Sentences with phrase «reform as a wedge»

Instead of using immigration reform as a wedge issue, like many leaders in Washington, Utah passed legislation to help manage immigration based on our real economic needs.

US Senate contender David Malpass is using his Grow PAC to help GOP NY - 26 contender Jane Corwin, sending out mail that seeks to counter the Democrats» use of Medicare reform as a wedge issue.

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But then news surfaced that education reform group PennCAN had hired a leading GOP pollster and commissioned a secret report urging the governor to use the Philadelphia school crisis as a wedge issue to rally his base.

Nor are Labour exempt from cynicism as they failed to implement any concrete electoral reforms to the way MPs are elected to the House of Commons whilst in power from 1997 to 2010 but now their leader wishes to be seen as the reformer though he is still so partisan that he refuses to be seen in the company of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, I personally assume therefore this is more about driving a wedge into the coalition, opposing David Cameron and general point scoring than a real desire for electoral reform for Ed Miliband.

Labor's commitment to (once again) fund the final two years of the Gonski school funding reforms signals a strong intent by the party to position education as a wedge issue in the upcoming federal election.

This is hardly surprising given that puppy mills are regulated by agricultural departments at the state and federal levels, and agribusiness, which sides with the mills, is a powerful lobby and sees every concession to humane interests as the thin end of the wedge for broader, animal - friendly reform in farming.