Sentences with phrase «partisan interest in»

On the most obvious level, teachers unions are taking a pounding because Republicans have gained power in recent state elections, and the GOP has a strong partisan interest in undermining public - employee unions, which provide troops and treasure to the Democratic Party.

Regardless of political affiliation, people are more likely to believe facts about climate change when they come from Republicans speaking against what has become a partisan interest in this country, says a new University of Connecticut study.

Not exact matches

But J. Gerald Hebert, director of the Voting Rights and Redistricting Program at the public - interest Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said the states drew districts with more black voters than necessary to «dilute their voting strength in order to achieve a partisan gain.»

After power changed hands in D.C. a year later, the federal government and Congress delayed picking up the baton for several months due to partisan bickering and lobbying by special interests.

But we believe government should not shirk from making tough decisions in public... It's time to put the public interest ahead of partisan interests.»

If for once the Liberals and the NDP set aside partisan politics and acted in the interests of Canada, it would be the beginning of a new era for us.

If at some point, Joe Anglin is interested in the Alberta Party, we'll talk to him, just like we're open to every Albertan who is fed up with the partisan nature of politics in Alberta.

So the Catholic impulse to imitate the Protestant penchant for acting as a partisan interest group in the political arena is not entirely new.

He belonged to the ruling class in Judah but he refused to be a partisan of its class interests.

After all, beyond the marginalia of persuasion, partisans are already ready made, and past memories and present interests are foremost in the mind of the people.

Ryan is a (relatively) small - government politician who takes an interest in details and shows a willingness to cross partisan and ideological divides.

Interpreters are never interest free but always present reality in partisan ways and, indeed, can not do otherwise.

Candidates, officeholders, and voters stand where they stand, on the issues and in their partisan alignment, because of interests, convictions, and opinions on which the Holy Father is quite incapable of achieving some measurable effect.

Let us therefore banish the easy resort to partisan and narrow political interests in the conduct of our national affairs.

In our country, the highly partisan political atmosphere we have established does not allow any room for cross party consultation on matters of presumed national interest.

In your particular case, you might find yourself becoming more partisan if you were more interested in politicIn your particular case, you might find yourself becoming more partisan if you were more interested in politicin politics.

But they're much more interested in being as partisan as possible.

It seems like a good test for partisan gerrymanders that are unfair, but there would be a lot of other factors or dimensions (as discussed in the other answers - things like common economic interests) that might also make a district's representation unfair even within the efficiency threshold.

My interest in this whole issue comes from the fact that if our law courts especially the highest court in Ghana, Supreme Court that is supposed to be final place in the country to deliver justice to all manner of persons regardless of one's political affiliation, religious beliefs, ethnic background etc in a just and fair manner is now seen to be turning into a place where citizens of Ghana who may belong to certain political affiliations do not feel confident or have trust in their handling of critical national issues in view of some of these «partisan» pronouncements on the part of some justices, then where would we be heading towards as a country?

Moreover, in the past weeks there has been a worrisome level of media manipulation, with a clear interested and partisan use of public media.

I also believe that as a journalist who holds in high esteem professional ethics of truth, public interest and unbiased balanced view, you should remove the cloak of your deep partisan politics and be a vanguard of objectivity and fair reportage.

No doubt all politicians keep the party implications of political reforms in mind but Labour's own partisan interests, particularly representing 41 of the 59 Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons, would appear to be playing a significant role in the party's difficulty in articulating any coherent view about England's place in the evolving constitution of the United Kingdom.

In «Democracy and its Crisis» published this week, philosopher Professor A C Grayling concludes with a study of Trump and Brexit: «No constitutional system should allow a partisan group to hijack the interests of the whole: this is happening in the UK and the US as these words are being written.&raquIn «Democracy and its Crisis» published this week, philosopher Professor A C Grayling concludes with a study of Trump and Brexit: «No constitutional system should allow a partisan group to hijack the interests of the whole: this is happening in the UK and the US as these words are being written.&raquin the UK and the US as these words are being written.»

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

«This agreement will permanently reform the redistricting process in New York to once and for all end self - interested and partisan gerrymandering,» Cuomo said in March 2012.

Although interest in killing the Electoral College grew out of the 2000 debacle, it really isn't a partisan issue.

One interesting development is that UKIP has acquired loyal partisan supporters and they are comparable in number to the Liberal Democrats.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

«The Senate's constitutional advice and consent role will only be preserved if senators put aside short - term partisan interests to protect the enduring interests of the Senate regardless of who's in the White House,» the California Democrat said.

Earlier in his own speech, Comrade Celestine Akpobari, the Coordinator of Ogoni Solidarity Forum, said that he had not been a partisan person and that as a civil society activist, he supports Ogoni interest and cause.

«The only thing we ask for other senators who might be interested, the one thing you have to do is say you're interested in governing, in being serious about legislating, putting aside party partisan differences and really putting policy over partisanship.

«After his preferred candidate gets crushed in 7 seven weeks at the polls, hopefully the Governor will choose to be a little less partisan and political for the best interest of New Yorkers.

However, Republican Senators filed a self - serving lawsuit in an attempt to continue disenfranchising voters in order to protect their own partisan interests.

«No amount of shallow partisan barbs can change the fact that at every turn, Andrew Cuomo has put his own political interest ahead of promoting real economic growth in New York State,» Laska said.

OccupyGhana in a statement released on Wednesday, 1 November, said: «OccupyGhana is disgusted and appalled by High Commissioner George Ayisi - Boateng's discriminatory comments that pitched partisan interests above those of other Ghanaians.

It added, «INEC as a statutory body has the full complements of technical hands in its legal department to advice it appropriately and we wonder why it had to wait for directives from the AGF, an external party, if not for partisan and subjective interest.

According to him, in other jurisdictions such as in the US, it is the committees of Parliament that take matters of public concern seriously and investigate with no partisan interest.

«It is very worrying for people who are expected to know better (especially if some happen to be leading members of the august House of Parliament) to conveniently join the streets wagon in pursuit of petty partisan parochial interests to churn out deliberate falsehood to perpetuate the fallacy that access to the President has to be secured with financial inducements»

Second, and related, the partisan makeup of Scotland's MPs was at least 90 % non-nationalist, which ensured that they would be whipped by pan-British (excluding Northern Ireland) parties to vote, theoretically at least, in pan-British interests.

The Jigawa Government has directed civil servants in the state that are interested in partisan politics to resign their appointments.

Supporters of the amendment contend the measure will remove the highly partisan process that has resulted in gerrymandered legislative districts and place it in the hands of a less self - interested body.

It's not at all within her skill set to be anything but a partisan tool who is only interested in herself.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - During the 20 years Democrat Sheldon Silver was Assembly speaker, it was difficult for a Republican lawmaker to make a dent in his or her bill wish list, but Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis is finding that since Silver's reign ended last year, the new leadership is less partisan and interested in getting things done.

As an independent, I really am not interested in the more rigid partisan types, be it Republican or Democrat, I want someone who is more interested in fixing this country than kissing up to the party faithful.

Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, said the current challenges and uncertainty surrounding the board's operations could actually serve as «an incentive to the right person, who is interested in election administration and not partisan politics.

The Common Cause proposal would directly task LATFOR with drawing districts for the Senate, Assembly and Congress that consider «communities of interest,» such as ethnic neighborhoods of similar towns, and forbid it from considering addresses of incumbents or the partisan enrollment of voters in a given area.

«This agreement will permanently reform the redistricting process in New York to once and for all end self - interested and partisan gerrymandering,» Cuomo said.

When political parties and public policy groups with such divergent views unite in a common cause it clearly attests to the fact that ballot access reform is not a partisan or special - interest group issue, but a question of fundamental freedom that transcends political and ideological differences.

David Denenberg (D - Merrick), who is running for State Senate in the 8th District, said Haber's strength is that he shows no interest in partisan politics.

«The opposing party has a legitimate interest in making sure I don't pick a partisan Democrat,» Cuomo said.