Sentences with phrase «nonpartisan elections»

The D'Arcangelo campaign should serve as a model for Republicans running in nonpartisan elections in major gateway cities.

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.

An establishment of nonpartisan elections (open primaries) would be better for all of New York.

Bloomberg spent $ 7 million of his own money pushing nonpartisan elections in a 2003 referendum that failed 70 % to 30 %, but never wavered in his belief that removing party labels in local elections would lead to better competition and decrease the power of political bosses.

Kentucky: The state in 1975 adopted an entirely new constitution that requires nonpartisan election of appellate judges (Sec. 117)

The city of Glendale, Arizona, held nonpartisan elections for city council on November 4, 2014.

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.

Some proposed measures to increase voter participation include nonpartisan elections and instant runoff voting as well as stronger voter education.

Instead, those races would go back to being partisan unless the legislation specifically authorized nonpartisan elections again by statute.

As a result, the normally nonpartisan elections turned partisan in 2009, when the Republican Party endorsed a slate of four candidates and handily defeated candidates endorsed by the teachers union.

State justices are selected in a variety of ways: through the appointment without a nominating commission, by merit selection through a nominating commission, by partisan election, by nonpartisan election, or by merit selection combined with other methods.

The NYC Charter Revision Commission is considering nonpartisan elections — a pet issue for Bloomberg.

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).

Recall that when Bloomberg, a Democrat - turned - Republican - turned - blank landed the Indy line last year for his third successful bid for mayor, he vowed — yet again — to try to establish nonpartisan elections in the city, an effort at which he had failed in 2002 - 2003 after spending some $ 7 million of his own cash.

Deadline for county clerk to receive in - person applications for absentee ballots for the Preferential Primary Election and Nonpartisan Election from the voter, designated bearer, or administrator is no later than the close of regular business hours on the day before the election.

If nonpartisan elections were in effect then, New York may well have had Mayor Ferrer instead of Mayor Bloomberg.»

Former Bronx Borough President Freddy Ferrer is reigniting an old fight against his former nemesis, Mayor Bloomberg, saying the mayor is again pushing nonpartisan elections so he can handpick his successor.

Mayor Bloomberg has given up hope of asking New York voters in the fall to approve nonpartisan elections, after the idea failed to win support from key decision - makers in town, sources said Monday night.

Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat spoke passionately about how nonpartisan elections remind him of the one - party system he grew up with in the Dominican Republic, where no opposition was allowed.

In recent weeks, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who in 2003 bankrolled a failed campaign to institute nonpartisan elections, has voiced strong support for the proposal.

Nonpartisan election watchers have called the race a tossup.

And it appears at least two candidates — Larry Scott Blackmon and Mamadou Drame — may be ruled off the ballot because staff at the city's Board of Elections found that their independent party names (in the City Charter - mandated nonpartisan election) were too similar to major party names.

They are governed by school boards chosen through nonpartisan elections often held on days other than the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, when national elections are held.

At the same time it repeals nonpartisan elections for all other judicial races.

HJR 1015 would abandon nonpartisan elections altogether and at all levels.

Instead, judges and prosecuting attorneys would be required to be elected on a partisan ballot unless the legislature reenacted nonpartisan elections in language almost identical to HJR 1016.

HB 222 Continues nonpartisan elections (or appointment if filling interim vacancy) for initial terms for appellate judges.

All other Superior Court judges must face off in contested nonpartisan elections.

The mayor has been a long - time proponent of nonpartisan elections and in 2003 spent $ 7.5 million trying to get the measure passed, the Daily News reported.

HB 2010 Requires nonpartisan elections of judges.

Party leaders, many civic groups and minority lawmakers vocally disagreed, saying nonpartisan elections would let rich outsiders buy their way to popularity without proving their ability to active party members.

CITY HALL — More than a dozen of the city's most prominent politicians joined local activists on the steps of City Hall Thursday to protest a pending referendum to authorize nonpartisan elections this fall, saying the change would disenfranchise minority voters.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg today argued that the U.S. attorney's complaints against State Senator Malcolm Smith and Queens Councilman Dan Halloran present as strong an argument as any for nonpartisan elections in New York City.

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

Requires all judges be elected in nonpartisan elections.

Perillo beat incumbent Gerald Turning in the nonpartisan election with 53 % of the vote.

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.

Controversial NYC Independence Party activist Lenora Fulani says she's «disappointed, of course, but not discouraged» that Mayor Bloomberg won't ask the Charter Revision Commission to put the nonpartisan election question back before the voters this fall, but she declined to slam the mayor for his decision.

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.

We need same - day registration, early voting, and nonpartisan elections to encourage voter participation in New York, which lags behind most states in America.

Another issue the commission is considering, nonpartisan elections, (a pet crusade for Bloomberg), is opposed by voters, 51 - 41.

The NYC Charter Revision Commission might combine a term limits question with a nonpartisan election question on the ballot this fall.

MacKay defended the loan, saying it was quickly repaid and had nothing to do with the nod Tabacco received, which came, he noted in a nonpartisan election.

I didn't know that the mayor could specify a nonpartisan election.

To get on the ballot, candidates need to get 4,000 signatures from registered voters of any party (since there is no primary, this is essentially a nonpartisan election) in only 12 days.

And the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election forecaster, has shifted the race toward Democrats.

Nonpartisan elections, also known as «top - two» elections, would let all candidates run in a September primary open to all voters.

Citizens Union, a good - government group, has argued that nonpartisan elections will boost voter participation by opening the process to the 1.4 million people who aren't registered with parties.

Special elections for Council seats on nonpartisan elections — instead of running on a major party's ballot row, candidates must create and run on their own, unique lines.