Sentences with phrase «republican line with the backing»

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Overall, the reaction seemed largely divided along partisan lines, with Republicans backing it and Democrats opposing it — with some exceptions — despite the fact that infrastructure was once touted by both parties as something that could be a bipartisan initiative.

The bottom line is that after the prolonged tax giveaway exacerbates the federal budget deficit — along with the balance - of - payments deficit — we can expect the next Republican or Democratic administration to step in and «save» the country from economic emergency by scaling back Social Security while turning its funding over, Pinochet - style, to Wall Street money managers to loot as they did in Chile.

Long Island's delegation to Congress split along party lines in their reactions to Obama's national address on terrorism, with Democrats generally backing his approach and Republicans panning the speech for offering no new strategies.

At the time, Flanagan was viewed skeptically by upstate Republican leaders, who backed taking a harder line against Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo with DeFrancisco, a pugnacious lawmaker and then the Senate Finance committee chairman.

For a look at one of the real stories of the 2008 campaign, check out this NY Times article about attempts by the top Democratic presidential campaigns to cut back on the amount of money siphoned off by political consultants, bringing them more in line with their Republican opposites.

Felder is a registered Democrat and is running on the Democratic line, (NOTE: He also is facing a primary challenge from a fellow Democrat, Abraham Tischler), but he has a history of alliances with Republicans — most notably, Mayor Bloomberg (back before he switched his enrollment for the second time and became an independent).

But after McDonald dropped his bid to run on the Independence Party line and urged Republicans to back Marchione, the SRCC has lent its support both with cash and mailers in the Capital Region - area district.

The Queens party was then set to back Reyes, but eventually fell into line with the Brooklyn Republican and Conservative organizations and backed Bob Turner, who eventually won.

NYC Republicans have won state Board of Elections approval for a new «Stop de Blasio» line on the November ballot that will allow voters unhappy with the mayor — and perhaps Trump as well — to back their two Assembly candidates without having to vote the GOP party line.

With the backing of the controversial GOP consultant John Haggerty, former Bloomberg opponent Tom Ognibene plans to challenge Queens County Republican Chairman Phil Ragusa for selling out the party line too cheaply to the billionaire mayor in 2009.

The Republican National Committee made a pitch with the subject line «Vindicated» and went on to say, «President Trump has fought back and been vindicated time and time again.»

And with the backing of the Republican establishment, from the local, state and national parties, Zeldin likely is in line for some help from his new friends in Congress as well.

And in the Buffalo area, where the Assembly contest pitted two registered Democrats against each other — one on the Democratic line and the other on the Republican line — the challenger with Republican backing won the election.

The bill creating the committee passed in June largely along partisan lines with most Republicans backing the legislation and most Democrats opposed.