Sentences with phrase «as a democrat representing»

We'll lay aside his outsized ambition, his reputation as a bully and his sheer ineffectiveness as a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

Not exact matches

It will be the nation's first special congressional election since Trump's win, and Democrats view it as their best chance to flip the seat representing the heavily Republican 4th District in southern Kansas.

Price, despite being well - liked among Republicans during his tenure as a congressman representing Georgia, was fiercely opposed by Democrats when Trump nominated him to the HHS post.

Democrats said those longstanding financial relationships represented a conflict of interest for Dourson and Wehrum as they become the regulators of their former corporate clients.

50 % of the voters are represented by no party... and because of their refusal to adopt a party and vote, they are unrepresented except insofar as they choose to vote for a Democrat or Republican.

In opposition, the Democrats represented the cultural «have - nots,» minority religions like Catholics, Jews, «free thinkers,» and some sectarian Protestants, such as Southern Baptists, who shared an interest in resisting majority impositions.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

And, if a Democrat votes for a black man to represent them as President of the United States, it is the height of diversity and progressivism.

Sen. Daniel Squadron, a fellow Democrat who also represents lower Manhattan, issued a statement as well in support of the decision.

They're also reportedly looking into the Brooklyn Democrat's relationship with Edul Ahmad, a Queens real estate broker whom Sampson represented as a client through his legal practice.

We might as well have a Republican represent us if the Democrat that we elected doesn't have the fortitude to stand up to the TeaBaggers and the GOP.

State Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat representing parts of midtown and the east side, on Wednesday described the resolution as «more than a little disturbing» in reference to the Senate's response to the MTA's transit crisis and budget woes.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

Rating: Favored Republican Sean Eldridge, Democrat, New York's 19th District One of 17 Republicans representing districts Obama carried in 2012, GOP Rep. Chris Gibson started the cycle as a top Democratic target.

The Cuomo campaign is trying to portray Astorino as too «extreme» in his views to represent a Democrat - dominated state like New York.

«I often say that I'm a Democrat — I've been a Democrat all of my life — but my job as a senator is to represent all of my constituents,» he said.

Schneiderman's update has support from such politicians as Sen. Liz Krueger, a Democrat representing the East Side of Manhattan, and Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, a Democrat representing parts of Western Queens, as well as reproductive rights advocates like Andrea Miller, president of National Institute for Reproductive Health.

Over the course of her public life, she has served as Vice Chair of the Westchester County Democratic Committee, Chair of the Black Democrats of Westchester, member of the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus (Mt. Vernon Chapter) and State Committee Woman representing the 88th AD.

The GOP is far from innocent in all of this, but Democrats don't represent a guy like me and I can not vote for anyone running as a Democrat.

«She could disavow Trump and still win this election, and not have it as a black mark for the rest of her career,» said Morgan Hook, senior vice president of SKDKnickerbocker in Albany, a consulting company that specializes in representing Democrats.

She has been criticized by other Democrats in New York for her positions on both gun control and immigration, and she has acknowledged that her views are broadening as she moves from representing one district to the entire state.

While the views and editorial focus on QP represent my own insight as a Democrat, let's not get it confused with pragmatism and increasing accountability in ALL sectors of government and politics.

Illinois Democrat Brad Schneider, a former congressman who served one term representing the state's 10th District, is claiming a big lead over his primary rival as he hopes for a rematch with Republican Rep. Robert J. Dold.

Republican Chair Don Boyden, who represents the Towns of Scott and Preble, is expected to be reappointed as Chair with Republican Kevin Whitney named as Majority leader and Democrat Richard Bushnell named as minority leader.

All 18 Democrats representing New York State in the House of Representatives signed a letter today demanding that the three clashing factions of their party in the State Senate reunite, so as to make Albany the seventh solid - blue state capital nationwide.

Sampson again expressed disappointment Felder, his fellow Brooklynite, has decided to caucus with the Republicans, and insisted that he and the Democrats have — and will continue — to provide as much support to the Orthodox Jewish community Felder represents as the Republicans have.

For Democrats, the anti-Paladino commercial represents a growing conviction that Mr. Paladino must be portrayed as an extremist who shares little in common with mainstream New Yorkers, and even some Republicans, on wedge issues like abortion.

Yet instead of uniting with us to resist this assault, our State Senator Marisol Alcantara — elected as a Democrat to represent much of Upper Manhattan and the Upper West Side — has turned on us by joining the IDC, a coalition that empowers Trump - supporting Albany Republicans and stymies efforts to pass truly progressive legislation.»

The governor hopes the deal would represent a compromise, appealing to Senate Republicans who have advocated for the tax credit as well as Assembly Democrats who have pushed the Dream Act.

Assemblyman Charles Barron, a Democrat representing East New York, heckled the governor for more than a minute as other lawmakers looked on uncomfortably, assailing Cuomo for inequities in school funding.

She said she wasn't there representing the governor, but rather as a Suffolk Democrat hoping to bring attention to the issue.

Silver, a Democrat who represents Lower Manhattan, hired Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman to support several private law firms — including Weitz & Luxenberg, where he is of counsel — that employ legislators as they resisted the Moreland Commission's subpoenas.

«Our most important focus right now is to elect as many Democrats as possible this November to ensure we elect a State Senate that truly represents the aspirations of everyday New Yorkers,» Stewart - Cousins said.

Linda Rosenthal represents District 67 as a Democrat in the New York State Assembly which includes parts of Manhattan's Upper West Side and Clinton neighborhoods.

All six candidates represent the passion and fight that Democrats need to display this year as we work to take back the House.

The Bill represents a strategic dilemma for all three main parties - and at the moment, it looks as though Labour, the Liberal Democrats and some of my Conservative colleagues are going to make the wrong choice.

Democrat Anna Throne - Holst charged that the incumbent, Republican U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, who represents the First Congressional District on Long Island, should have held a hearing on the troubled Veterans Affairs hospital in Northport as soon as he took office in 2015.

Overall, labor groups such as 1199 that represent health care workers gave $ 685,850 to Senate Democrats and $ 160,192 to their Republican opponents.

Mr. Murphy was the son of former Congressman John Murphy, a Democrat who represented a differently drawn version of the district for two decades prior to his indictment for taking bribes from FBI agents disguised as Arab sheiks in the 1980 Abscam scandal.

As a councilman, Recchia, a Democrat, represented a district that covered Coney Island, Gravesend and parts of Bensonhurst.

But it represented a bitter defeat for many liberal Democrats who sought to use the party's leverage on the budget to resolve the plight of immigrant «Dreamers» who face deportation after being brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Education unions, such as those representing teachers, gave Senate Democrats $ 1.2 million and Republicans $ 218,618.

As a result, the budget represents a lost opportunity to achieve even more for hardworking New Yorkers,» said Sen. Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat and member of the mainline group of Democrats.

The idea is that if he only wins one party's nomination he would run for President as a member of that one party, but if he wins both party's nomination he would run as a coalition candidate representing both Democrats and Independents.

But Gianaris called the GOP effort to cast the Democrats as too liberal — especially to represent upstate — a «sham,» adding:

Democrats who represent upstate New York congressional districts also blasted the proposal from the Trump administration as detrimental.

Gianaris, the leader of the Democrats» political and fundraising operation, wouldn't say however whether Skelos could play a role in next year's legislative races, or if he believes the Long Island district Skelos represents is now competitive as he fights federal corruption charges.

Andrea Stewart - Cousins, leader of the State Senate's Democratic minority, today dismissed the Women's Equality Party that Gov. Andrew Cuomo created last year as unnecessary, arguing that Democrats are the party that represents female concerns.

The Reform Party candidates represent «everybody in between» the Republicans and Democrats on the far right and left, and should be given the same access to interviews and articles as are given to the candidates representing the political extremes.

Cuomo said the deal represented the latest improvement to state ethics laws under his watch, and was in response to the arrest and indictment of former speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat charged with taking $ 3.9 million in kickbacks disguised as legal fees.