and lobbying.

The nomination of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General is worrisome but court battles over states» rights and decisive voter support for legal cannabis make tough enforcement problematic for the Trump Ad...

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

The hard - right Alternative for Germany (AfD) becomes the third - largest group in the national parliament, the Bundestag, as German voters delivered a stinging blow to the traditional parties.

Election experts say Facebook must crack down on inflammatory ads on politically divisive issues such as immigration reform and gun rights, which were used to influence voters during and after the presidential campaign.

The general problem here is that the religious right's God is a lot different from my God (as well as many other moderate voters.)

If it was Dick Morris I would just dismiss it as an attention getting stunt from a guy who makes his living reassuring and fundraising from right - leaning voters and knowing he will still get bookings regardless of whether he is right in the end.

But she has made her faith as a Bible believer central to that campaign, so voters have a right to know which parts of the Bible she really believes in, and which parts (if any) she ignores.

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

A judge ruled that California's voter - approved ban on same - sex marriage, known as Proposition 8, violated the constitutional rights of same - sex couples.

Selma, director Ava Duvernay's film about the 1965 Voters» Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, has been touted as the best film of the year, thanks in no small...

When the candidates use his / her faith as a qualification, the voters should have the right to ask questions regarding his / her qualification.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

Racism was certainly a serious problem, but in 1973, Los Angeles voters elected as mayor the pragmatic African - American City Councilman Tom Bradley over Sam Yorty, the acerbic and somewhat anti — civil rights movement incumbent.

They parallel the provisions of many state constitutions in this country and popular initiatives such as the Cardinal Bernardin Amendment, recently approved in a referendum by over 80 percent of Cook County, Illinois, voters, to make health care a right.

As I flew back from Dublin to Edinburgh I read the Sunday edition of the Irish Independent the headline of which was «POLL: Act Now on Abortion say voters» with the story continuing: «The most seismic shift [in the Irish public's attitude to abortion] is that a clear majority (56 %) now favour a new referendum to repeal the current position, which gives equal right to life to the mother and foetus.»

How has it come to pass that movements of young and politically active Catholics such as the Sens Commun were able to openly mobilize center - right voters to support the forthright Catholic Fillon against the self - described catholique agnostique Juppé during the primary runoff?

In the past I've been critical of «one - issue» voters who routinely base their vote solely on a candidate's position on abortion, but I've recently toned down my criticism as I continue to speak with earnest and compassionate friends who have every right to base their decision on what touches their hearts the most.

There are some voters who don't see the election as a contest between two candidates who have differing opinions on nuanced, complicated economic, diplomatic and social issues, but as one between a candidate who is against abortion, and one who supports a woman's right to have one.

Here, as Bishop John J. Myers of Peoria observed in his Pastoral Statement on the Obligations of Catholics and Rights of Unborn Children, the voter or legislator need will only the law's protections, while accepting, though not willing, the injustices that he is powerless to remove.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

As long as Ball, Richardson and Randle are named as finalists, then the voters got it righAs long as Ball, Richardson and Randle are named as finalists, then the voters got it righas Ball, Richardson and Randle are named as finalists, then the voters got it righas finalists, then the voters got it right.

«They banked on voters not paying attention as they blocked reforms in almost every area of policy: voting rights, reproductive rights, government reform and more.

These will become strong issues, and Astorino will accurately be protrayed as too far to the right for majority New York voters.

When one voter cited her top concern as «women's rights, women's rights, women's rights,» Ms. Akinloye immediately put the information into her phone, and it was sent to headquarters to refine targeting.

Opposition to Voter ID laws in America can be seen as a left - wing attempt to disenfranchise right - wing voters because one of the major concerns is that alien (as in from a different country, not different planet) residents may be voting, and in America aliens generally support the Democratic party.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

Moreover, as voters were led to believe that Netanyahu's victory was assured, many of his supporters turned to other parties, either to the left or to the right of Likud.

Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.

Margaret Eaton, of the LGA, said that «council staff» were «huge enthusiasts» and would be doing everything they could to «get the right results to voters as quickly as they can».

«While a bare majority of Democrats think the country is on the right track, as do a plurality of New York City voters, more than three quarters of Republicans and roughly six in ten independents, downstate suburbanites and upstaters say the country is headed in the wrong direction.»

It is right that Scottish voters are given as much information as possible about the likely outcome of a «yes» vote.

Certainly to me (a floating voter) it looks as if Labour have moved a long way to the right and to the authoritarian over the last 15 years or so, and if they want their old supporters to listen to them, they may have to migrate back a bit to get the conversation started.

As the Scottish independence referendum campaign enters its final stages, both sides will still be hoping that they can persuade as many voters as possible that their side is righAs the Scottish independence referendum campaign enters its final stages, both sides will still be hoping that they can persuade as many voters as possible that their side is righas many voters as possible that their side is righas possible that their side is right.

I must say, it is, however, silent on the right of such people to register as voters, but this silence of the constitution can not be interpreted to suit the whims of any group,» he cautioned.

Unsurprisingly, Remain voters tend to see this as a chance to «right the wrong» of the 2016 referendum.

All kinds of things change - the importance of being seen as the better leader with the greater economic credibility is heavily downgraded, the importance of the right - wing press is blown to pieces, the vice-like grip of older voters disappears.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

Long indicated that every time Gillibrand & Co. tries to paint her as too far right, she's going to steer the conversation back to what she believes voters really care about: Jobs and the economy.

Facebook: A year ago I wrote about Rep. Elise Stefanik NY 21 as a «Shadow MOC» who the voters of the District had a right to know more about.

May declares she wants Britain to «emerge... stronger, fairer, more united and more outward - looking than ever before», even as she implicitly threatens to slash rights and regulations, dismiss and alienate the voters of Scotland and Northern Ireland, and impose barriers on our largest market.

Recall that in the last election cycle, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party — or WEP — a move widely seen in part as an effort to confuse voters — after all, E comes right before F in the alphabet — and get back at the WFP for daring to even consider backing a candidate other than Cuomo... more on this in a moment.