Sentences with phrase «families party agenda»
Most people who spoke on the call «felt the governor's agenda was opposed to the Working Families Party agenda,» one participant said.
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Instead, he's hinted at proposals for economic development and strengthening security in New York City while also adopting the agenda of the labor - backed Working Families Party as he received their endorsement in May.
It might be tough for them to do so, especially if they're holding out hope of landing the Working Families Party line, since Cuomo's agenda includes a number of initiatives labor unions dislike — including the tax cap and a public employee wage freeze.
The mainline conference over the last several months has received reinforcements in the form of the labor - aligned Working Families Party, which released on Monday a «resistance» manifesto that urged the IDC to reconcile in order to pass sought - after liberal agenda measures.
«In Suffolk County, the Working Families Party may have stood for some sound policies at one time, but as a whole, over the last few years, the Party's agenda has morphed into a radical, left - wing platform,» Levy spokesman Josh Hills said.
HTC is a top player in the Working Families Party, which was all in for Schneiderman (and, incidentally, is not necessarily all in for Cuomo's fiscally conservative proposals, although it leaders did signal support for his «New NY Agenda» during the campaign in order to get him to run on its line).
The National Federation of Independent Business» Mike Elmendorf today released a letter to the Working Families Party's Can Cantor, urging an «open dialogue» about how to achieve the reforms the labor - backed party endorsed when it backed Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo's «New New York Agenda» in order to get him to run on its ballot Party's Can Cantor, urging an «open dialogue» about how to achieve the reforms the labor - backed party endorsed when it backed Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo's «New New York Agenda» in order to get him to run on its ballot party endorsed when it backed Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo's «New New York Agenda» in order to get him to run on its ballot line.
Brian has proven himself to be one of the most effective legislators in Albany, and we need someone who knows how to get things done in the Senate and will fight to grow the progressive majority we need to resist the Trump Republican agenda,» said Bob Master, Co-Chair of the New York Working Families Party.
«We have a major concern with the governor's agenda for the next four years with the Working Families Party, talking about minimum wage, talking about a progressive Senate.»
NYSUT and other public - sector labor organizations have been deeply unhappy with Cuomo's fiscal agenda this year, and the union - backed Working Families Party has gone as far as to suggest it could endorse someone else for governor this fall.
«I know it smells, I know it stinks and it seems to me that by making this deal with the Working Families Party and public embracing the Bill de Blasio agenda, Andrew Cuomo just signed the death warrant for New York state,» Astorino said.
«Our votes on the Working Families Party line help elect leaders who have promised to pass a full Women's Equality agenda as well as a full range of progressive policies that affect every New York woman,» Steinem wrote.
He pointed to the state's moratorium on fracking, the increase in the minimum wage increases and establishment of a paid family leave program as initiatives that grew out of the Green Party's agenda.
The Working Families Party on Monday expressed disappointment over the decision by the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference to side with the Senate GOP in a governing coalition while also urging the lawmakers to help bloc the «Trump agenda» in Albany.
«If this is given to the Working Families Party — because that's who's pushing this, it's the progressives who are pushing this agenda — I'm going to take very strong exception to it.
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 Working Families Party was created by labor unions, community organizations and progressive activists to advance an agenda and elect candidates who improve the lives of working people.
Eventually the governor would commit to a progressive agenda to win the backing of the Working Families Party, which was on the verge of endorsing Fordham professor Zephyr Teachout to punish Cuomo for his centrist approach to governance and propensity for collaborating with the GOP.
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Sure, it had been a complicated few weeks as Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Working Families Party, bitter codependents, tried to agree on a deal that would give Cuomo the WFP's ballot line this fall in exchange for the governor's publicly pledging to get behind a progressive policy agenda.
Bill Lipton, state director of the progressive Working Families Party, on Monday called Cuomo's refusal to push for a unified Democratic conference «a stark reminder that despite his accomplishments, he remains deeply committed to a fiscal policy and agenda supported by his billionaire donors at the expense of working familiesFamilies Party, on Monday called Cuomo's refusal to push for a unified Democratic conference «a stark reminder that despite his accomplishments, he remains deeply committed to a fiscal policy and agenda supported by his billionaire donors at the expense of working familiesfamilies.»
Following up on a resolution adopted by the State Committee of the Green Party at the party's nominating convention in Troy on Saturday, May 17, Green Party leaders sent a letter today to the Executive Board of the Working Families Party suggesting a joint meeting to discuss cooperation in opposing Governor Cuomo's conservative agenda and supporting their common progressive policy gParty at the party's nominating convention in Troy on Saturday, May 17, Green Party leaders sent a letter today to the Executive Board of the Working Families Party suggesting a joint meeting to discuss cooperation in opposing Governor Cuomo's conservative agenda and supporting their common progressive policy gparty's nominating convention in Troy on Saturday, May 17, Green Party leaders sent a letter today to the Executive Board of the Working Families Party suggesting a joint meeting to discuss cooperation in opposing Governor Cuomo's conservative agenda and supporting their common progressive policy gParty leaders sent a letter today to the Executive Board of the Working Families Party suggesting a joint meeting to discuss cooperation in opposing Governor Cuomo's conservative agenda and supporting their common progressive policy gParty suggesting a joint meeting to discuss cooperation in opposing Governor Cuomo's conservative agenda and supporting their common progressive policy goals.
Mr. Cuomo also struck a deal last summer with the Working Families Party, long a potent attack force for unions on fiscal issues, to appear on their ballot line in exchange for their pledge to support his agenda, including his promise not to raise or impose new taxes.
«There is a real alignment of the public, the mayor and the Council around a progressive agenda to reduce inequality,» said Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party.
«The Women's Equality Party is also a good line, and I'm for the 10 - point agenda, all ten of them, but I think the Working Families Party also has a great tradition and a great philosophy of progressive politics.»
Noting that the Teachout vote in the Democratic primary was about the same as the Green vote in the general election and that the Working Families Party vote was down only about 20 percent in the context of a 30 percent down turn in turnout, Hawkins said, «It is disappointing that so many liberals decided to protest Cuomo's agenda by voting for Cuomo on the WFP line.
But that agenda clashes with the aims of the Working Families Party, which has advocated for an energetic, expansive public sector and for middle - class property tax relief financed by higher taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers.
«History has shown that political parties and reform agendas succeed when they appeal to middle class, suburban families,» said Hess.
So far titles in the Playlink family are Hidden Agenda, Singstar and the last three are all party games being That's You, Knowledge Is Power and Frantics.
It takes time for a new issue — and the A2J crisis in family court has dramatically intensified in the last 5 years — to make it onto a party political agenda.
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