Sentences with phrase «liberal advocacy groups in»

«For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church,» says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington.

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Democrats, liberal advocacy groups, and immigrants» rights activists have long been opposed to the idea, which has been repeatedly proposed by Republican lawmakers in recent years.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

But Faso has come under fire from liberal advocacy groups after backing the passage in the House of Representatives of the American Health Care Act, the bill that would dismantled the Affordable Care Act.

Those 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.

Liberal advocacy groups have once again pointed to the alliance between Republicans and the IDC this year in urging Democratic control of the chamber.

Liberal advocacy groups have gone all - in on the anti-DeVos push, sensing the chance to derail at least one Trump nominee odious in their eyes (my email inbox contains one action alert after another).

Mainline Democrats in the Senate have spent the last several months applying pressure with the help from liberal advocacy groups to bring the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference into an alliance with them.

Speakers from left - leaning groups teed off on Cuomo, accusing him of being a «phony» liberal that enables Republicans in the state legislature, and insisting that defunding their advocacy outfits would hurt the low - income and immigrant population those entities serve.

The video, which features IDC Leader Jeff Klein speaking directly into the camera about the eight conference members, comes as the conference is under pressure from liberal advocacy groups to return to the fold of mainline Democrats in the Senate and deliver a working majority for the party.

Pressure is being placed on the IDC by a constellation of liberal advocacy groups to form an alliance with the mainline Democrats in the Senate in hopes of reaching a governing majority.

Amazon is not without controversy, with the company being pushed by some to add union jobs while a coalition of liberal advocacy groups have called on elected officials to not offer tax breaks and other credits to the company in exchange for job creation.

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.

In the crowded primary to succeed ex-Representative Tom Price, the Republican just confirmed as Donald Trump's new Health and Human Services Secretary, former Democratic Capitol Hill aide Jon Ossoff collected more than $ 500,000 through the liberal advocacy group Daily Kos.

Tuesday marked the deadline for presidential candidates to express interest in attending an aspirationally bipartisan Iowa presidential forum sponsored by The Progressive Agenda Committee, the national advocacy group founded by de Blasio, New York City's liberal Democratic mayor.

Liberal groups are employing top - shelf political tactics in their grass - roots advocacy campaigns, driven by the memory of being outflanked by conservative activists in the summer of 2009.

Ilya Sheyman, a former Illinois congressional candidate and executive director of the 16 - year - old liberal advocacy group — formed in 1998 in reaction to the impeachment of then - President Bill Clinton — sent subscribers to its e-mail list a message entitled «Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu.»

The poll of 542 voters in the district was conducted Nov. 27 to Nov. 28 by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, N.C., for «Not One Penny,» a coalition of liberal advocacy groups that oppose the tax overhaul.

In October 2014, researchers for the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress cited the Pygmalion Effect as an argument in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 201In October 2014, researchers for the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress cited the Pygmalion Effect as an argument in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 201in favor of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards, a bold education reform adopted by more than 40 states starting in 201in 2010.

The liberal advocacy group People for the American Way has dropped its annual report that chronicled incidents of alleged censorship in U.S. public schools.

Scot Ross, executive director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, which tracks campaign spending in the race, said Humphries» decision to resign during the campaign «is putting his political ambitions before kids.»

Alexandria, VA — This weekend, union leaders and liberal advocacy groups from across the country will march in Washington, D.C. for what they call the «Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action.»

An email released Wednesday by the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now written by Holtz when he was superintendent of Whitnall School District shows Holtz in January 2016 expected the group to do organizing and fundraising for him.

But since we know that «liberal Democrats» don't watch Fox News and instinctively dismiss everything that conservative advocacy groups say, a plausible hypothesis is that the advocates whom these individuals do credit have imprinted in their minds a highly politicized picture of who climate scientists are and what they are up to.