Sentences with phrase «idea of a public advocate»

The idea of a public advocate not acting as a mayoral bête noire is a bit jarring to longtime observers of the office.

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To give you an idea of what the new Bible - based order would be like, Dr. North advocates public execution of women who undergo abortions, and a similar fate for those who advise them to do so.

It's not exactly something we absolutely needed, but being an advocate of breastfeeding in public like my wife is, more knowledge and ideas are very helpful and can go a long ways when you are advocating breastfeeding in public.

Spitzer declined to pick favorites in the 2006 Democratic primary, but was believed to prefer former NYC Public Advocate Mark Green to Cuomo — in part because Green's rich developer brother, Stephen, gave very generously to Spitzer's campaign, but also because Spitzer didn't relish the idea of having the ambitious Cuomo breathing down his neck from the AG's office.

A small group of advocates demonstrated in favor of public campaign financing in Albany Friday, following a report by Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission favoring the idea.

One idea for improving oversight of the NYPD is to create an inspector general for the department, a move that Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, and more recently City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, have supported.

Founded in 1935, NACo brings county officials together to advocate with a collective voice on national policy, exchange ideas and build new leadership skills, pursue transformational county solutions, enrich the public's understanding of county government and exercise exemplary leadership in public service.

But several advocates I spoke with today said the true test of whether Cuomo is serious about creating a public campaign finance system is if he puts funding for said system in his 2014 - 15 executive budget proposal (assuming, that is, no deal is reached prior to the start of the 2014 session, which, given the Senate GOP's opposition to the idea, seems highly unlikely at this point).

Aides point to her body camera advocacy, but it's not apparent the public is associating her with the issue — Mr. de Blasio and his police commissioner, Bill Bratton, have long endorsed the idea, regardless of the pubic advocate's prodding.

Among the questions: why would it be bad (in the mayor's view) for Tim Wu, who is to the left of Kathy Hochul, to be LG, how does the mayor square City safety concerns with Hochul's past stances on guns, whether as a past New York City Public Advocate de Blasio supports Tim Wu's idea that the lieutenant governor should act as a statewide public advocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary oppoPublic Advocate de Blasio supports Tim Wu's idea that the lieutenant governor should act as a statewide public advocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary opAdvocate de Blasio supports Tim Wu's idea that the lieutenant governor should act as a statewide public advocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary oppopublic advocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary opadvocate, Hochul's current views on drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, whether Hochul supports NYC's municipal ID program and why Hochul and Andrew Cuomo have refused to debate their primary opponents.

Ann Pettifor said that Labour needs to set the agenda and challenge the idea that public sector is to blame for the crisis and Michael Meacher MP urged Labour to advocate greater public control of banking.

The public advocate continued by offering up plenty of her own policy ideas on how to address the city's diversity issues, in what sounded a bit like a preview of a Letitia James mayoralty might look like.

Back in 2005, one of us (Andrew) ran for New York City Public Advocate, calling for public investment in universal public WiFi, and other steps to make New York a 21st century connected city — ideas that have since been widely embraced including by NYC Mayor Bill de BPublic Advocate, calling for public investment in universal public WiFi, and other steps to make New York a 21st century connected city — ideas that have since been widely embraced including by NYC Mayor Bill de Bpublic investment in universal public WiFi, and other steps to make New York a 21st century connected city — ideas that have since been widely embraced including by NYC Mayor Bill de Bpublic WiFi, and other steps to make New York a 21st century connected city — ideas that have since been widely embraced including by NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, a longtime advocate for the restoration of the Pavilion who has successfully secured over $ 10 million in public funds to date toward important electrical and structural improvements on the «Astro - View» Towers, said, «This is an international open call for your best and boldest ideas to re-imagine the Pavilion for the 21st century.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that what he called the overuse of stop - and - frisk should show that «the inspector general is an idea whose time has come in New York City.»

«We publish books, reports, and briefing papers that illuminate critical problems and advance innovative solutions; work at both the national and state level with advocates and policymakers to promote reforms; help to build the capacity and skills of key progressive constituencies; project our values into the media by promoting Demos Fellows and staff in print, broadcast, and Internet venues; and host public events that showcase new ideas and leading progressive voices.»

The pair of education advocates had a big idea, a new approach to transform every public - school classroom in America.

Tell deliberate lies: Ridicule public education advocates as «defenders of the status quo» who want money thrown at stale ideas, even though those ideas are backed by solid evidence.

To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that schools will deliver high quality service because customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.

Students will be able to analyze the central ideas of four reports on international water issues in order to provide summaries of each report and create persuasive writing advocating for more public attention to water issues

You will be able to analyze the central ideas of four reports on international water issues in order to provide summaries of each report and create persuasive writing advocating for more public attention to water issues

I often hear politicians and charter advocates praising charter schools for what they can give public schools in the way of new ideas.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to pour billions of dollars into a high - tech idea that has been billed as the future of learning, but which critics see as a half - baked notion that could jeopardize student privacy and spread ideas despised by public school advocates.

In recounting the history of charters, the report reveals how a cause originally supported by education reform advocates, including the leader of a national teachers» union, was hijacked by libertarian ideology, advocates for big business, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who view the public education system as a playground for exerting their influence and ideas.

The fact that there are foundations with huge endowments openly advocating certain policy ideas — with notable success — has elicited complaints from some quarters about a «billionaire boys club» hijacking public education and directing it on a course of its own choosing.

«I left because of my commitment to this idea of public schools, and I did not want to be in a place where I couldn't advocate for my kids,» she said.

While they believe, in theory, there ought to be vouchers, that parental choice is a good idea, that there has been discrimination against religion, they're perfectly cognizant of the fact that many voucher advocates are really less concerned with the well being of religious education as they are with dismantling, disestablishing, literally, the public schools from their preferred place in American life.

Some public school advocates, who are fairly anti-charter, have been opposed to the idea of «co-location» which is where a charter and a district school share space within the same building.

When New York photographer and animal advocate Sophie Gamand began photographing rescue Pit Bulls in flower crowns, challenging the public's perception of them as «dangerous» dogs, she had no idea that her Pit Bull...

Some activists feel very negatively about the idea of corporate outreach, so even though there is little risk of alienating the public, there is significant risk of contributing to divisions within the community of animal advocates.

In his journalism and books he was a major advocate of the French Impressionists, and was influential in spreading their ideas and shaping public attitudes in Britain towards favouring Impressionism.

As a public policy advocate Milton Friedman has exemplified the role of the man of ideas vis - a-vis elected officials, which has been primarily to influence those who elect them, rather than taking on the impossible task of trying to convince them to sacrifice their own political interests and do the right thing.

Although these stipulations are frequently supported and not thought of as being in violation of a public policy which advocates the use of public highways and road by those who are only legally able to utilize them, these stipulations are contrary to the overall idea behind mandatory auto insurance.

But even though more schools see advertising as an answer to slashed budgets, parents and public advocates may not warm to the idea of speeding the commercialization of schools.