Sentences with phrase «voters in a given district»

New York State caps individual donations to candidates running for local office using a formula based on the number of registered voters in a given district, which varies slightly from year to year — but leaves the single donor ceiling around $ 16,000 in a Republican primary for Nassau County executive, and $ 48,000 for the general election.

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Ken Goff, president of the Homewood - Flossmoor Park District, said voters passed a «Keep It Green» referendum proposal in 1997, giving the Park District authority to acquire the Army site and two other parcels to be used as park land.

Rather than wait until the district's bonding authority is hemmed in, the park district is asking voters to give the district the authority to raise its regular tax rate, if necessary, to cover the difference, Hall said.

After failing to convince the majority of voters to raise taxes in March, the Arlington Heights Park District will be giving it another shot - but will be asking for less.

Likewise their targetability — some vendors can even match voter databases with commercial databases to hit ONLY past voters in a given Congressional district, just one example of the ability of search advertising to reach a defined audience with the right message at the right time.

«Voters in this upstate district would also be most susceptible to the argument that Democrat reunification and a Democrat Majority in the Senate (and therefore give downstate control of the entire state government) would lead to NYC getting everything at the expense of upstate and Central New York,» the source said.

«With 32 legislative districts, hundreds of dedicated volunteers, and nearly 100,000 registered Republican voters in Manhattan, the RLC is dedicated to fielding candidates in every district and giving them the grassroots support they need.»

As long as Cuomo's cap stays in place, it will continue bending the property - tax curve lower — especially in school districts, where the law gives a simple majority of voters the power to absolutely freeze tax levies at prior - year levels.

And it's not surprisingly that they have seized on this point, either, given the fact that the district — NY - 24 — is so closely divided and voters there have demonstrated in the past that they prefer to be represented by someone who thinks for him or her self and doesn't hew too closely to any particular party ideology.

The day began with Heaney calling on Faso, a former Assembly minority leader who likely enjoys higher name recognition with voters in the district given that he was once an elected official, to hold six debates ahead of the primary.

PORT EWEN, N.Y. >> The Esopus Democratic Committee and Indivisible Ulster will co-sponsor two meetings to give voters the opportunity to question the six candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the 19th Congressional District election.

«Given Jack Martins» past defense of Dean Skelos and continued support for Donald Trump despite his dangerous ideas, it is clear that voters in New York's 3rd congressional district won't let Martins get away with putting Trump and his own party before country.»

Since there are approximately 146,311,000 registered voters in the U.S., winning this district with the single vote cast would give a popular vote percentage of 1 / (146,311,000 - 403,802) = 0.000000685367 %

«I look forward to the opportunity to debate my opponent and to give the voters of the 22nd District a chance to learn about the issues affecting all of us,» Tenney said in a statement.

«Our campaign attracted volunteers from all corners of the district to help a true outsider get on the ballot in order to give voters a real choice in June.

King also has been critical of the most vocal of his opponents, and says what he hears in the district are voters who want to give Trump a chance.

Given that the council district is heavily African American, Obama voters will be turning out in droves.

But there will be 45 separate fields of information given to the commission by the elections board about every registered voter, including their names, date of birth, home address, voting districts, party affiliation and a list of every election they have ever voted in.

John Faso's decisive victory in the Republican primary gives voters in New York's 19th Congressional district a clear general election choice between Faso and far - left New York City professor Zephyr Teachout.

The majority of the district's voters, approximately three - quarters, live on Staten Island, giving that borough enormous leverage over Brooklyn in the congressional race.

In 2012, the voters in the 24th Congressional district gave Dan Maffei a second chance when they chose him to replace Ann Marie Buerkle, after she had defeated him just two years beforIn 2012, the voters in the 24th Congressional district gave Dan Maffei a second chance when they chose him to replace Ann Marie Buerkle, after she had defeated him just two years beforin the 24th Congressional district gave Dan Maffei a second chance when they chose him to replace Ann Marie Buerkle, after she had defeated him just two years before.

However, on 10th July, the Commission received an order given by the Federal High Court, Abuja and dated 6th July, 2017, directing the «parties to maintain the status quo till the determination of the Plaintiff's motion on notice, in respect of the suit filed by the concerned senator, seeking orders of injunction against the Commission to stop it from acting on the petition by the Kogi West Senatorial District Registered Voters.

But on the same 10th July, the Commission received an order given by the Federal High Court, Abuja and dated 6th July, directing the «parties to maintain the status quo till the determination of the plaintiff's motion on notice» in respect of the suit filed by the concerned senator, seeking orders of injunction against the Commission to stop it from acting on the petition by the registered voters of Kogi West Senatorial District.

The emails indicated Nichols thought that Ceretto needed to be careful not to give too much money to Niagara Falls for fear of offending voters in the outlying towns of the 145th Assembly District.

As he makes his fourteenth appearance on the program, the legislator from the Bronx» 87th district will talk about how his district fared in the big snowfall, the anti-Muslim attack in his district, his proposed legislation to give voters a chance to recall their representatives, Bronx development issues, the state budget, and more.

«I firmly believe elections are for the voters, and I want to give the voters in this district a real choice in for the Assembly,» she said, while standing among a small group of supporters, many of them family and friends.

«The voters of this district have given us a resounding victory,» Levine told supporters at a victory celebration Tuesday night in Hamilton Heights.

The Common Cause proposal would directly task LATFOR with drawing districts for the Senate, Assembly and Congress that consider «communities of interest,» such as ethnic neighborhoods of similar towns, and forbid it from considering addresses of incumbents or the partisan enrollment of voters in a given area.

«These questions are sentiment questions, they're not a reflection of what will happen in an election because voters only get to give their sentiment on this, they don't get to choose what district they're in,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said.

«You have to give them points for creativity but Democrats still far outnumber Republicans in those districts and the likelihood that voters in any major way are going to vote on a protest line is silly,» Thies said.

«The results of that effort can clearly be seen in the 24th Congressional District as voters have shifted dramatically and now support Katko — who had been trailing by eight points — giving him a 10 - point lead against the incumbent,» Greenberg said.

According to the county Board of Elections, the 37th Senatorial District currently has 8,075 people registered in the Independence Party, giving Mayer an edge over her Republican opponent Julie Killian in a district where Democrats already outnumber Republicans by roughly 27,000District currently has 8,075 people registered in the Independence Party, giving Mayer an edge over her Republican opponent Julie Killian in a district where Democrats already outnumber Republicans by roughly 27,000district where Democrats already outnumber Republicans by roughly 27,000 voters.

«It's hard to believe given the coverage that all of the press has given this situation that any voters in his district aren't familiar with the situation.

[47] Many Jewish voters joined Koch to elect the Roman Catholic Turner, rather than his Jewish Democratic opponent David Weprin, giving Republicans their first win in the NY - 9th Congressional district since the 1920s.

The purpose of the Nonpartisan Candidate Forum is to give City Council District 18 voters an opportunity to hear candidates discuss the issues of importance to them in this election.

The co-location initiative began in 2000 when California voters approved Proposition 39, which mandated that district facilities be «shared fairly among public school pupils, including those in charter schools,» and that districts provide charters with facilities that were «reasonably equivalent» to those given to district schools.

In response to these concerns, David Harris responded that, while he is open to different ideas about governance, that evidence suggests that districts under mayoral control perform better and are more accountable to voters by giving them a single line at the voting booth by which to express displeasure over educational issues.

State Still Has a Role in Supporting and Holding Districts Accountable With the passage of Proposition 30 and almost nine out of 10 local ballot measures last November, the voters of California gave our schools an almost unprecedented chance to begin rebuilding after years of budget cuts.

Given the compressed timeframe in which the dissolution of the SRC must take place in order for the District to regain local control by the beginning of the 2018 - 2019 school year and the difficulty the District would likely face getting legislative approval from Harrisburg to change its charter to allow an elected school board in the next few weeks, Education Voters of PA supports mayoral control of the school board at this time.