Sentences with phrase «after liberal groups»

However, after liberal groups and and the labor - aligned Working Families Party threatened to yank support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election, the governor pledged to help his party take full control of the chamber.

The trouble began on Monday, when King blasted the labor - aligned Working Families Party and criticized Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins in a lengthy statement after liberal groups have started to put pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to unite the various Democratic factions in the chamber.

«We worked with our media partner and FOX news to stop our ad from airing during the Sean Hannity Show,» the company tweeted from its official account after the liberal group Media Matters for America raised the issue.

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In 1993, after the Liberals won their largest vote share with 39.7 % and 32 seats, a group of MLAs and party members were not satisfied with official opposition status called for his resignation.

People for the American Way, a liberal advocacy group and dedicated Bachmann opponent, resurfaced the petition earlier this month after news that the congresswoman would remain on the high - profile panel despite spearheading a controversial campaign against Muslim members of President Barack Obama's administration last year.

Liberal groups accuse Republicans in Washington of pulling a bait and switch on social issues, saying the GOP took back the House last November by campaigning on fiscal issues, turning to hot buttons like abortion only after taking office.

After four centuries of struggle the liberal group had won.

It seems rather more plausible to me to say that where the Liberal Party failed to recognise its own enlightened self - interest was in failing to do more to hug close the labour movement and perhaps Labour Party itself: had they been more able to select working - class candidates themselves, and / or been able to more forcefully develop the New Liberalism against some Gladstonian instincts, (or indeed kept the Fabian intellectuals interested: they broke with permeation only after the Liberal rejection of the 1909 Minority Report on the Poor Law, even having helped form the Labour Party from 1900 - 06) then it may have been possible that Labour would have remained primarily a trade union pressure group within a broader progressive alliance.

But Faso has come under fire from liberal advocacy groups after backing the passage in the House of Representatives of the American Health Care Act, the bill that would dismantled the Affordable Care Act.

The IDC is rebuffing calls for unity from Democrats and liberal pressure groups to re-join the mainline conference of Democrats in the state Senate — calls that have intensified after the election of Brian Benjamin, who gives Democrats a numerical majority in the chamber.

It was the full nature of this new group, announced after the last European elections in 2009, which led to my protest and eventually leaving the Tories (I had been Leader of their MEPs 1997 - 2001) and, as a lifelong pro-European, joining the Liberal Democrats in 2010.

The Cuomo campaign, in a statement released after the WFP vote, touted the governor's liberal record and alluded to his recent role in brokering an end to a power - sharing deal between state Senate Republicans and a breakaway group of Democratic lawmakers.

The Social Liberal Forum (SLF), the biggest left of centre pressure group inside the party, is pressing Mr Clegg and other Lib Dem ministers to make changes after a wholesale review of the Coalition's approach to welfare.

The Maryland Democrat faced sharp criticism from liberal groups Thursday after The Intercept reported Hoyer encouraged Levi Tillemann, who worked in President Barack Obama's Energy Department, to drop out of the race in Colorado's 6th District.

Liberal advocacy groups have gone all - in on the anti-DeVos push, sensing the chance to derail at least one Trump nominee odious in their eyes (my email inbox contains one action alert after another).

The curious dance of Saturday's proceedings comes as the WFP, originally formed as a coalition between labor unions and grassroots activist groups, has been somewhat depleted after the exodus of Cuomo - allied unions and is fighting to remain a force in liberal New York.

Having declined to third party status after the rise of the Labour Party from 1918 and especially during the 1920s, the Liberals were challenged for this position in the 1980s when a group of Labour MPs broke away and established the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

To do this, liberal groups insisted, he must forge a unified Democratic government in the state capital — an endangered species nationwide after the devastating election cycles of 2014 and 2016.

The endorsement comes after 1199's political director, Kevin Finnegan, announced his group was committed to swinging the State Senate into the Democratic column, in order to pass its liberal statewide initiatives — including college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, a locally set minimum wage and taxpayer - funded elections.

If Alan Hevesi goes down, liberal groups are hoping it happens after the election.

Washington (CNN)-- The Internal Revenue Service targeted liberal groups as well as conservatives seeking tax - exempt status, a Democratic congressman charged on Monday after the agency acknowledged the inappropriate practice continued until last month.

It also comes as mainline Democrats show support for the Occupy movement, a more or less grassroots demonstration that captured public sentiment on income inequality and taxes after more traditional liberal groups failed to do so.

A liberal group on Wednesday will release a report calling on elected officials who have received donations from businessman Dan Loeb and his wife to return the money after his racially charged remarks made on Facebook this month.

The liberal political group MoveOn.org endorsed Sanders, backing him after its officials spent months in search of an alternative to Clinton and invested $ 1 million in ads to draft Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for the race.

The actual figures for the Conservative and Liberal Democrat groups combined are 317 today, and 335 after the new peers come in.

Add the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union to the list of labor groups not happy with the liberal Working Families Party, which suffered a big loss in New York last week after backing Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton.

The «We don't want the Liberal Democrats to make a deal with the Conservatives» group said they devised the page after speaking to Nick Clegg's party.

Liberal groups who have backed Moser criticized the DCCC for openly taking sides in a primary and going after a Democratic candidate.

As she spoke, protesters from a liberal anti-charters group chanted from City Hall Park, and Billy Easton, the director of the left - leaning Alliance for Quality Education, quickly seized the podium after Ms. Moskowitz departed.

(CNN)- Five weeks after Tea Party enthusiasts rallied in Washington and one month before mid-term elections, a coalition of liberal groups will have their turn on the streets of the U.S. capital.

Norman Lamb's campaign to become leader of the Liberal Democrats has received a significant boost after another former party leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, and a large group of other former MPs, declared their backing for the Norfolk MP.

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When we convened my group after the book — we are in the midst of convening a set of working groups on various baskets of possible solutions — we convened one on family structure, and we had people from different sorts of backgrounds, and actually liberals and conservatives in the group all agree this is a problem, but we don't quite know how to fix it.

Jenni Dye, research director for the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said Evers will appear to be less political than the other candidates after last week's controversy.

As she spoke, protesters from a liberal anti-charters group chanted from City Hall Park, and Billy Easton, the director of the left - leaning Alliance for Quality Education, quickly seized the podium after Ms. Moskowitz departed.

For that matter, socialist conspiracy would also explain the way so many «liberal» groups, such as the ACLU; seem to be throwing Mann under the bus all of a sudden, after staying so quiet about his behavior for so long.

In the months after George W. Bush's reelection, a lot of liberals and environmentalists were ready to take a hard look at their political agenda, the Democratic Party, and the interest groups they supported.

The Center for American Progress is a liberal think tank and advocacy group created by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, modeled after conservative counterparts the Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute.

It apologized to Aboriginal groups for the nightmarish, state - led practice of residential schools; it contributed $ 500,000 to the ICC to enable the OTP to investigate atrocities in Darfur; under the Liberal Government, Canada decided not to join the «Coalition of the Willing» in Iraq; Canadian forces played an effective and leading role in the intervention in Libya; and, more recently, Canada rightly withdrew from the UN World Terrorism, I mean Tourism, Office after it appointed Zimbabwe's tyrant, Robert Mugabe, as its head.

Results showed significant improvement in liberal attitudes toward the freedom of children after the group experiences as compared to individuals who did not receive any group experience.