We can provide all registered democrats with an app for recommending message components and for
voting those recommendations up or down.
Not exact matches
Because the SEC's rules for resubmission of a failed proposal by a shareholder in the next year's proxy statement require that the proposal have received
up to 10 % of the
vote (depending on how many years it has been submitted), the significant
voting impact of an ISS
recommendation can empower a proponent to resubmit a proposal year after year, imposing costs on the company and creating waste and negative publicity to the detriment of the company and its shareholders.
The legislature is allowed to conduct no more than two
up - or - down
votes on the commission's
recommendations.
Beckett's committee was set
up last July, as we reported here, and its first batch of
recommendations were put to the
vote (back in September)(reported here and here).
The governor says his mandate relief panel will hold public hearings around the state, and asked the legislature for an
up or down
vote on the panel's ultimate
recommendations.
Kalman Yeger, another councilman from Brooklyn, expressed concern during the hearing that if the commission's
recommendations go before the voters in 2019, a year when there will be no major races to bring voters to the polls, it could mean that few people actually show
up to
vote on what could be fundamental changes to how government works.
While a DARPA for energy R&D might be a good model, spending on deployment and infrastructure should be overseen by a diverse group of experts, perhaps modeled after the military base closings commission, whose
recommendations could only receive an
up or down
vote from Congress (no amendments, no earmarks).
We've been disappointed on various levels, whether it's the slowness to change rules related to brownfields, whether it was the state assembly's refusal to
vote on congestion pricing, whether it's the Public Service Commission taking a really long time to come
up with the final
recommendations on the energy portfolio standard proceedings (so we finally can have really ambitious and well thought out energy efficiency projects for New York City).
Within each question other users can
up vote different answers, or simply mark it as a helpful
recommendation.