Sentences with phrase «as tea party activists»

On the other side, the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida finds itself on the same team as tea party activists.

Facing seven other more conservative candidates, Bennett has been the focus of withering criticism from members of his own party as well as Tea Party activists.

Not exact matches

Neither is as effective as it could be without the other: Obama's perceived failures may demoralize many on the Left and make it harder to recruit and energize activists, but Democrats» inability to turn out their supporters in 2009 and 2010 helped create the very conditions that now force him to give in to the Tea Party types again and again.

Strategists for front - running gu bernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo have concluded that they prefer wealthy, bomb - throwing Tea Party activist Carl Paladino to nearly bankrupt and lackluster former US Rep. Rick Lazio as their GOP opponent, The Post has learned.

Tea party activists are struggling to rally behind a single presidential contender as disparate groups with conflicting priorities balance candidate viability with conservative purity on policies that extend well beyond the spending concerns that spawned the movement just two years ago.

[63] An article in Politico reported that many Tea Party activists were skeptical of the caucus, seeing it as an effort by the Republican Party to hijack the movement.

Washington (CNN)- As the congressional «super committee» works in Washington to cut America's federal debt, a panel of tea party activists will meet at a Denny's restaurant in Orlando to propose their own debt solutions.

A favorite of Tea Party activists, Mr. Rubio embraced Mr. Romney as «a special man to lead us in a special time.»

(CNN)- Newt Gingrich is a one - state wonder who is unlikely to play out as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney sought by some tea party activists, one of the movement's driving forces said Sunday.

Reno, Nevada (CNN)- Some two weeks before the midterm elections, Tea Party activists are set to fire up their army of supporters to forge ahead in, what they see as, a political war.

«Tea Party activists are kicking off a grand national tour this weekend with an event targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) in his small home town of Searchlight, Nevada — an event that Tea Party Express describes as a «conservative Woodstock.»

Greenville, South Carolina (CNN)- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley urged a crowd of Tea Party activists to hold Republican presidential candidates accountable for their tough rhetoric as they campaign through the early primary state.

Many tea party activists view Fiorina as too liberal and have fueled an upstart challenge by state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been active in tea party protests.

Boston (CNN)- Tea Party activists cast their cause as a patriotic movement from Americans fearful about the nation's direction during a rally Wednesday in Boston's Common.

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But their message clashed with critics who cast Tea Party activists as «victims of misinformation.»

Once the document is finalized it will be immediately distributed to Tea Party activists to use as a guide as they request meetings with key senators to discuss Kagan's nomination.

Cruz arrived on the presidential stage as a hero to tea party activists, but he had another objective: to make himself a hero to evangelical Christians and libertarian conservatives, too.

With characteristic bravado, DeLay expressed confidence throughout the trial that he would be exonerated, and he suggested that his victory would open the door to a more active role in federal politics after spending the past four years cooling his heels as a Republican consultant and an informal adviser to tea party activists.

In his victory speech tonight, Paul — a Republican as well as a favorite of Tea Party activists across the nation - declared, «Tonight there's a Tea Party tidal wave.»

NEW YORK — In a surge of support fueled by Tea Party activists, Republicans picked former CIA officer and author Gary Berntsen as their candidate against Sen. Chuck Schumer.

Paladino is known for his colorful, blunt language and «Mad as Hell» campaign theme that made him a favorite of anti-establishment conservatives and Tea Party activists.

Over the weekend, the Buffalo News reported that Republican petitions were being ciculated for Thompson, a Tea Party activist who served as an adviser and driver for Paladino's gubernatorial campaign, for the 60th Senate district.

Stephen Flanagan, a gravelly - voiced Tea Party activist, spent most of May and June in the back room of a dilapidated Long Island office complex lobbying for Andrew Cuomo's property - tax cap, which finally passed as part of Albany's big budget package.

[210][211] Rubio's stance on military, foreign policy and national security issues — such as his support for arming the Syrian rebels and for the NSA — alienated some libertarian - oriented Tea Party activists.

They're planning to help Paladino, who has been strongly identified with the conservative - activist Tea Party movement, to launch a New York Tea Party, much as billionaire Rochester political gadfly Tom Golisano's gubernatorial campaign launched the Independence Party in 1994.

Tim Donnelly, a favorite of the state's Tea Party activists, as the only Republican challenger to Governor Jerry Brown.

For Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, the first identifiable fork in the road appeared last August as he addressed the RedState Gathering, a meeting of conservative activists with tea party leanings, in New Orleans.

The same month, Stephen Colbert ridiculed Wake County tea party activists for suggesting we should «experiment» to see how kids do in high poverty schools, as if we didn't have enough data from districts like Detroit.

The new polls make clear that more than a year of high - profile opposition to the Common Core from parent activists on the left and the right, as well as from tea party groups, celebrity comedians and politicians such as Jindal and Huckabee, has taken a toll.

As states moved to implement the new Standards (and aligned assessments), an anti-Common Core coalition arose first on the far right among Tea Party activists and then from the left, particularly among teacher advocacy groups.

The new Common Core math and reading standards adopted by 45 states have come under a firestorm of criticism from tea - party activists and commentators such as Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin.

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.

All of the defectors, so far, are states led by Republican governors who have taken considerable heat from tea party activists and GOP legislators who oppose Common Core as an overreach by the federal government.

As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets - among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident - people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

Gelbspan lampoons tea - party activists for viewing climate change mitigation efforts as «as a conspiracy to impose world government and a sweeping redistribution of wealth», yet in a 2012 amateur audio interview, he offers the following insight at the four minute point: (profanity alert)

Whether you're skydiving onto the beaches of Durban, galavanting across the U.S. on the Tea Party's invitation to spread Birther lies about President Obama's birth certificate, pitching «Fox News Australia» to a wealthy mining magnate, or referring to young climate activists as «Hitler Youth» without apology, the discerning climate science (and reality) denier must make a fashion statement.

The strong Republican front against established science includes entrenched Senate leaders as well as the new wave of radical conservatives endorsed by the Tea Party activists, says a report by the Center for American Progress.

Now, as they prepare for a wide - open primary season, many of the Republicans are searching for ways to explain themselves to a conservative voting base full of hungry tea party activists and climate skeptics who don't take kindly to environmental issues so closely linked with Al Gore.