Sentences with phrase «politics out of the district»
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We must commit to expanding voting rights and getting big money out of politics so that billionaires are no longer able to hold our democracy hostage,» Jamaica Miles, Capital District Organizer, Citizen Action of New York.
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Two months before they take office — and a week before they are even officially elected — gay Democratic nominees like Corey Johnson of Chelsea, Brooklyn's Carlos Menchaca, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx joined their future colleagues, led by Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander, to present a proposal that would «take the politics out of member Items» by allocating discretionary funding for Council districts on a «fair and objective basis.»
Getting big money out of politics has been a central theme of her campaign to represent the 19th Congressional District, located in New York State's Hudson Valley and Catskills regions, like it was when she ran for governor in 2014.
But in the process, it laid the groundwork for another debate in the Legislature over what has become a contentious mix of ethnic and racial politics playing out in a diverse suburban district, which may preview similar fights in other locations.
A Treasurer of Cape Coast North constituency of the NPP, Mr. Stephen Kojo Arhin popularly known in politics as Wewebi has therefore expressed disappointed about the action of aggrieved party activists who have gained notoriety in locking up state offices and chasing out District Chief Executives (DCE) and government officials.
«They did what the special master should have done and took the politics out of it,» said Vince Morgan, a candidate for the 13th congressional district seat.
A week before the November election, several dozen members and candidates just days away from winning their seats gathered at City Hall to embrace a package of procedural reforms, chief among them one that would «take the politics out of member items» by allocating discretionary funding for Council districts on a «fair and objective basis.»
Yes, take the blood and politics out of it, and let computers make fair districts.