Sentences with phrase «for nonpartisan»

Share telephone or website information for nonpartisan voter information, like «Where do I vote?»

CarbonWA can build on the support it has built for a nonpartisan carbon tax, and collaborate with Citizens Climate Lobby and other such efforts to make climate action something that people across the political spectrum want to support.

It isn't a Sonderweg — which suggests Germany is going it alone on the fringe of the continent's mainstream — as Paul Hockenos, a blogger for a nonpartisan think tank, the German Council on Foreign Relations, argues.

The candidate who gets more than 50 percent of the vote in June for the nonpartisan office will be automatically elected.

Lowell Holtz was a candidate in the spring 2017 primary for the nonpartisan position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Michael Morton, communications manager for the nonpartisan Connecticut School Finance Project, said that's a concern that voters need to be thinking about when they go to the polls next week.

LA School Report is partnering with the Chronicle of Social Change, the Children's Defense Fund - California, and the Children's Partnership for the nonpartisan governor's forum at Los Angeles Trade Technical College.

Deadline for nonpartisan candidates seeking federal or statewide office to file with Registrar of Voters

[36][37] Although in a liberal county and running for a nonpartisan position, Walker ran openly as a conservative Republican.

Comptroller John Liu declared a «Coalition for Fair and Free Elections» to fight the push for nonpartisan elections.

The average turnout for nonpartisan special elections for city council seats since 2001 was 10.25 %, 57 % higher than for partisan special elections for state legislative contests.

In most states the Reform Party runs its own candidates, and endorses candidates for nonpartisan offices.

To those carrots, Cuomo adds two sticks: Skelos doesn't want to discuss tougher ethics standards until after the budget is done, and he'd like to stall proposals for nonpartisan redistricting — the adoption of which would be a demographic death sentence for his Republican majority.

Bloomberg, who has worked with the Independence Party in an unsuccessful push for nonpartisan elections in New York, did not attend, but made a brief cameo by video to congratulate the group and one of their leaders, Jackie Salit, for her years of work.

Jennifer Duffy, who analyzes Senate races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said that Paul's comments underline his political inexperience.

Miner pointed to a need to improve access to the ballot box and for nonpartisan redistricting.

Good government groups are organizing a grassroots effort to advance the push for nonpartisan redistricting reform a concept at the center of a several statewide platforms, including one advanced by Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo and another by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch.

It's clear that New York will lose two House seats in the next round of redistricting — most likely one upstate and one downstate, as is the tradition, although if the push for a nonpartisan commission is successful (seems doubtful at this point), that could change.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who has called for a nonpartisan commission to draw congressional and state legislative districts, called the ruling «a tremendous step forward in the fight for free and fair elections.»

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.

Cuomo had previously pledged to veto any lines drawn by LATFOR, on the grounds that the process was inherently partisan, and therefore didn't meet his standard for nonpartisan lines drawn by an independent commission.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman was the first to sign Koch's pledges, which call for nonpartisan independent redistricting, ethics and budget reform.

(I will advocate for nonpartisan redistricting.)

The Reform Party would like to voice its support for a nonpartisan special investigation into White House ties with the Russia.

Gianaris, for example, noted the assemblyman has been a lead co-sponsor of his independent redistricting bill, which was none too popular among his legislative colleagues until this year's big push for nonpartisan redistricting came along (in no small part thanks to former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and his NY Uprising PAC).

Arnold Schwarzenegger's push for nonpartisan redistricting has gained significant Republican support, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich signing on to his amicus brief at the Supreme Court and Arizona Sen. John McCain filing a separate friend - of - the - court brief.

Rice's campaign announced with some fanfare yesterday that she had signed three pledges distributed by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's New York Uprising PAC that call for nonpartisan independent redistricting, budget and ethics reform.

This is an interesting data point, particularly since the mayor just decided to drop his latest push for nonpartisan elections — a major pet issue of his and a priority for the large - i Independence Party, which gave Bloomberg its line for the third straight time last year.

The NYC Indys renewed their long - time proposal for nonpartisan elections — an idea Mayor Bloomberg has tried unsuccessfully to push in the Big Apple, spending $ 7 million of his own money in the process.

If there ever was a need for nonpartisan redistricting reform, this process shows it.

«This is permissible and it's being reported properly, but why they are doing it is a mystery,» said Brendan Fischer, senior counsel for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center.

Not exact matches

As it stands, the tax plan would lower taxes for most Americans, but one in five could see an increase in their tax bill by 2027, according to a report from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.

«This is a classic example of union avoidance,» says Mark Price, a labor economist for the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Barack Obama had more than double the number of candidates submitted for Senate approval by now, 252, according to the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

«This is a pro-business issue,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. «You have a lot of firms that lose workers; making child care accessible and affordable can increase the labor pool.»

The National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, found in March that immigrants had started more than half of the current crop of U.S start - ups whose values topped $ 1 billion.

«The challenge is that there were a lot of promises made that can't live comfortably with each other,» said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

According to an analysis of 2010 data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs for just that year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.

In fact, millions of people stand to see higher tax bills because of the elimination or curtailment of deductions such as one for state and local taxes, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan official scorekeeper for Congress.

Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.

The average cost of child care is slightly under $ 10,000 per year per child, says Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab for New America, a nonpartisan think tank.

«They won't liberalize dairy very much,» said Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a former U.S. Treasury international trade official who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington D.C. «They might do some token stuff on ice cream but it won't amount to anything.»

Forty - three percent of founders of the 2017 Fortune 500 are immigrants or the children of immigrants, according to the Center for American Entrepreneurship (CAE), a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization based in Great Falls, Virginia.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.

Without a system for identifying regulations damaging to small business and addressing them in a targeted way, the executive order is meaningless, says Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that seeks nonpartisan solutions to national challenges.

Being on a terrorist watch list is not «in and of itself a disqualifying factor» for people purchasing firearms and explosives, according to a 2013 report by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

The ACA «is a big boon to small businesses and their workers, who care about health care insurance,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a nonpartisan policy think tank.

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.