Sentences with phrase «liberal agenda»

Some within their own party felt their should be a more liberal agenda.

This is the ultimate purpose of the entire Liberal agenda.

In the previous hour, Mr. Cuomo had appeared at the party's nominating convention in the Desmond Hotel via recorded video and in a live phone call to the convention ballroom, pledging to pursue a lengthy list of liberal agenda items.

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«After all, Brindisi has spent years rubber - stamping Cuomo's failed liberal agenda in Albany — and Nancy Pelosi knows he would do the same for her in Washington,» said NRCC spokesman Chris Smith.

This January, there could be as many as three or four freshman lawmakers with strong relationships with labor and the WFP in the chamber and Gov. Andrew Cuomo seeking a host of decidedly liberal agenda items for the final two years of his first term.

The real Trojan horse in the Birmingham affair is the imposition on schoolchildren of a radical liberal agenda lurking behind a thin veneer of «British Values».

I asked Hubbard if he was upset that the current gubernatorial Cuomo hasn't been pushing the same liberal agenda as private citizen Cuomo.

The original Coalition Agreement was an impressive document, containing many elements of a Social Liberal agenda for government and demonstrating the benefits of compromise — both for Liberal Democrats and for the country.

Cuomo in recent months has emphasized a decidedly liberal agenda with a $ 15 minimum wage proposal that puts him closer policy wise to Sen. Bernie Sanders than his endorsed presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton and he wants to create a 12 - week paid family leave program — all measures backed by the Assembly Democrats.

Agreed so long as they go against those who support liberal agendas and candidates as well as conservatives.

Still, Cuomo sought to shore up support from business leaders that he won in 2010, despite concerns that he will be forced in to a more liberal agenda next year.

To wit: «Nancy Pelosi deserves some credit for convincing Sue Sullivan to embrace her painfully out - of - of touch liberal agenda.

What is wrong is CNN and other Liberal agenda staions are trying to persicute the boy for standing for what he believed His lord would have him do.

Republican control will make it impossible to get many liberal agenda items through Albany, like the Women's Equality Act and an increase to the minimum wage.

They want to fool parents into thinking that its our responsibility to take over the teaching of Math, Science, Reading and the basics so they can push social ultra liberal agenda.

Prepare to reap the whirlwind of cascading debts, broken social programs, and a failed liberal agenda folks.

Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy welcomed de Blasio during introductions before the speech, in which Cuomo laid out a fiscally conservative but socially liberal agenda.

That said, Iceland's remoteness, its fishing - and tourism - based economy, and its independence from the EU have spared the country from immigration and globalization pressures and allowed the Pirate liberal agenda to stay liberal, largely free from the nativist tones that are increasingly dominating protest movements in Europe and the U.S..

CNN has a vested interest and a strong liberal agenda.

It has fallen in this way before (between the mid 60s and late 70s) and subsequently recovered, but will it do so again, not least since Labour adopted a socially - liberal agenda under Blair?

The mainline conference over the last several months has received reinforcements in the form of the labor - aligned Working Families Party, which released on Monday a «resistance» manifesto that urged the IDC to reconcile in order to pass sought - after liberal agenda measures.

It is clear that a social - liberal agenda remains, and that there are many areas where the coalition agreement is woefully inadequate.

Unlike Spitzer, Cuomo has nurtured the Republican senate, belittling liberal agenda items like raising the minimum wage and shrinking income inequality through much of his first term.

A coalition of so - called progressive advocacy organizations — including a number of powerful labor unions and the labor - backed Working Families Party — has formed a new entity to support and push for the wide - reaching liberal agenda proposed this session by the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus.

With his chronically gravelly voice and relentlessly liberal agenda, Sherrod Brown seems to have stepped out of «Les Miserables,» hoarse from singing revolutionary anthems at the barricades.

Now is the chance for him to strike out with his own liberal agenda,» said Mark Dunlea of Hunger Action which hosts The Peoples» State of the State each year to focus on progressive issues.

The law abiding citizenry of NY is finally waking up to the overzealous Progressive Liberal agenda and will not tolerate it any longer!

Though Mr. Beatty is obviously dedicated to the passionately liberal agenda that is espoused here, it's not his particular convictions that make the film fly.

There's a labor - history professor and former Peace Corps volunteer pressing a traditional liberal agenda of equal educational opportunity.

Instead they teach Ultra Liberal agenda to the minds of our kids.They probe kids on private family business and violate parents and students civil rights.

Bob Chase, NEA's high - profile president who stepped down in summer 2002 after two terms, was seen by some critics as advocating too liberal an agenda.

Colin Greer, a Scottish - bred educator who is president of the New World Foundation, which pursues a politically liberal agenda, reiterated such qualms....

One of YCER's first steps will be to address what Combs calls the «lack of education» among conservative Americans who may have tuned out the energy debate because they see it as a strictly liberal agenda.

Buffalo Democrat Erik Bohen ran a successful Assembly campaign with Republican and Conservative support, and by targeting Cuomo's «radical liberal agenda.»

Silver's political acumen will be tested this year, when he'll contend with a Republican - controlled Senate hostile to the Assembly's more liberal agenda.

«Despite losing 1,042 state and federal seats in eight years, national Democrats are still pushing the same divisive rhetoric and painfully out - of - touch liberal agenda.»

The vested interests of Thatcherism in both the Tories and Labour are well dug in, but a radical social liberal agenda can help to displace them at the ballot box.

He has stubbornly refused to offer a comprehensive platform, contending that a leadership contest is only the first step in the development of a new Liberal agenda.

«If she's a female pastor, what other liberal agenda is she going to foist on us?

And leave it to CNN to track them down and exploit it to fit their ultra liberal agenda!

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wanted to pursue a decidedly liberal agenda of increasing the state's minimum wage, be the first to pass a sweeping gun control law in the wake of the Newtown tragedy and strengthen abortion rights in an expansive women's agenda package.

Cuomo instead governed as a Clintonian centrist, pushing for a socially liberal agenda (same - sex marriage, abortion rights, gun control) that he hoped would balance out economic policies that prompted the state's highest - ranking GOP official to call him «a good, moderate Republican.»

For example, there is a heightened understanding in the wake of November's election that if a brand buys an ad in The Huffington Post, for example, it could be perceived as supporting a liberal agenda, Prout said.