Sentences with phrase «liberal activist bill»

Sliwa and party official Frank Morano already interviewed former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra, who is also seeking the Republican nomination, and liberal activist Bill Samuels, who has not made a decision to run but wanted to gauge the possibility of getting the Reform Party line if he does.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he would finally bow to the urgings of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and countless left - wing activists and formulate a plan to shutter the Rikers Island detention complex over the next 10 years — although the crucial work of creating a new, diffuse jail system will fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins re-election this fall.

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.

A longtime liberal activist and ally to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Nixon has recently hinted at a primary run to Cuomo's left.

Allen Roskoff, a prominent gay activist who co-authored the nation's first gay - rights bill, is planning to ramp up his efforts in the new year with the help of his political club, the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, which lists many of Quinn's expected rivals, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Lance Bass on its board of governors.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Senate Democratic leaders, labor union officials and even liberal activists are hailing the IDC's announcement that it will rejoin the «regular» Senate Dems after the November elections.

Actor and activist Mark Ruffalo signed off on an email fundraising appeal for NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, calling the liberal Democrat a bulwark against Trump's «radical right - wing agenda.»

There is still a chance that grassroots Liberal Democrat activists will halt the bill by adopting an emergency motion at their spring conference this weekend, however.

He's a bully,» said Bill Samuels, a prominent liberal activist and fundraiser.

Liberal Democrat activists and Parliamentarians seeking to amend the Health Bill today released an analysis of the...

She is a well - known liberal activist who has campaigned for Mayor Bill de Blasio and criticized Governor Andrew Cuomo.

An outspoken liberal generally allied with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Mark - Viverito tends to favor the views of tenants and local activists when it comes to real estate issues in New York.

«Governor Cuomo spent his time and money creating a fake party instead of fighting for the State Senate and congressional candidates of the party he is supposedly a member of,» said Bill Lipton, the state director of the Working Families Party, a group of labor unions and liberal activists.

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.

Americans, for example, absorb the principles of the Bill of Rights with their mother's milk — be they Tea Party activists or Democrat Liberals.