Sentences with phrase «calls election reform»

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Municipal Affairs Minister Deron Bilous should follow calls from Calgary's Naheed Nenshi and Edmonton's Don Iveson and Michael Janz to reform municipal election finance laws.

Man... healthcare reform, a black man in the Oval Office... twice, a trouncing in the last election that momentarily shattered their alternative reality bubble, the striking down of DOMA and more states legalizing gay marriage, whites soon to be less than 50 % of the US's population, and now even the Pope is calling bullsh!t on their philosophy... it's like every conservative nightmare is becoming reality, and we'll be better off because of it.

National Democrats are now pressuring Cantor's GOP colleagues to declare whether they support his call, which is actually reminiscent of how the Rep. Paul Ryan Medicare reform plan fight played out during the NY - 26 special election.

One of the election reforms created something called a majority minority district.

«I am running to build a real Democratic State Senate majority that finally fully funds our public schools, protects tenants from being thrown out of their homes and strengthens our loophole ridden rent laws, passes badly needed ethics reforms, election reforms and real criminal justice reforms and makes Andrea Stewart - Cousins the first woman Senate Majority Leader, breaking up the so - called «three men in a room.»

But what's troubling for Labour's leader is that some of those calling for the system to be reformed are, in effect, declaring his election illegitimate.

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A win by Gonzalez would help re-establish the WFP in Albany and also solidify its standing in NYC as a vehicle for reform against the well - established so - called Democratic «machines» in the outer boroughs — particularly Brooklyn and, in the case of the 2009 NYC Council elections, in which the WFP teamed up with HTC and 1199 against party - backed candidates, Queens.

A group of Labour candidates has written a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a referendum on electoral reform to be held on the day of the general election.

A rainbow coalition would have been hugely unpopular in the right - wing press, but it could have passed wholesale reform of British politics and then called another election in two years.

Allegations that Vote Leave breached election spending laws in the 2016 referendum add to calls for electoral spending reform.

The mayor called on the state Legislature to pass broad voting and election reforms, including same - day voter registration, early voting, «no excuse» absentee voting, electronic poll books, consolidation of primary elections, reformatting ballots to make them more user - friendly, and pre-registration of 16 - and 17 - year - olds.

A collection of good government groups is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to insert funding in his 2016 - 17 executive budget for two election reform proposals.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R - Calif., told CQ Roll Call on Tuesday that it was «perhaps too soon» for his committee to look at how federal prosecutors» allegations that Mayor Vincent Gray knew about a shadow campaign scheme in the 2010 election might have contributed to his loss to Muriel Bowser.

Heavy on rhetoric but light on specifics, the statement from the party called for «targeted political action» to ensure the 124 MPs who voted against Lords reform last night do not keep their seats in the next election.

The state committee and the county committees regularly endorse the most disgustingly liberal Democrat political candidates every single election, then have the audacity to whine about a group that wants to call themselves the Reform Party.

Additionally, Ryan called upon the legislature to enact other voting reforms to modernize elections in New York, make it easier to vote, and expand voting options for all New Yorkers to help boost low turnout rates.

Albanese also supports non-partisan elections and calls for pension system reform, to streamline management of the city's sizeable public pensions.

During the election, Skelos signed a pledge to support former Mayor Ed Koch's «New York Uprising,» a Political Action Committee that is calling for nonpartisan redistricting, among other reforms.

«We call on Senator Flanagan and the Long Island Republican Senators to stand up for real reform and to restore the confidence of the residents of Long Island by enacting campaign finance reform efforts by instituting a system of publicly funded elections that will stop Albany's culture of corruption,» said Lisa Tyson, executive director of the LIPC.

Specifically, the Vote Better NY advocates call on lawmakers to adopt the following common - sense reforms: Early voting: (A8582 / S3813B) New Yorkers should have a two - week period including Saturdays and Sundays to ease long lines on Election Day and give voters flexibility as they juggle work and family obligations.

Samuels and a host of reform - minded Democrats traveled by bus out to the Nassau County district of freshman Sen. Jack Martins to protest outside his district office and highlight his renegging on the NY Uprising reform pledge promise that called for creation of an independent redistricting commission in time for the 2012 elections.

When the British Columbia considered the question of whether to reform its electoral system from majority rule election of legislators to some form of proportional representation, the Government of British Columbia created a body called the British Columbia Citizen's Assembly, composed of citizens from throughout the province.

The impeachment vote came a day after opposition parties signed an agreement with Yanukovych on a political settlement to form a unity government, call early elections and reform the constitution.

Fair elections supporters held a conference call this week to push for New York State campaign finance reform and public funding of elections.

That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

There are also cases where a prime minister makes a policy change and feels that it needs ratification from the voters, as with the election called in 1923 after Baldwin adopted tariff reform.

If the government won't call a general election, let us have this referendum in early September, as the culmination of 100 days of reform.

Several prominent Democratic elected officials and voting reform advocates on Tuesday assembled outside City Hall to call for instant runoff voting in citywide primary elections.

Calls for Voter Reform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in NewReform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in Newreform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.

The attorney general called for voter reform after 1,500 people complained about the April election.

In other reforms he called for serious considerations for fixed term parliaments and an end to the right of Downing Street - and Prime Ministers - to announce general election timings.

«The State of New York is arcane; it has got a set of voting standards that are some of the least effective, least inviting in the country,» de Blasio said recently in calling for election reforms.

FORT GREENE — Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has called the national election is «rigged» and the notoriously disorganized Board of Elections hasn't taken Mayor Bill de Blasio up on his offer of $ 20 million to institute reforms.

Stec congratulated Stefanik and said he would work hard on behalf of both election reform and continue to fight against corruption in Albany, specifically seeking to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot by next year that would call for stripping elected officials convicted of crimes of their public pensions.

In anticipation of this week's special election in Harlem, the IDC released a video, calling on all 32 Democrats — the number required to pass legislation — to join them in declaring their support for progressive measures like ethics and voting reform, codifying a woman's right to choose, and more.

Calls for campaign finance improvements, election reform, and changes to the structure and functions of community boards dominated the fourth borough hearing of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Charter Revision Commission, held Monday night at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

And on Tuesday, state Senate Democrats announced a package of bills aimed at reforming the state's election system which they called a «relic of the last century.»

The New Statesman reports that Miliband will pledge to reverse the so - called «bedroom tax» in the approach to the 2015 election - scrapping a welfare reform that saves over # 450m a year.

Peter Atherton, a leading energy analyst, warned last week that investment in power generation was «killed stone dead» until the next election by Ed Miliband's call for a price freeze and government delays in introducing promised electricity market reform.

As for voting reform, the Assembly voted to agree with Cuomo's calls for automatic registration and early voting, but recommends a period of early voting commencing eight days before an election rather than the 12 - day window proposed by the governor.

One of the most significant measures of the French reforms is the law called Freedom and Responsibilities of the Universities (also known as the Autonomization Law), which was adopted three months after Sarkozy's election.

Both systems are beset by ballooning costs and, especially with a presidential election on the horizon, calls for reform, but a recent study could put ammunition in the hands of people who believe it is time the U.S. ceased to be the only developed nation without universal health coverage.

In sharply worded remarks on «Education Reform and the 1988 Election,» given at the National Press Club and repeated two days later at a press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., Mr. Bennett called the teachers» union the «most entrenched and aggressive opponent of education reform» in the nReform and the 1988 Election,» given at the National Press Club and repeated two days later at a press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., Mr. Bennett called the teachers» union the «most entrenched and aggressive opponent of education reform» in the nreform» in the nation.

Obama will use the trip to Wisconsin to call attention to the actions states are taking, one year after his election, to put his vision of reform in place, Melody Barnes, Obama's domestic policy director, told reporters Tuesday.

The biggest issue in the election was the so - called education reform — disinvestment, school closures, exclusive charters — that has wreaked havoc on families in that city.

Calling the Baraka victory a «shot across the school reform bow,» Valerie Strauss on her blog at the Washington Post wrote, «The election of Baraka... comes amid a number of signs that tells us that it has implications beyond the city's borders.»

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»