Sentences with phrase «about the minority party»

The president, who has repeatedly said he wants to accomplish the difficult feat of winning Democratic votes, joked about the minority party's support to Sen. Ron Wyden, D - Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.

Not exact matches

There were bigger differences among Republicans and Democrats about whether the running mate for their party's nominee should be a minority.

WASHINGTON - Apple has told Republican leaders it will not provide funding or other support for the party's 2016 presidential convention due to its unease over Donald Trump's controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities, Politico reported.

Here's the issue: the entire four - day message of the Convention was not about expanding Trump's base of support among minorities or women (the 2016 GOP platform says nothing about providing «equal pay for equal work»; it was not about proposing substantive solutions to problems facing the nation; it was not even about making amends with traditional conservatives and moderate Republicans to achieve party unity (the Republican governor of Ohio, John Kasich, the Bush family, and all former Republican nominees for president, except one, did not attend).

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

Many ethnic minority voters are worried about immigration, like their white counterparts, but they are much more sensitive to some of the more draconian elements of the system, which have been allowed to run amok as the Tories try to invite Ukip voters back to the party.

«While the Independence Party supports a bipartisan slate of candidates, it's disingenuous for divisive Democrats to rant about the IDC's relationship to the Independence Party when Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins not only runs on the line, but donates hundreds of dollars to the Independence Party.

The Herald's preliminary findings about the Rural Electrification Project in which Smarttys, has been mentioned, has revealed that the contract was rather between Ghana Government and the China Hunan Construction Engineering Group Corporation, and that Smarttys, has no business transaction with the government as claimed by the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs.

The Westminster parties should take Nicola Sturgeon's comments about UK - wide social justice and the value of minority government at their word.

Registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans by about 9,000 voters in Orange County at the end of March, a tiny increase in the enrollment edge held by a party that used to be so deep in the minority that Republicans commanded a 17,000 - voter advantage as recently as 20 years ago.

In fact, it was Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos» reservations about state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's effort to establish his own third party line that tanked the idea (much to the pleasure of state Conservative Party Chairman Mike Lparty line that tanked the idea (much to the pleasure of state Conservative Party Chairman Mike LParty Chairman Mike Long).

Anuzis» message is built on the necessity of reaching out to voters — particularly in the suburban Midwest — who have abandoned the party since Ronald Reagan left office; Steele, an African American, talks constantly about the need to find policies that speak to minority groups and, in doing so, grow the party.

I would go even further than David Cameron - I would fast track even more talented women and ethnic minority candidates into the seats currently held by our Bedblocker MPs - about 25 % of the Parliamentary Party the last time I looked.

About 25 Wall Street executives, many of them hedge fund managers, sat down for a private meeting Thursday afternoon with two of the most powerful Republican lawmakers in Congress: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and John Cornyn, the senior senator from Texas who runs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, one of the primary fundraising arms of the Republican Party.

Jack: Ethnic minorities overwhelmingly back Labour throughout the country, despite the often negative statements about the Labour party made by members of the ethnic minorities.

Mercer was forced to resign as Shadow Minister for Homeland Security in March 2007 by David Cameron after talking about «idle and useless» ethnic minority soldiers who used racism as a «cover», [23][24] although initially the Conservative Party stated the comments were a «private matter».

The predominately elderly, white organizers who have run the county Democratic Party here for a generation were uneasy about integrating their operation with the Democratic presidential campaign, which was filled with new, unknown faces, many of them minorities.

There was some discussion after the election of the possibility of creating a Conservative minority government and, because the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown had the first opportunity to form a government, there were also talks about creating some sort of alliance between the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and other smaller parties.

The same position that only two years ago County Legislator and Minority Leader Frank Sparaco referred to in a series of Rockland County Times articles as being a no - show job paid off as political patronage to former Chair of the Independence Party Marsha Coopersmith, is now going to the law firm of Sparaco's close friend and lawyer Jay Savino, albeit at about half the price and on an annual per diem basis.

There has been a lot of talk post campaign about the Republican Party not reaching out to minorities.

Those folks seemed more realistic about their prospects from the start, possibly because House races are more susceptible to a partisan wave and the party was already in the minority.

My estimate is that the next parliamentary Conservative Party will include about one hundred women, ethnic minorities and gay people.

This does raise an interesting issue about fighting minority party candidates.

It's good to have someone from a minority party on the board, and I'd be interested to learn about what exactly English Democrats stand for outside the obvious.

«While this document is certainly a compromise, what's amazing about this is that the minority party has been engaged... in a historic way,» Ziobron said.

«If this arrangement was truly about helping minority communities, both the IDC and the Independence party would support a coalition government with the Democrats and help make a history by supporting the first black woman as a Senate President.»

Informally, the minority leader maintains ties with majority party leaders to learn about the schedule and other House matters and forges agreements or understandings with them insofar as feasible.

«We are more than happy to talk to the Democrats about some of their priorities but we encourage them to recognize that they are a minority party.»

It's not stratospheric progress but it is sustainable progress because the women and minorities who will form about 20 % of the next parliamentary Conservative Party will all be there on merit.

Missy and Dean have a party and all the wealthy white guests come by to tell Chris every story they know about black people to put Chris at ease in the keenest, sharpest observation of how rich white liberals treat minorities I've ever seen.

A recent public opinion poll conducted in Bridgeport included questions about Malloy, Mayor Bill Finch, Paul Vallas, members of the Working Family Party who serve as the outspoken minority on the Bridgeport Board of Education and Carmen Lopez, the former Connecticut superior court judge who brought the lawsuit that determined that Paul Vallas lacked the credentials necessary to serve as a superintendent of schools in Connecticut.

Most people think Republicans don't care about Americans, it found, and the party needs to reach out to women, and minorities.