Sentences with phrase «activist zephyr»

The Working Families Party, a coalition of activists and labor unions, faced an identity crisis last year when it endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election over liberal activist Zephyr Teachout, who went on to mount a surprisingly strong though unsuccessful challenge to Cuomo in the Democratic primary.

In 2016, with Gibson stepping down and leaving the seat up for grabs, Democrats pinned their hopes on another newcomer to the Hudson Valley when they nominated law professor and clean - government activist Zephyr Teachout for the seat.

«The tragedy of the Klein accusation is that Albany is woefully ill equipped to deal with sexual harassment accusations,» liberal activist Zephyr Teachout wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

The head of the Working Families Party Friday urged liberals to support Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor if he faces a challenge from lefty activist Zephyr Teachout...

At noon, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and leading anti-corruption activist Zephyr Teachout will join Common Cause / NY to lay out a reform agenda for the 2017 legislative session, LCA Press Room, 130, LOB, Albany.

Not exact matches

This year, the WFP nearly nominated its own candidate, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout, after party activists raised alarm over the governor's economic record.

Progressive activists — including Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, who launched a strong but unsuccessful primary challenge to Cuomo in 2014 — are calling for the rejection of this plan, unless the governor immediately calls special elections for the two Senate seats that will become vacant on Jan. 1.

The conference runs through the end of the day Saturday and features such other speakers as Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian - American woman in the House, and activist attorney Zephyr Teachout.

The activist group Citizen Action and local leaders are instead fighting to have the party endorse Zephyr Teachout, a law professor and former aide to Howard Dean, at its convention this weekend.

Zephyr Teachout, a progressive activist who sits on the state committee and challenged Cuomo in a 2014 primary, said the ads were not a good use of resources.

Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor and activist, announced she's collecting signatures to be on the September Democratic primary ballot.

The agreement comes as WFP activists appeared close to coalescing around the candidacy of Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor.

As it was during the endorsement battle, which saw some on in the activist wing of the WFP support Cuomo's primary opponent, Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout, while big labor leaders sided with the governor, the party is again showing signs of a split.

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

«We're incredibly proud to have Zephyr and Bernie here together,» added Rosendale Town Board member and anti-Pilgrim Pipeline activist Jen Metzger.

Filings with the Federal Elections Commission show that Democrat Zephyr Teachout has outraised Republican John Faso in the race for the 19th Congressional District by relying largely on small donations from her activist base.

The party's activist wing, however, fed up with a Wall Street — friendly centrist, wanted to defy Cuomo and support Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor known for her academic work on political corruption.

That would be Zephyr Rain Teachout, the Occupy Wall Street activist who grew up on a Vermont farm with a pet pig named Budweiser.

The poll did not survey the September Democratic primary, where Cuomo faces two opponents, Fordham Law School Professor Zephyr Teachout and comedian and activist Randy Credico.

But Cuomo's fiscally moderate first term alienated some party activists, and in 2014 there was a push to endorse Zephyr Teachout, a law professor who is now serving as Nixon's campaign treasurer.

Cuomo was able to wrest the WFP line from Zephyr Teachout in 2014 by leveraging the support of the party's unions, whose members split power on the state committee with progressive activists.

Lenora Fulani, the controversial Independence Party activist who challenged former Gov. Mario Cuomo for the Demoratic nomination in 1994 — the same year he lost the governor's office — issued a statement congratulating his son's challenger, Zephyr Teachout, on her performance in yesterday's primary.

The poll comes after Cuomo defeated his Democratic primary rival, Zephyr Teachout, a little known Fordham Law School professor, and political activist Randy Credico.

Mainline Senate Democratic Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and liberal activist and Fordham Law Prof. Zephyr Teachout will headline an anti-Independent Democratic Conference event on Nov. 12.

It's a left - flank strategy that has had success against Cuomo in the past — nearly unknown liberal activist and law professor Zephyr Teachout garnered a surprising 34 percent of the vote in the 2014 Democratic primary.

«It makes sense that local activists are urging Zephyr Teachout to run for Congress,» said Stephanie Taylor, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

The WFP activists were yelling, determined to reject Cuomo and nominate a professor with a name out of a Tom Robbins novel, Zephyr Teachout.

Zephyr Teachout, a progressive activist and law professor who did surprisingly well in the 2014 gubernatorial primary against Andrew Cuomo, just announced on Monday that she plans to run for the open seat in Hudson Valley's District 19.

The rift between the WFP and some of its most powerful financial backers began in 2014 when party activists wanted to back little - known Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout over Cuomo, who they felt was not progressive enough.

ALBANY — The most prominent elements of the Working Families Party spent Friday at war with one another, with labor leaders hoping to broker a deal to endorse Governor Andrew Cuomo threatening to formally, publicly secede, and activists digging in around the candidacy of Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout.

Fordham Law professor Zephyr Teachout, who attributed her impressive showing against Cuomo in the September Democratic primary to support from anti-fracking activists, said she was «bowled over» at Cuomo's decision.

Cuomo lost a number of upstate communities in his primary to Democratic challenger Zephyr Teachout in September, a showing she attributed in large part to the turnout among anti-fracking activists.

The education activist, actress and close friend of the governor's nemesis Mayor de Blasio, leveled numerous slams against Cuomo at her roll - out in a Pentecostal church in an area home mainly to minority voters, with whom Cuomo's last challenger, Zephyr Teachout failed to gain traction.