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My promise is that these votes will not be partisan, just as the good-government, pro-business issues we must embrace are not partisan.
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Weaver, who ran on a platform heavy on good-government and juvenile justice concerns, said, "I don't see that any of the 18 candidates currently running are speaking to the progressive side of the ledger" and criticized some of the current declared candidates to be "throwbacks."
DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 19, 2011 Mike DeBonis 2011
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Many council members and good-government experts lauded Mr. Bloomberg for trying to address the many problems facing young minority men.
Plan Funded at 11th Hour Michael Howard Saul 2011
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A coordinated effort, executed right, could unite progressives, good-government reformers and conservative libertarians in a fight to restore democracy.
Reversing 'Citizens United' Katrina vanden Heuvel 2011
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A national good-government organization and a group of leading computer scientists are raising concerns about a new Internet voting initiative set to debut for District voters in the coming weeks.
Experts raise warning flags over D.C. Internet voting plan Mike DeBonis 2010
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Third Way styles itself, more or less, as a post-partisan "fresh thinking" good-government group.
Ian Fletcher: As Jobs Go Global, U.S. Workers Pay Ian Fletcher 2012
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The result was a legislature in which many members, as a Lebanese good-government group once dryly put it, “lacked experience in drafting laws.”
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Transparency advocates and good-government groups initially cheered the reforms, but later panned the early efforts, arguing the information posted online was of little value.
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The result was a legislature in which many members, as a Lebanese good-government group once dryly put it, “lacked experience in drafting laws.”
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Common Cause, the nonpartisan good-government lobbying group, sponsored both letters.
Experts raise warning flags over D.C. Internet voting plan Mike DeBonis 2010
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