Sentences with phrase «by a liberal activist»

Mabel, you've been brainwashed by the liberal activists in public schools.

Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting organized by a liberal activist group last week.

Should Perez have fallen short, the impact on Cuomo could have been even worse for the ire focused on Cuomo by liberal activists.

Cuomo has always been a triangular progressive, hoping his stances on social issues — gay rights, gun control, abortion rights — will sufficiently endear him to the left flank of his party that he could govern as a fiscal moderate, once described by liberal activists as «Governor One Percent» and as «a good, moderate Republican» by Dean Skelos, the former leader of the state Senate.

But this year, the party — founded in 1998 by liberal activists close to Mr. de Blasio — was in a far different position.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo used executive powers to give all parolees in New York the right to vote, a measure long - sought by liberal activists.

Attorney Elizabeth Beacham White, legal counsel for the PAC, called the filing «a frivolous complaint filed by a liberal activist group that harasses conservative leaders.»

In addition to his direct donations, hedge funder Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools, hosted a July Cuomo fundraiser in the Hamptons that was protested by liberal activists.

Letwin was warmly received by Liberal activists, which will no doubt confirm - Letwin chuckled - what his critics in the Tory party have always thought: he's a soggy liberal.

Not exact matches

Democrats, liberal advocacy groups, and immigrants» rights activists have long been opposed to the idea, which has been repeatedly proposed by Republican lawmakers in recent years.

The Liberal leader, who owes her thumping electoral victory in large part to fear of public - sector job cuts promised by the opposition Progressive Conservatives, has promised to govern from the «activist centre.»

While Krasner has been criticized by some for his lack of insider experience, he gained a rabid following in Philadelphia among the city's activists, liberals, and leftists.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

This time the pen was wielded by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a sharp» tongued liberal activist only too happy to discover new rights in the penumbras, emanations, and hitherto undiscovered corners of the Constitution.

CNN: Liberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic layLiberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic layliberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic laypeople.

But Reed, who formerly led the Christian Coalition, charges that the controversy around calls for abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest --- he says anti-abortion activists generally support abortions to save a mother's life - has been blown out of proportion by Democrats and liberals who want to paint the GOP as extremist.

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

The proposal appears to be the latest effort by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to show his public intent at uniting Democrats in the Senate, a fractious chamber that has become an increasingly sore point for liberal activists in New York that was heightened in the wake of President Trump's election.

It would be a mistake to disregard Senator Sanders» bold challenge for the nomination as a mere episode of fascination exercised by liberal - minded millennials and «green» activists.

Will the new business bring in enough revenue to make up for the liberal activists who are now feeling outright betrayed by Change?

«David Cameron's plans to introduce tougher controls on the internet to block hardcore pornography were rejected on Sunday night by Liberal Democrat activists.

Until the late 1990s, a central fear was of a bar to a political career, either through discrimination by poltiical party selectorates or, as often, a feeling among would - be liberal party activists that the public wouldn't buy it.

Menzies Campbell yesterday publicly rebuked a Liberal Democrat activist for starting campaigning for a by - election before the former incumbent was even buried.

Control of the Senate by Republicans has been a key issue for liberals, a point of contention for Cuomo and activist organizations.

By this time he was a Liberal activist and became a public affairs consultant, among other things advising emergent democracies in Bosnia, Lithuania and Albania and also becoming director of an internet company.

Right away Clegg implied a direction in which he would take the Liberal Democrats quite distinct from the activist - pleasing approach chosen by Kennedy and Campbell.

She spoke Friday to an audience of about 250 labor leaders, elected officials, candidates for elected office and liberal activists at the annual Labor Day Breakfast held by the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, AFL - CIO.

The Liberal Democrat leader's revealing answers to questions put by politics.co.uk show him as a schoolboy activist and underline his European grounding.

There is still a chance that grassroots Liberal Democrat activists will halt the bill by adopting an emergency motion at their spring conference this weekend, however.

The party, made up of liberal activists and labor unions, has irked Mr. Cuomo for years by trying to push him to the left, though the governor will still appear on its ballot line on Election Day.

This seat was once held by a principled, extremely liberal political science professor who came out of the ranks of rank - and - file party activists to win the seat, primarily due to his passion.

Many tea party activists view Fiorina as too liberal and have fueled an upstart challenge by state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been active in tea party protests.

Initial reports that the Government wants to change how private communications data can be stored and accessed have rightly caused great concern, not least amongst Liberal Democrat activists and Parliamentarians who all seek to safeguard civil liberties from erosion by state surveillance.

We fight for fairness, we fight for justice, we act first, we lead by example,» he told the crowd cheering activists in rain slickers and carrying union signs, sounding more like an Occupy Wall Street protester than the fiscally conservative governor who has often aroused liberal ire.

On Long Island, liberal activists are decrying a mailer by Republican Nassau County executive candidate Jack Martins they say plays to racial fears.

Liberal groups are employing top - shelf political tactics in their grass - roots advocacy campaigns, driven by the memory of being outflanked by conservative activists in the summer of 2009.

Gibbon was struck by the number of Liberal Democrats in parliament who told him how worried they were about the images that the cartoonists were embedding in the public consciousness (and in the minds of their party activists).

Now, two Democrats running for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat in 2010 are seizing on the chance to score points with liberals and party activists - the kind of people who vote in Democratic primaries - by pledging to «to help lead the fight for the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.»

Kingofzouk is obviously the Stephen Colbert - like avatar of a liberal activist attempting to advance his / her views by portraying conservatives as ridiculous.

Clegg feels he is «constantly being urged by commentators, by party activists» to «express identity by tearing strips off the Tories» and by brandishing «trophies of achievement to show the Liberal Democrats have secured this or that concession».

Mr Huhne's political career is in the balance following the allegations made last week by Vicky Pryce, whom he left after 26 years marriage for a bisexual Liberal Democrat activist.

Smith's fears for the safety of young female activists emerged as the Women Liberal Democrats group wrote to Nick Clegg with concerns about the vigour of the party's investigations, saying its members had been «shocked and saddened» by the allegations against Rennard.

The Populus poll in Oldham East and Saddleworth, commissioned by Lord Ashcroft, shows that Labour activists are speaking to as many local voters — in person or by phone — as the Liberal Democrats.

Polls show he remains popular among the broader Democratic electorate in New York but he is deeply disliked by an impassioned cohort of liberal activists.

These statements might sound like the rhetoric used by extreme animal rights groups, but they come from White Coat Waste — a new, unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives and liberal activists that aims to end federal funding for research involving dogs and other animals by targeting people's pocketbooks in addition to their heartstrings.

The Names of Love (Unrated) French farce about a free - spirited, young political activist (Sara Forestier) who succeeds in converting right - wing conservatives to her liberal cause by sleeping with them until she meets her match in a stubborn, middle - aged Fascist (Jacques Gamblin).

The schools were part of an experiment in «community control,» an approach to school reform then favored by liberals and black activists.

This one is taking place within the Democratic Party, where the unions» opposition to reform has led to increasing dissatisfaction — led by groups like Democrats for Education Reform, vocally expressed by moderate and liberal opinion leaders, energized by a growing network of education activists (many with roots in Teach for America), and funded by well - heeled philanthropists like Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

Carl described it as a program «with attributes originally championed by left - liberal policy makers, free - school advocates, and community activists from the 1960s.»

As a child raised by liberal peace activists, I was taught to fear it.