Sentences with phrase «other conservative governors»

Other conservative governors not thinking about a national stage are starting to rethink the standards, too.

The move follows that of other conservative governors, including South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Not exact matches

Conservative Christian heavyweights like John Hagee, David Barton and Tony Perkins have allegedly rallied their support behind Governor «Good Hair,» noting among other things, his consistent pro-life and pro-traditional marriage stances.

There are numerous messages in which Mr. Howe and Mr. Percoco call each other «Herb,» a nickname that began circulating in the first Cuomo administration after the elder Mr. Cuomo, New York's governor from 1983 to 1994, teased Mr. Howe that his hair looked like that of Herbert London, the Conservative Party candidate against Mr. Cuomo in the 1990 election for governor.

Three other Democrats let it be known that they were looking at the race: L. Douglas Wilder, who had been elected governor of Virginia in 1989, George McGovern, the man who'd lost 49 states to Nixon in 1972 (and waged a hopeless bid for the 1984 Democratic nomination), and John Silber, the Boston University president who had nearly won Massachusetts» governorship the previous fall by running as a conservative culture warrior.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

The Republican candidate for governor and other state - wide conservative candidates have submitted their names for a new «Stop Common Core» party ballot line.

Fiscal conservatives, meanwhile, continue to push the governor on overhauling mandated spending and suspending the Triborough Amendment to the Taylor Law, among other changes.

Writing on Facebook early Wednesday morning, the former Alaska governor praised Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and «all the other under - dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds.»

Other pro-Astorino contributions are expected from Second Amendment supporters and firearms - industry executives, who strongly opposed Cuomo's anti-gun-ownership «Safe Act,» as well as from well - heeled social conservatives outraged over the governor's claim that «extreme conservatives» have «no place in New York.»

Indeed, many former supporters of Common Core, including Republican governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey, and Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, have withdrawn support of the standards in the face of political opposition from conservative interest groups, teachers unions, and swarms of parents and other voters.

On the other end of the political spectrum, the head of the state's chapter of the Eagle Forum, a conservative group, said the governor caved in to political pressures.

After spending hundreds of millions on lobbying, these groups were able to persuade tea - bag and conservative Republican governors and legislatures to repeal collective bargaining for teachers, limited bargaining rights for others, dramatically expanded funding for charter schools or otherwise undermine what most would describe as the American public education system.