Sentences with phrase «liberal groups backing»

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Former WA Liberal leader Matt Birney has gone back to his revhead roots, taking up a general manager position at Automotive Holdings Group.

VICTORIA — Nearly 6000 children will finally keep their child support payments because parents, advocacy groups and New Democrats pressured the B.C. Liberals to stop clawing back their much needed support.

It reflects a years - long campaign by liberal Catholic activists to push back against the leadership of their church on controversial political matters - and years of White House bridge - building with a spectrum of Catholic groups.

Liberal groups accuse Republicans in Washington of pulling a bait and switch on social issues, saying the GOP took back the House last November by campaigning on fiscal issues, turning to hot buttons like abortion only after taking office.

The group also attempted to push back on criticism from liberals that their opposition to the contraception rule was akin to restricting access to forms of birth control.

The ruling outraged both liberals and conservatives, and a bipartisan group of senators pushed through an unprecedented vote to roll back the FCC's new rules.

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.

Their view was backed by Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert, the chair of the all - party parliamentary group on cycling.

Pastor Greg Edwards has the backing of a number of liberal groups and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who campaigned for him earlier this month.

A coalition of liberal groups is releasing new polling to show that health care could be a key issue in the midterms, and that a vote for the Republican health care plan last year could come back to hurt GOP incumbents.

She has been backed by liberal groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Justice Democrats, and the Working Families Party.

But the coalition of liberal groups want Cuomo and the Legislature to go further and back a «mansion tax» on real estate transfers.

Nixon has secured the backing in recent days of a number of progressive groups, like the Working Families Party, who argue Cuomo isn't liberal enough.

«A group of shadow ministers believe that one of Tony Blair's bigger strategic mistakes was to row back on co-operation with the Liberal Democrats when he won such a large Commons majority in 1997.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

«It looks as if the Liberal Democrat group will come back into the new parliament about the same size,» he said.

Fair Elections is a coalition of mostly liberal and union - aligned groups backing a bill that would publicly finance campaigns, including the WFP.

The Democratic - led Assembly previously approved the measure favored by the Fair Elections umbrella group, a coalition of labor - backed organizations and other liberal - leaning advocacy groups.

Even before the swearing - in for his second term, de Blasio is headed back to Iowa, the land of presidential hopefuls, to headline a December fund - raiser in Des Moines for a liberal group and polish his own national profile.

The liberal political group MoveOn.org endorsed Sanders, backing him after its officials spent months in search of an alternative to Clinton and invested $ 1 million in ads to draft Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren for the race.

Add the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union to the list of labor groups not happy with the liberal Working Families Party, which suffered a big loss in New York last week after backing Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton.

On February 17, 2005, Hillary Clinton joined with Left - wing Senator Barbara Boxer in introducing the Count Every Vote Act, a hodge - podge of so - called «reforms» backed by extreme liberal groups such as People for the American Way.

She was backed by about $ 500,000 in media and direct - mail spending by EMILY's List, while Schatz received about $ 400,000 in air and mail support from the League of Conservation Voters and liberal groups like MoveOn.org.

Liberal groups who have backed Moser criticized the DCCC for openly taking sides in a primary and going after a Democratic candidate.

The decision made by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant to extend the grant funding for thirty one projects registered with Environment Wales until the end of March 2017, came following a persistent campaign, led by the Environmental groups and with backing from William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Environment.

Other labor leaders aligned with the governor have threatened to create a competing new labor party of their own, as Mr. Cuomo has himself urged labor leaders to stop giving money to liberal community groups backing Ms. Nixon.

The group, which is backing third - party candidate Doug Hoffman, calls Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens «two liberals» in a new television spot set to hit airwaves in parts of New York's 23rd district on Tuesday.

«The way to stand up to Trump's attacks on our democracy and working families can not be to empower Republicans in the State Senate whose goals are aligned with the Trump regime,» said Bill Lipton, state director of the Working Families Party, a labor - backed group that has pushed Democrats to embrace liberal policies.

Edwards has led the field in fundraising and has the backing of national liberal groups.

Mr. Liu had been widely expected to endorse Mr. Schneiderman, who is backed by the same coalition of unions and liberal groups that helped elect Mr. Liu last year.

I understand that a group of shadow ministers believe that one of Tony Blair's bigger strategic mistakes was to row back on co-operation with the Liberal Democrats when he won such a large Commons majority in 1997.

Neil Kinnock wanted to be liked tried to appeal to groups that Labour hadn't in the past courted, the police, the city, small businessmen, liberals, Ed has tried to appeal to a group that haven't voted labour in 12 years union activists and guardian readers, while only loosing a few progress types, will the Tories manage to portray him as kinnock no, 2, but those people in the city, those sceptical of unions or the police who stopped voting Tory in97 ′ have never gone back to the Tories to see.

Norman Lamb's campaign to become leader of the Liberal Democrats has received a significant boost after another former party leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, and a large group of other former MPs, declared their backing for the Norfolk MP.

De Blasio has backed a broader push among liberal groups and labor unions to swing the Senate back to Democratic control, headlining fund - raisers for the Democrats» campaign committee and helping extract a pledge from the Independent Democratic Conference to re-join the main conference next year.

But this election is different for SEIU and AFSCME, with the core group of five candidates also being backed by the Chicago Teachers Union — which played a major role in recruiting Garcia and has pumped more than $ 570,000 into aldermanic races so far — and United Working Families, a coalition of liberal organizations formed in July.

Bruinius's account, enlivened with many novelistic touches, is backed up by well - documented hard data, including the legislative records that show how 30 states implemented forced sterilization programs; and how many individuals and groups including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, Ivy League scholars, temperance advocates, suffragists, and liberal American churches and synagogues all got behind the campaign, inspired by the idea that America could be a place where moral purity and social harmony reigned.

This leads back to my open question: Can we foster a culture in which veracity is more valuable than one's cultural identity as a liberal or libertarian, group hugger or individualist...?

The threatened early termination of Liddell is one reason that the Monash Forum has gone on the offensive — a fired - up group of 30 National and Liberal MPs are determined not only to prevent that event, but also to ensure that Victoria replaces its recently closed 1,600 MW Hazelwood plant, with a High - Efficiency Low - Emissions coal - fired plant, to prevent blackouts and bring power prices back to earth in that state.

First, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is a well - funded environmental, global warming nut - case group that backs Obama, Tester, and every other flaming liberal candidate in America.

Notwithstanding the liberal «relation back» principles of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and despite the plaintiffs» claim of «fraudulent concealment,» the Appellate Practice Group secured an award of summary judgment in favor of all additional defendants based on the statute of limitations defense.