Sentences with phrase «agenda over the campaign»

Above all, political parties will be aiming to set the news agenda over the campaign.

Not exact matches

As of mid-January, Cuomo had $ 14.4 million in his campaign account — an amount that likely has grown considerably over the past six months, thanks in part to the fact that he hasn't had to spend a dime to promote his policy agenda.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's biggest campaign boosters over the past six months include Hollywood celebs promoting his progressive agenda and former top staffers who left him for the private sector.

While he and his wife Marilyn gave a similar amount — $ 105,000 — to the governor's campaign committee from 2011 — 2014, they also gave over $ 1.5 million to the state party at a time it was working solely to advance Cuomo's agenda.

Cuomo, to chants of «four more years», promised to deliver in his next term on a mostly progressive agenda, including enacting a number of items that were stalled in the State Senate over the past couple of years, like an abortion rights provision as part of a women's rights agenda and public financing of political campaigns.

Mindful of the fact that the conservative grassroots is still smarting from the same - sex marriage vote two years ago, and steaming over the SAFE Act passage, the Senate Republicans drew a line in the sand over the abortion plank of the governor's Women's Equality Agenda and also refused to budget on campaign finance reform.

Issues over women's rights and reproductive health are at the forefront of this political campaign season in state legislative races as Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes a statewide call for the passage of the 10 - point women's agenda and with it Republican opposition to a plank aimed at strengthening abortion rights.

De Blasio's biggest campaign boosters over the past six months include Hollywood celebs promoting his progressive agenda and former top staffers who left him for the private sector.

They share the same agenda and their agenda is going to go over just as well in suburban, moderate districts,» said Kelly Ward, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The fight over Cuomo's education agenda will resume Thursday morning with a rally attended by Mulgrew, other union advocates and elected officials who will call on the state to fulfill its Campaign for Fiscal Equity obligations.

The Campaign for One New York, the nonprofit created by Mayor Bill de Blasio to advance his policy agenda, has been ordered to hand over documents and correspondence between itself and the mayor to the state's ethics commission, a State Supreme Court judge ruled last week.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose administration is facing multiple investigations over his campaign fundraising and efforts to help Democrats win the state Senate in 2014, argued Monday that he was being singled out by powerful, moneyed interests who don't want his agenda, focused on addressing income inequality, to move forward.

After facing questions over his lack of a second term agenda, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's re-election campaign released a 245 - page policy book on Thursday that outlines a series of issues he would seek to tackle in the next four years.

While the party endorsed Mr. Cuomo in 2010, members have been growing increasingly frustrated by what many see as his shift to the right, including a recent budget agreement that stressed tax cuts over more progressive agenda items, and a campaign finance reform deal that many see as watered down.

It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will launch radio ads in the districts of three Ohio Republican members over Thanksgiving weekend in an effort to portray the lawmakers as footsoldiers for President George W. Bush's agenda.

Hillary Clinton yesterday unveiled the first portion of her presidential campaign's energy agenda, vowing an aggressive expansion of the nation's renewable energy production while taking aim at the Republican primary field over the GOP's widespread skepticism of climate science.

«Mixed results on closing the gap confirms alarm over budget cuts» was the CTG Campaign's verdict on the latest — and possibly last — independent update on the Close the Gap agenda.