Sentences with phrase «conservative tea party activists»

His stance aligns him with conservative Tea Party activists, many of whom have expressed reservations about the deal.

Wagner has recently run into trouble with conservative Tea Party activists.

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«Tea party» takes health - care protest to the Hill Hundreds of conservative activists gather outside the U.S. Capitol to protest health - care legislation, which is approaching a final vote in the House this week.

The coalition is drawing attention because it has the potential of providing the infrastructure for a grassroots conservative movement that now includes tea party activists and social conservatives.

A group of Tea Party activists has launched a Website in hopes of pressuring Rick Lazio to drop out of the general election and cede the state Conservative Party line and request that Row D and Row B be «unified under a single candidate.»

Caputo said more than 1,500 volunteers are carrying Paladino's petitions including Republican organizations, Conservative Party rank - and - file, gun clubs, pro-life activists, Tea Party and 912 groups, family, and friends.

Tea party activists are struggling to rally behind a single presidential contender as disparate groups with conflicting priorities balance candidate viability with conservative purity on policies that extend well beyond the spending concerns that spawned the movement just two years ago.

In the aftermath of the 2012 American elections, some Tea Party activists have taken up more traditionally populist ideological viewpoints on issues that are distinct from general conservative views.

(CNN)- Newt Gingrich is a one - state wonder who is unlikely to play out as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney sought by some tea party activists, one of the movement's driving forces said Sunday.

Cantor has compiled a solidly conservative voting record in his tenure, but he was sometimes viewed with suspicion by tea party activists who said he had been in Congress too long and was insufficiently committed to blocking immigration legislation.

«What happened in Mississippi was appalling,» the freshman Republican senator from Texas — a rock star among tea party activists and other grassroots conservatives — said Monday.

«Tea Party activists are kicking off a grand national tour this weekend with an event targeting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D - NV) in his small home town of Searchlight, Nevada — an event that Tea Party Express describes as a «conservative Woodstock.»

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.

Age: 57 Hometown: West Hartford Occupation: Businessman, former West Hartford Town Council member Background: A far - right conservative, Visconti is a staunch gun rights activist who identifies with the Tea Party movement.

(CNN)- A conservative activist who's challenging a top House Republican Wednesday landed an endorsement from a leading national tea party organization.

These «purists» — including Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Dick Armey, and Bill Kristol — are backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, revealing a wider rift within the conservative movement: the tea - party activist base versus «Big Tent» Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, revealing a wider rift within the conservative movement: the tea - party activist base versus «Big Tent» RepubliParty candidate Doug Hoffman, revealing a wider rift within the conservative movement: the tea - party activist base versus «Big Tent» conservative movement: the tea - party activist base versus «Big Tent» Republiparty activist base versus «Big Tent» Republicans.

«While we respect your commitment to public service, your record in Congress would leave us no choice but to actively oppose your candidacy should you decide to run,» reads the letter signed by more than a dozen conservative and tea party activists from Northern California.

Pierson, a conservative activist with tea party support, is a strong backer of Sen. Ted Cruz, R - Texas.

Washington (CNN)-- A new report by a nonprofit organization estimates that there are 67,000 Tea Party activists throughout the country, which is at odds with estimates by a handful of conservatives including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.

Facing seven other more conservative candidates, Bennett has been the focus of withering criticism from members of his own party as well as Tea Party activparty as well as Tea Party activParty activists.

«Tea party activists are divided roughly into two camps, according to a new POLITICO / TargetPoint poll: one that's libertarian - minded and largely indifferent to hot - button values issues and another that's culturally conservative and equally concerned about social and fiscal issues.

They are determined to avoid a repeat of August 2009, when tea party activists and conservative groups descended upon congressional town hall meetings to denounce Obama's plan to remake the health - care system.

Kirk so far has not won the support of the more conservative elements of his party, including some Tea Party activists in the sparty, including some Tea Party activists in the sParty activists in the state.

Romney is the latest in a long line of national GOP figures to back Rubio, whose campaign has galvanized conservatives and Tea Party activists around the country frustrated with the Obama administration and government spending.

Pelosi explained that Republicans could suffer is because Tea Party activists are promoting conservative challenges to GOP candidates in their primaries.

Cruz arrived on the presidential stage as a hero to tea party activists, but he had another objective: to make himself a hero to evangelical Christians and libertarian conservatives, too.

Washington (CNN)-- House Minority Leader John Boehner, R - Ohio, told conservative activists Thursday that the Republican Party should not try to take over the Tea Party movement, but rather work closely with these grassroots activists.

Washington (CNN)- Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, two potential rivals for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, will meet in Minneapolis next month to help raise money for Rep. Michele Bachmann, an outspoken conservative and popular figure among Tea Party activists.

Paladino is known for his colorful, blunt language and «Mad as Hell» campaign theme that made him a favorite of anti-establishment conservatives and Tea Party activists.

Tea party activist William Temple attends the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.

They're planning to help Paladino, who has been strongly identified with the conservative - activist Tea Party movement, to launch a New York Tea Party, much as billionaire Rochester political gadfly Tom Golisano's gubernatorial campaign launched the Independence Party in 1994.

The conservative congresswoman from Minnesota, who's a favorite of many Tea Party activists, won approval for the new organization late last week from the Democratic leadership.

Brat offset the the cash disadvantage with endorsements from conservative activists like radio host Laura Ingraham, and with help from local tea party activists angry at Cantor.

He appears emotionally distant and incapable of the fiery passion that excites conservatives, Tea Party activists, and the so - called Reagan Democrats.

And the American Conservative Union, which organizes the annual conference, announced Thursday that Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, who was elected to the Senate in 2010 with strong support from tea party activists, will give an address at the event.

IT SOUNDS like an afternoon snack for astronauts, but Tea Party in Space is actually a conservative activist group trying to reform US space policy.

For Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, the first identifiable fork in the road appeared last August as he addressed the RedState Gathering, a meeting of conservative activists with tea party leanings, in New Orleans.

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.

Tea Party conservatives and militant, anti-testing union activists have forged an unlikely alliance to oppose the Common Core.

Much more puzzling has been the fervid opposition to the Common Core by some conservatives, including tea party activists, several free - market think tanks and, most recently, the Republican National Committee.

If you are a far - right conservative Tea - Party activist, take that stand and be that person!

Such intolerance of disagreement is something for which conservatives and Tea Party activists are often criticized, and is the type of ideological purity that has made our national politics a mess.

Mariano argues that a «fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and ecologically conscious» version of the Tea Party could address issues not raised by the current crop of conservative and libertarian activists... in a manner that aligns with a focus on limited government intrusion into the market.

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.

Now, as they prepare for a wide - open primary season, many of the Republicans are searching for ways to explain themselves to a conservative voting base full of hungry tea party activists and climate skeptics who don't take kindly to environmental issues so closely linked with Al Gore.