Sentences with phrase «citizens union supports»

Pros: The non-partisan Citizens Union supports the proposal, saying that while flawed, it will eliminate gerrymandering (drawing the boundaries of districts in a way that gives one party an unfair advantage).

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The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08 - 205, overruled two precedents: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.

(Bonn, 23 February 2015) «IFOAM — Organics International» is supporting «The Letter from America», an open letter from 57 million Americans to the citizens, politicians, and regulators of the UK and the rest of the European Union highlighting the hazards of genetically modified crops and calling on them not to follow the US example when it comes to GMOs.

Additional testimony also in support came from the American Civil Liberties Union - New Hampshire, Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin King, The New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Rights Coalition, the New Hampshire Departments of Labor and Public Health, the NHBTF, the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center and New Hampshire Voices for Health.

Citizens United overturned a century of legal doctrine when it ruled that pursuant to the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, corporations and labour unions have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money through ads, commercials and other political tools to support or oppose candidates for office.

a national economic strategy, developed through negotiation with businesses, unions and citizens throughout the country, targeting support for particular sectors to particular regions.

As expected, most of the Citizens Union - sponsored event focused on the candidates» reform agendas, with strong support from all for legalizing gay marriage, bipartisan redistricting and full public financing of campaigns.

Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey, who accompanied Koch to Albany this week and is working with him on NY Uprising, called the Assembly support for Cuomo's bill a «milestone» that is both «unprecedented and unexpected.»

Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union, and Tim Hoefer, Executive Director of the Empire Center, were present at the event to show to support for Assemblyman Tedisco's leadership in bringing greater transparency to state spending decisions.

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Good government groups Citizens Union, the Empire Center, NYPIRG and Common Cause have publicly expressed support for Tedisco's efforts to bring greater transparency to state spending decisions with this bill.

As for Citizens Union, Executive Director Dick Dadey said the Education Fund's money supported two reports: one examining the undisclosed spending of New York political clubs, the other pushing publicly funded elections and campaign finance reform.

«The governor clearly supports it but has been less than visible in promoting its passage,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a good - government group that's supporting the measure.

Earlier this month, the New York State Bar Association came out in support of a convention, as did the League of Women Voters and the good - government group Citizens Union.

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For Citizens Union, support for a convention has only been reinforced over the last two decades.

But Dadey of Citizens Union said support for the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders shows that voters want change.

In the race to challenge incumbent Councilmember Alan Gerson, Citizens Union prefers Jin (P.J.) Kim because of his energy, fresh ideas, knowledge of the evolving needs of the district and his broad base of support.

We call on all civil society organizations, professional bodies, faith - based groups, youth groups, the union movement, academia, and indeed on all citizens of Ghana to support the Center's call to the EC to avoid a potential constitutional crisis.

«The governors» special panel should not cancel out the good work done so far with these unanimously supported bistate bills,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government watchdog group in New York.

«This is a sad day for Citizens Union that it can not, in good conscience, support any of the candidates for mayor, including the incumbent, who has spent most of his tenure engulfed in troubling ethical issues that continue to swirl around him.

In a press conference before the start of the session, Horner and leaders from Common Cause and Citizens Union called on lawmakers to sign a «Clean Conscience Pledge» in support of a set of reforms, including a ban on outside income, greater transparency in the allocation of discretionary funds and closure of the LLC loophole.

It is inconceivable that a mass of citizens, union members or not, will flock back to supporting Labour, much less join and become active members, until its politics fundamentally return to the left.

Astorino said he supports all the budget reforms listed by Citizens Union, with the exception of one — limiting the ability of the governor to enact policy changes governing the use of resources in appropriation bills.

«This is a sad day for Citizens Union that it can not, in good conscience, support any of the candidates for Mayor, including the incumbent, who has spent most of his tenure engulfed in troubling ethical issues that continue to swirl around him,» said Citizens Union Chairman Randy Mastro.

Dick Dadey of the Citizens Union good - government group, who supported Agata's choice, «Given the need for our public ethics enforcement agency to be as transparent as possible, providing this information seems like a no - brainer to me.»

She has the support of Citizens Union, a good government group as well as Planned Parenthood and The New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, among others.

Katko and Deacon said they would support a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case, which allows corporations, unions and other interests to spend unlimited amounts on elections.

«As the lead community engagement partner in the Participatory Budgeting (PB) effort in NYC, Community Voices Heard was excited that Citizens Union noted its support today for innovative pilot programs such as Participatory Budgeting.

«The speaker is going to be interested in gaining the support of the Council and may take that into consideration of her funding of member items,» said Rachael Fauss, a policy expert at Citizens Union, which authored the group's report.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

«I am very proud to have the backing of the Citizens Union and thank them for their support,» said Jimmy Van Bramer.

Dick Dadey, with Citizens Union, which supports the measure, along with the League of Women Voters, says it's the best opportunity in decades to help fix a broken system that allows nearly unlimited gerrymandering by legislative leaders to benefit parties in power.

Upon Mayor de Blasio's recent announcement of a new compensation commission, Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, told The New York Post that he supports elected officials getting raises since «eight years is a long time to go without one,» but pointed out that «the real question isn't whether they get raises, it's the size of the raises and whether the commission will look at limiting [elected officials»] outside income and banning «lulus.

«The reason nearly every progressive leader in New York and organizations like Naral Pro-Choice and Citizens Union are all supporting Eric Schneiderman is because no one in this race has fought harder for social justice, reproductive rights and cracking down on gun violence,» said James Freedland, a Schneiderman campaign spokesman.

Citizens Union and the League, as well as the Governor, have conditioned support of the constitutional amendment on passage of an accompanying statute that will put in place a statutory version of the amendment if it does not achieve second passage.

Citizens Union Executive Director Dick Dadey said that while the speaker does have a responsibility to manage bills that may have gained majority support without being fully vetted, the Right to Know bills have been debated at length.

You won't find much about union support, but you will learn more about how officials and average citizens are coming to see that teacher and school effectiveness can be measured and improved.

On the other hand, recognizing that their membership is getting angrier and angrier and that the Malloy / Wyman agenda is undermining public education, public services and is translating into public employee layoffs, some of these same unions have taken to running television advertisements urging citizens to stand up for the public servants who educate our children, provide critically important support for those in need and ensure that government programs are available to the people of Connecticut.

In his tenure, he delivered education reform, abolished the death penalty in Illinois, improved nursing - home conditions for the elderly, legalized civil unions, walked across the state in support of decent health care for all citizens, proposed historic tax reform for working families, and prioritized animal welfare.

Cooper Union / Institute for Sustainable Design received a Marfa Dialogues / NY grant in 2013 that supported Hardinger «s and Rebecca Smith's co-initiation of an exhibition and panel discussion about Manhattan's gas pipeline leaks, based on a report Hardinger and Smith initiated, conducted by Damascus Citizens for Sustainability.

«Energy Citizens» is supported by the API, National Association of Manufacturers, American Farm Bureau, American Highway Users Alliance, National Black Chamber of Commerce, Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, FreedomWorks, American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, and Council for Citizens Against Government Waste.

The organisations are calling for a framework to protect, support and promote energy citizens at the core of the European Commission's Energy Union package — specifically as part of the revised Renewable Energy Directive and the Market Design Initiative.

Furthermore, in determining the existence of the dependence, the host Member State must assess whether the family member is not in a position to support himself or herself in the country of origin at the time when s / he applies for a residence permit in order to join the Union citizen in that Member State.

However, the Court in Reyes seems to go further than that and suggest that «the fact that... a Union citizen regularly, for a significant period, pays a sum of money to that descendant, necessary in order for him to support himself in the State of origin, is such as to show that the descendant is in a real situation of dependence vis - à - vis that citizen».

These considerations go far to support the opinion that the framers of our Constitution had not the Indian tribes in view when they opened the courts of the union to controversies between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states.

However, if the Initiative does generate popular support, then in combination with institutional proposals such as the creation of «associate citizenship» then it may form part of a holistic package of Union action which may provide «a new hope» for UK nationals who wish to continue to rely on their soon to be rescinded status as EU citizens.

52 However, the mere fact that it might appear desirable, for economic reasons or in order to preserve the family unit in the territory of the Union, for members of a family consisting of third country nationals and a Union citizen who is a minor to be able to reside with that citizen in the territory of the Union in the Member State of which he is a national is not sufficient in itself to support the view that the Union citizen would be forced to leave the territory of the Union if such a right of residence were not granted (see, to that effect, Dereci and Others, paragraph 68).

Additionally, MasterCard has added support for a number of new partners including Citizens Equity First Credit Union, Randolph - Brooks Federal Credit Union, Security Service Federal Credit Union, State Employees» Credit Union, SunTrust and Virginia Credit Union.