Sentences with phrase «vote efforts in»

But the DCCC will still finance get out the vote efforts in the district.

In the past, City Council member Margaret Chin has been important in Velazquez's get - out - the - vote efforts in Chinatown.

According to the OSC report, roughly 97 NALC members requested the leave without pay to participate in get - out - the vote efforts in primarily 2016 battleground states: Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Oversaw get - out - the - vote efforts in Minnesota for Kerry / Edwards in 2004.

Zellner maintains that his organization continues strong get - out - the - vote efforts in the City of Buffalo despite the fact that the September Democratic primary effectively decided the marquee mayoral election for incumbent Byron W. Brown.

The Working Families Party this month has rolled out a get - out - the - vote effort in the 37th Senate district on behalf of its endorsed candidate, Democratic Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has recorded a robocall as part of a get - out - the - vote effort in the key 37th Senate district in Westchester County.

Not exact matches

Senate Republicans came out of 20 hours of debate with a stunning failure in their efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system — and Sen. John McCain of Arizona cast a decisive vote.

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

But this latest effort may not succeed given the tight time constraints and skepticism from Senators like Arizona Republican John McCain, who has been insisting that any health care legislation go through a bipartisan committee process in regular order (rather than a pure party - line vote).

Lacking a ground game in the state, as he did across the country, Trump relied on state and local parties, such as Ferrance's, to drive the get - out - to - vote efforts.

Exxon Mobil (xom) has stepped up efforts to persuade investors to vote against climate - related proposals at Wednesday's annual meeting with a campaign of calling, writing and lobbying shareholders in person.

The Bank of England Thursday raised U.K. interest rates for the first time since 2007, in an effort to support the pound and head off inflationary pressures caused by a slump since the U.K. voted to leave the EU 16 months ago.

A vote to «Leave» marked the first big reversal of European efforts at political and economic integration in 60 years, casting big doubts over the EU's future direction.

Among white voters, roughly three in 10 said they had been targeted by Trump get - out - the - vote efforts; the same share said they had been targeted by Clinton.

Get - out - the - vote efforts have been intense in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.

Some Republican state Senators were recalled in Wisconsin for voting to curb union power, but Republican Governor Scott Walker survived a recall effort against him.

Moreover, they insisted, the failure to extend the vote to women might hinder their participation in the war effort — which was direly needed.

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

Those efforts would come as Prime Minister Najib faces increasing political pressure — including large protests in August calling for his ouster and opposition parties filing this week to hold a parliamentary no - confidence vote; it isn't clear when the vote would be held.

In early February, the firm received a response from Vanguard, which Tim Smith, senior vice president at Walden Asset Management, told me included a discussion of Vanguard's efforts to talk with companies about social and environmental issues, but stopped short of saying that Vanguard would actually change its proxy voting practices.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

Amazon halts an expansion effort in its hometown as the Seattle City Council prepares to vote on a new tax that would be levied on large business to pay for affordable housing and homeless - assistance programs.

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

When Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) cast his now - famous thumbs - down vote on GOP health care efforts in late July, pessimism weighed even more, and in August, it was hard to find anyone in the professional investment community who thought a tax bill was even close to a sure thing.

Once again, besides the shock revelation that seemingly democratic votes are vulnerable to well - organised propaganda efforts, the surprise seems to be that these more recognisable elements of white - collar deviancy have turned out to be in cahoots with the digital technologies we have come to trust, and intimately integrate into our own lives.

Cambridge Analytica did not engage in efforts to discourage any Americans from casting their vote in the presidential election.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

He points out ways in which Facebook's impact on the 2016 campaign was positive — such as its get - out - the - vote effort — and says that the media has mischaracterized the company's role.

It put in more than $ 1 million and included investments in field staff, digital ads, and a get - out - the - vote effort for Tuesday's special election.

If the Company grants registration rights, information rights, rights of first offer, price - based antidilution protection, protective voting provisions or other similar rights to new investors in a subsequent financing involving the sale of additional series of Preferred Stock, the Company will use reasonable efforts to extend such rights to the Purchasers on the same basis granted to new investors.

Further, in an effort to encourage transparency and responsiveness to AGM voting, companies will need to explain what action has been taken to consult with shareholders when more than 20 % of votes have been cast against the board's recommendation.

No, although I've voted Democratic in every election since 1976 — except for primaries in Texas where there's no point in voting Democratic — I can say that every candidate I've ever seen has made some effort to look like a man of faith.

In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

Recent efforts in Europe to ban the face veil (the niqab or burqa) are not so much concerned with women's rights and security as they are with obtaining votes from an electorate that is increasingly xenophobic and anxious about national identity.

With opposition to abortion often playing out in voting for candidates — at least in part — based on their reproductive stances, and efforts to fight abortion often playing out in courtrooms and legislation, the pro-life movement has taken on a distinctly political direction.

A communication era ended in the U.S. Catholic Church when American bishops voted to close down the church's satellite system and to begin a strategic planning effort to discern current telecommunications needs.

In fact, Swift made several decisions that served to counter her influence: She deleted a tweet supporting the Women's March, her political voice was limited to a single «go vote» post and her usual public philanthropic efforts were more muted than in years pasIn fact, Swift made several decisions that served to counter her influence: She deleted a tweet supporting the Women's March, her political voice was limited to a single «go vote» post and her usual public philanthropic efforts were more muted than in years pasin years past.

For African American churchgoers, get out the vote efforts have been in effect in full force and from the pulpits of churches across the nation.

Here is a very interesting overview of how, and why, the people in Maine voted down their legislature's effort to legalize «gay marriage.»

Through their efforts, the SBC eventually voted to establish an Executive Committee beginning in 1917.

If voting rights are a concern to you, (and they should be, especially if you live in North Carolina), consider connecting with Rev. William J Barber II of the North Carolina NAACP as he leads protests and organizing efforts around voting rights and other important causes.

Last year, he founded My Faith Votes, a $ 5 million effort to encourage Christians — especially those who stayed home in 2012 — to vote in 2016.

They viewed their action as «a vote of confidence for the national church in its effort to work out a new life» — that is, as a way of supporting the indigenous church.

Efforts to remove chastity requirements from gay PCUSA clergy had met defeat last year during an eventful summer which saw the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America vote in August to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy, following the Episcopal Church's reaffirmation in July of its openness to noncelibate gay priests.

The New York Times is reporting that a growing number of Latinos are beginning to seek American citizenship in an effort to vote against Donald Trump for this presidential election.

In May of 2013, Green America notified me that The Chile Woman had received the most votes in their Green Business People and Planet Award in recognition for our efforts to preserve chile varieties and for our sustainable business practiceIn May of 2013, Green America notified me that The Chile Woman had received the most votes in their Green Business People and Planet Award in recognition for our efforts to preserve chile varieties and for our sustainable business practicein their Green Business People and Planet Award in recognition for our efforts to preserve chile varieties and for our sustainable business practicein recognition for our efforts to preserve chile varieties and for our sustainable business practices.

However, his efforts were only good enough for a sixth - place finish in the Hart voting.

At least several of the 14 boxing commissioners who otherwise supported him had voted for this resolution in an effort to avoid punishing boxers for the sins of their managers.

The voting to determine World Cup hosts is way different now than it was in 2010, but the USA's efforts could still come up short.