Sentences with phrase «against conservative activist»
Schumer is cruising to his own reelection to a fourth term this year against conservative activist Wendy Long.
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Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.
While the Obama campaign's attacks have not moved the national polls, Rove writes, Romney's weak and seemingly unprepared response has discouraged conservative activists, raising concerns that the former Massachusetts governor doesn't have the backbone to go up against the Obama machine.
The lines of argument currently being deployed by «conservative» activists against the GOP «establishment» are remarkably similar to the lines deployed against the conservative candidacy of Ronald Reagan by the 1980 Libertarian party ticket (Ed Clark and David Koch):
These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.
It suggests the party is pulling its punches against the Conservatives — but maybe activists can embrace the hidden meaning of the figures and point out that the Lib Dems are becoming the party of tax rises.
NYSUT claims: «New Yorkers Against Corruption (NYAC) is an unprecedented alliance of progressive activists, conservatives, environmentalists and labor organizations.»
On the surface, it's a surprising win for a political neophyte who is not known outside of conservative activist circles against two other candidates with clear geographical bases who are also current officeholders.
While they haven't made significant progress in the polls since their last showing, local activists believe they can perform strongly against both the Conservatives and Labour.
South Korean conservative activists have set fire to North Korean flags during a rally against the summit talks between the leaders of the two Koreas, AP reports.
The most visible African - American member of former Gov. George Pataki's cabinet, former state Sen. Joseph Holland, is lining up support from state GOP and Conservative party activists to challenge Cuomo, though he had initially been considering a run against Gillibrand.
Writer Kate Maltby, who accused Conservative MP Damian Green of sexual harassment, Labour party activist Ava Etemadzadeh, who accused Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins, and former special adviser to Nick Clegg Bridget Harris, who made allegations against Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard, said they had little faith their political parties would put their houses in order, and accused them of ignoring the issue for decades.
A conservative activist best known as a crusader against violent video games is lobbying the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) prosecutor's office to consider a criminal menacing charge against Trump surrogate Roger Stone.
The meeting came alive when one activist accused the BBC of systematic bias against the Conservatives.
Tenney says she finds it ironic that town halls, which have become such an issue for decidedly liberal activists who oppose a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, became a thing, when tea party conservatives railed against that legislation during the 2010 election cycle.
[227] However, on 2 June 2017, charges were brought under the Representation of the People Act 1983 against Craig Mackinlay, who was elected Conservative MP for South Thanet in 2015, his agent Nathan Gray, and a party activist, Marion Little.
Wendy Long, a social conservative activist, received the GOP nomination in early March to run against Schumer.
The conference discussion comes as Democratic activists around the nation ramp up protests against Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare... Last weekend, conservative Rep. Tom McClintock (R - Calif.)
Long's campaign is hoping that her deep ties to conservative activists can help in the Republican primary against Representative Bob Turner and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos, and that those ties might encourage ideological donors to support her with super PAC money against the better - funded campaign of Gillibrand.
Turner will face off against conservative judicial activist Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos.
And this April, most spectacularly, he forced the resignation of Damian McBride, one of Gordon Brown's key aides, after obtaining an email correspondence between McBride and the Labour blogger and activist Derek Draper proposing a campaign of unfounded personal smears against senior Conservatives.
Many Republicans, Democrats, conservative activists and think tanks support reforming this law due to its abuse against Americans and encouraging policing for profit.
To support the California Teachers Union in its fight to preserve due process and seniority rights in a lawsuit brought against it by an organization funded by a billionaire conservative activist;
May 13, 2018 • Dave Zirin's new biography portrays a black liberation activist with a conservative streak, a man with an alleged history of violence against women and maybe the greatest running back in NFL history.
Signed up for one of two «competing» Gloria Steinem projects in the works (the other being Julie Taymor's My Life on the Road), this March she'll work begin filming on An Uncivil War (Carey Mulligan will topline the pic around a feminist activist and journalist Steinem, lawyer and activist Florynce Kennedy, and others to ratify the ERA, while conservative organizer Phyllis Schlafly advocates against it.
Local conservative education activist Cindy Reagor has lead a crusade against constructivism, objecting that at constructivism's core «is the idea that everything is subjective and that there is no truth.»
Attacks against the «Common Core» standards, led by Tea Party activists and conservative pundits and lately joined by some teachers» unions, have reached a crescendo of distortions that put students» welfare at risk.
An alliance of corporations and conservative activists is mobilising to penalise homeowners who install their own solar panels — casting them as «freeriders» — in a sweeping new offensive against renewable energy, the Guardian has learned.
The strong Republican front against established science includes entrenched Senate leaders as well as the new wave of radical conservatives endorsed by the Tea Party activists, says a report by the Center for American Progress.