Sentences with phrase «desperate need of reform»

«What Sheriff Moss most brings is a reformer's passion in a state in desperate need of reform, ethically, educationally and economically,» Astorino said in a video announcement.

Cuomo's response to much of this has been to focus on the fact that the Legislature isn't fully subjected to FOIL, and thus is in more desperate need of reform than his own branch of government.

Toronto's taxi system is, as in many cities, in desperate need of reform.

Political party funding is in desperate need of reform, as highlighted in the recent report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

This goes deeper than the four who have been «named and shamed», the whole House appears to be in disrepair and in desperate need of reform.

«The taxpayers of New York are paying a corruption tax, and we are in desperate need of reform - minded leaders like Ron Castorina who will put the people of Staten Island over backroom politics,» Reform Party founder and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino said in a statement.

«The fact that one of the factors that goes into redrawing district lines is how much money incumbents are willing to spend on lobbyists is yet another sign that the system is in desperate need of reform,» he said.

Nick Pickles, director of privacy and civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: «This is a direct attack on freedom of the press and a chilling reminder that our anti-terror laws are in desperate need of reform.

To be clear, the state's finances are an unmitigated disaster and in desperate need of reform.

Michigan's no - fault auto insurance system is in desperate need of reform.

Doctors Reform Society president Dr Tim Woodruff suggested the Federal Government's policy of subsidising private health premiums was driven by an ideological commitment to private health insurance, rather than a concern for equity and efficiency, while public health specialist Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury said the Productivity Commission report ignored the fact that the private health insurance industry was in desperate need of reform.