Sentences with phrase «election reform so»

Can we try to get to election reform so we can get some representation at all levels of government?

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Besides, the 2013 election campaign featured no discussion of tax restructuring, so the government doesn't seem to have a political mandate to tackle any serious structural reforms.

Prior to the elections, business leaders thought immigration reform would only happen in a piecemeal fashion, so they limited their efforts to their own needs, which is for highly skilled workers.

Of course reform wouldn't seem so out of reach if the Democrats managed to reconquer the House during the midterm election in November 2014, says Thomas Mann, a congressional expert at the Brookings Institution.

Notley may be holding back for a number of reasons: (1) electoral reform wasn't part of her platform so she may be reluctant to spring it on Albertans, (2) she may be waiting to see how Trudeau's electoral reform works out and (3) she may be banking on the fact that the WR and PCs won't get it together in time for the next election.

Far better to reform the voting system for elections so we get a more representative kind of politics.

This year, Niccoli in a statement said her daughter will do so again and faulted Amedore for not going far enough in scaling back the standards, despite having run in 2014 on the ballot line Stop Common Core (former by Republican gubernatorial nominee Rob Astorino, the line was renamed the «Reform Party» after the election).

«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.»

If the Liberal Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive manifesto at the next election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

There has been more constitutional reform over this period than really ever in history, both in the Lords and in the introduction of different forms of voting than First Past the Post in the European elections and local elections in some places and so on.

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.

If, as expected, Sandu and Dodon face off in the second round of the presidential elections, another opportunity will be available for Romania to support a clear reform agenda by backing Sandu, but only time will tell whether the country is willing to do so.

City Hall issues legislative memos to Albany on bills and has done so on voting and election reform, according to copies of such memos reviewed by Gotham Gazette.

«The mayor and I were able to advocate together for universal pre-kindergarten but election reforms weren't on that list... I think that when we have so few people engaged in voting and such low turnout, people need to put good government on the same plane as things like universal pre-kindergarten.»

That might be why Cuomo was so insistent about getting the WFP to accept his platform of reform, enabling him to accept the labor - backed party's nod and providing left - of - center Democrats a place to go — assuming they come out at all and aren't turned off completely by his message of fiscal conservatism — in the November election.

However, several moderates on the committee who have previously opposed significant reform, including the deputy leader, Tom Watson, have made clear they will no longer do so, believing the election result shows the Labour leader has earned the right to make the changes he wants.

«So, with the kind of election conducted in April this year, I think we're hopeful that the electoral reform promised by the Federal Government will come to pass.

«So I think after the next election, you will see a lot of the reforms happening because many of the governors will decide to do the same thing.

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.»

Here's how this election reform plan would work: Instead of needing large corporate contributions or immense personal wealth to run for office, candidates who gather enough modest grassroots donations from real New Yorkers would get matching funds from the state so they can compete on Electelection reform plan would work: Instead of needing large corporate contributions or immense personal wealth to run for office, candidates who gather enough modest grassroots donations from real New Yorkers would get matching funds from the state so they can compete on ElectionElection Day.

With Fair Elections reform, elected officials who spend time raising small - dollar contributions from their constituents will receive matching funds so that the playing field is leveled.

Word of the Delmar attorney's recent bush with the law got the rumor mill running in high gear today, particularly since it comes so close to the general election, in which Breslin is being challenged by Republican Bob Domenici and Reform Party candidate Michael Carey.

Trump told Republican lawmakers they might have to compromise with Democrats to reach a deal on immigration reform, and urged his party to pick up more seats in the upcoming midterm elections so «we won't have to compromise as much.»

The Browne Review was long ago scheduled to report in the wake of the general election precisely so that radical reform could be rapidly pushed through during a new government's honeymoon.

He said: «Every political party went into the election with a pledge to reform the House of Lords so I do not personally see a referendum as having much to recommend it.»

... and unless we have real campaign reform so that billionaires and super PACs can not buy elections.

Indeed, we share the same reform goals — and I look forward following the election of Andrew Cuomo as Governor to implementing the necessary reform measures our state so clearly needs.

Real electoral reform at Westminster is long overdue, but we first need a General Election so that we have a House of Commons that commands trust.

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.

Early voting as allowed by 37 other states, reform of New York's archaic election laws, allowing victims of sexual abuse cases to reopen their cases and sue their abusers, common sense reforms to New York's gun laws, so many issues on the table that need to be addressed.

In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama praised the work of his bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration, emphasizing that it «has offered reforms so that no one has to wait more than a half hour to vote.»

So people have a hard time connecting compelling current concerns — such as widespread corruption, or non-competitive elections, or a need for major improvements in such fundamental policy areas as education — with the possibility for reform through state constitutional change.

As he so often does when asked about fundraising, de Blasio stressed the need for campaign finance reform, advocating for full public financing of elections that would not only pull big moneyed interests out of politics but would also focus, «all that time that goes into fundraising now back into public service.»

Reform must also be made of the ways and means of candidate selection in order to reduce the power of the political parties - it is ironic that it was not so long ago that party membership was not given on election ballot papers.

Because the real impact of this year's election lies not so much with the results, but in what the effort means for the evolution of the school reform movement itself.

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.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

Last Friday, I dithered on about whether Brown's election may actually have helped climate reform — I ultimately cast off that conclusion, but now I'm not so sure.

Of course, for those of us who were horrified by the largely covert hijacking of previous elections by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other so - called «reform» groups, these victories are particularly sweet.

While the so - called «tort reform» legislators are still out there, the election of Democratic representatives across the state practically ensures that Virginia tort law will remain unchanged in most major areas.

Created in 2002 by the Judicial Campaign Reform Act, the so - called «Voter - Owned Elections» program allowed candidates with...