Sentences with phrase «from liberal activists»

Since creating the Department of Financial Services in 2011, the Cuomo administration has faced pressure from Wall Street and the insurance industry to ease its aggressive oversight as well as calls from liberal activists to continue its legacy of serious enforcement.

The cheering from liberal activists who hate the governor, and from Democrats who've been on the receiving end of his pettiness, had to be heartening.

With the level of attention the nominations were getting from liberal activists, Gonzales said, «confirmation votes could be one important measure of a candidate's dedication to opposing the current president.»

Not exact matches

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.»

Democratic politicians and liberal activists went to work, learning from the political and policy mistakes of the Clintons and preparing for the next opportunity.

I'll post what I can of the 21st century manifesto below (don't want to detract from the wonderful liberal activist hate video below... remember they aren't going to discuss Mitt's religion (they're just going to lie about it)

Among secularists, gay activists, liberal politicians, and the like, it is taken for granted that homosexual urgings are «natural,» in the sense of being innate (the word nature comes from the Latin natus, «to be born» as, in fact, does the word innate); and since the urges are natural in that sense (or so goes the claim), what's wrong with satisfying them?

But one thing that differentiated all the activists, D'Annunzio, Marinetti, and Mussolini from a left - wing socialist like Gramsci and a conservative liberal like Croce was their glorification of war and more particularly their violent interventionism in the First World War.

A senior activist from the leftwing Social Liberal Forum of the party says Cable's leadership fills that faction with «dread», given he was in charge of the business department that pushed through the fees rise.

And we won't just find Republican leaders and the party apparatus online: individual conservative activists can learn from Obama's online organizing as fast as their liberal counterparts (Ron Paul's supporters certainly did their part to lead the way).

In that time, Obama has been punched from all sides — from conservatives, of course, using both legitimate arguments and the made - up fantasies of the right - wing fringe, but also from the Left, as activists and bloggers try to hold his feet to the liberal fire.

While never the closest of allies, Cuomo and the party have engaged in open warfare recently after the liberal - leaning organization opted to endorse Cynthia Nixon, the actor and education activist who has mounted a spirited primary challenge for governor from the left.

Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»

But instead, his Bill Clinton - style triangulation and personal spats have enraged an activist base that's becoming ever more energized and liberal, and ready to sign up for party infighting with their own celebrity from outside of politics to make a point.

But ironically, keeping the WFP's ballot status, much less its spot at Row E, appears to be increasingly a concern for party leaders and activists as the governor pushes for voters to back him on the Women's Equality Party line, which is increasingly being seen as a rival for liberals» votes and potential siphon away support from the WFP.

Liberal Democrat activists would prefer a coalition with Labour after the next general election with Vince Cable taking over from Nick Clegg, two new surveys have found.

Liberal activist groups last week called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return thousands of dollars he has received in campaign contributions from Daniel Loeb, a billionaire who has come under criticism for racially charged remarks directed at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

Democratic candidate Robert Gangi, a community activist and liberal advocate, said the mayor's insistence that he had little contact with the two men was reminiscent of a line from «The Godfather.»

Mainstream Democrats, liberal activists, and the Working Families Party were out to punish IDC members for having empowered Senate Republicans and for preventing a progressive agenda from advancing in the New York State Senate.

The letter from activists also came as Lord Steel, the former Liberal leader of the Liberal party, told the Guardian that the party Lib Dem party «has not covered itself in glory» over the affair.

Liberal activists have been unhappy with Cuomo's business - friendly election - year budget, but no obvious candidate has emerged to take the governor on from his left.

More than 100 Liberal Democrat activists and the party's youth wing signed a letter urging Nick Clegg to demand the withdrawal of the whip from Rennard unless the peer apologised following over allegations that he harassed women.

Liberal activists are furious with Democratic senators after most of them agreed to reopen the federal government without a firm path to shielding young immigrants from deportation.

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.

Answering questions from activists at the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, Mr Clegg said: «Garden cities are something I have been banging on about for years and Conservatives have been resisting for years.

In recent weeks, Cuomo has approached his traditional donors, public and private sector unions as well as a host of mega-donors and check - writers from the business elite, including uber - rich liberal activists George Soros, Agnes Gund and Bernard Schwartz, sources said.

The IDC, which has grown to eight members in recent weeks, has come under fire from mainline Democrats and some liberal activists for their alignment with Senate Republicans.

In contrast, a No vote could provoke demands from some Liberal Democrat activists for the party to pull out of the Coalition.

«Inner - circle» Despite the doubts from some Lib Dem activists, David Cameron insisted today that Mr Clegg will be part of his «inner circle» in the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition government.

More than 100 Liberal Democrat activists have signed a letter urging Nick Clegg to demand the withdrawal of the whip from Lord Rennard unless the peer apologises over allegations that he harassed women.

The head of the Working Families Party Friday urged liberals to support Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for governor if he faces a challenge from lefty activist Zephyr Teachout...

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...

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.

WFP activists had seized on a Siena College and later Quinnipiac University polls that showed an unnamed liberal challenger would draw votes away from Cuomo as discontent grew over the governor's economic record.

Also participating were the Green Party and its gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins, delegations from several colleges, environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, indigenous dancers in traditional garb and headgear, a number of out - of - state liberal organizations, activists from several foreign nations and a large complement of radical socialist and communist parties — all marching to the usual protest accompaniment of acoustic guitars, drums, horns and whistles.

The coalition government's schools policy comes under fire from activists at the Liberal Democrat conference - in a move that risks embarrassing the party leadership, but not a vote that threatens the coalition says political editor Gary Gibbon.

The Gordon Brown memorial pledge, which could just as well have come from the last Prime Minister's lips — the «We are the first Government in history to do X» being a formula of which he was fond — and the first bit of real red kidney - bean stew tossed to Liberal Democrat activists.

The fund - raiser, held at the home of Kate Linker, a board member for the liberal activist group Greater NYC For Change, brought in an undisclosed amount of cash for State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, an upstate Democrat facing a stiff challenge from Republican George Amedore.

He's beginning his second term with a slew of new aides, after winning re-election with the support of the business community and agita from unions and liberal activists.

Latino elected leaders joined liberal anti-charter school activists on the steps of City Hall to demand that Success Academy Charter Schools return an $ 8.5 million donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson because of his role in the Puerto Rican debt crisis — where the government is slashing education spending in a desperate effort to balance its books... [Click here to read more]

An activist, who made allegations against Lord Rennard, said Nick Clegg's apology was not enough and said the peer should be removed from the Liberal Democrats.

Essentially, the Business Secretary's address was a further demonstration of the conference's aim: to demonstrate that the Liberal Democrats are now a party of government, to keep a certain distance from their Coalition partners (though Cable was careful to name - check David Willetts)... and to get Liberal Democrat activists behind the Coalition.

Liberal activists from organizations like New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York shouted «slow it down» at Mr. de Blasio as he entered City Hall this morning, calling for him to pump the brakes on his plan to rezone 15 neighborhoods across the city to allow for more building density and, in turn, more affordable housing.

Liberal Democrat leadership front runner Sir Menzies Campbell is battling against a whispering campaign from MPs and activists who are convinced that he lacks the political skills to turn the party's opinion poll plunge around.

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.

«In retrospect, it seems strange that so many liberals bought into an idea that emanated from conservative think tanks and conservative thinkers,» education scholar and anti-privatization activist Diane Ravitch wrote.

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

A report last summer from Columbia University depicted the «the typical opt out activist» as «a highly educated, white, married, politically liberal parent whose children attend public school and whose household median income is well above the national average.»

The ironic report from the front regards the situation in Gaza, there is a high Jewish population of extreme liberals and yet now some are being targeted and blacklisted by Pro-Palestinian activists, other liberals in many cases.

The campaign actually started on February 14, 2012, when Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute and a leading climate scientist, sent to liberal activists and sympathetic journalists several documents he stole from The Heartland Institute, along with a fake memo he claimed was also from Heartland.