Sentences with phrase «national election reform»

Diane Russell, a Portland state representative who had promoted ranked choice across the country for Fair Vote, the national election reform advocacy group, helped convince officials in her home city to embrace it for mayoral elections in 2010, and began pushing for it at the State House.

Not exact matches

Faced with a political climate unlikely to prioritize election reform, cities might lead the way in breaking the grip of rich donors and dark money in national campaigns.

The public and politic case for upfront amnesty and increased low - skill immigration (under the label «comprehensive immigration reform») was made by the Republican National Committee's «autopsy» of the 2012 election.

National Democrats are now pressuring Cantor's GOP colleagues to declare whether they support his call, which is actually reminiscent of how the Rep. Paul Ryan Medicare reform plan fight played out during the NY - 26 special election.

Spring will bring local authority elections in England, national elections in Scotland and Wales, and the promised referendum on voting reform.

Steve Brooks, Wales Director of the Electoral Reform Society said: «Our research shows that Labour would have won nearly 70 % of the seats in the National Assembly, had the last election been fought using Two Member First Past the Post.

It is not too much of a stretch to see Timothy's interpretation of «Our Joe» in Theresa May's attempt to stand above traditional politics and embody the supposed «national interest» in Brexit and social and economic reform in her June 2017 snap General Election campaign.

Never make the case for the EU and its attendant loss of national sovereignty; never go into an election talking of electoral reform; never remind voters of the environmental damage associated with their lifestyles.

* The Electoral Reform Society is a national membership organisation and one of the UK's leading authorities on democracy and elections.

We're about to give you a change of address come next election day,» said Kirsten John Foy, the northeast regional director of the National Action Network and a critic of what he sees as the slow pace of reform at the Police Department.

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) today released the following joint statement from House Republican Leader John Boehner, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, and NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions regarding the the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District: «As the House stands on the cusp of the forthcoming vote on a trillion - dollar healthcare reform measure, it is vital that we unify behind a candidate that will support reining in massive government spending and work with Republicans in Congress to restore fiscal sanity and propose thoughtful measures to get our nation's economy on the right track.

FORT GREENE — Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump has called the national election is «rigged» and the notoriously disorganized Board of Elections hasn't taken Mayor Bill de Blasio up on his offer of $ 20 million to institute reforms.

Amy has worked on local and national election campaigns and organized for health care reform, climate justice, and other progressive issues.

While this is a local election - the Democratic mayoral primary - the race is being closely watched far beyond the District because the outcome could carry significant implications for the national debate over education reform.

In addition to this issue with the national campaign, an analysis of the local, constituency - based campaigns at the 2010 election was carried out by the Electoral Reform Society in 2013, finding that the difference in expenditure was 22 times as high in the constituency with the highest campaign spend per vote as it was in the lowest.

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Local school board elections increasingly are becoming a national political battleground, as millions of dollars in campaign cash pours in from out - of - state donors in the name of education reform, indicates new research led by a Michigan State University scholar.

After the 2000 election, George W. Bush dubbed himself America's «educator in chief,» and until terrorism hijacked the national agenda, he was staking his presidency on a school - reform package known as the No Child Left Behind Act, a bill that — as every teacher knows — dominates the course of public education in America today.

School reform heads the list of national priorities as we enter a new century, partake in another presidential - election process, and publicly acknowledge the increasing disparity between rich and poor in the midst of the longest peacetime economic boom in our history.

In sharply worded remarks on «Education Reform and the 1988 Election,» given at the National Press Club and repeated two days later at a press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., Mr. Bennett called the teachers» union the «most entrenched and aggressive opponent of education reform» in the nReform and the 1988 Election,» given at the National Press Club and repeated two days later at a press conference in Chapel Hill, N.C., Mr. Bennett called the teachers» union the «most entrenched and aggressive opponent of education reform» in the nreform» in the nation.

But Lam was fired when teachers engineered the election of her sworn enemies, and the Memphis school board abandoned House's initiatives soon after she resigned, voluntarily, to lead a national school reform group.

We have five states that signed up to the National Education Reform agreement and just after the previous federal election the Abbot Government made a deal with the other states which really was a deal that meant that those states did not have the same level of accountability and transparency around the funding.

Split Decision: Two Incumbents Losing in Denver School Board Elections, Two Supporters of District Policies Prevail (Chalkbeat) Quotes Martin West: «There are signs in the national election results this week that Democrats may make significant headway at the state and local level next year when many more seats are in play, and that typically makes it harder to pursue the traditional reform agenda.

The Bridgeport Board of Education race has garnered national attention and is now seen as proof that parents, teachers and public school advocates can use elections to beat back the corporate education reform industry.

Leaders of a national education reform movement, including Joel I. Klein and Michelle Rhee, the former schools chancellors in New York and Washington have formed a statewide political group in New York with an eye toward being a counterweight to the powerful teachers» union in the 2013 mayoral election.

Anti-coal politics could possibly generate a fundamental shift, but radical reforms are not expected this year, before the Sept. 22 national elections, he pointed out.

Democratic reform minister says «regular Canadians» in favour of proposed changes to Fair Elections Act, The National Post

Commissioner Gooda, Mr Jeffries and Dr Arabena used 9 July, National Constitution Day and also a national day of celebration of Indigenous people and culture, to call for an election commitment to Constitutional reform from the major political parties and indepNational Constitution Day and also a national day of celebration of Indigenous people and culture, to call for an election commitment to Constitutional reform from the major political parties and indepnational day of celebration of Indigenous people and culture, to call for an election commitment to Constitutional reform from the major political parties and independents.

The context of these commitments was a National Reform Agenda, agreed to by Australian Governments in part to enable the new Australian Government's election platform to be implemented.

Furthermore, action on GSE reform is unlikely before the 2012 elections, says Douglas M. Bibby, president of the National Multi Housing Council in Washington, D.C., an advocacy organization for the apartment industry.

The Campaign Reform and Election Integrity Act would have limited use of «soft dollars» by associations for activities such as issue advocacy campaigns and would have added administrative responsibilities for local, state, and national associations.