Sentences with phrase «voter referendum last»

Wilmorite and 15 other developers met Monday's deadline to apply for one of four casino licenses allowed after a successful voter referendum last November.

Cuomo championed the creation of the new casinos, which were approved in a voter referendum last November, as a way to add thousands of new jobs to the struggling upstate economy, and increase tourism.

The amendment, which passed overwhelmingly in a voter referendum last month, is called a «a major victory in the battle against corruption» by the mailer, obtained by Capital Tonight.

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Last October, Catalonia's leaders defied the Spanish government by holding an independence referendum; 90 % of Catalans voted sí (although only 42 % of registered voters went to the polls).

Swiss voters rejected a plan to force their government to accelerate the country's exit from nuclear energy in a referendum Sunday, turning down an initiative that would have seen the last plant shut in 2029.

Switzerland gave it serious consideration last year before three - quarters of its voters turned down the idea in a nationwide referendum.

But most polling models assumed the same type of apathy among younger voters that doomed the UK Brexit referendum last year.

Recently, New Jersey State Senator David Friedland introduced a bill calling for the establishment of frontons in Jersey City, Camden and Long Branch, even though last year New Jersey voters turned down jai alai in a referendum.

The Park Board voted unanimously last week to place a referendum question on the Nov. 2 ballot asking voters to approve purchase of the land and construction of playing fields and a facility.

The Park Board voted last week to hold a referendum asking voters to approve a $ 6 million bond issue to pay the district's share of a building to be constructed in partnership with Joliet - based Provena St. Joseph Medical Center.

Chiszar said voters who supported the tax increase referendum question that allowed the Park District to buy the area's last working farm wanted the land developed as a whole «unique piece of property.»

The idea was forwarded last month by Trustee Scott Berg in the wake of voters» overwhelming rejection of a referendum issue to create a Lake in the Hills park district.

Last November, voters defeated a referendum to buy the land.

Park District Executive Director Walter Cook and park board members attributed the referendum proposal's defeat last fall primarily to a failure to educate voters about the benefits and the purpose of the proposal.

During the last year, voters in Buffalo Grove, Vernon Hills, Geneva and Downers Grove rejected big - bucks water park proposals in referendums, and the general suburban tax revolt got most of the blame, or credit.

Two «pass the pool» referendum proposals were sunk last year by voters, who by their vote said they didn't want higher taxes to pay for an aquatic center.

But voters rebuffed a request to fund a recreation center in a referendum last year, leaving the Park District unable to pay its share of the area's improvement costs.

California voters, facing even more severe transit raids than New York, put a stop to the practice by approving Prop 22 in a referendum last Tuesday.

It is also increasingly becoming the party of choice amongst the 38 % of voters who voted Leave in last year's EU referendum.

In 1997, the last time New Yorkers voted on a constitutional convention referendum, opponents poured more than $ 750,000 into an advertising and direct mail campaign in the two weeks before voters went to the polls.

They cite the difficulties of a September referendum — as seen in Scotland last year — with voters away on holiday in the campaign period.

The last two times a referendum was called to revise the city charter, voters defeated change.

Legislator Bill Lindsay III introduced legislation last week to schedule a 2017 referendum asking Suffolk voters if they want to reduce the size of the legislature from 18 seats to 13.

The day before, de Blasio will speak in Nebraska, which has been a reliably red state in recent cycles, but is also where voters last November favored a referendum to raise the state's minimum wage — a central cause for de Blasio.

Secondly, a poll conducted by the Mail on Sunday last weekend showed that only 26 % of voters who will be 16 and 17 at the time of the referendum support independence.

The last ballot measure that really got voters going was New York City's term limits referendum in 1993 — famously superseded by the 2008 City Council vote allowing Mayor Bloomberg's third term.

TORY Cabinet ministers were urged last night to get off the fence and tell voters where they stand on an EU referendum — In or Out.

For instance, before Britain's referendum on European Union membership last year, a poll by Ipsos Mori found that voters typically estimated the number of migrants living in the UK to be 31 % of the population.

State lawmakers approved the expansion of casino gambling last week with enabling legislation that provides and the second passage of a constitutional amendment that now goes to voters in a referendum.

Cuomo said at a news conference last week that the amendment voters would have to approve through a referendum would be broad and then lawmakers would work to narrow down the law.

Referendum committes were created in response to the Silver - Bruno budget reform amendment in 2005, the last time a controversial constitutional amendment was put before voters.

Such an estimate would not be reliable, as the requirement for voters to vote at their designated polling station was removed in the last hours before the referendum began.

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has said «No» voters in last week's independence referendum were «tricked» by a late vow of more devolved powers.

It certainly helped scoop up many of the four million votes they received at the last general election as well as providing the magic bullet that made Euro - obsessery a retail issue for millions of voters in the referendum.

Given voters» experience of public polling at the last general election, it would be natural for them to take a more cynical and circumspect view of opinion research in the lead up to the European referendum.

The European commission has already signalled its reluctance to allow countries such as Denmark, where voters rejected adopting closer EU ties on cross-border policing in a referendum last year, to have similar access to data and intelligence sharing without opting in to full co-operation.

The referendum approved by New York voters last year initially will allow a total of four casinos in three parts of the state — the Catskills / Hudson Valley, the Albany - Saratoga area and the Souther Tier.

Backed by at least $ 500,000 from former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the political clout of ex-Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords, gun control advocates last week turned in what they contend are enough signatures to add a voter referendum on Washington state's proposed Extreme Risk Protection Order to the ballot this November.

His main aim was to avoid annoying voters ahead of June 23; the last thing the Government needs is for the referendum to become an opportunity for voters to kick an unpopular administration.»

Last week, Mr. Cuomo suggested that the voter referendum might be delayed until 2014 to capitalize on enthusiasm for casinos from upstate voters and turnout for the governor's race.

Speaking immediately after Scotland's voters backed remaining in the EU by 62 % to 38 % in last June's referendum, the former first minister Alex Salmond said it would be a logical option for an independent Scotland to take over the UK's membership of the EU post-Brexit.

During the course of the AV referendum campaign over the last couple of months, numerous supporters of the Yes campaign have variously claimed that polls which give a cursory explanation of the system before asking the voter whether they support AV - which have generally shown larger numbers opposing the change - are a «complete misrepresentation», «loaded» or «flawed».

Following the September 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the Barnett formula came to widespread attention amid concerns that in a last - minute government bid to sway voters against independence, Scotland had been promised continued high public spending.

David Cameron makes last minute plea to older voters to get them to choose Remain in the referendum

«It is clear his behaviour last night in whipping up a rally of largely non-Labour members and his refusal to accept any blame for the referendum defeat turned off a number of colleagues from the left who were considering abstaining or voting for him,» said the politician, who also argued that there was deep anger about the perception that Corbyn had not tried hard enough to mobilise Labour voters during the referendum campaign.

Democrats last month filed ballot petitions to get the referendum before voters during the November general election.

If last November's election served as a referendum, of sorts, on the ethics case, Woodstock voters rendered a clear verdict.

Cleveland voters last week soundly rejected a levy intended to bolster the school district's finances, a move widely interpreted as a referendum on the performance of its leader, Barbara Byrd - Bennett.

After moving dramatically to abolish property taxes as a source of funding for the schools, lawmakers last year decided to give voters a choice for replacing the lost revenues: either a two - cent sales - tax increase, to be considered in a March 15 referendum, or an income - tax hike, which will go into effect automatically if the sales - tax rise is rejected.

Referendum 55 gives voters a chance to either endorse or overturn a decision by the Legislature last spring to approve charter schools, which receive public funding but operate with a looser regulatory leash...