Sentences with phrase «with nonpartisan redistricting»
Mayor Bloomberg just dropped a report that demonstrates elections in states with nonpartisan redistricting are considerably more competitive across the board than in places like New York where the process is political and directly controlled by elected officials.
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Rice's campaign announced with some fanfare yesterday that she had signed three pledges distributed by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's New York Uprising PAC that call for nonpartisan independent redistricting, budget and ethics reform.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's push for nonpartisan redistricting has gained significant Republican support, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich signing on to his amicus brief at the Supreme Court and Arizona Sen. John McCain filing a separate friend - of - the - court brief.
Now that he has secured a pledge in support of independent, nonpartisan redistricting from all four gubernatorial hopefuls, former Mayor Ed Koch is looking for the same from New York's congressional delegation, who, along with members of the state Legislature, would be directly impacted by that reform.
A nonpartisan redistricting commission's remap of district lines mixed with an aging delegation and a rush of ambition is resulting in an unusually competitive election cycle in a state largely uncontested at the presidential or Senate levels.
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose NY Uprising PAC dubbed lawmakers «enemies» of reform if they declined to sign his redistricting, budget and ethics reform pledges last year; former AG Bob Abrams, Dr. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of SUNY Old Westbury, The Daily Beast and CNN contributor John Avlon (who also heads up the nonpartisan group «No Labels» with which Mayor Bloomberg is affiliated), Asian - American advocate Grace Lyu - Volckhausen, and Hispanic Federation President Lillian Rodríguez López.
«Much more needs to be done to restore the public's faith and I am working closely with several of my colleagues to push for additional reforms, including tougher campaign finance laws and the establishment of an independent nonpartisan redistricting commission.»
The bill would have replaced Missouri's existing bi-partisan redistricting process with a nonpartisan one modeled after Iowa's.