Sentences with phrase «signature gatherers»
"Signature gatherers" refers to individuals or groups who collect signatures from people for a specific cause or purpose. Their job is to approach people and ask them to sign a document or petition to support a particular issue or to qualify a proposal for a ballot measure. Full definition
Paid signature gatherers collected about 16,000 signatures for petitions, according to Kevin Teeley, president of the Lake Washington Education Association.
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According to the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, a political consulting firm with ties to APS paid Sign Here Petitions to collect survey signatures, but only on the condition that signature gatherers sign a non-compete clause, promising not to work on the pro-solar petition.
Spitzer told The New York Times Sunday evening that he expected to have some 100 signature gatherers starting Monday.
«It's possible, but he's got the money to hire an army of signature gatherers,» said Baruch College's Doug Muzzio, a longtime observer of the city's politics.
Proponents of the expanded voucher program resorted to classic tactics to attack Save Our Schools and its allies, including ethics complaints against signature gatherers (who allegedly failed to check the volunteer box on the form), robocalls, and lawsuits.
Mary Jo Dazey was a leading signature gatherer for Missouri's Proposition B campaign to dismantle cruel puppy mills.
The group spent most of that money to pay signature gatherers to help get the referendum on the ballot.
, but only on the condition that signature gatherers sign a non-compete clause, promising not to work on the pro-solar petition.
Stavisky's campaign was still in the process of figuring out what happened and said that no one was familiar with the person listed as the signature gatherer, Ashoka Bhattacharjee.
(Signature gatherers can be spotted wearing Dr. Seuss red - and - white striped «Cat in the Hat» stovepipe hats.)
Anticipating underhanded tactics that both sides might use, the regulations ordered that signature gatherers, the district, and its staff should be neutral, so that parents would be «free from harassment, threats and intimidation related to circulation or signature of a petition or to the discouraging of signing a petition or to the revocation of signatures from the petition.»