Sentences with phrase «funded liberal groups»

They have also partnered with well - funded liberal groups such as Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun control advocacy group founded by former New York mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg.

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The liberal - funded watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington complained to the GSA that it should terminate its deal or take legal action because the president had violated the conditions of the lease.

The Liberals have promised unique housing strategies for Inuit, Metis and First Nations communities alongside the 10 - year, $ 225 - million plan announced last year to fund groups that help house Indigenous Peoples living off - reserve.

She joined Dr. Allen in hosting fund - raisers for liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and for his clinic and expressed strong support for abortion rights, said Herbert Greenberg, a concert violinist and friend of Dr. Allen.

According to a report in Politico, Teachout will receive the support of Every Voice, a liberal outside group, and its Super PAC Every Voice Action, funded by the likes of the billionaire hedge - funder George Soros family, failed Congressional candidate Sean Eldridge and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.

He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same - sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund - raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC - like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.

«Cheadle, currently held by Liberal Democrats with a majority of just under 4,000, is among seats no longer regarded as likely to fall despite a well - funded, two - year campaign to woo key groups of voters.

The endorsement comes after 1199's political director, Kevin Finnegan, announced his group was committed to swinging the State Senate into the Democratic column, in order to pass its liberal statewide initiatives — including college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants, a locally set minimum wage and taxpayer - funded elections.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

It also comes as Cuomo comes under increasing pressure from liberal and progressive advocacy groups that are part of a well - funded campaign to push for public financing.

Even before the swearing - in for his second term, de Blasio is headed back to Iowa, the land of presidential hopefuls, to headline a December fund - raiser in Des Moines for a liberal group and polish his own national profile.

The decision made by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant to extend the grant funding for thirty one projects registered with Environment Wales until the end of March 2017, came following a persistent campaign, led by the Environmental groups and with backing from William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Environment.

Clinton launched Onward Together in April of last year with the intent of providing funding to established liberal groups that could quickly counter President Donald Trump using direct action and protests.

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.

De Blasio has backed a broader push among liberal groups and labor unions to swing the Senate back to Democratic control, headlining fund - raisers for the Democrats» campaign committee and helping extract a pledge from the Independent Democratic Conference to re-join the main conference next year.

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.

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.

Seeing funding as a top problem peaks among college graduates, Democrats, liberals, and those with $ 100,000 + incomes, with about one - third of each group citing it as a big issue.

It's the Common Core State Standards, which, the ultra-conservative Christian group said in a fund - raising e-mail, is a «morally corrupt federal takeover of education» that will lead to «a nation where children are indoctrinated with a liberal ideology that celebrates sexual perversion, worships the creation rather than the Creator, all at the expense of academic achievement and our nation's Christian heritage.»

«Vouchers, by any name, are a scheme that strips critical funds from public schools and gives a discount to individuals who can already afford private school, and all at taxpayer expense and with zero accountability,» said Kathy Miller, head of the liberal advocacy group Texas Freedom Network.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

First, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is a well - funded environmental, global warming nut - case group that backs Obama, Tester, and every other flaming liberal candidate in America.

It's largely based on reporting from the liberal InsideClimate News and Columbia University purporting to show Exxon had been studying climate science for decades, internally worried about it but publicly funding groups opposed to climate regulations.

Before Australia's July general election, The Australian newspaper reported that Liberal leader and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had met with Morgan and other directors of the key Liberal Party funding group, the Cormack Foundation.

A liberal Texas activist group asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to hold Hurricane Harvey relief funds and other grant monies from Houston until the City fully addresses policies that promote «racial discrimination and perpetuation of segregation.»

In 2010 and 2011, Sea Change received tens of millions of dollars from a Bermudan company named Klein, Ltd. and distributed those funds to prominent U.S. liberal nonprofit groups.

Records do not show where Klein Ltd. gets its funding and its only known contributions have gone to Sea Change and thence to U.S. liberal climate change nonprofit groups.