Sentences with phrase «election program provides»

The Citizens» Election Program provides public financing to qualified candidates for statewide offices and the General Assembly.

Not exact matches

In their 2015 election platform, the Trudeau Liberals identified a number of items related to Employment Insurance (EI) that they would change: reversing the Harper EI reforms defining «suitable work»; reducing the waiting period for EI benefits; reducing EI premiums; introducing more flexible parental leave; providing better access to compassionate care; and increasing funding for employment and training programs managed by provinces, territories and Aboriginal labour market organizations.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

He asks us to believe that the U.S. bishops issued a statement called «Political Responsibility» during a U.S. election year that merely rediscovers nineteenth - century German social thought, which by chance offers a political platform that, by sheer coincidence, parallels the U.S. Democratic platform program by program, yet these very bishops are completely immune from influence by the current political constellation in their headquarters» host city of Washington, D.C. Further, this very professor tells us that the problem with Republicans» the party of Ford, Bush, and Dole» is that they are excessively committed to the «unfettered free market» and lack «faith in the government's ability to provide» social benefits, a position he claims is completely contrary to the Catholic faith.

Again, Canada and England have such requirements, and broadcasters provide this service and still manage to make acceptable profits, not from elections, but from advertising related to their regular entertainment programming.

A refresher: Bloomberg contriubted the cash in question to the state Independence Party, which, in turn, gave it to Haggerty to provide a ballot security program on Election Day.

The program provides a grant to qualified candidates, and for state Senate candidates, the grant is $ 94,690, according to the state Elections Enforcement Commission.

«Throughout the history of the presidential public finance system, the program has operated admirably to the point of fairly equalizing campaign expenditures between the major party candidates, and providing primary candidates with the resources to be able to run campaigns,» said Holman «It made elections very competitive, quite open and fairly scandal - free.»

The governor was able to have lawmakers back a program — which he termed a «freeze» — that provided rebates in an election year to homeowners whose taxing districts budgeted within the cap.

Her reach in the community has garnered enough financial support to qualify for the Citizens» Election Program, which provides public financing to candidates.

In 2014 Cuomo and legislators passed a «freeze» program that provided election year checks to homeowners whose municipalities stayed within the tax cap, essentially giving them a cash rebate for any increase.

De Blasio is participating in the CFB's matching funds program, which provides taxpayer dollars to qualifying candidates in an effort to empower regular New Yorkers in city elections.

The path to election reform is somewhat muddled; most rules governing contribution limits and the matching funds program that provides public money to candidates are derived from legislation passed by the City Council.

Instead, Cuomo announced a program bill to amend the Public Officers Law to provide county boards of elections more time prior to special elections to allow enough time for military ballots to be mailed and counted in compliance with federal law.

The election by an eligible employee to participate in the optional retirement program is irrevocable for so long as the employee continues to meet the eligibility requirements set forth in this section and in s. 121.051 (2)(c), except as provided in paragraph (i) or as provided in s. 121.051 (2)(c) 3.

In six states where judges are standing in yes / no retention elections — Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico, and Utah — official judicial performance evaluation (JPE) programs are providing citizens with impartial assessments of judges» performance on the bench.