1. Term Limits to be Tested (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
Term Limits: The fight continues
As you've probably heard by now, New York City Council voted to extend term limits for city
officials. The controversial vote, which has been heavily criticized by Democracy for NYC and other good
g...
2. Council Members Vote on Term Limits (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
How They Voted: Council Members Tackle Term Limit Bill
As reported by the NY1 News
Here is how each member of the City Council voted Thursday, October 23,
on Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bill to extend term limits for elected
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3. Help Obama by doing NYC data entry of PA Voters (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
Help Obama w/Your Laptop: Data Entry of New Voters in Pennsylvania
The good news grassroots volunteers registered over 20,000 people in the swing state of Pennsylvania. But now all this data needs to be entered into VoteBuilder, so data e...
4. Volunteer to Protect the Vote on Election Day & Days Before Election Day (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
Volunteer to Protect the Vote on Election Day & Days Before Election Day
~ A message from DFNYC's David Kogelman
This year, Voter Protection on Election Day and the days leading up to it are more important than ever, both nationally and in...
5. Help pass the "Clean Elections Act" (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
On July 23, the "Clean Elections Act" was introduced into the City Council. (Note: DFNYC's own Dan Jacoby wrote the bill.) It was given the number "Intro 803," and sent to the Governmental Operations Committee.
The next step is to convin...
6. Ask Gov. Paterson to Veto A10526/S8169 - natural gas drilling in upstate New York (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
We have learned that another damaging environmental bill has passed both houses of our State legislature and has been sent to Governor Paterson. The bill is called "Environmental Conservation Law A10526" (S8169 in the Senate), but it appears that it...
8. Philadelphia Voter Registration Drive - July 5th (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Please RSVP: nyvolunteers (at) gmail.com
Former John Edwards volunteers in NYC will be helping Obama by teaming up
with ACORN for a voter registration drive in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 5th.
We will be partn...
9. Help NYC Keep Strong Recycling Regulations (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
A.11725/S.8643 (the Assembly and Senate numbers, respectively) is a bill
that would require retail stores greater than 10,000 sq. ft. to accept
for recycling any plastic bags they issue for customers to carry out
their merchandise, and t...
10. The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
Despite the threat of a presidential veto, the House of
Representatives passed legislation that will prevent a 10 percent
Medicare payment cut to doctors scheduled to take place July 1,
improve Medicare coverage of preventive and mental health ser...
