Sentences with phrase «real reformers»

With mainstream reforms doing little to change the system, real reformers generally agreed by the late 1980s that their efforts were not working.

Councilwoman Rosie Mendez has backed Schneiderman's statewide effort, calling him a «progressive champion» and a «real reformer with a record of getting things done.»

The only candidate endorsed by the New York Times is Adriano Espaillat — the one real reformer ready to shake up the state Senate.

A real reformer is a public blessing, but his counterfeit is a hectic uplifter so zealous about saving the world at large that he himself, acrimonious, dogmatic, censorious, and altogether unlovable, has lost whatever persuasive beauty he might have had.

A real reformer of social policy as a minister, her memoir has been very popular in France and this edition has been supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It's time to send a real reformer and outsider like me to the state Senate so we can enact sweeping ethics reforms and clean up our government once and for all.»

As we said last month, publicly and explicitly turning his back on the WFP would send a powerful signal that Cuomo means to be a real reformer, working to bring permanent change to Albany.

Governor Cuomo will do the right thing and send a message to Speaker Silver that it's time to go as Speaker, because if he doesn't the same old stink is back in Albany, NY, and that really will hurt Cuomo's image as a real reformer, and he can't afford that if he wants to be President

They will have another chance to unseat Ms. Cancel and elect a real reformer, as voters in Nassau County seem to have done in Tuesday's election to replace Mr. Skelos.

A REAL reformer would have eliminated 95 % of those positions, especially in dire economic times.

It would be great if the real reformers in the Senate Dems are quietly plotting a real coup.

Now, if you say anything about needing something more or different beyond testing and accountability, teacher evaluation, or whatever, people say that you're not a real reformer.

But the real reformers will do everything they can to effect a paradigm shift: from the oligopoly of top - down decision - making to the boot - strap choices made by thousands of concerned individual parents.

Now Randi Weingarten is trying — earnestly and imaginatively — to return the organization and its (present) leader to the pantheon of real reformers.

As consolation, the Fordham Institute published this critique arguing that some real reformers — especially Louisiana and Colorado — were not among the winners while some without much reform cred like Hawaii and Maryland were.