Sentences with phrase «like nonpartisan elections»

The preliminary report of the Charter Revision Commission has been released, and while it addresses the issue of term limits — ostensibly the main reason it was convened in the first place — it does not touch some of the more controversial topics, like nonpartisan elections (a past pet issue for Mayor Bloomberg).

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Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

Mayor Bloomberg just dropped a report that demonstrates elections in states with nonpartisan redistricting are considerably more competitive across the board than in places like New York where the process is political and directly controlled by elected officials.

The nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin too often favors Democrats and needs to be reconstituted, perhaps with a more partisan model like what previously existed, incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Monday.

Some of those cities, like San Antonio, hold nonpartisan elections.

Not only does SB 650 end nonpartisan judicial races, it would also end all nonpartisan races from local board of elections to boards of education and the like.