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  Rider (politics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In legislative practice, a rider is an additional provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill.
Use of riders is customary in many legislative bodies, including the Congress of the United States.
Riders are most effective when attached to an important bill, such as an appropriation bill, because to veto or table such a bill could delay funding to governmental programs, causing serious problems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rider_(politics)   (214 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Richard Rider announces candidacy for mayor
Rider, who has unsuccessfully run for public office in San Diego County four times, said he was "somewhat of a reluctant candidate" but that he felt others in the race were not willing to go to war with labor unions to scale back pensions and other benefits.
Rider is a retired stockbroker and financial planner and a prominent figure in the Libertarian Party.
He ran for county supervisor in 1992, for county treasurer and the state assembly in 1998 and for Congress in 1988.Rider has sued the city over several financing issues over the years, and successfully fought the county's 1988 half-cent-on-the-dollar sales tax boost, which later was found to be illegal.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20050526-1409-bn26mayor.html   (394 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Rider would seek bids for most city jobs
Rider said he would invite bids from city departments interested in retaining their work, and his plan would force employees into a decision: Agree to lower wages and benefits or find a job someplace else.
Rider, a tax activist whose lawsuit in 1989 overturned a half-percent county sales tax, pledged no new or increased taxes and no new fees until the city turned around a pension deficit estimated to be at least $1.4 billion.
Rider added that he is opposed to professional sports subsidies, the city's proposed downtown library, sales of city land and pension obligation bonds.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20050615-9999-7m15mayor.html   (815 words)

  
 LP News July 1998 - Richard Rider wins 16% in San Diego race for Tax Collector; misses November run-off
Rider finished third in a field of six candidates in the June 2 election, coming in behind the incumbent city treasurer and the assistant county treasurer in the non-partisan race.
Rider said his less-then-expected vote total was the result of several factors.
Rider, 52, is perhaps best known for his successful 1988 lawsuit against San Diego County, which overturned a $1.5 billion sales tax.
www.lp.org /lpn/9807-Rider.html   (534 words)

  
 Senator's fisheries 'rider' angers green groups - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John McCain of Arizona and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine oppose the rider, staffers said, because the issue is so complicated that it deserves debate in either a committee room or on the Senate floor.
Stevens' rider when the omnibus spending bill it is likely to be attached to comes to the Senate floor, he added.
The Stevens rider would extend what is a frantic and dangerous crab-fishing season and mandate that fishermen take most of their catch to government-designated packing houses.
washingtontimes.com /national/20031101-114715-2729r.htm   (566 words)

  
 CNN - Senate rider called threat to wetlands - June 22, 1999
A rider attached to a bill recently passed by the Senate could potentially endanger wetlands by granting a lenient appeals process to developers while creating more red tape for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.
If the rider remains attached to the bill, and the bill is passed, it will more than likely become a law, according to the Audubon Society.
If the rider and bill it's attached to become law, "the results could be the corps would be a lot more conservative in determining what are wetlands because they don't want to be hung up in court in the appeals process," said Sibbing.
www.cnn.com /NATURE/9906/23/wetland.rider.enn   (463 words)

  
 America's Debate -> Le Tour de France
The position of the riders in the overall classification of the race is computed by the cumulative time they take to finish each stage.
In addition, there are various points in the race where a rider can pick up "time bonuses" of a few seconds which reduce the total time for that rider for that stage.
A: In order to keep 180 riders trying to gun it for the line on every stage as well as make life easier for officials, riders who come across as a group in the "1 Kilometer to go line" will be given the same time on flat stages.
www.americasdebate.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=10386   (5140 words)

  
 NBCSandiego.com - Politics - Mayoral Candidate Richard Rider
Rider -- known as a taxpayer advocate -- speaks bluntly about cutting government spending, privatizing city services and refusing more taxes and fee hikes.
Rider said one of his hallmark political moves was getting a tax increase repealed.
Rider has previously run for lieutenant governor, Congress, the California State Assembly, San Diego County supervisor and county treasurer.
www.nbcsandiego.com /politics/4739990/detail.html   (193 words)

  
 RGJ.com - Lakers pick up Rider
Rider, whose constant tardiness caused him to clash with his coaches in Atlanta last season and Portland before that, signed with the Lakers on Friday.
Rider averaged 19.3 points, 4.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists for Atlanta last season, near his career averages of 18.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists.
Rider, who played at UNLV, was taken by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the sixth player chosen in the 1993 NBA draft.
www.rgj.com /news/stories/sports/967341860.php   (438 words)

  
 My Philosophy on Politics
The American voters, who have already made their choices, are standing by to watch the great expenditure of money and effort to be spent on convincing the convinced, recruiting the unconvinced, enlightening the ignorant and energizing the apathetic.
I knew very little about politics and wasn’t interested, but for some reason, I finally decided to find out just what the difference was between Democrats and Republicans and just what side I wanted to line up on for that election.
Here is a simplified version of my political philosophy ranging from one form of undesirable government to another form of undesirable government.
my.homewithgod.com /merrellee/politics.htm   (1639 words)

  
 Bach Talk.net » Blog Archive » Lessons From Richard Rider on Libertarian Branding
I think Richard Rider’s lack of electoral victory (for it was certainly not a loss) teaches us an important lesson on campaigning as Libertarians.
Rider had zero synergy in his race because he heavily downplayed his Libertarian affiliation.
This entry was posted on Friday, July 29th, 2005 at 8:35 pm and is filed under Politics, Reforming the LP, News.
bachtalk.net /?p=38   (529 words)

  
 The Free Rider Problem
From early in the twentieth century, a common view of collective action in pluralist group politics was that policy on any issue must be, roughly, a vector sum of the forces of all of the groups interested in the issue (Bentley 1908).
From that assumption, he went on to give us the first modern political theory of the state, an explanatory political theory that is not merely a handbook for the prince and that is not grounded in normative assumptions of religious commitment.
Or we might go to a political demonstration for varied reasons other than agreement with the ostensible object of the demonstration; for example pro-war proponents might join in a peace march on a glorious day to hear performances by outstanding singers in a large public park -- something they might happily have paid to do.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/free-rider   (5546 words)

  
 Rider University - Rider University Institute for NJ Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rider University - Rider University Institute for NJ Politics
The Rider Institute for New Jersey Politics was established to advance the understanding of political institutions, political processes and public policies at all levels of government in New Jersey.
David Rebovich, associate professor of political science at Rider University and a well-known commentator on New Jersey political issues, serves as managing director of the Institute.
www.rider.edu /institute   (202 words)

  
 Nature and Politics (November 17, 1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Many of the riders become law and the damage is done, with little notice from the press corps.
Yet another rider halts implementation of a new system for calculating royalties on oil and gas pumped from federal lands.
The Craig rider would eliminate the "millsite" provision of the 1872 Mining Law (one of the precious few environmental provisions of that archaic law from the age of the Robber Barons) which limits mining companies to a single five-acre waste dump site for every 20-acre mining claim.
eatthestate.org /04-05/NaturePolitics.htm   (1533 words)

  
 Keira Knightley Wavefront Forums - The Art of Politics
politics is a power game and i have no personal interest in it other than to observe the extreme wrongness of it all.
Location: U.S. Politics was trying to please all the people all the time but when it was realized that that was near impossible, (unless you live in a nation of, say, 3 people) politics became trying to please yourself all the time and possibly a few people that keep you in power.
Politics was trying to please all the people all the time but when it was realized that that was near impossible, (unless you live in a nation of, say, 3 people) politics became trying to please yourself all the time and possibly a few people that keep you in power.
www.kkwavefront.org /forums/showthread.php?t=1065   (2991 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Mayoral candidate Rider unveils his rescue plan
Calling it the book that public employees fear most, Rider said 8,000 of the city's 11,000 jobs could be outsourced to private contractors at a fraction of the cost of what the city pays now.
Standing in front of a Staples office supply store in Kearny Mesa to make his point, Rider, 59, said that while the city pays 15 to 25 cents each just to make a copy, it could be done at Staples or similar stores or print shops for only 4 to 6 cents each.
Rider had tossed his hat unsuccessfully into several elections, including his 1994 run as the Libertarian candidate for governor against Pete Wilson, where he received 1.7 percent of the vote.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/20050614-1253-bn14rider.html   (782 words)

  
 Rough Rider redux | csmonitor.com
During the 1912 campaign, he proposed such radical ideas as judicial recall, financial aid to workers injured on the job, abolition of child labor and the seven-day workweek, a living wage for workers, expanded access to credit for farmers, more protection for forests, and a broad program of social insurance for those unable to work.
Her graceful prose richly brings the aging Rough Rider to life: plainspoken, idealistic, genial, energetic, and disciplined but, at the same time, headstrong, envious, egotistic, and averse to self-reflection.
She is simultaneously sympathetic to Roosevelt's unquenchable desire to contribute in the public arena and critical of his inability to understand the extent to which his personal ambition and ego needs drove his actions.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0322/p15s02-bogn.html   (1173 words)

  
 Film-making in the service of identity politics Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro
The country’s business, political and “opinion” leaders were especially euphoric as they toted up the impending economic benefits from the “successful storming” of Hollywood’s inner-circle.
Whale Rider rests upon a body of work by Maori writers and artists, cultivated from the late 1960s, which has come to form the basis of the so-called Maori “cultural renaissance”.
Whale Rider, however, is part of a body of work that contributes to suppressing the real source of Maori oppression.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/mar2004/rev-m31.shtml   (2324 words)

  
 Rough Rider in the White House : Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rough Rider in the White House : Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire Review: Having read over 20 biographies of TR over the years, I would have to say that this is the worst.
She amply proves her thesis that "Although Roosevelt was progressive and optimistic his political vision encompassed his darker, emotional, anti-liberal worldview of men and nations struggling against the forces of evil" (page 2).
This political vision would serve, and to an unlikely extent, still serves as America's domestic and foreign policy, she suggests.
www.textkit.com /0_0226876071.html   (800 words)

  
 BayouBuzz.com - Louisiana Politics and News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This change overturned one of former Governor Mike Foster’s most important accomplishments, the passage of a law in 1999 that allowed motorcycle riders over the age of 18 to ride without a helmet as long as they maintained at least $10,000 in medical insurance coverage.
Former Governor Mike Foster is a motorcycle rider who passionately believes that motorcyclists should not be required to wear a helmet.
Some riders believe that helmets are a restriction on their freedom as Americans and are an example of how government is becoming too intrusive in the everyday lives of citizens.
www.bayoubuzz.com /articles.aspx?aid=2098   (582 words)

  
 Rethinking the Free Rider Problem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The reason is "free riders": in a voluntary system of donating to a worthy project, people can get the benefit of the project, without having to pay for it.
But there were free riders too, and that did bother the volunteers.
Yes, there are free riders in a voluntary situation, but what the academics overlook is that there are also public-spirited people, and their generosity can more than make up for the selfishness of free riders.
www.libertyhaven.com /politicsandcurrentevents/educationhomeschoolingorchildren/rethinkingthefree.html   (679 words)

  
 Company Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He is Managing Director of the Rider University Institute for New Jersey Politics (www.rider.edu/institute).
He teaches courses in New Jersey Politics, Political Campaigning, Urban Politics, and Public Administration and is a commentator for several New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia media outlets.
Scala is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, and a research coordinator at the College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics.
www.politicspa.com /publiusstaff.htm   (299 words)

  
 The Rider Institute for New Jersey Politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Rider University has established The Rider Institute for New Jersey Politics in order to advance the understanding of political institutions, political processes and public policies at all levels of government in New Jersey.
An important component of the Institute is the participation of Rider students so they can gain ideas and contacts for research projects, internships, service learning opportunities, involvement in community research projects, and overall career development.
Programs include panel discussions; major talks by invited guests; presentations of research; formal and informal debates by political candidates, officeholders, policy and issue advocates; and professional development workshops for public officials, media people, faculty and staff.
www.rider.edu /news/institute   (157 words)

  
 HOLT HEARS AND HELPS STUDENTS ON ISSUES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
So when Brooke Olster, the president of the Rider University chapter of the College Democrats, wanted to generate some interest in national politics on campus, she looked to Rep. Holt, who has represented the 12th district and Rider for the last five years.
Holt was eager to come to Rider, not just to give his usual legislative update but to speak specifically with students about issues that directly affect them and young people generally.
But it was Holt's enthusiasm, unique combination of political idealism and realism, his respect for students' concerns and frustrations, and his thoughtful, clear responses to their questions that really impressed his audience.
www.politicsnj.com /rebovich120703.htm   (1746 words)

  
 Government - Voice of San Diego   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
County of San Diego -- his successful attack on a 1989 half-cent sales tax increase that he claims has saved the county's taxpayers $3.3 billion -- is his prized contribution to a cause he's fought for and lost in court or at the ballot box several other times.
Rider, 59, is looking forward to his next defeat, although he hopes it's in his bid for re-election rather than this year's 11-candidate contest to replace the resigned Mayor Dick Murphy, who stepped down Friday.
Rider: It's not just the pension deficit that's the problem, and it's not just the illegality of the pension that's the problem.
www.voiceofsandiego.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=euLTJbMUKvH&b=312470&ct=1198389   (3706 words)

  
 NBC 17 - College Basketball - Rider - NCAA Game Summary - Fairfield Vs. Rider
Jerry Johnson scored 15 points, Edwin Muniz had 14 and Steve Castleberry finished with 10 for Rider, which will be looking to reach the NCAA Tournament for a fourth time and for the first time since back-to-back appearances in 1993 and 1994.
Rider led by as many as eight points, the last time coming on a basket by Castleberry that made it 58-50 with 12:57 left to play.
But Rider answered with a 19-8 run and went up by 10 at 38-28 on a three by Johnson with 2:29 remaining in the first half.
www.nbc17.com /cbaskc35/4258336/detail.html   (494 words)

  
 An Open Letter to the California Legislature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From South Africa to New Zealand to Austria to England, audiences are appalled that America, supposedly the most free country in the world, denies to individual workers the right to designate workplace representatives of their own individual choosing.
The second reason the free-rider argument is false is the problem of the forced rider.
There may be free riders, but there are also forced riders.
www.libertyhaven.com /politicsandcurrentevents/constitutionscourtsandlaw/openletter.shtml   (972 words)

  
 North East : Naga problem : NSCN (IM) springs talks rider,Indian Politics, News Analysis, India News Online
The outfit’s hardline posture of branding Padmanabhaiah as “politically untouchable” was unambiguously expressed by its leading spokesman, deputy kilonser V. Horam.
He said over phone that the outfit would not resume talks unless the Centre clarifies its “negotiating policy” in the wake of Padmanabhaiah’s “incendiary and irresponsible” remark made in an interview to the RSS mouthpiece Organiser a few months ago.
Saying that the Centre-NSCN (I-M) talks were held without any rider and moving ahead since 1997, Horam said the outfit was shocked and extremely disappointed that a person of Padmanabhaiah’s standing could issue such a reckless and damaging statement.
www.news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/north-east-naga-prob-1704.html   (460 words)

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