Sentences with phrase «vote for governor»

They pointed out if the senate didn't vote for the governor's bill the governor would have to come back w / a bill that includes construction rather than shut down the government.

Both said they believed many people likely voted for governor but then did not vote for many of the other offices because it was too difficult to navigate the ballot or read the font.

Under current law, a new party must get signatures equal to two percent of the most recent vote for governor or president to qualify for the ballot.

Prior to the bill's enactment, newly - qualifying political parties were required to submit signatures equaling at least 5 percent of the total number of votes for governor.

One result is a scramble to get the necessary signatures, 5 percent of city Democrats who voted for governor in a particular district last year, by the July 9 deadline.

«I can tell you tenants would be much more likely to vote for governor on Row E if the candidate is Kenny Schaeffer,» Tenants PAC's Michael McKee told me this afternoon while trying to explain why his board decided to endorse the Working Families Party's placeholder candidate over the Democratic gubernatorial designee, Andrew Cuomo.

The other option for parties to remain in existence is to meet a voter registration test, equal to one percent of the number of people who voted for governor in the last general election.

The Assembly Republicans did better than Senate GOP members who lost points, because, Biryla says, most Republican Senators voted for Governor Cuomo's proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour downstate and $ 13.50 elsewhere.

But there is even more evidence that Governor Romney's mormonism is not influencing pastors when they vote — 82 % of pastors who are NOT voting for Governor Romney say their decision was not at all related to his Mormon faith.

The number of authorized members in each election district is computed according to a formula based on the total Democratic vote for Governor in the most recent gubernatorial election in each election district.

While 37 states will cast votes for governor this November, a handful of those states matter more to the long term political fates of the two parties.

This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to require that the signatures on a petition to directly initiate legislation be of voters from each of the State's 2 congressional districts and that the number of signatures from each congressional district be not less than 10 % of the total vote for Governor cast in that congressional district in the previous gubernatorial election.

Since I generally think «small» politics, I was thinking, «is this like weighted vote for governor or selecting chair or, what is this?»

Louisiana votes for governor this month *, and intrepid Times - Picayune political reporter Julia O'Donoghue decided to see what happens when local voters Google the two surviving candidates, Republican David Vitter and Democrat John Bel Edwards.

All afternoon, aides to de Blasio were behind closed doors counting votes for the governor.

And James running a strong AG campaign, especially if she is allied with Cuomo, could bring votes for the governor in minority neighborhoods in New York City that have been electoral bulwarks for Cuomo in the past, but which Nixon is courting.

Callers asked voters «whether they would be more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if they knew that lesbians dominated on her staff.»

In Brooklyn, voters in Tuesday's primary voted for governor, lieutenant governor, and in many districts Assemblymember or state Senator.

They love voting for the governor.

In 1998, 348,272 votes for Governor George E. Pataki were cast on the Conservative line, over 20,000 more than in 1994, an anomaly in political history.

Forte said he believes Freilich has kept his job because «in a nutshell, he gets votes for the governor.»

On the Anambra election he urged the people to go all out to vote for Governor Willie Obiano who has performed creditably well.

Anti-gay State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. released a statement just now calling for fellow senator Tom Duane to release the names of all of their colleagues who Duane has said privately assured him they'd vote for Governor Paterson's marriage - equality bill.

I will vote for Governor Crist in the hope that there are some Democrats in Florida, who share my view, that we do not want a Tea Party senator representing Floridian Democrats in Washington!!

ALBANY — American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten suggested she doesn't plan to vote for Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a memo posted Monday on the union's website.

The #dontletCTbecomeWisconsin argument is simply a way to scare union members into voting for a governor who has failed to match his actions to his rhetoric.

According to news reports, the Connecticut State Senator who voted for Governor Malloy's corporate education reform initiative, including the unfair and inappropriate teacher evaluation system and the massive increase in the use of the discriminatory Common Core Standardized Testing Scheme has now «landed a job» working for the Connecticut Education Association.

Mr. Levy's best chance could come in the second of two rounds of voting for the governor's race at the state convention this week.

Officially, the WFP supported Cuomo, issuing a terse statement instructing New Yorkers to vote for the governor on the WFP line.

A new survey from LifeWay Research (full release here) has found that 57 % of Protestant pastors plan to vote for Governor Romney compared with 17 % for President Obama (and it's higher among evangelicals).

Another question asked voters about the «probably double digit increase in the cost of the toll» on the bridge and the «jamming it through the Legislature before the July 4th holiday» assessing whether those conditions «make you more or less likely to vote to vote for Governor Cuomo and the state legislators who support it?»

Cuomo political aide and longtime enforcer Joe Percoco has, the sources said, made the request, which is aimed at threatening the party's ability to get the 50,000 votes for governor in November's election required for a permanent slot on the statewide ballot.

As a Christian and a Republican who voted for Obama last time... I won; t make that mistake again so I am voting for Governor Romney (unless Ron Paul is on the ballot as an independent)

Once Barron get his 50,000 plus votes for governor of the Freedom Party Line he will be speaking for a lot of people.

The vote for governor will still take place on Wednesday, as planned, and the WP vote will immediately follow the nomination.

Without an affiliation with Cuomo — who remains miles ahead in the polls — the party is unlikely to collect the 50,000 votes for governor in November that it needs to score an automatic line on the ballot for the next four years.

But WFP officials were miffed as Cuomo sought to promote the Women's Equality Party over their ballot line and sought to frame a vote for the governor on their line as sending him a message.

The Green Party needs 50,000 votes for governor to get ballot status in 2010.

This year, the best way to declare your support for these priorities is with a vote for Governor Cuomo and all Democratic candidates.

The Onondaga GOP committee's vote for governor is worth 3.4 percent of the weighted vote at the Republican State Convention, where statewide committee members will choose a candidate for governor in May.

By introducing an alternative to Mr. Paterson's budget, Mr. Sampson and Mr. Silver are hoping to avoid the situation their members have faced a dozen times since the fiscal year began on April 1 without a budget deal: vote for the governor's emergency bill or vote to shut down the state government, an unprecedented act that officials believe would plunge the state into chaos.

American Third Position Party candidate Harry Bertram, who got 0.35 % of the vote for Governor of West Virginia in the recent special election, ran a controversial ad in the campaign's closing days that proclaimed him to be the «voice for white American issues,» according to WTOV channel 9.

The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, was: Republicans 2,691,000; Democrats 2,298,000; Conservatives 513,000; Liberals 507,000; Socialist Labor 12,700; and Socialist Workers 12,500.

While Peterson had more definitive positions on openness and transparency, he was less forthcoming about his vote for governor in the June 3rd primary.

The WFP needs at least 50,000 votes for governor to stay on the ballot as well, and it's not clear that they would have received that many running someone who was not named Cuomo.

This is a one - issue vote, not a vote for governor.»

The Constitution Party polled over 10 % of the vote for Governor in 2010, which meant that it was a major party for 2012 and 2014 and Read more»