Sentences with phrase «voters in his district because»

«Darrel Aubertine is viewed favorably by most voters in his district because he is an independent leader who takes on the tough issues and works across party lines to get the job done.

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The public seems to sense that, because in the 1974 elections only 38 per cent of eligible voters bothered to go to the polls and only 14 per cent were able to name the two candidates running for Congress in their district.

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 fieldIn 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 fieldin less than a year that funds have been sought to buy property for outdoor playing fields.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.

Throughout the debate, Faso often pointed to Professor Teachout's liberal policy prescriptions and highlighted that she does not know the district or issues that are important to voters, in part, because she only moved here and registered to vote her earlier this year.

It's partly because Republicans created boundaries efficiently in redistricting and partly because the most Democratic districts in the country, like those in urban portions of New York or Chicago, are even more Democratic than the reddest districts of the country are Republican, meaning there are fewer Democratic voters remaining to distribute to swing districts.

And the at - large system in the East Ramapo Central School District denies them that opportunity because what we have there is heavily racially polarized voting in which the white community votes as a bloc, and black and Latino voters vote as a bloc and, because the white community outnumbers them they're able to win elections again and again and again,» Grossman says.

Allegro has filed a blizzard of objections to Brabenec's United Monroe petition in hopes of getting it invalidated, citing the signatures of voters who live outside the district or were ineligible because they previously had signed Brabenec's Republican petition, and other alleged problems.

Because of the district's overwhelming Democratic voter enrollment, the winner of Tuesday's race is all but certain to be elected to the seat in November.

Voters in the senatorial district, and even in the other two senatorial districts, preferred Obiano, partly because of his achievements, partly because of incipient anger against the ruling APC, and partly because they rejected Obi and his candidate (for reasons discussed below).

The state's cap is 2 percent or the inflation rate, whichever is lower, but limits vary by district because of differences in exempted expenses such as school renovations funded by bonds and approved by district voters.

But Heck is a thrice - elected congressman from a battleground House district in southern Nevada, who won his elections in part because of his broad appeal to Asian - American and Hispanic voters.

Because of the truncated election calendar, the minimum threshold is 938 signatures of registered Democratic voters residing in the congressional district.

Buts some voters said that they had trouble casting their ballots, either because of faulty voter rolls or other confusion caused by the once - in - a-decade redistricting process that shifted district lines.

Texas currently counts everyone in the state, including illegal immigrants, before carving up districts of proportional population size, but the challenge argues that only eligible voters should be counted because the current system creates some districts with much larger numbers of eligible voters than others.

It is also beneficial if the election inspector lives in the election district he or she is assigned to because they would be more likely to know the voters in that district.

The 4th District race also took place largely on the ground and in voters» mailboxes, because of Atlanta's prohibitively expensive TV media market.

Voters in his district deserve to know whose interests he has been representing because when it comes to a fair wage, it hasn't been theirs,» said Hector Figueroa, president of SEIU Local 32BJ, which led the drive last year to get $ 15 an hour approved for fast food workers.

In some cases, districts are allowed to exceed the mandate without obtaining a supermajority voter approval because some expenses, such as pensions and capital costs, are exempt.

The South Bay district was expected to be competitive, in part, because of low voter turnout.

Republicans, who have fewer registered voters in the district, are considering several candidates and are hopeful because the deciding issues may not be local ones but the stewardship of President Obama.

Brian Higgins is a congressman for life because of his inpenetrable labor support in a district where one in every 5 voters is in a union.

«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.

At the same time, Hanna needs to encourage the majority of Republican voters to show up at the polls on Tuesday, Reeher said, because most are «fundamentally moderate» in the 22nd District.

Republicans believe they can compete in in the 127th Assembly District because 34 percent of the active voters are enrolled with the GOP.

In the 32nd District in the South Bronx, the Senate seat vacated by Rubén Díaz Sr. will almost surely be captured by a Democrat because of the party's overwhelming advantage in voter rollIn the 32nd District in the South Bronx, the Senate seat vacated by Rubén Díaz Sr. will almost surely be captured by a Democrat because of the party's overwhelming advantage in voter rollin the South Bronx, the Senate seat vacated by Rubén Díaz Sr. will almost surely be captured by a Democrat because of the party's overwhelming advantage in voter rollin voter rolls.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

November 15, 2012 • Some analysts are saying that Republicans appear to have the long - range advantage over Democrats when it comes to winning enough seats to control the House, not so much because of redistricting but because of the clustering of Democratic voters in fewer congressional districts.

Speaking on the public television show «Off the Record,» MEA President Steven Cook said the MEA paid $ 25,000 toward a recall effort against House Education Committee Chairman Paul Scott, R - Grand Blanc, because polling showed voters in Scott's district are upset over the elimination of a pension tax deduction and public school funding levels, the Lansing State Journal reported.

Tom Evenson, spokesman for Walker, said the governor is backing Nygren's new plan because it includes a provision that would prohibit school districts from raising taxes if voters rejected a referendum in the last three years.

«'' I am vetoing this section entirely because the result is a substantial increase in property tax capacity that school districts may exercise without voter input.

Voters in school districts controlled by the state's School Reform Commission, such as Philadelphia and Chester, are particularly angry because they have seen that «state control doesn't work,» according to Sipp.

I use the word «rob» because these were funds local voters had approved under the condition they were used in their own school district — not some other school district.

While Boulder Valley's budget is in good shape thanks to an annual $ 22.5 million tax increase approved by voters in November, many other districts are facing deep budget cuts because of decreases in state funding.

A democratically elected school board wouldn't dare put the district's youngest learners (K - 5) in this kind of an environment because they know the voters would hold them accountable, but for a private third party operator who is to say you can't set up school next to a liquor store?

Because few voters turn out for primaries, a tiny number of voters supporting a radical candidate in a «safe» district can end - run around general voters» preferences.