Sentences with phrase «by tea party groups»

«But the full - court press by Tea Party groups to get Republican legislators to repeal the Common Core has only been successful in Oklahoma.»

Smith is backed by some tea party groups and by the DC - based anti-tax group Club for Growth, which has a history of backing conservative primary challengers.

Not exact matches

By throwing their support behind establishment Republicans in their disagreement with the Tea Party, big - business groups are making it harder to claim that they represent the interests of all businesses, small businesses included.

Unfortunately, we are run over by the most radical group of conservatives — Tea Party - Evangelicals.

Religion News Service: Nuns on the Bus meet Tea Party protests in Ohio The «Nuns on the Bus» have been a consistently popular and effective faith - based tool for religious progressives this campaign season, but on Monday a group of demonstrators apparently organized by a local Tea Party affiliate met the nuns at a stop in Marietta, Ohio, and provided a far different welcome than the sisters usually receive.

Also today, Paladino hosted an event at the Albany Crowne Plaza at which he was endorsed by a host of Tea Party groups, including (as per his campaign manager Michael Caputo):

United Patients Alliance — a non-profit advocacy and support group campaigning for legal access to cannabis for therapeutic purposes - responded to Flynn's comments by organising a «tea party» protest outside parliament and enacting his call for civil disobedience.

The Sunlight report shows that the number of comments brought to the FCC by the Tea Party pale in comparison to the comments brought by progressive groups.

These two groups are unified however by key Tea Party - affiliated organisations and advocate groups such as Americans for Prosperity; FreedomWorks and Tea Party Express.

An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activparty platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activParty activists.

«It is being portrayed by the media that the TEA Party is supporting Governor Cuomo's budget proposal of a 2 % property tax cap, when in reality only four groups have,» Thompson cotinued.

The poll, conducted for Hochul's campaign by Global Strategy Group, shows Corwin leading Hochul just 31 percent to 30 percent, with Jack Davis, an independent candidate running on the Tea Party ballot line, picking up 26 percent.

Tenney, a conservative who has received strong support from Tea Party groups in the past, is viewed by Hanna as too extreme to represent the eight - county district.

Atlantic Bridge was itself a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a US lobbying group funded by the Charles G Koch Foundation (predominant funders of the US Tea Party), the National Rifle Association and the Tobacco Institute, to name but a few, and which campaigns against climate change legislation and regulation of tobacco.

IN KENTUCKY... Tuesday's marquee battle is in Kentucky, where Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is being challenged by businessman Matt Bevin, who enjoys strong support from many tea party groups and influential conservative anti-establishment organizations.

Still, he said anti-establishment energy by voters could come to play further down the Republican primary ballot in his state, where Rep. Martha Roby is facing opposition by Becky Gerritson the leader of the Wetumpka, Ala., tea party group.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- The U.S. House on Tuesday night passed the «cut, cap and balance» deficit reduction plan backed by tea party conservatives but dismissed by President Barack Obama, who offered strong praise for another proposal put together by a bipartisan group of senators.

What does the Tea Party or any conservative group have to gain by attacking New York WFP in one of the very few jurisdictions in the country a Tea Party candidate is going to lose in a walk?

This event was pushed hard by the Tea Party and activist Rus Thompson and the gun rights group Shooters Committee on Political Education.

There was deep overlap between the attendees, Tea Party groups and other dissatisfied conservatives whose anger with state politics was forged by Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, the SAFE Act.

One top Tea Party group would even send a fundraising appeal urging members to «wipe the smirk off Karl Rove's face,» accompanied by a photo illustration of Rove in a Nazi SS uniform.

«ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- Opponents of the fiscally conservative tea party movement say they plan to infiltrate and dismantle the political group by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic.»

Saturday's rally was spearheaded by local Tea Party activist Rus Thompson and the Shooters Committee On Political Education, a gun advocacy group.

(CNN)- The leaders of some national tea party groups aren't taking kindly to tough talk by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

During the 2011 election campaign while running against a strong advocate for Term Limits, Republican Ralph Sabatini, Supervisor Gromack defended his action by saying that the citizens petitioning him belonged to the «Tea Party fringe group» and then implied that Clarkstown citizens were so stupid that they would «sign a piece of paper just to get on with their lives.»

The measure is supported by groups as varied as the American Civil Liberties Union on the left and the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation on the right.

Tea party groups have suddenly begun pressuring Republican state lawmakers to reassess their support for the bipartisan initiative on Common Core Learning Standards backed by President Obama.

Toward the end of the 2 - hour hearing, Representative Andy Harris (R - MD) asked about a specific National Cancer Institute (NCI)- funded study tracing Tea Party's origins to groups supported by tobacco companies (video around 1:51 here).

An effort to pass a pared down version of President Obama's request was blocked by a group of Tea Party conservatives.

And this is what's reinvigorated the opposition movement, which was frankly before just a fringe of far - right - wing think tanks and groups like this, but now has become reinvigorated by the tea party's interest in this and by interest that has arisen in the anti-testing crowd.

That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

We learned from the PBS» «Climate of Doubt» that during the last four years, the momentum was lost by those who called for climate action and gained by a small group of skeptics who rallied the Tea Party grassroots movement to push the issue off the agenda.

API gave $ 25,000 to Americans for Prosperity, the astroturf tea party group founded and chaired by oil billionaire David Koch.

Republican lawmakers and Tea Party groups, led by Americans for Prosperity, have criticized RGGI for imposing heavy costs on power companies and their consumers.

The suit's lead plaintiff is a Buffalo leader of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political action group supported by oilmen David and Charles Koch that is linked to the tea party movement.

Koch is co-owned by David Koch, founder of Americans for Prosperity, a group aligned with the Tea Party movement, which opposes new air pollution regulations.

The immense profitability of their carbon holdings depends on their freedom to pollute without consequence — a toxic freedom they have sold to the American public, and particularly the Tea Party faithful organized by the various Koch front groups, as inherent to the American dream.

Will Americans for Prosperity, the numeroust Tea Party groups, and other conservation organization get organized to provide a counter demonstration to show Congress the majority of Americans don't support the insane policies put out by Sierra Club, etc. / Unless we can get greater public support, President Obama may prevail in his attempts to stop use of the nation's abundant, economic fossil fuels.