Sentences with phrase «democrat women group»

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He is unabashedly pro-choice, and once told a group of women attending an Equal Rights Amendment rally in Washington, D.C. that they would be better off giving their political contributions to Democrats instead of Republicans.

He recently made headlines when he urged a group of women to give their money to the Democrats because they need to «send a message» that their rights are «under assault.»

The volunteers, a man and a woman in their early 20s, were visiting stores along Francis Lewis Boulevard at the Cross Island Parkway to pass out campaign fliers for Kim, a Democrat and a Korean American, when a group of young men sitting on a stoop yelled anti-Asian comments at them, said Michael Tobman, Kim's spokesman.

The regular Senate Democrats and their traditional progressive allies (women's rights and LGBTQ rights groups, in particular) would no doubt very much like to see someone more moderate in Diaz's seat.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins is the first woman to head a legislative conference in the state legislature and the first black female Senate minority leader (now that a group of breakaway Democrats has disbanded).

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The Senate, which is currently controlled by Republicans and a group of breakaway Democrats, was responsible last year for blocking the final plank in the Women's Equality Act proposed by Mr. Cuomo, which would have codified in state law the right to abortion as established by Roe v. Wade.

The women rejected a last ditch attempt by a group of breakaway Democrats who share power in the Senate.

Maryland Democrat Kathleen Matthews on Thursday received an endorsement from EMILY's List, a national group which has made it its mission to support Democratic women candidates.

But Hunter says upstate Democrats are benefiting from the energy and interest that's fueling activism and marches throughout the country, like the women's marches and Indivisible grassroots groups.

A loose group of reformers led by Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh are balking at throwing their support behind Mr. Heastie, the chair of the Bronx Democratic Party, and women lawmakers in the city and suburbs are still attracted to the candidacy of Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, a Queens Democrat and the only woman in the race.

In addition to support from labor unions and supporters of public financing of political campaigns, Senate Democrats are expected to receive strong organizational support from groups that focus on women's health and workplace rights issues.

Two key women's groups that support abortion rights are endorsing Sen. Ted O'Brien, a Democrat who faces re-election against Republican Rich Funke.

The reality is we have a group of rogue Democrats who are empowering Trump Republicans, and blocking me from becoming the first woman and first African American woman Senate President or co-President,» said Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

By noon, the group EMILY's List, which backs women abortion - rights Democrats, called on Gillum «to make clear to his supporters that negative, gendered attacks have no place in political discourse.»

According to a lawsuit a group of his former staffers filed against him, the Cheektowaga Democrat harassed about half a dozen women who worked for him — remarking often on their looks, talking about visits to strip clubs, inviting them to share hotel rooms with him and suggesting two of them wear a «sexy elf costume» and sit on his lap for a staff Christmas photo.

It was a historical win for Democrats, he said, not just because of the town board election, but also because Ann E. Welker became the first woman elected to the Southampton Town Trustees in the group's 331 - year history.

Republicans, who rule the Senate with a group of break away Democrats, oppose public campaign finance, a provision in the Women's Equality act that codifies the abortion rights in Roe v Wade.

And for weeks now in New York City, people have been turning on their television seeing Andrew Cuomo with his daughters and his girlfriend all urging the voters not to vote for him as a Democrat or as a member of the Working Families, but as a member of the Women's Equality Party — an attempt to basically use the third - party movement, basically, to promote himself without having to be accountable to other groups in the normal Democratic or progressive coalition.

The National Organization of Women and the good - government group Common Cause formally asked the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics to look into the circumstances surrounding Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's handling of sexual harassment allegations against Assemblyman Vito Lopez, and Silver's decision to quietly settle an earlier complaint against the Brooklyn Democrat with a $ 103,000 payment.

Smith's fears for the safety of young female activists emerged as the Women Liberal Democrats group wrote to Nick Clegg with concerns about the vigour of the party's investigations, saying its members had been «shocked and saddened» by the allegations against Rennard.

It would be «inappropriate» for Lord Rennard to rejoin the Liberal Democrat group in the House of Lords as long as he refuses to apologise to the women who brought allegations against him, a spokesman for the party said today.

Krueger's comments come as some Democrats and progressive groups are beginning to question Cuomo's commitment to the promise he made last May in exchange for an endorsement from the Working Families Party last May — that he would Democrats retake the Senate, a change in leadership he said was necessary to ensure passage of the Women's Equality Act.

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