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The GOP primary in the state's 16th district could also prove interesting: Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger has spoken out against Trump and as a result, could lose votes to pro-Trump businessman Jim Marter.

Whitehead notes that many school districts continue to resist the Equal Access Act, passed by Congress seven years ago and upheld as constitutional by an 8 - to - l vote of the Supreme Court.

Any pastor in the district could be voted on as the presbyter.

«The outcome of the recent Park District vote was a great disappointment to the Board of Education, as well as to several of the Park District board members,» said William Oelman, District 181 board president.

The Park District Board unanimously voted down the proposal for new directors last week at the urging of Commissioner Charles Hegarty, who serves as the district representative on the museuDistrict Board unanimously voted down the proposal for new directors last week at the urging of Commissioner Charles Hegarty, who serves as the district representative on the museudistrict representative on the museum board.

Rylko said that as far as the Park District was concerned, Horatio Gardens residents risked invalidating their entire ballots if they were to vote on Park District issues.

Newly - elected commissioners Silosky and Peter Steinys, along with board president Peter Hurtado, have come under criticism since May when the three voted to hire Village Trustee Garrett Peck as the park district's executive director.

The last thing anybody wants to do is vote for another taxing body» such as a park district.

According to an informed source, o Washington «s strategy was to let Netsch «carry on or self - destruct, «and that the mayor had recently indicated to park district officials that a vote to remove Netsch would be seen as «a bloodletting.

When Claypool sought an immediate vote as a way to «reform a corrupt system,» Stroger countered by raising vague allegations about when Claypool ran the Chicago Park District in the 1990s.

The Park District Board, though voting to pursue the property, attached four conditions to its cooperation with the village, and one of them is essentially what Regan wants from the village as well: public access to the land.

The decision came after the Hoffman Estates Park District board voted 5 - 2 to make the museum start paying its electric and water bills for its use of the barn as of July 1.

With 17 of 20 precincts reporting as of press time Tuesday night, the fire district's tax increase received support from 46 percent of voters, with 54 percent opposing, unofficial vote totals show.

They saw racial politics, as Iola McGowan, a member of the old anti-Washington park board, was jeered by fellow blacks when she cast a vote favoring Kelly, who has placed white males in almost all the important posts in the park district bureaucracy.

WOODSTOCK — Less than 15 minutes after voting to hold an April referendum on a $ 3.9 million bond issue for recreation, the Woodstock city council debated a proposal to reorganize the parks and recreation department as an independent park district.

BARRINGTON — To allow more public input on the fate of the former Jewel Tea Co. headquarters, the Barrington Plan Commission postponed a vote on a request by the Park District to raze the building and use the 55 - acre site as parkland.

The board's vote also approved a request by Park District staff to delay any major grading of the 10 soccer fields at the Cook County Forest Preserve site until the work can be considered as part of the district's mastDistrict staff to delay any major grading of the 10 soccer fields at the Cook County Forest Preserve site until the work can be considered as part of the district's mastdistrict's master plan.

Park District board members unanimously voted to take Kendall Park off the table as a potential site for the 20,000 - square - foot skate park.

The district's Garden Plots were eliminated as an option after the City Council voted not to allow a skate park there.

By night's end, backers of library referendum propositions in Glen Ellyn and the Indian Prairie District had cause to celebrate as final unofficial vote counts came out in favor of building the two multimillion - dollar facilities.

Park District residents in March voted to raise the district's tax rate to buy and maintain the land as opeDistrict residents in March voted to raise the district's tax rate to buy and maintain the land as opedistrict's tax rate to buy and maintain the land as open space.

Meeting as a committee of the whole, the district's board of commissioners voted to place it on the March 28 agenda.

Commissioner Steve Welch, who voted against the ordinance, said, «I want open space as much as anyone else, but my objection has always been that the Park District needs land to have active recreation on.»

It's been more than 13 years since the Orland Park Village Board voted to establish a business district billed as the heart of a new downtown for Orland Park.

If you believe as I do, that Mike's abilities and qualities can serve our community well as a member of District 67's Board of Education, then I strongly urge you to join me in voting for Mike Borkowski on April 9.

At the Park Board meeting Monday night, commissioners voted to charge the western residents the same rates as those in the Joliet Park District.

One of the simplest means of dealing with this even retains the electoral college: have the EC allocate its votes for each state proportionately to the vote, regardless of electoral district (which also renders gerrymandering almost irrelevant, since the state is considered as a whole).

In contrast, single member districts systemically underrepresent diffuse, politically extreme ideological factions which are minorities almost everywhere which tends to moderate the political system as a whole (something that instant runoff voting also does).

Former Vice President Joe Biden has recorded a robocall as part of a get - out - the - vote effort in the key 37th Senate district in Westchester County.

But if we assume all congressional districts in ME and NE vote as their state does, 2 ^ 51.

Should 10 % of voting districts be forced to have a MIBAK member as their representative, despite 90 % of their population being anti-MIBAK?

The voting population of gerrymandered districts is distributed so as to provide «safe» margins of victory in many districts while «wasting» opposition votes concentrated in a few districts.

If 30 % voted for party A and 30 % of the representatives are party A, the result is the same as if there were no districts.

All committee members (also known as district leaders) from towns and cities in the 37th SD will be eligible to vote, selecting between the following five announced Democratic candidates:

As an example, the last mayor of a nearby town foresaw the problems that «enforcing» changes to the town's main street (1 less car way, and more parking space), would cause to his reputation, so he made public, electronic poll (with voting stations on public spaces) on that district (and lost).

According to one insider, Rajkumar and Newell seem to be splitting the vote, since they are trying to lock up committee support from the same committee they both represent as district leaders.

This year, Brooks leads Venditto by 41 votes in the 8th district as Republicans are heading to court to contest the results.

According to Mosley, who I ran into outside the Assembly chamber Monday evening just as the votes were being tallied, last week's controversial vote on the troubled East Ramapo School District was to blame.

No surprise, as the Club's District Leader, Jacob Gold, had earlier become the first Brooklyn member of the Democratic State Committee to pledge his vote at the party convention to Cynthia Nixon.

«Due to serious concerns over the rollout of new electronic voting machines in several counties within the district, the local financial burden of holding a special election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010.»

With Brian Benjamin's big win Saturday, he is all but assured to be voted in May 23rd as the next Democratic Senator from Harlem's 30th District.

As Chair of the Council's Housing and Buildings Committee, I am thrilled that the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has for the first time in its history voted to freeze rent for 1.2 million rent stabilized tenants,» said Williams, who represents the 45th Council District in Brooklyn.

Mayor de Blasio, Comptroller Stringer, Public Advocate James, Congressmembers Jeffries and Maloney and 21 Democratic Elected Officials Endorse Brian Kavanagh Endorsements follow Kavanagh winning majority of 26th Senate District Democratic County Committee New York - Today, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh's campaign for State Senate was endorsed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Tish James, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries as well as 21 Democratic elected officials, following the conclusion of processes in Brooklyn and Manhattan that resulted in Kavanagh receiving 53 % of the combined Democratic County Committee vote.

Finding Edith Bunker Women who could be swayed to vote for Ms. Watson Coleman, the state's General Assembly majority leader from 2006 to 2009, were a key target, said Mr. Wilkins, suggesting that women who could be categorized as Reagan Democrats or «Archie Bunker Voters» were more persuadable than men in the district.

Tobin, who ran for California Secretary of State in 2010 — garnering more than 214,000 votes as the Libertarian nominee — had served as Ralph Nader's national ballot access coordinator during the 2008 presidential campaign, a year when the feisty consumer activist, seeking the brass ring for the final time, appeared on the ballot in 45 states and the District of Columbia.

Throne - Holst and Calone mentioned Zeldin's votes against funding for the Department of Homeland Security and student loans and Pell grants as signs that he is out of touch with the district, and Democrats have indicated they will attempt to paint the foreign policy hawk and only Jewish Republican in Congress as too extreme for the moderate swing district.

As discussed above, in Brooklyn's 52nd Assembly District, Jo Anne Simon won with roughly 70 percent of the vote.

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.

shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every senate district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election, and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates - at - large.

The campaign releases themselves (a typical headline: «Amedore Voted For 96 Tax Increases In Last 2 Years») come as Democrats hope to compete in suburban and upstate districts in which taxes could be a key issue for moderate voters.