Sentences with phrase «voter initiatives for»

State law allows such voter initiatives for towns and villages, but not for cities.

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51:05 — Iain says the trouble with implementing harsher laws for distracted drivers (car and phone impounded) is that voters would hate any politician who backed such an initiative.

The Oregon and Alaska measures will legalize recreational marijuana possession and usher in state - licensed retail pot shops similar to those that opened this year in Washington state and Colorado, which became the first to allow cannabis use for pleasure under 2012 voter initiatives.

South Dakota voters approved a ballot initiative in 2016 by a 75 percent vote to cap rates for payday, car title and installment loans at 36 percent annual interest.

The Legislature put that on the ballot, with a grudging nod from the NRA, to stave off a voter initiative calling for a seven - day ban.

Due to a voter - approved initiative that has the two highest primary vote - getters appearing on the general election ballot regardless of party, some November races for major state offices are contests between a leftwing Democrat and a radical Democrat.

On Monday they unveiled a «People of Faith for Obama» a new initiative to mobilize voters that included Web video of the president and a faith platform.

In Carol Stream, the Park District initiative should look familiar to voters because this is the third time in less than a year that funds have been sought to buy property for outdoor playing fields.

The White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives are up for grabs, along with thousands of other offices in state and local governments across the country, even as voters weigh in on scores of ballot initiatives and other measures.

We peel back the layers to reveal how the Internet is changing the way candidates run for office, promote ballot initiatives, and mobilize voters.

Voters will not get a second opportunity to judge this initiative, for the very good reason that the deal - makers fear a second rejection.

She also explained that while Nick Clegg took a risk with his reputation in participating in the debates, his initiative for the debates could be explained by the Liberal Democrat's need to appeal to traditional Liberal Democrat voters, who tend to be more pro-European; and many of those voters turned away from the Liberal Democrats when the party entered coalition in 2010.

A majority of New York City residents, suburbanites and upstate dwellers, as well a large swath of voters across all age groups, races and religions showed support for the initiative.

Through a voter initiative in 1993, a two - term limit for city elected officials was created.

STATEN ISLAND — Mayor Bill de Blasio spent his first day on Staten Island announcing new initiatives for the 123 Precinct, chowing down on cannoli with his pal Borough President James Oddo and riding the ferry to work, but said it's not an effort to win over borough voters.

Romney / Ryan's New York Campaign Chairman, Eric Ulrich, who is also running for NY State Senate's 15th district, supports this plan and many other ultra-conservative policy initiatives of the Romney / Ryan ticket, making it clear that he remains deeply out of touch with voters in the 15th district.

«The property tax remains the most burdensome tax in New York and by challenging local governments to collaborate and create a plan to streamline operations for voter approval, this game - changing initiative will empower communities, cut costs, and reduce property taxes on Long Island and across New York,» Cuomo said.

A Realtor - backed ballot initiative expanding property tax loopholes for homeowners over 55 could drive turnout among Republican - leaning voters.

In the interview, Samuels said he would like to see some form of an initiative and referendum in New York, similar to what either California or even Florida has in place for direct voter action.

The so - called «Smart Schools» initiative was the first time voters approved a major bond issue since 2005 when they signed off on $ 2.9 billion in bonding for road, bridge and mass transit improvements.

With the initiative method, an amendment is proposed by a petition signed by voters equal in number to 8 % of the votes for all candidates for governor at the last gubernatorial election.

If the repeal initiative qualifies for the November ballot and gets the majority of votes, any future gas taxes passed by the legislature would also require voter approval.

In August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a new initiative designed to lift the state's dismal voter registration numbers, and as the Oct. 12 deadline to register for next month's general election draws near, critics in Queens said there is no good reason those numbers should be so low.

In November, Cuomo campaign spokesman Matt Wing (who has since left for a position in the private sector) told Capital the party would «now be focused on acting as a women's advocacy party: it will launch new initiatives to register and enroll new women voters and engage them more actively in the political process.

For Minerva, progressing from the accomplishments of those who served before him will be the key to accomplishing his committee's initiatives, something that can not be done without the help of New York's voters.

Two senior Ulster County lawmakers are going to court in an effort to force changes to the wording of a ballot initiative up for voter approval next month.

Voters looking to see who's in the running for national delegate in their neighborhood should visit Who's On the Ballot, a web app that gives voters a customized look at the delegates, the candidates, polling sites and voting initiatives in their neighboVoters looking to see who's in the running for national delegate in their neighborhood should visit Who's On the Ballot, a web app that gives voters a customized look at the delegates, the candidates, polling sites and voting initiatives in their neighbovoters a customized look at the delegates, the candidates, polling sites and voting initiatives in their neighborhood.

Participatory budgeting (PB) is a new process for capital budgeting in which voters in participating districts directly decide how to spend millions of their own tax dollars, a first in New York City and only the second such initiative in the United States.

Cuomo in January announced the latest initiative to reduce spending: a proposal that would require county governments to draft a consolidation plan to share services by Aug. 1, which would then go on the ballot for voter approval in November.

It was the second annual «Vote Better NY» Advocacy Day for Election Reform organized by NYC Votes, a non-partisan voter engagement initiative run by the New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) and its Voter Assistance

Investigators at the Stanford Graduate School of Business analyzed data from Arizona's 2000 general election, looking for a link between where voters cast their ballots and whether they backed a school - funding initiative.

In another health ballot initiative this week, Oregon voters said «no» to a cigarette tax hike to fund health insurance for some 100,000 kids in the state who currently are not covered.

David Volk of the South Dakotans for Lifesaving Cures said the initiative will ask voters to allow research on embryonic stem cells, but only stem cells left over from in vitro fertilization procedures, cells that would have been discarded otherwise.

If approved by Montana voters, the initiative authorizes the state to buy $ 20 million in bonds for 10 years to provide grants to develop therapies and cures for brain diseases and injuries and mental illness.

The Electoral Justice Project, a branch of the Movement for Black Lives, has launched a #WakandaTheVote initiative to take advantage of the Black Panther crowds to register black voters for the 2018 elections.

Given the Constitution's protection of the right to vote, the equal protection clause also would support a federal right to an education that prepares students to be competent voters and civic participants — enabling them, for instance, to comprehend complex ballot initiatives and serve competently on a jury, as education law scholar and litigator Michael Rebell has contended.

Two years after voters rejected a statewide school - construction ballot initiative for the first time, Californians will decide next week whether the state can sell $ 3 billion in bonds for construction and repair of the education infrastructure.

But for Douglas County voters, these judicial consequences pale in importance next to the question of how to help the district recover from a failed reform initiative.

Voters are particularly hesitant to embrace complex initiatives, said Professor Enrich, who considers Stand for Children's 16 - page proposal «awfully complicated.»

Groups consider trying to put charter - school initiative on ballot As prospects for a bill allowing charter schools dims in the Washington Legislature, some in the so - called «education reform» movement are considering compromise options or again asking the voters about it.

Washington voters in November approved a charter school initiative, allowing for the formation of up to 40 charter schools in the state over the next five years.

The measure's defeat also isn't expected to renew support for previous voter - approved initiatives 728 and 732 — aimed at class - size reductions and cost - of - living pay increases for teachers, respectively — which were suspended by the Legislature last year.

In 2012, voters in Washington approved a ballot initiative authorizing charter schools in the state for the first time.

Brown said the policies he had promoted were addressing those issues: Passage of Prop. 30, the initiative approved by voters two years ago that is generating billions of dollars of extra tax revenues for schools, and the Local Control Funding Formula that is targeting billions of state education funds to low - income students and English learners.

Concurrent to approval of SB 114 by the Senate Education Committee, the Secretary of State's office announced that proponents of a separate initiative calling for a $ 9 billion school facilities bond to go on the same ballot were cleared to begin collecting the signatures needed to put that measure before voters.

Voters overwhelmingly passed the school bond and mill, demonstrating support for initiatives to improve aging buildings and expand programming in the arts, early childhood, and tutoring.

The real political battle for Bay State voters was a ballot initiative known as «Question 2,» which proposed lifting the state's charter school cap.

In Washington State, voters passed an initiative on class size, choosing to pay for an additional 25,000 employees for their k - 12 public schools over the next four years.

New polling shows broad voter support for a 2012 ballot initiative that would tax millionaires to raise money for education as well as public safety and social services, sponsors of the measure - led by the California Federation of Teachers reported Thursday.

All New Jersey taxpayers and students should be rooting for the voters of West Amwell, Stockton and Lambertville to support this ballot initiative on Sept. 24.