Sentences with phrase «said petition organizer»

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Patty Parker, a sales representative from Arlington Heights and petition - drive organizer, said about 1,600 people have been circulating through the northwest suburbs since Saturday morning and have collected about 40,000 signatures in Dotson «s behalf.

The Republicans believe this is the largest petition operation in New York history, surpassing the Working Families Party's 1998 filing, which organizers said included some 60,000 signatures.

«For the 97 percent of children represented here today, he won't even come out of his office to accept petitions,» said organizer Zakiyah Ansari, while the children and adults gathered chanted «shame.»

Erwin Figuerora, Bronx organizer at Transportation Alternatives, said the petition was a way to highlight the inequality that exists in The Bronx when it comes to transportation initiatives.

«For the 97 percent of children represented here today, he won't even come out of his office to accept petitions,» said organizer Zakiyah Ansari, while the children and adults chanted «shame.»

Indeed, compared with a previous unionization effort in 2006, which encountered opposition and ended with the withdrawal of the union's petition, «Everything has gone fairly smoothly,» says Matthew O'Connor, a bioengineering postdoc and chief union organizer at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who also serves as president of Berkeley's postdoctoral scholars association.

But she learned that what she actually signed was a petition to convert Desert Trails Elementary School into a charter campus, a change she says she had specifically told organizers she didn't want.

Petition organizers say they are satisfied with the outcome, as the membership has had their say on the issues.

Everyone comes out — one person, one vote,» says Jerry Heed, one of the petition's organizers.