Sentences with phrase «liberal advocates also»

Liberal advocates also support the idea, but say it should be paid for not by holding spending near flat, but by increasing taxes on upper - income earners.

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Liberal groups such as MoveOn and patient advocates like Families USA also slammed the plan.

Dix also helped advocate for insulin pump coverage for children with Type 1 diabetes, which the Liberal government subsequently introduced in 2008.

Cuomo has also denied that he could use his power to unilaterally raise the state's minimum wage through a little - known state board, as some liberal advocates have maintained he could do.

Chakrabarti is the latest high - profile advocate to enter parliament, with two former directors of public prosecution also taking party whips: Keir Starmer on the green benches for Labour, Ken Macdonald on the red benches for the Liberal Democrats.

Obama also called for indexing future minimum wage increases to the rate of inflation — something liberal advocates, as well as Democrats in the Senate and Assembly, have called on Cuomo to do, too.

But Cuomo is also facing a challenge from his left this primary season from Cynthia Nixon, an actress and public education advocate who has criticized the governor's record of compromise with Republicans in the Senate liberal advocates contend has led to watered - down results and half - victories.

But it's also a victory for the WFP, which had backed Sanders during the campaign and endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2014 over the misgivings of liberal advocates within the labor - backed organization.

Out Councilmember Corey Johnson of Chelsea also voted against it as did Inez Barron of Brooklyn, a staunch advocate for public education, but it passed 43 - 4 with the support of all three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President Galeadvocate for public education, but it passed 43 - 4 with the support of all three citywide elected officials — Mayor Bill de Blasio, Comptroller Scott Stringer, and Public Advocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President GaleAdvocate Letitia James — as well as otherwise liberal officials such as Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.

He was not only an outspoken advocate for gay rights, having carried the same - sex marriage bill for years, but also a number of other liberal causes — including a bill to legalize medical marijuana.

Yet despite this stark contrast in content, both liberal and conservative advocates continue to insist that civic education in our schools not only impart civic knowledge and civic skills but also shape our deepest values, attitudes, and motivations.

But there was also an attempt to construct a narrative in which advocates of strong environmental protection were either extremists — «eco-Nazis,» according to Rush Limbaugh — or effete liberal snobs trying to impose their aesthetic preferences on ordinary Americans.

He's definitely a liberal whack job, but also a de-populationist and eugenicist and one - world government advocate.

Derided by his Jewish family and friends as a super liberal humanist Jew, the lawyer also struggles with advocating on behalf of someone who despises the multi-racial society — it's multicultural, the lawyer corrects him — which they live in.