Sentences with phrase «said the petition campaign»

Ingrid Villeda of United Teachers Los Angeles, who has spearheaded opposition to Parent Revolution in South Los Angeles schools, said the petition campaign has done more harm than good, dividing communities and allowing just half the parents to decide the fate of an entire campus.

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C4M's high - profile campaign attracted around 668,000 signatures to a petition which said: «I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.

Church groups had campaigned for his release for years, and Amnesty International also petitioned for his release, saying that he was a «prisoner of conscience,» jailed for peacefully exercising basic human rights.

Along with campaigns from church groups, Amnesty International also petitioned for his release, saying that he was a «prisoner of conscience,» jailed for peacefully exercising basic human rights, like the right to assemble.

The petition, which was launched by environmental campaign group Final Straw, said that charging customers for straws would mean that serves could only hand out straws on request, which could «dramatically reduce waste.»

«My petition operation, once we have secured our place on the Primary ballot, will serve as the genesis of an aggressive Democratic field campaign apparatus for the New Roosevelt Initiative that can help elect New Roosevelt's throughout the State,» Samuels said.

Carvin has said he's willing to spend $ 1 million on his campaign, which would theoretically be enough to fund a petition drive — and then some.

Ladoja who spoke through the Director - General of his campaign organization, Hon. Adeolu Adeleke, during a press conference in Ibadan, said the dismissal of his petition by the Justice Muhammed Mayaki - led election petitions tribunal, did not come as a surprise, but rather a confirmation of the boasts by Ajimobi at different fora, that he had already secured victory.

Before leaving, Kwatra did not set up a paid signature - gathering operation, a source close to the campaign said, because Kwatra was tasked solely with handling day - one media, and did not at any point have a hand in the petition drive.

She said a couple from Auburn arrived at her campaign office earlier this week and passed petitions for her.

Positing that she would only address «on - topic» questions, Malliotakis had little to say when asked about allegations by rival candidate Bo Dietl that her campaign submitted improper petitioning documents to the Board of Elections.

Green Party congressional candidate Matt Funiciello said Tuesday he has secured enough signatures to get on June 24 primary ballot, but his campaign will continue to circulate petitions as a safeguard against any signatures that might be challenged and to show the strength of the campaign.

Although the former governor said he would easily be able to collect his 3,750 signatures by the deadline — now just three days away — he did not appear to have a campaign staff in place at the petition drive.

In a statement issued by Maffei's campaign, Hoare said today's decision was «no surprise, given the unanimous, bipartisan» decisions by the Onondaga County and state Boards of Elections that Miller was, in fact, eligible to carry petitions for the congressman.

Paladino spokesman Michael Caputo said Haggerty has joined the campaign as the political director and will be responsible for convention operations and petitioning.

Mahoney says she wants to rebuild the committee, which could help her carry out the basic groundwork of a campaign — putting up lawn signs, door - to - door petitioning, fundraising and word - of - mouth support.

Michael Reich, the executive secretary for the Queens Democratic Party, said the Liu campaign is already circulating out petitions and does not plan to withdraw from the race.

Russo was upbeat Friday, despite the fate of his petitions, saying the process allowed his campaign to reach out to voters.

She said hundreds of people who supported her mayoral campaign last year are circulating petitions.

Peterson, reached Friday at the hospital, said that he is circulating petitions but has not committed to campaigning for office, given his health issues.

Paladino has said he will petition his way onto the ballot, spending up to $ 10 million of his own money on his campaign, if he fails to make the convention cut.

«While the judge refused to consider a number of our objections on technical grounds, this much is certain: Fernando Cabrera's campaign repeatedly forged petition signatures from voters who testified that they had never signed; and callously signed under the names of deceased people,» said spokesman Karthik Ganapathy.

«This time people are signing my petitions like wildfire,» said the candidate, who added that he missed Friday's deadline for campaign finance filing.

That being said, Rangel's campaign just filed 20,066 petition signatures with the Board of Elections, while the required minimum to get on the ballot is 1,250 signatures.

Our family has carried his petitions, supported his campaign to regain our State Senate seat and even had our children sing at his inauguration speech,» Mr. Vallone said.

Independent Democratic Conference Sen. Jeff Klein's campaign says he has filed nine times the number of required petition signatures with the state Board of Elections.

Nevertheless many in the Labour party remained sceptical that the quality and provision of service would be retained and Lord Prescott, who launched the «Save NHS Direct» online petition said the campaign would continue until a commitment to this effect was received from the Government.

Updated — A spokesman for Faso campaign says the candidate has nothing to do with the petition challenges against Bishop.

Grayling says the internet petition site 38 Degrees is «in name, a forum for people to start their own campaigns, but in reality, an anti-government pressure group».

But Weprin said when he saw Friedrich gathered about 1,100 to 1,200 signatures, his campaign decided not to challenge the petitions.

McDonald's spokesman, Mike Veitch, said his campaign is not formally affiliated with or encouraging Gilbert, but acknowledged some McDonald supporters also circulated Gilbert petitions.

But Paladino's campaign manager filed an objection against the teen's petition signatures, saying they're invalid.

Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said it is typical that campaigns will file general objections to their opponents» petitions, but it is difficult to get someone knocked off the ballot.

Lerner, with Common Cause, says time is growing short for any challengers to have enough time to gather petitions and run campaigns.

Tedra Cobb, a former St. Lawrence County lawmaker, wrapped up a two - day, 450 - mile tour of New York's 21st Congressional District on Monday, and is scheduled to submit what her campaign said was «thousands of petition signatures» in Albany on Tuesday.

Steven Stites, a Storobin spokesman, said Felder was trying to blow up an innocent mistake because his own petitions are «rife with fraud,» a claim Storobin's campaign has not made in court.

Cobb campaign manager Mike Szustak said, «We want the opportunity to review the petitions to ensure that the integrity of this critical piece of our democratic process is upheld.

When asked on the campaign trail whether he'd run for re-election in the state senate if he lost to Mr. Rangel, Mr. Espaillat often demurred — saying he would win the congressional primary and that he had not been collecting petitions to run for the state senate seat.

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Okeme in his petition to the House dated 4th November, 2017 and titled «Save my Soul» said the then administration of Alhaji Ibrahim Idris in 2006 terminated his appointment from service for allegedly campaigning for the Late Prince Abubakah Audu.

Halwick defended the petition challenge as standard procedure in any political campaign and said that the denial of the GOP line to Brown was fair and legal.

Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon, a Shepard supporter, said the Wladis firm performed work for several Republican campaigns, and he did not know what portion of the fees stemmed from Shepard's petition challenge.

Ganim, who is conducting a petition drive in case he doesn't reach the 15 percent, said the state party could be running afoul of campaign finance laws by charging candidates.

He said Teachout's petitions «look like street petitions,» but said the most interesting thing he learned was that Larry Mandelker, a one - time campaign treasurer for Ed Koch, is on record as Teachout's attorney.

If the petitions are upheld, officials in both camps said, it appears that state election law allows Mr. Mahony's campaign to pick someone to take his place in the primary — a rule so obscure that even election lawyers were unaware of it until this morning.

Spitzer's campaign said Tuesday it's not worried about its petitions, which count more than seven times as many signatures as needed.

Masterpole said he doesn't like using petition - gathering to campaign.

Peter LaVenia, secretary to the Upper Hudson Green Party, said the organization drafted Peltz when it got wind of a bid by another candidate to submit opportunity to ballot petitions that could allow a non-Green Party member to co-opt the ballot line through a write - in campaign — a tactic which party leaders don't look kindly on.

«I'm never confident, because in politics you have to ask every day for the public's support and for their understanding of what you're trying to do,» Spitzer said, standing outside of Sprig in Midtown, where his campaign was hosting a petitioning event.

During the 2011 election campaign while running against a strong advocate for Term Limits, Republican Ralph Sabatini, Supervisor Gromack defended his action by saying that the citizens petitioning him belonged to the «Tea Party fringe group» and then implied that Clarkstown citizens were so stupid that they would «sign a piece of paper just to get on with their lives.»