Sentences with phrase «voted against same»

Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., who has voted against same - sex marriage, is facing 30 - year - old Elvin Garcia, who once served as Mayor de Blasio's LGBT liaison, in the district covering Soundview, Castle Hill and Parkchester.

Heastie voted against same - sex marriage in 2007, missed the vote in 2009, but in 2011 supported the bill that was eventually signed into law.

Homophobic (and reportedly closeted) New York state senator Carl Kruger got a profile in Page Six today: «Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger became the No. 1 target of gay activists when he voted against same - sex marriage last month.

On other issues, their views are more divergent, however, such as New York's status as a «sanctuary city» and some social issues — Malliotakis voted against same - sex marriage in the Assembly in 2011, for example.

The endorsement of Grisanti was announced in a matter - of - fact way by ESPA, which also endorsed Sen. Joe Addabbo, a Queens Democrat who had initially voted against same - sex marriage in 2009, but became a «yes» vote in the lead up in the measure's passage.

«At one time I thought civil unions afforded the opportunity to provide the ability for same sex couples to attain the status they wanted,» says Saland, who voted against same - sex marriage when a similar bill was defeated in 2009.

Like Mr. Heastie, Mr. Diaz voted against same - sex marriage as an assemblyman in 2007.

McDonald voted against a same - sex marriage bill while in the Assembly, and also against the 2009 Senate bill.

He has called for «huge restrictions» on abortion and voted against same - sex marriage.

The German leader was among 226 politicians to vote against same - sex marriage, while 393 voted for it and four abstained.

However, the archbishop also said he did not regret voting against same - sex marriage in the House of Lords.

Diaz singles out Senator Shirley Hunter and Frank Padavan, as well as Hiram Monserrate (who has since been ousted in from the Senate, but is running for the Assembly) and thanks them for taking a political risk by voting against same - sex marriage.

Mr. Crespo's 2011 vote against same - sex marriage is notable because the bill passed the Assembly with relative ease and was overwhelmingly supported by New York City lawmakers.

[183] Elected officials and observers opined that Scozzafava's showing in the congressional race affected the New York State Senate's December 2, 2009 vote against same - sex marriage legislation.

Everyone knew he was a closet case, but this corruption case has blown the door wide open for the hypocrite politician, who cast votes against same - sex marriage last year.

He has said he regretted his 2009 vote against same - sex marriage — when it was clear the bill would fail and every Republican would go along for the ride.

Not exact matches

«The merger can not be completed without approval by holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of EMC and an abstention or failure to vote will have the same effect as a vote against the merger.»

, for the same reason I'd never brand anyone in Congress who voted against the Patriot Act a traitor.

Abstentions have the same effect as votes against the matter except in the election of directors, as described above.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

I am of the opinion that voting to keep a segment of society from enjoying the same rights as everyone else goes against everything this country supposedly stands for.

Some voted for the same - sex marriage Bill and others voted against it.

I'm a Mormon myself and it's really encouraging to hear more people take the same stance you are taking — vote for or against a candidate based on their platform, their record, etc..

SEC members voted to remove the doctrinal clause which stated that marriage is a «union of one man and one woman», replacing it with a clause which asserts that clergy who do not wish to preside over same - sex weddings will not be compelled to do so «against their conscience».

But more unexpectedly, given that Hawaii was one of the first states where the issue surfaced, a Hawaii state representative has caused waves for becoming the first openly gay lawmaker to vote against a state's same - sex marriage bill.

Of note: In November, a lesbian lawmaker in Hawaii made national news when she voted against a draft of her state's bill legalizing same - sex marriage, citing religious freedom concerns.

It's a little too late for praying, it's Mrs.Clinton's call to be @ the helm; now, with her hubby Mr.Clinton as VP; and one of you out of all of you, need to tell Romney he's committed fraud, for leaving the Post of so - called gov.that theirs a 2 yr.interval that must be met; the same fo Obama; whom is worst off then Bush Jr.then for none of you to have no Allegiance to be nothing but commander of thieves, since April 4th, 1968 to presently; in the killing of Dr.King Jr.must still go under Oath to all you perjurers; that mustn't go unpunished to the array of charges I have stored up against each of yo on every job, on every public premise; that Obama didn't praywhen he lied to GOD ALMIGHTY in perjury; to have left the seat of sen.to jump to the office; knowing he hadn't a clue what to do; so he got Joe, which is Cheney all over; whom should of been out of public; and he knows that and all the fugitives, even in the Italian led court in DC; that will have to answer to what is -LCB- H.R. 7152 -RCB-; and why they let Olsen for Bush Jr.waste the American's People's time, not to mention all the lives that's been lost; for the tyrannies since 1968 to presently has cost; Vote I, Edward Baltimore; to confirm I; Governor of DC; as of 2/16/12; cause DC; has been a State, already; and all you slaves from State to State; need to snap out of your peonage which is prohibited by Federal Laws; on anybody!!!!!!!

LGBT supporters generally saw the vote as good news, even though it wasn't clear how — or whether — infractions against the denomination's ban on same - sex marriage and clergy in same - sex relationships will be disciplined in the meantime.

This suggests to me that they voted against releasing the DNC Memo at the same time as the Nunes Memo to the Public but are not opposed, and in fact did vote in favor of releasing the memo to the entirety of the House of Representatives.

@fishinear: Not sure about the US in particular, but in many countries there's a serial number on the ballot paper, which can be matched up against the same serial number on a separate record to establish identity and eligibility to vote.

Basically you'd want to have only one vote against the «party line», so that you don't end up defeating yourself if 20 voters got the same idea.

Damian Green was previously a member and on the board of the Carlton Club but resigned after they twice voted against women members, Alan Duncan did the same (a decision that has recently been over-turned).

The same Cruddas that votes for Blair and Brown against what he says, that what we use to call cowardice, Sorry Cruddas blew it with Compass telling people we must fight then ran away.

Marchione was first elected after winning a Republican primary against Sen. Roy McDonald, one of the GOP lawmakers who voted in favor of the legalization of same - sex marriage.

Voted to leave in» 75, voted against Maastricht, voted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with thVoted to leave in» 75, voted against Maastricht, voted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with thvoted against Maastricht, voted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with thvoted against Lisbon — but now the Blairites have got him supping cream from the same EU bowl as Cameron, Osborne and the crooked mega-banks who are the real fat cats in this referendum, drooling at the prospect of being able to buy up huge chunks of the health service after Brussels finalises its dodgy TTIP deal with the US.

Therefore, conceptually, if two people already - as universally supported - don't necessarily have the same voting weight (you can have a vote taken away from you for presumably doing wrong to society), what is the moral / philosophical argument against having select people being given additional votes for presumably doing more than average for society?

Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and / or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are «natural born citizens» under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants» constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic.

Two Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky — that they would vote against even debating the health care bill, joining Nevada Sen. Dean Heller, who made the same pledge on Friday.

Though normally voting with the Labour Whip, Thornberry voted against her party's government on national security matters, regarding the detention of terror suspects without charge for 90 days in the Terrorism Act 2006, on the same matter for 42 days in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, and against the renewal of Trident.

Both candidates said they supported same sex marriage, and both were critical of Mr. LaValle's vote against the issue, in which he said the people of the district were «not ready» for it.

Molinaro voted against New York's same sex marriage when he was in the state assembly in 2011.

Little, who voted against legalizing same - sex marriage, received $ 70,050 in the period between early January and mid-July, according to a recent campaign finance report.

The Democratic Senate candidates who are challenging incumbent Republicans are in an even worse fix, especially if they happen to be unfortunate enough as to be running against one of the three GOP members who crossed party lines at Cuomo's request last summer to vote «yes» on same - sex marriage.

Given the above, does it ever make sense to vote against the incumbent in his party's primary, by voting for a same - party challenger?

On the same day, she slow hand clapped Theresa May as the home secretary headed into the lobby to vote against a motion aimed at closing the gender pay gap.

One angle is that he did not expect a close race against Di Carlo, an underfunded candidate whose primary issue was Saland's «yes» vote for same - sex marriage and his spending, as a result, was meager.

Corbyn, who has rebelled against his party more than 500 times in his career, said MPs would not be «corralled» by whips into voting the same way as the leadership under a more consensual style of management.

Mr. McMahon would be running on the same record, and also alienated some Democrats with his vote against the Affordable Care Act.

This evening those same Ministers did a series of hand - break turns and voted against each of the polices they had previously presented to the House.

On December 2, 2009, Miller sided with the conservative minority, by voting against a bill legalizing same - sex marriage.