Sentences with phrase «campaigned as a reformer»

Sini, a Democrat who campaigned as a reformer, in his inaugural speech pledged that he and his prosecutors will be guided by a «culture of compliance with our legal and ethical obligations.»

Not exact matches

In a victory for reformers, campaign finance reform is high on the list, along with other progressive initiatives such as raising the minimum wage and changing New York City's «stop and frisk» policy.

«Scott Stringer has spent his career as a progressive reformer,» campaign manager Sascha Owen said, «taking on the issues that matter to everyday New Yorkers.

Albany reformers called Bronx Assemblyman Michael Blake's new side gig as a campaign consultant «brazen» and «disturbing,» ripping the freshman Democrat for serving private and public interests simultaneously.

As for the claim that is widely made by good government groups and left leaning reformers that establishing a public campaign finance system would go a long way toward getting big money out of the political system and reducing corruption, New Yorkers aren't really on board.

Albany reformers called Blake's new side gig as a campaign consultant «brazen» and «disturbing,» ripping the freshman Democrat for serving private and public interests simultaneously.

Michael Blake, a Bronx assemblyman viewed as a rising star in the Democratic Party, drew scathing reactions from good government groups and reformers after he announced on Friday he was going to work for Hilltop Public Solutions, a campaign and public relations firm closely tied to Mr. de Blasio, while serving in the Assembly.

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«His son described him as the only candidate who will end the era of stop and frisk and that was a purposeful branding of de Blasio as a reformer and then immediately, as soon as he was the mayor - elect, he announced he was bringing back perhaps the most controversial police commissioner in the city's history,» Trujillo said, referring to de Blasio's early campaign ads with his son, Dante.

Cuomo is running a campaign as an Albany reformer, and DiNapoli, by association, may stand in the way.

He also wondered at Mr. Cuomo's metamorphosis from his 2010 campaign for office as «a reformer» vowing to clean up Albany to «a person who may very well be indicted» for shutting down the commission he appointed to probe corruption in the state capital.

Well intended as it may be, some reformers believe the legislation could be easily circumvented with more transfers between campaign committees.

Nick Clegg called on fellow electoral reformers to «get up, dust ourselves down and move on» as he and David Cameron, a partner in the coalition but an opponent during the campaign, absorbed the result of the referendum that had become so central to the government in its first year in office.

«Because he's a relative reformer — he does not have strong ties to ministries and large producers that have benefited from deforestation — some hoped he would see the environment as crucial for the economics of the country,» said Rolf Skar, forest campaign director for Greenpeace USA.

Even with large campaign war - chests, as reformers had in the recent Tennessee elections, the unions and their allies will tend to prevail because they have a larger number of concentrated beneficiaries who campaign and vote.

Although Rhee was often favorably profiled in the national media as an outspoken reformer, her aggressive approach became an issue in the campaign for mayor, and she resigned after her ally, Mayor Adrian Fenty, was defeated in the Democratic primary in September.

As Andy Rotherham noted back in June after the Vergara ruling, reformers have never been adept at campaign politics.

As Congress prepares to consider reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act and presidential hopefuls gear up for their 2008 campaigns, those who carry the mantle of school reformer are doing what they can to put the issue at the front and center of the nation's agenda.

Greuel aligned herself with education reformers earlier in the campaign process and has consistently said she support the trigger option as a way to fix failing schools (read about it here.)

As the role of city governments and even county governments in education becomes more - prominent — and more municipal leaders understand the role that overhauling districts must play in addressing economic and quality - of - life issues — reformers must be thoughtful players in other election campaigns.

In fact, it allows for Romney and conservative and Republican reformers acting as surrogates for his campaign to make a strong case that neither Obama nor Duncan are fit to take on the tough task of advancing systemic reform from the federal level; given that swing states such as Virginia have been granted waivers despite their poor records on advancing reform, they can even argue that the waivers are politically - motivated by the president's re-election concerns (even though there is no evidence of this).

After all, it was centrist Democrat reformers (along with liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.

Given the collapse of the Campaign for High School Equity (which once served as the convening body for civil rights - based reformers) and the efforts by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers to co-opt such groups by peddling a version of accountability that lets states, school operators, and adults off the hook for failure, Ed Trust deserves praise for rallying so many civil rights players to stand up for our most - vulnerable children.

For her work marshaling hard facts and empirical data against corporate - backed «reformers» who rely largely on substance - free rhetoric and platitudes, Ravitch has been named this year's winner of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize — so clearly, she's holding her own, even as U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is launching a desperate PR campaign to make her Public Enemy # 1.

Let's start with the obvious: I think Rick Hasen is exactly right to suggest that such a move by the lefties is actually a «relative victory» for campaign finance reformers, given the extent to which» [t] aking the case would have been an opportunity for the majority of Supreme Court justices to make things worse [from the reformers» perspective], such as by suggesting that limits on direct contributions to candidates are unconstitutional.»