Sentences with phrase «around election reform»

Join the conversation happening around election reform today with the hashtag #VoteBetterNY.

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Presumably, the U.S. will get around to reforming its ridiculous immigration policies sometime after the next election.

The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.

The draft reform bill proposes electing the 240 elected Lords in thirds, with 80 seats contested in each election, in constituencies of around 5 - 7 seats, with roughly one member for every 570,000 voters.

Conservatives say the dramatic shakeup of Britain's electoral map, which could hand the party around a dozen more seats at the general election, was a quid pro quo for the electoral reform referendum, which took place in May 2011.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

The groups, also strong supporters of comprehensive campaign finance reform built around a core of public financing of elections, today focused on the urgent need for ethics reform as another essential way to address the problems created by a money culture in Albany.

He's made passing references to «wealthy donors» three times in his past five addresses, but goes all - in with that line of reasoning this time around: we have contribution limits to make sure elections «are not captured by wealthy public interests,» he says; «wealthy individuals and corporations are able to use Limited Liability Companies» to avoid these limits, so reform is needed «to even the playing field so that rich and poor New Yorkers alike have their voices heard.»

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

Too much of the state's election process for judges revolves around raising money, said Dennis R. Hawkins, executive director of the Fund for Modern Courts, a New York City - based group that favors reform of the judicial selection process.

«I wish I could say the crap that came out about Shelly and Skelos is enough to get the governor and legislature to do something real on election reform and ethics, but left to their own devices they are going to pass some Mickey - Mouse bill that tinkers around the edges,» he said.

Holden lost badly to Crowley in the Democratic primary, and then turned around and ran in the general election on the ballot lines of the Republican, Reform, and Dump de Blasio Party lines.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

«The redistricting reform passed today in Ohio makes it much harder for politicians to rig elections through gerrymandering and gives me hope that we can restore fairness to our elections in states around the country.

We have five states that signed up to the National Education Reform agreement and just after the previous federal election the Abbot Government made a deal with the other states which really was a deal that meant that those states did not have the same level of accountability and transparency around the funding.

Another sign that things may move in a positive direction is the election in June of a large number of progressive education superintendents around the country, spurred by the growing desire of the public for reforms.

If this trend continues — and the coming election year will certainly fuel the fire around Common Core and testing — the future of recent school reforms will be called into question.