Sentences with phrase «liberal activists who»

Jillian Gilchrest, a co-organizer of the Women's March Connecticut, said Democratic leaders have tried to harness the power of the newly energized liberal activists who have sprung up since President Donald Trump's election.

Tenney says she finds it ironic that town halls, which have become such an issue for decidedly liberal activists who oppose a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, became a thing, when tea party conservatives railed against that legislation during the 2010 election cycle.

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.

Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

Will the new business bring in enough revenue to make up for the liberal activists who are now feeling outright betrayed by Change?

But Democratic and liberal activists who have been pushing for an end to Republican control say it's not moving fast enough.

It sets up a longshot bid pitting an openly gay liberal activist who has never held political office against a two - term incumbent with a $ 30 million war chest and possible presidential ambitions.

Teachout, 42, liberal activist who worked on Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's presidential campaign and moved to New York in 2009, was the only other contender for the Working Families Party nod.

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

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.»

However, Layton was better able to unify the moderates and policy hawks — «Jack had the aura of being an activist,» Kopyto said — than was Mulcair, who came to the NDP fold after quitting the Quebec Liberal cabinet.

However, those who believe that the churches can play a role in those problems have never pinned their hopes on the silent majority of clergy.4 Rather, they believe in an impending reformation based on the outspoken minority — a New Breed of theologically liberal, activist clergymen.

This conflict has emerged between the liberal and militant activist pastors and denominational leaders, on the one hand, and a large body of more conservative laymen, on the other hand, who think the church should stick to spiritual matters and stop meddling in politics and «social» issues.

It may be that it was conservative activists, not liberal ones, who were the prime movers in the realignment of our politics, and that they remade America» if not always in the ways they had intended.

«If you can't persuade, silence,» tweeted Karen Swallow Prior, professor and pro-life activist who recently recalled her own encounter with the limits of liberal free speech when protesting abortion in the 1980s and»90s.

But Reed, who formerly led the Christian Coalition, charges that the controversy around calls for abortion bans without exceptions for rape or incest --- he says anti-abortion activists generally support abortions to save a mother's life - has been blown out of proportion by Democrats and liberals who want to paint the GOP as extremist.

My father is a lifelong environmentalist, educator and private school administrator who in retirement is an accomplished and successful community organizer and liberal / radical political activist.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, who remains controversial even after death for pushing a vegetarian diet for young children in the latest edition of his baby book, was an anti-war activist, civil rights leader, health care reformer and one of the great liberals of the 20th Century.

I have felt honoured to be so welcomed by the Fabians and by yourself in the time since I left, and I really am interested in having this debate, but whilst interning I really was taken aback by the culture of hierarchy and deference not just in the Fabians but across liberal think - tanks, the structures of gender and power and who was and wasn't allowed to contribute to the debate, compared to my subsequent experiences in the activist movement, where even very young, inexperienced people are treated as equals.

Ellison, who had lost his bid for DNC chairman against former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, had drawn the ire last week of liberal activists in New York when he posed for a selfie with IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

«While it is obvious the progressive blogosphere is superior, we are being out - organized on Twitter,» said Gina Cooper, a blogger who helped organize Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of online liberal activists that met last week in Pittsburgh.

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.

In a recent Siena College poll, he held a 58 percent to 27 percent lead among registered Democrats over the activist and actress Cynthia Nixon, who is trying to appeal to more liberal voters.

Electoral reform is viewed as a key policy goal for Liberal Democrat grassroots activists, who many Conservative ministers fear could force the premature collapse of the coalition if they do not succeed in making major policy gains.

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.»

The Green Party nominee had initially proposed this year that the labor - backed Working Families Party should endorse his candidacy in order to present a united liberal front against Cuomo, who liberal activists remain deeply skeptical of when it comes to economic policies.

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.

Former Liberal Democrat chief executive Lord Rennard has issued a written apology to four party activists who accused him of harassing them.

A former adviser to Nick Clegg, who was one of four party activists to make allegations against Lord Rennard, has said the row has now developed into a question of whether women matter to the Liberal Democrats.

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.

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.

California and New York — where almost 1 in 5 Americans live — are on their way to raising their minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, and the activists who spearheaded those efforts are now setting their sights on other similarly liberal, Democratic - led states.

This seat was once held by a principled, extremely liberal political science professor who came out of the ranks of rank - and - file party activists to win the seat, primarily due to his passion.

But Altschuler has also incurred the ire of tea party activists, who say he has exported jobs to Asia and is an extreme liberal because he once belonged to the Green Party.

Many tea party activists view Fiorina as too liberal and have fueled an upstart challenge by state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, who has been active in tea party protests.

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.

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.

We fight for fairness, we fight for justice, we act first, we lead by example,» he told the crowd cheering activists in rain slickers and carrying union signs, sounding more like an Occupy Wall Street protester than the fiscally conservative governor who has often aroused liberal ire.

«There will be continuing voices who are basically anti-coalition,» he goes on, mentioning a Tory backbencher called Peter Bone, who was recently heard making the case for a minority Tory government, issuing a tantalising rallying call to Tory activists: «Without being shackled to the Liberal Democrats we could introduce real Conservative policies relevant to the nation.»

Eliot Spitzer and Scott Stringer, the two Democrats locked in an increasingly personal battle over who will serve as New York City's next comptroller, brought their duel for progressive hearts and minds to The Tank, a performing arts space in Hell's Kitchen on Tuesday evening, where liberal activists sipped beers as the two men were grilled in back - to - back policy discussions.

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.

Gibbon was struck by the number of Liberal Democrats in parliament who told him how worried they were about the images that the cartoonists were embedding in the public consciousness (and in the minds of their party activists).

Now, two Democrats running for Ohio's open U.S. Senate seat in 2010 are seizing on the chance to score points with liberals and party activists - the kind of people who vote in Democratic primaries - by pledging to «to help lead the fight for the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.»

But he praised activists for backing North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb's controversial proposals to part - privatise the Royal Mail, adding: «Liberal democracy can not be a struggle between those who wish to modernise and those who do not.

Not just as a spouse who knows him intimately, but as a deft political mind in her own right: a feminist activist who understands grass - roots organizing, a liberal champion of the working class and an experienced author who has written speeches for leading New York officials.

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.