Sentences with phrase «cross party lines like»

She's willing to cross party lines like predecessor Curran.

Not exact matches

But there's one place that crosses party lines, blurring red and blue voters like some kind of Utopian dinner party with never - ending breadsticks: Olive Garden.

While I would've considered crossing the party line for a statesman like Richard Lugar, you do not have his thoughtfulness, his honesty, or his dedication to serving his constituency instead of just your personal agenda.

«It's clearly an example of when you talk to voters about issues they care about, you cross party lines on issues like education and funding,» Pellegrino said.

It's also worth noting that legendary levels of dubious activity cross partisan lines there: After the Republican Party lost the majority in the state Senate in 2008, Democrats spent the first few months of their abbreviated stint in power basking in new information about how Republicans spent the legislature's money on items like a special van for the man who was then their majority leader, Joe Bruno, who went on to be sentenced to two years in prison on federal corruption charges.

Joyce is among a growing coalition of reformists in the Legislature, many of them Democrats, but also several Republicans who have crossed party lines to pursue change in Albany government, like independent redistricting.

While the repudiation of Common Core standards by tea party - backed politicians like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Gov. Rick Scott — both of whom had previously supported them — may seem like just another example of pandering to their base, it could also be a rare example of politicians astute enough to seize on an issue that crosses party lines.

In other words, it feels to me like there's some sort of distorted feedback loop, wherein candidates don't raise environmental issues because they think they may be controversial and divisive (though, as McCain or my dad's generation of Republicans show, the planet obviously crosses party lines), and the public doesn't raise climate issues enough because it apparently isn't on the political menu, like religion at dinner parties, but that doesn't mean we don't believe (in climate change or the need for our change).

There are reasonable limits to the degree to which writing in category one should engage in too much free - wheeling humor, particularly humor directed at the parties; although, as he notes, judges like Posner and Kozinski, who are already skilled writers, manage to add a good deal of liveliness to their writing without generally crossing the line.