Sentences with phrase «target seat funding»

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«Many immigrants who are already terrified of being deported and targeted under this administration, will simply choose not to participate, out of fear that the information they provide is being used to target them,» said Meng during a press conference at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), where lawmakers and advocates warned that lack of immigrant participation would lead to inaccurate census data and could jeopardize New York's share of federal funding and Congressional seats.

It follows a week of controversy over Michael Ashcroft's targeted funding for campaigns in the swing seats likely to determine the outcome of the election.

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Lord Ashcroft has been pouring funds into their 200 target seats and the party has # 10 million available to wage a nationwide campaign.

Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target in an election.

Too many of the party's seats are not hitting their target funding, one activist claims, because the incumbents have simply given up the ghost and there is no real effort to hold them.

As a Conservative, I find a «crumb of comfort» in knowing that the former leader of the LibDems has started funding our target seats campaigns.

Alas, I was disappointed, not even a mention of the targeted marginal seats funding.

Before Rudy Giuliani discovered he had prostate cancer and pulled out of the race for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Senate seat, the housing secretary withheld $ 60 million in homeless funds from the mayor, on the grounds that he was unfairly targeting Housing Works and thereby criminalizing the homeless.

Combine this with falling membership of parties and an increasingly volatile party funding base, and it suggests that targeting of marginal seats will become even more prolific in the future.

Ultimately, those funds helped fund two State Assembly candidates running in targeted seats.

There was arguably less incentive for local authorities, knowing the DfE would fund decent MAT - led schools, to fulfil their duties to meet the need for bums on seats; especially with the «500 free schools over the course of a Parliament» target introduced by David Cameron.