Sentences with phrase «vote on a single issue»

Giving everyone a vote on a single issue, no matter how educated, rich, clever or powerful they are, is the purest form of democracy.

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Catholics were not to vote on «single issues» but to take an overall view.

Focusing on the bill's support of school lunches and ignoring the issue of infant formula, the e-mail boasted that the bill would give millions of children «access to nutritious food» and that it passed «without a single dissenting vote in the United States Senate.»

The speaker has in the past deemed the so - called «veto - proof majority» (having enough members to guarantee overrides of a gubernatorial veto) a «fiction», noting it's not easy to get every single member of his conference to vote «yes» on controversial issues and see absolutely zero support from the Republicans.

We could get a different kind of tactical voting, where people try to send messages through the voting system by voting for single - issue candidates first, then the candidate they want second, on the assumption that the single - issue candidate will be knocked out before the candidate they want.

«They are hoping New Yorkers forget that they themselves all voted «no» on some of these exact issues and more, including crucial protections for Planned Parenthood, a single payer health plan, strong ethics, and voting reforms.

The shadow chancellor dismissed suggestions the party's leadership was trying to quash debate on the issue, after pro-EU MPs, who are pushing leader Jeremy Corbyn to commit to permanent membership of the single market, failed in an attempt to stage a vote.

Gun groups exert power on politicians by having huge mailing lists of «single - issue voters» who will vote against anyone who wants to pass gun control.

«Partnering with Republicans has resulted in progressive bills not coming up for vote,» said Mr. Chowdhury, whose website lays out his position on issues like affordable housing, safe streets and single - payer health care.

I believe that the rejection of Quinn for valid, political issues such as third terms and her legislative record shows a growing maturity in our communities — we rejected the old «ethnic appeal» and instead of voting on a single - issue or identity we voted for the candidate who best represents a progressive platform.

So why does the New York Votes Act tout automatic voter registration as the centerpiece of reform, rather than the single most impactful issue facing New York voters — the very issue that has the biggest effect on voter turnout?

«We find that it's a very small proportion of Americans that say, «This is the one single issue that I'm voting on.

The jump accounts for the single biggest change among all voting groups, and it could symbolize a softening among conservatives on an issue that has sharply divided the political parties, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

Of this, 25 % of singles say «not being registered to vote» is an instant deal - breaker, while 35 % will not consider dating someone who «does not have an opinion on key political issues.»

National Singles Week Singles Out April Masini — Wanted: A person whos conservative on the issues, liberal in bed, and (PRWeb) One step ahead of MTV's Rock The Vote motif, shes the love goddess behind online dating's newest spin on spin doctors.

The panel will consider all factual and legal issues anew, follow the same rules that apply to a proceeding using a single arbitrator, and make decisions based on the vote of the majority.

During the vote, Commissioner Bob Solari said that he had received more feedback from constituents on this single issue than on any other during his time as a Commissioner, and cited the thousands of emails he received from cat and dog lovers against the measure:

WASHINGTON, DC — The national, single - issue, non-profit advocacy group Vote Hemp applauds the new resolution on industrial hemp that was adopted by delegates of the American Farm Bureau Federation at its 95th annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas last week, January 14, 2014.

Mount Vernon, KY — Vote Hemp, the national single - issue advocacy group dedicated to re-commercializing industrial hemp, and Kentucky non-profit Growing Warriors, have partnered to organize a planting of industrial hemp in Mount Vernon, KY on May 16, 2014, as part of the nationwide grassroots education effort Hemp History Week.

A cross-party consensus existed on an issue that had never been tested at the ballot box, notwithstanding the Green Party, which struggled to rise above low single - digit percentages of the vote after four decades of campaigning.

Karakehian suggested that the council singled out marijuana businesses on the electricity issue «because we could,» but he doesn't think he has the votes to change it.

We vote (perpetual war) and We lobby (perpetual war)-- Yet what we want (both sides «right civilians» and «left civilians») are ABSOLUTE victories on Single - Stance Issues: Abortion, Climate, Security, Universal Healthcare etc etc..

The merits of the project had become a party political issue in the imminent local election and despite «the formidable arguments on both sides, not a single member of the coalition either abstained or voted against the motion».