Sentences with phrase «even tea party groups»

While it might be expected that the party would support a lifelong member and landslide - winning candidate, Democrats waited until after Cuomo had garnered support from the state Conservative Party, business coalitions and even tea party groups — entities more accustomed to blasting Democrats than helping them.

Even tea party groups that have backed Akin in the past said he should step aside for the good of the party and the conservative cause.

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Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

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.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Other Nassau and Suffolk Republican insiders can't find it in themselves to muster even that polite sort of response, and claim Flanagan — and his Tea Party group — have an inflated sense of their own importance.

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.