Sentences with phrase «democrat party agenda»

I disagree with most of the Democrat Party agenda, but no position is more EVIL than their mindless fealty to the teacher unions and the resulting damage they do to poor children — overwhelmingly minority children.

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Also published on The Huffington Post and techPresident Are Democrats doomed in 2010, with an energized Republican Party capitalizing on a backlash against a young president's ambitious agenda to seize control of Congress a la 1994?

Liberal Democrats are worried about the national party's willingness to embrace centrist / moderate congressional candidates, who might, if they're elected, feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda.

The party in government is therefore seen by many critics to be advancing an ideological agenda divorced from the socially liberal perspective of many Liberal Democrat supporters.

Vulnerable House and Senate Democrats want their leaders to skip the party's controversial legislative agenda for next year to help save their seats in Congress.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Like you, I oppose the Democrat Party's progressive agenda.

«Like you, I oppose the Democrat Party's progressive agenda,» Caputo writes.

Democrat Andrew Cuomo's reelection campaign has so far focused on the self - created «Women's Equality Party» ballot line and it's «Women's Equality Agenda.»

Matthew Sowemimo, Director of the Social Liberal Forum, has written a new opinion piece on Liberal Democrat Voice arguing for the party not to be timid in the way it presents its agenda:

Sources Friday evening said Cuomo and the leadership of the party had reached a tentative deal for the incumbent Democrat to take the labor - backed line in exchange for pushing on key progressive issues such as the Dream Act, the public financing of political campaigns and the women's agenda.

Are Democrats doomed in 2010, with an energized Republican Party capitalizing on a backlash against a young president's ambitious agenda to seize control of Congress a la 1994?

Mainstream Democrats, liberal activists, and the Working Families Party were out to punish IDC members for having empowered Senate Republicans and for preventing a progressive agenda from advancing in the New York State Senate.

The conference, in preparation for many months, will encourage greater debate within the Liberal Democrats to determine how far the party can push the equality agenda within the coalition.

A second NRCC ad for Tenney said her opponents - Democrat Kim Myers and third - party candidate Martin Babinec - will help push Clinton's agenda.

«It is understandable that Democrats may not agree with cross endorsing candidates of other parties, but I believe that this action will help to get parts of the Democratic agenda implemented,» he said.

«Liberal Democrats are the only party to have nailed their green credentials to the mast and set out how our radical agenda will be delivered in a way that is both credible and affordable.

Matthew Sowemimo, Director of the Social Liberal Forum, has written a new opinion piece on Liberal Democrat Voice arguing for the party not to be timid in the way it presents its agenda: The party's pre-election manifesto — A Fresh...

Sens. Ted O'Brien and Cecilia Tkaczyk unsuccessfully sought the Women's Equality Party ballot line, which was created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Democrats in effort to highlight the 10 - point women's agenda, which has stalled in Albany.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state Democrats earlier this year formed the Women's Equality Party as a way to boost vote totals in November and promote the women's agenda, a 10 - point omnibus package of bills with provisions aimed at pay equity, anti-human trafficking and housing discrimination.

The ads come as Democrats are creating the Women's Equality Party, a new ballot line that is aimed at highlighting support for the women's agenda package, which was first proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013 and includes anti-housing and workplace discrimination measures and a provision aimed at curtailing human trafficking.

A legislative push to add protections for illegal immigrants has divided Democrats in Albany, revealing some fractures in the party as it navigates how to respond to Trump's agenda.

That's despite Obama's claims this spring that the party has a «great chance» of wresting control of the House from the Republicans who have stymied much of his agenda since they took over in the 2010 midterms, and also in spite of a May Q poll that showed Democrats with a slight competitive edge on a generic congressional ballot.

The Liberal Democrats suggested the party was truing to find figures which suited their political agenda.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER The five Democrats seeking their party's nomination for mayor spent 90 minutes with hundreds of members of our community last week, and the results were encouraging for those hoping to move critical LGBT needs to the top of the city's agenda in the next four years.

«Bold and savage» spending cuts are on the agenda and some cherished Liberal Democrats policies are at risk at the start of the party's annual conference.

Some of the most devastating Coalition effects were not on agendas as such, but on the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties.

The package of measures, known as the Women's Equality Agenda, was put to the forefront this election season when state Democrats formed the Women's Equality Party, a new ballot line meant to promote the omnibus legislation.

Ultimately this setup would mean that the Republicans nor Democrats could put through policy without winning over support of this third party, basically allowing the 3rd party to put their spin on any given bill to suit their agenda prior to supporting (the third party here gain tremendous influence for a tiny portion of seats).

Again like the prime minister, his own party supporters are also increasingly satisfied with his performance (68 %, compared with 50 % last month), although this may be a sign that Liberal Democrat support has reached a core rump of those who generally agree with the coalition agenda.

But this year, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins has gained traction with voters — presenting himself as a liberal alternative to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Democrat who has prided himself on a moderate agenda.

And while Gov. Andrew Cuomo now gets to keep a target he can blame when he fails to accomplish pieces of his agenda, it's a blow for the Democrat who exerted more energy into helping his party win a majority than at any previous point in his tenure.

The biggest argument against such a move is that voters are looking for the minority party to stand against what they believe to be President Obama's wrong - headed agenda rather than offer an entire alternative set of policies and, by unifying behind a «Contract», Republicans will be handing Democrats something to shoot at this fall.

Democrats launched on Monday a new policy agenda focused on the economy, which seeks to bridge gaps with voters amid polls showing most Americans don't know what the party stands for.

The election debates gave the Liberal Democrats by - election status, and disrupted an already disjointed Tory campaign The Conservatives stopped losing on the economy but they didn't develop a strong or consistent economic message The Big Society agenda is an exciting governing philosophy but it should never have been put at the heart of the Tory election campaign No party ran a campaign responsive to the seismic impact of the expenses scandal - and to the prevailing mood of disillusion with Westminster politics

«Our campaign remains focused on outreach to Democrats in these primary states — including the March primary contests and helping our state parties as they hold the Republican candidates accountable for their out - of - touch and out - of - date agenda,» said campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson.

January 31, 2017 • Even though Democrats have little power in Washington, many of the voters who support them want to see the party use any means they can to obstruct the agenda of President Trump.

In 2009, shortly after Mark Baisley was elected vice chair of the Douglas County Republican Party, the local utility board president asked for his help, telling him that Democrats across the country had been leveraging utility boards to advance their agenda.

Not surprisingly, NEA agrees with the union - owned California Democratic Party, which passed a resolution in 2013 calling on DFER to cease using «Democrats» in their name, claiming their program «is clearly a front for a right - wing corporate agenda.»

And three high - profile party stalwarts announced the formation of Democrats for Public Education, to contest the reform agenda with a public - centered alternative.

McCarthy was hated by Senators from his own party and he had little to no impact on the larger political agenda, which was already firmly anti-Communist, among both Republicans and Democrats.

In July, E&E Legal issued an extensive report, Buying the Democrat Party Lock, Stock, and Barrel, that details among other things that activist billionaire Tom Steyer is using the Democratic Party to push his self - serving carbon - free energy agenda in the political arena.