Sentences with phrase «saying nonpartisan elections»

Party leaders, many civic groups and minority lawmakers vocally disagreed, saying nonpartisan elections would let rich outsiders buy their way to popularity without proving their ability to active party members.

Instead, she laid the blame at the feet of the Democratic Party — speficially the Rev. Al Sharpton, who publicly declared his support for keeping the partisan primary system in place last weekend, saying nonpartisan elections would enable self - financed candidates like the billionaire mayor to take over the political system and disenfranchise minority voters.

Not exact matches

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Lerner compared New York's flawed system with Los Angeles, which has a nonpartisan professional election administration that, she said, is responsive to voters and taxpayers.

«Cities that have adopted instant runoff voting to eliminate runoffs have not only saved millions of dollars but have also improved their democracies by making sure that we are electing our leaders in an election where the most voters, the most diverse voters, are at the polls at one time,» said Grace Ramsey, deputy outreach director for FairVote, a nonpartisan advocacy group, at the news conference.

Former Bronx Borough President Freddy Ferrer is reigniting an old fight against his former nemesis, Mayor Bloomberg, saying the mayor is again pushing nonpartisan elections so he can handpick his successor.

The nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin too often favors Democrats and needs to be reconstituted, perhaps with a more partisan model like what previously existed, incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Monday.

Mayor Bloomberg has given up hope of asking New York voters in the fall to approve nonpartisan elections, after the idea failed to win support from key decision - makers in town, sources said Monday night.

CITY HALL — More than a dozen of the city's most prominent politicians joined local activists on the steps of City Hall Thursday to protest a pending referendum to authorize nonpartisan elections this fall, saying the change would disenfranchise minority voters.

«If you go back to 2005, I think it was, I think I spent $ 7 million of my own money trying to convince everybody that we should have nonpartisan elections,» said Bloomberg (who has very much played the partisan game when he's needed to, and contributed millions of dollars to the controversial Independence Party, which provided him a crucial non-major-party line to run on).

Briccetti said while her group is nonpartisan, it has an interest in keeping Republicans in control in the State Senate, and will work in the 2016 elections to keep the GOP in control.

Quinn also said she disagrees with Bloomberg's argument that the allegations against Halloran and Smith present a strong argument in favor of nonpartisan elections, though she didn't explain why.

But Mr. Najmi is going to make a pitch for county support in the nonpartisan special election, his backers say.

«If you have a machine collecting and recording votes with an electronic ballot box there's no way to go back after the fact and see if the machine made a mistake, whether through malice or simple software error,» says Stanford University computer science professor David Dill and founder of Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan election watchdog.

After narrowly edging out current chief Terry Bergeson in a nonpartisan race that wasn't decided until two days after the Nov. 4 election, Mr. Dorn said one of his top priorities would be revamping the Washington Assessment of Student Learning, or WASL.