Sentences with phrase «raise political support»

It only requires that teacher - union leaders raise political support the same way as everyone else — through voluntary contributions.

Not exact matches

On Friday, Zuckerberg came out in support of the Honest Ads Act in a Facebook post, saying it would «raise the bar for all political advertising online.»

ONE wants to raise public awareness and pressure political leaders to support smart policies to effect positive change.

This discussion will look at how candidates and interest groups in in the U.S. are using Facebook advertising, Twitter, Google Ads, mobile phones, location - based services and older technologies like email and blogs to raise money, mobilize support and get voters to the polls in an important election year, with an emphasis on practical results and the implications for future political campaigns around the world.

So how can nonprofits and political organizations connect with people online to build support, raise money and change the world?

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

Clinton isn't the only big - name political figure raising money to support her candidacy.

[33] Field was the instigator of the idea of a global Commonwealth network of protected forests, though he failed to raise political interest for a number of years; when HM The Queen came to hear of the idea she supported it enthusiastically, and the initiative was launched as the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy in 2015.

While Mr. Vallone has vastly out - raised Mr. Avella and is relatively well - known across the borough, political observers believe Mr. Avella, an Italian - American like Mr. Vallone, will pick off voters that would otherwise support Mr. Vallone.

Soft money accounts, known as «housekeeping» committees, allow political groups to raise unlimited contributions in support of generalized, party - building actions.

WFP's Long Island Political Director Jess Carrano also cited Rice's support for the so - called «Raise the Age» campaign (the push to stop trying some youthful offenders as adults) and campaign finance reform — especially the creation of a publicly funded system.

We need to raise the debate on how we reform our political system to support long - term thinking over political and spending cycles.

A so - called super pac is a political action committee that is allowed to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to support or oppose a candidate, provided there is no direct communication between the committee and the candidate.

At the time, the president, a member of the National Rifle Association who has strong political support from gun owners, said he would look at stricter background checks and raising the minimum age for buying an assault weapon, proposals that the group opposes.

«They decided to ignore principle and their constituents in a calculated political flip - flop only after Governor Cuomo raised $ 1 million from Wall Street billionaires and hedge fund managers to support the legislation.

Bill Lipton, the party's state director, said the party decided to stick with Mr. Cuomo because he promised to support some of its top goals, such as raising the minimum wage and providing public financing for state political campaigns.

Progress for America was aggressively involved in supporting Bush in 2004, and its Voter Fund was later fined $ 750,000 by the FEC for not registering as a political action commmittee, and raising funds in excess of the legal limits.

«They decided to ignore principle and their constituents in a calculated political flip - flop only after Gov. Cuomo raised $ 1 million from Wall Street billionaires and hedge fund managers to support the legislation.

The support of the Black Leadership Action Coalition, a political fund - raising arm of Lewis» left - leaning Black Institute, is a major boost for the former lawmaker in the race to succeed Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland in Queens.

However, our campaigning pushed the role of the Bishops onto the political agenda, raising hopes that the Government's plan for reform could be changed and more recently, we supported amendments which would have led to the removal of the Bishops.

The group eventually hopes to become a Political Action Committee and raise funds to support candidates, Mr. Seabrook said.

Once the group's membership is built up through the Facebook site, Mr. Seabrook says he eventually hopes to register it as a political action committee that can raise money and support candidates.

Under the supervision of the governor's staff, the groups intend to raise more than $ 1 million for a media blitz, hire a powerful political consultant close to the Cuomo administration and deploy field organizers to the districts of more than a dozen key lawmakers to drum up support, according to interviews with those involved in the effort.

In addition, several other political action committees are spending more than $ 4.4 million they raised on several advisory - only ballot proposals aimed at driving Democratic turnout, including a proposal asking voters if they support an increase in the minimum wage.

Eldridge notes Gibson's signing of a pledge to vote against any climate change legislation that would raise taxes, his support for a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and his support for fracking as evidence of his true political colors.

#GivingTuesday is an initiative founded by the United Nations in 2012 as a global way of engendering and celebrating philanthropy and is observed worldwide, supported by business, political and social leaders who jointly champion fund - raising for community development.

At least Freedom Watch is raising their campaign money from donors that give freely to a cause they believe in, whereas the union members who are not Democrats are being forced to give their union dues money to the political party they don't support.

Without a public campaign finance system that matches private donations and encourages small - dollar contributions, outsider legislative candidates have little to no chance of raising enough cash to stage a significant challenge without strong name recognition or support of established organizations, unions, and local political figures.

Kim's campaign, which has raised $ 1.8 million, owes a third of its support to the California Republican Party, which has relied heavily on political activist and physicist Charles Munger Jr. for its support.

The paper reviews the record of energy - subsidy reforms and argues that big exporters should reduce energy demand by raising prices, and that this can be done without undermining legitimacy of governments that depend on subsidies for political support.

Asked why WHO convened the emergency committee only this week, WHO Assistant Director - General Keiji Fukuda this morning said the organization was initially focused on coordinating the response on the ground and on raising awareness and drumming up political support, for instance at a meeting of health ministers in Accra in early July and a meeting with Chan and West African presidents last week.

The critique from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) panel raises questions about whether the National Children's Study (NCS) can sustain the political support needed to assure funding for the ambitious effort, which has already cost $ 1 billion and could require billions more in coming years.

• Create a national and state charter school political action committee (PAC) to raise funds and target candidates to support or oppose at the federal and state levels.

Support grows for ballot item angling for more school money Our Schools Now > Initiative to raise $ 700M yearly has backing across political parties, poll indicates.

The SNA Political Action Committee (SNA PAC) raises funds from SNA members and contributes funds to federal elected officials in accordance with Federal Elections Commission rules in order to educate members of Congress about the child nutrition programs and thank the members of Congress who continue to support the child nutrition programs year after year.

The FVMA Professional Advocacy Committee (PAC) is a bipartisan, nonprofit, political committee formed to raise contributions from our members to provide needed financial support to candidates for state - elected offices.

Born and raised in Tehran and living in Los Angeles, she envisions the city as an imaginary space between asylum as «the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee» and the more dated meaning of the word, «an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally ill.»

The purpose of CITYFOOD is to raise awareness on resilient city - region food systems and (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture, create an advocacy platform for cities to gain political recognition and support from national governments and international support organizations, to provide information to cities around the world, stimulate exchange of experiences, identify and disseminate important lesson and good practices, and facilitate cooperation between cities worldwide and between local governments and civil society in this area.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

The political concerns come as more Michigan conservatives are expressing support for clean energy, though many also oppose raising the renewable energy standard.

Calling for a carbon tax on polluters could, feasibly, even become a political winner (the Yale study also finds astonishingly high support for regulating CO2 as a pollutant), as anger percolates at the GOP's intransigence to raising taxes even on the wealthy and corporations.

It describes its goal as to «raise awareness of the costs and implications of policies based on global warming alarmism by conducting a multi-faceted campaign to peel away grassroots political support for carbon restrictions, while simultaneously promoting market - based policies that preserve individual liberty, economic opportunity, and environmental quality.»

Not only was this a manifestation of injustice in itself, but it also raised major political economy problems in terms of the commitment of middle income earners to supporting a legal aid system of which they were never beneficiaries but only contributors as taxpayers, even while they faced similar denials of access to justice themselves.

«This raises serious questions about the level of detail that Cambridge Analytica knew about users, whether it acquired that information illegally and whether it sought to abuse that information in support of President Trump's political campaign in the United States or Brexit in the United Kingdom,» he told the Guardian.

He said the issue of election interference is bigger than any one platform and that's why Facebook supports the Honest Ads Act to help raise the bar for all political advertising online.

NAR and the REALTORS ® Political Action Committee have been working overtime to create new homeownership opportunities by supporting congressional efforts to raise the limits on FHA - insured mortgages.

Today, Schmelzer is overseeing efforts to take NAR's political clout to the next level by raising additional contributions to the REALTORS ® Political Action Committee and increasing the funding that NAR's public issue advocacy program will use to reach targeted public audiences in support of issues such as small - business health plan legpolitical clout to the next level by raising additional contributions to the REALTORS ® Political Action Committee and increasing the funding that NAR's public issue advocacy program will use to reach targeted public audiences in support of issues such as small - business health plan legPolitical Action Committee and increasing the funding that NAR's public issue advocacy program will use to reach targeted public audiences in support of issues such as small - business health plan legislation.