Sentences with phrase «democratic policy platforms»

I phrase this more of a question than a comment: surely the level of grassroots devolution we can see with the Obama campaign is confined more to the business of campaigning than actual control over Democratic policy platforms?

Roy says that the trouble started when our defeat in 1992 was taken to mean - wrongly, in his view - that people wouldn't vote for an «overtly social democratic policy platform».

Not exact matches

The Liberal leader insisted Tuesday that he's offered «an awful lot of concrete policies» on a number of fronts — including democratic reform, foreign investment, oil and gas pipelines and legalization of marijuana — but reiterated that precise details must await the election platform.

Similarly, Micah asked: What Democratic party platforms, policy initiatives, laws, etc., do you hesitate to support or have trouble reconciling with your faith?

To start with, one must wonder why these two issues» both of which ought to place politically liberal evangelicals in significant conflict with the Democratic party's social platform» are presented as «controversial» matters about which faithful Christians may disagree, while issues like foreign policy, environmentalism, and economics are presented as simple matters of justice.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon in Queens on Friday unveiled an environmental policy platform that is geared toward shifting the state to 100 percent renewable energy, strengthening the state's efforts against climate change and rejecting new infrastructure for gas pipelines and other fossil fueles.

Cuomo does not support an end to the fusion ballot system of allowing a candidate to run on multiple ballot lines, but the Wilson - Pakula repeal would greatly reduce the clout of the state's minor parties that can influence the platforms and policies of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Democrats: Support health policy based on corporate profits; Deleted plans for universal health care from the Democratic platform.

Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization group, said a growing number of state Democratic parties had already backed legalization in their platforms this year.

His comments also appears to directed at National Democratic Congress MPs and officials who have on multiple media platforms predicted the collapse of the free SHS policy.

Brooklyn Congressman Hakeem Jeffries won election last night to one of three co-chairmanship positions atop the Democratic delegation's Policy and Communications Committee — which will craft the minority party's platform in unified Republican Washington.

Dear Friend, The Democratic National Committee has put forth what has been hailed as the most progressive policy platform in its history.

[5] Lane Kenworthy, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, has stated that Sanders is a social democrat and not a democratic socialist -LSB-...] Mike Konczal, an economic policy expert at the Roosevelt Institute, also characterizes Sanders» positions as «social democracy» rather than «socialist», noting that social democracy means support for a mixed economy combining private enterprise with government spending, social insurance programs, Keynesian macroeconomic policies, and democratic participation in government and the workplace - all of which are a part of Sanders» platform.

«While we certainly support the issues laid out in this agenda... it frustrates us that in this time of Trump and the national rhetoric attacking the Labor Movement that the National Democratic party has not seen fit to include one labor issue in its policy platform,» the eight members of the state Senate Independent Democratic Conference wrote in a letter to two party leaders.

Democratic hopefuls occupy a wide swatch of the political spectrum, from moderates like Tedra Cobb to more progressive candidates like Patrick Nelson, a Stillwater - based activist and former legislative aide who has largely adopted many of the campaign platforms highlighted by Funiciello, including sharply deriding the role of money in politics and calling for a less interventionist U.S. foreign policy.

A one - star write - up all but copy and pasted Republican rival Rob Astorino's campaign platform into a review, savaging the Democratic governor for his «failed policies and practices.»

The congressman secured such a role for himself last month, becoming one of three members elected by his colleagues to lead the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee — which will craft the minority party's platform.

At a meeting last weekend, the Democratic Party amended its education platform in a way that amounts to a rejection of the many of the policies of the Obama administration.

The 2016 Democratic Party platform includes a call to halt charter growth all over the country, as do official policy demands by the N.A.A.C.P. and Movement for Black Lives (M4BL).

The Democratic candidate outlined his plan in a Sept. 7 speech in Los Angeles, one of the first announcements from his domestic - policy platform.

Five months after Clinton's Harlem speech, the Democratic Party platform adopted at its convention included language to end the school - to - prison pipeline, and to oppose discipline policies that disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.

The differences in the immigrant policies of the Democratic and Republican Party platforms are not surprising.

We debated whether the Democratic platform tussle over a carbon price and natural gas policy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, resolved a few days ago, was the last gasp of climate change as a big issue in the presidential campaign.

As the 2016 general election campaign season approaches, API this week unveiled its energy policy recommendations for the platform - writing committees of the Democratic and Republican parties.

The Democratic platform now contains language that brings shape to the enormity of the climate crisis, and thanks to Sander's Policy Director Warren Gunnels, climate leader Bill McKibben, filmmaker Josh Fox and many others begins to point towards policy that we must implement if we are to transition away from fossil fuels and begin to draw down carbon sharply on the path to 100 % clean, renewable energy and zero net greenhouse gas emisPolicy Director Warren Gunnels, climate leader Bill McKibben, filmmaker Josh Fox and many others begins to point towards policy that we must implement if we are to transition away from fossil fuels and begin to draw down carbon sharply on the path to 100 % clean, renewable energy and zero net greenhouse gas emispolicy that we must implement if we are to transition away from fossil fuels and begin to draw down carbon sharply on the path to 100 % clean, renewable energy and zero net greenhouse gas emissions.

For its part, the Democratic national platform fails to provide any detail about the science in its discussion of climate policy.