Sentences with phrase «liberal activists at»

Meanwhile, Sanders allies, such as Progressive Democrats of America, have been hosting liberal activists at house parties and phone banks to lay the groundwork for him in such states as Alabama, Georgia and Virginia.

She spoke Friday to an audience of about 250 labor leaders, elected officials, candidates for elected office and liberal activists at the annual Labor Day Breakfast held by the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, AFL - CIO.

Not exact matches

In the prologue, Hentoff explained that part of his inspiration was the oppression of pro-life activists and the failure of liberals to speak out against it — at last, a liberal thinker striving for consistency.

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The proposal appears to be the latest effort by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to show his public intent at uniting Democrats in the Senate, a fractious chamber that has become an increasingly sore point for liberal activists in New York that was heightened in the wake of President Trump's election.

At the same time, the mainline conference has enlisted the support of online activists and liberal journalists to back their message in the press, much to the annoyance of the IDC.

Democrats are facing an open breach between the demands of their political base and the strict limits of their power, as liberal activists dream of transforming the health care system and impeaching Trump, while candidates in hard - fought elections ask wary independent voters merely for a fresh chance at governing.

at a prominent liberal activist.

Disgruntled Lib Dem activists, mainly based around the left - leaning Social Liberal Forum (SLF), were ready to register their concerns just over a week later at the Lib Dem spring conference, which began on 8 March 2013.

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 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.

In the telling of liberal activists, who hope New York will become a left - leaning bulwark against Mr. Trump, Mr. Cuomo has made only a watered - down effort at establishing a solid Democratic majority in the State Senate.

LAS VEGAS — It wasn't lost on the 2,100 liberal activists gathered in Las Vegas at Netroots Nation for the annual four - day confab that the only Obama administration official who made the trip this time was Treasury Secretary Ray LaHood — a Republican.

It's hard to overstate how much that control means to a certain brand of diehard liberals, who long to see unified state government finally crank its policy machinery at full activist throttle (and whose exasperation with Cuomo forms the core of opposition to the governor within his own party).

Celia Munro, the veteran Liberal Democrat activist, who helped select Kennedy on the first occasion he stood for parliament at the age of just 23, attended with her daughter, who worked in Kennedy's constituency office for 25 years.

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.

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.

Lord, a columnist for The American Spectator, has been harshly critical of the activist he tweeted at, Angelo Carusone, and the liberal group of which Carusone is president, Media Matters for America.

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.

Washington Post reporter Janell Ross was a «special guest» at the secretive California gathering where Democratic politicians, liberal activists, and their biggest donors plotted the future of the progressive movement.

At a meeting of Liberal Democrat activists on Saturday, Vince Cable suddenly declared he was abandoning the proposed sale of student loans.

Five out of six of the Yes campaign's steering committee have worked for or explicitly supported the Liberal Democrats in the last 12 months, and at least half of their so - called «grassroots co-ordinators» are former Lib Dem candidates, councillors and activists.

Senior members of the Liberal Democrats allegedly «openly laughed» at a female party activist when she told them former chief executive, Lord Rennard, propositioned her during a party dinner.

And while liberal activists might blanch at the Long Islander's law - and - order approach, it could serve to lift up the party's fortunes in rural and suburban swing precincts.

The lobby has recently advocated on some issues during a trial run, but will be officially launched here at Netroots Nation, a gathering of 2,100 liberal leaders, bloggers and activists.

Olivencia said that Citizens Action, a liberal activist group, had made the reservation at Pucho Olivencia without mentioning that Nixon would be part of the event.

Upstate New Yorkers are skeptical of Nixon's Democratic primary challenge against Gov. Cuomo — if they even know who the actress and liberal activist is at all.

Vince Cable was forced to defend his proposals for a «mansion tax» on properties worth more than # 1 million as he appeared before activists at the Liberal Democrat conference.

In Ulster County, the liberal activist group Citizen Action of the Hudson Valley invited Faso to a town hall meeting at George Washington Elementary School, 67 Wall St., scheduled for Friday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. Faso declined the invitation citing a previously scheduled event in another part of the district.

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.

Gay activist Corey Johnson and Allen Roskoff, the openly gay president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, have led demonstrations at Kruger's home.

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.

Concerns Liberal Democrat activists at the party conference have been expressing concerns over the coalition deal recently, as cracks have begun to appear.

A Liberal Democrat activist who accused Lord Rennard of making inappropriate sexual advances has quit the party in protest at what she says is its failure to take the complaint seriously.

He explained in this morning's Sunday Express that this process will begin on Wednesday, although it was also reported this morning in the Observer that 1,200 Liberal Democrat activists have instructed their party's leadership to «fully respect the declared view of the party» on NHS reform as voted on at the recent Lib Dem spring conference.

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.

There are certainly, at least here in DC, many many yogis who call themselves activists, and who are essentially good - meaning liberals (and good people), without much structural or systemic understanding.

Rather, Strassel declared, «The real target is a broad array of conservative activist groups that are highly effective at mobilizing the grass - roots and countering liberal talking points.»

At Justin Trudeau's rally in Montreal on August 28th, two climate activists took to the stage and unfurled a banner right next to the Liberal leader, asking him to clarify what his climate commitments are in the lead up to the COP21 conference in Paris.