Sentences with phrase «election reform without»

We simply can't make real progress on election reform without addressing the greatest form of voter suppression in the state — closed primaries.

Grayson said there is potential to have comprehensive election reform without partisan politics.

Not exact matches

Bartoletti says the only conclusion is that if lawmakers leave Albany without enacting reforms, then they should lose their seats on Election Day.

Given the big squeeze on spending that is to come, can Labour just drift into the next election without a serious agenda on public service reform?

Ramos is a labor leader, an advocate for women, a community organizer, she's fought for immigration reform and LGBT rights, and she's even worked on historic elections, but for whatever reason, Ramos is running without party support.

This development leaves the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) along with education reform advocates without a candidate to support in the general election, according to the New York Daily News.

Campaigners for democratic reform give a mixed reaction on Mr Brown's proposals, with some, such as Power 2010 saying it did not go far enough: «Without troubling the public for their views, ministers hand - picked the voting system they favour in a cynical exercise aimed at wrong - footing the Tories ahead of a likely election defeat.

In the internal election of the progressive liberal D66 the more radical democratic minister without portfolio for government reform Alexander Pechtold beat the more social - liberal chair of the parliamentary party Lousewies van der Laan.

Regardless of how you feel about the Tories» NHS reforms the fact that they've been in power for most of the period since 1948 without ever looking like abolishing it, and in any case are now mostly doing things that the last Labour government also did when in power, means an election pitch which relies on convincing voters that if the Tories remain in office they'll actually destroy the NHS is simply not plausible to the sort of people Labour needs to win over.

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.

Republicans have a significant opportunity in next year's election to win on the education issue by continuing their push for a reform - based education agenda and arguing against the idea that more money without real structural reform can fix the ills of our education system.

Austin, who has been working in education reform for two decades, said it is a unique time in LA Unified's history with the election of a pro-reform majority of the school board who won their seats without the support of an incumbent mayor.