Sentences with phrase «women voters»

The seventh annual Running and Winning workshop was funded by the Westchester Community Foundation and sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Westchester, the American Association of University Women, and the YWCA of White Plains & Central Westchester.

The legislature contemplated the system as early as 2004, and the state chapter of the League of Women Voters started researching the system four years later.

Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

McMullin earns 21 % support among women voters.

The pre-taped panels, which will air on the three consecutive Sundays leading up to September 9th primary elections, are presented in collaboration with the League of Women Voters of the City of New York and moderated by Ben Max, Executive Editor of Gotham Gazette, and Marlene Peralta, Senior Political Reporter at El Diario.

Other upcoming debates include one sponsored by the Hampton Bays Civic Association at the Hampton Bays Senior Center on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. and a League of Women Voters debate on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.

Democratic lawmakers, along with the League of Women voters, rallied outside the Senate chambers for bills that would allow same day voting, and early voting by mail in New York State.

The Brennan Center for Justice, Citizens Union, Common Cause New York, the League of Women Voters of New York City, and New York Public Interest Research Group submitted a friend - of - the - court brief this week, urging the federal district court hearing the case to uphold the law.

Dick Dadey, Citizens Union Larry Norden, Brennan Center for Justice Susan Lerner, Common Cause New York Sally Robinson, League of Women Voters of New York State Blair Horner, New York Public Interest Research Group John Kaehny, Reinvent Albany

Originally, the advocacy groups formed a coalition, led by Ohio's League of Women Voters, which gathered more than 200,000 signatures for the measure to make it to November's ballot.

The ballot proposition is backed by non-partisan good government groups, including the League of Women Voters and Citizens Union.

«A majority of women voters are looking at issues like women's access to basic medical care,» said Miller.

That group also includes Citizens Union, Common Cause NY, Fiscal Policy Institute, League of Women Voters, NYPIRG, and Reinvent Albany.

The League of Women Voters is hosting a debate for the four candidates: Republican Lester Chang, Green Party candidate Dennis Levy, Democrat Alice Cancel and Working Family Party candidate Yuh - Line Niou, who withdrew from the Democratic party vote, calling the process «flawed» and instead chose to run as a Working Party Family candidate.

«All three think they can mistreat women and that women voters are going to dash to the polls to bring them back, to elect them to represent them,» NOW - NYC President Sonia Ossorio told the New York Observer.

Women voters, Carroll noted, were divided between the two candidates, despite loud criticism of Spitzer from some women's groups.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says if the constitutional amendment is accompanied by a law that also requires the lines to be drawn in a less partisan manner, then it would be at least an improvement from the present system of unlimited gerrymandering.

Dadey, Horner and Barbara Bartoletti of the state League of Women Voters held a Capitol news conference Tuesday announcing they had sent a letter to Cuomo calling on him to hold an «open leaders meeting» on ethics.

The New York Times warned that Weiner's rivals — in a «direct appeal to women voters who may decide the [primary] races» — are lumping Weiner and Spitzer together «as two wayward men obsessed with reclaiming power and unworthy of redemption.»

The League of Women Voters» Jennifer Wilson said despite the opponents» worries, no existing rights have ever been taken away in any past constitutional convention.

Back in 1991, the well - respected and reform - minded local League of Women Voters studied term limits, and to the surprise of some good government types, rejected the idea.

The move was praised by representatives of government reform groups, including the League of Women Voters» Sally Robinson.

Barbara Bartoletti, legislative director for the League of Women Voters of New York State, said at the news conference that she expects the Senate to include the credit in their budget, and hopes the Assembly does not.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says the Assembly's sexual harassment scandal presents the first true test for the fledgling ethics commission, created by Governor Cuomo and lawmakers last year.

WBFO Albany Correspondent Karen DeWitt discusses the lack of ethics reform with Barbara Bartoletti of the League of Women Voters.

It's not rare to hear politicians fret over women voters, who make up the majority of undecided voters.

The poll found the straight - talking Buffalo developer, the upset winner in last week's GOP primary, had 54 percent of the support of women voters to Cuomo's 34 percent.

State Senator James Seward recently welcomed Homer High School senior Emma Murphy, Dryden High School junior Laurel Deacon, and Cortland High School freshman Abigail Bowker to Albany for the 17th annual Students Inside Albany conference sponsored by the League of Women Voters of New York State Education Foundation.

The New York League of Women Voters called it «distressing» that the elections board would agree to comply with the Freedom of Information Law request by the federal panel.

He says the New York State Board of Elections alone has registered more than 500 high school students across the county, and there are also other organizations like the League of Women Voters, as well as candidate groups, that are working to get first time voters registered.

Citizens Union and the League of Women Voters say a planned statute that would accompany the constitutional amendment could fix some of those problems, and they say they are withholding their endorsement of the entire plan until they see that proposed new accompanying law.

The groups include the League of Women Voters, Common Cause, Citizens Union, and the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Citizens Union and the League of Women Voters have signed on, saying in the deeply political atmosphere of the Capitol, this is a chance to get some kind of positive change.

A monster lead among women voters powers him past Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino,» said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

Last Saturday, the League of Women Voters held a regional meeting in Poughkeepsie to discuss term limits.

Cuomo avoided a one on one debate with Astorino, and he reached out to women voters, even starting his own Women's Equality Party.

«I was tweeting during the voter part and the campaign finance part, and by the time I finished tweeting — and I like to think I'm a pretty fast typer — he was done talking about it, he was on to the next subject,» said Jennifer Wilson, policy director for the League of Women Voters of New York State.

Rep. Maurice Hinchey tells a reporter to «shut up» before a League of Women Voters - sponsored debate.

We all laughed when the New York Post suggested Anthony Weiner was dropping the Sheryl Sandberg — coined term «lean in» in a subliminal bid to appeal to women voters.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, admits the deal would be a «compromise», but it would be better than the current system, where a legislative task force draws the lines.

In June, the League of Women Voters of New York State became the first prominent interest group to abate its position on a convention, saying it would no longer automatically oppose one if the delegate selection process wasn't reformed beforehand.

That had been the requirement for many years for the League of Women Voters,» said Hawkins.

When Barb Bartoletti joined the state League of Women Voters in 1981, Hugh Carey was governor and lawmakers» offices were frequently veiled in a haze of tobacco smoke.

Citizens Union is again in suppor and the League of Women Voters is not the only government reform organization reevaluating its stance.

Hawkins noted that the League of Women Voters guideline said that sponsors of debates, including the media, need to develop criteria for debates before inviting the candidates.

Despite the inevitable heckles of tokenism and of a last - ditch attempt to appeal to women voters, the increase in women at the UK's top table of power should be welcomed as an important shift in the right direction.

Good - government groups throughout the land — from Common Cause to the League of Women Voters — have been alarmed about the DGA lawsuit, and rightly so.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, was an adviser to the Moreland Commission.

asked Barbara Bartoletti of the League of Women Voters.

She spoke Thursday night for a session sponsored by the League of Women Voters in the studios of WNED - TV.