Sentences with phrase «liberal groups who»

Liberal groups who don't think Cuomo tilts far enough left are behind the effort, and Nixon's pals say she is considering a bid, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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

Robinson's campaign has gained momentum from liberal groups who opposed the Independent Democratic Conference, which Savino (D - North Shore / South Brooklyn) joined in 2011.

State Sen. Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat who leads the I.D.C., has had to carefully tread between the Republicans he allied with and liberal groups who could launch primary challenges if they feel he did not adequately deliver on progressive priorities.

Not exact matches

She said she doesn't want any groups of students or young workers unintentionally left behind by whatever changes the Liberals ultimately decide upon, but suggested that future changes would look to target vulnerable populations like indigenous youth and new immigrants, who have a harder time accessing the job market.

Past Red Deer - North Liberal candidate Michael Dawe announced via email this week that he will «investigate what might be involved, and what might be possible, in creating cross partisan alliances in the next election, in order to ensure that the people who elect us come first, instead of a group of semi-anonymous backroom players, who are always trying to set the agenda, regardless of what the general public might feel.»

A very hypocritical group who obviously has its liberal agenda to push — not the defender of rights for all people.

Apparently anyone who doesn't adhere to the liberal agenda is considered a hate group.

The neoconservatives, Dorrien explains, are a group of originally liberal intellectuals who became disaffected with McGovernism.

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

«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.

While it is true that classical musicians in general may be as «reflexively liberal» as any group of people in the United States, the fact is that there are many of us who are not.

Read a few of the links that come up and then tell me how logical it is that the very group who claims to be so liberal, and so against conservatives, will favour a far more conservative group (Muslims) over a not nearly as conservative group (Christians).

For example, when you have a LARGE GROUP of people (secular liberals in this example) who are staunchly for women's rights, gay rights, freedom of speech, etc; taking the side of Islamists over Christians; a lightbulb should be going off in your head saying, «hey, something ain't right here!»

And so Kramer joined a group of distinguished defectors from liberal ranks who called themselves neoconservatives.

The classic study in the 1980s by Robert and Linda Lichter and Stanley Rothman of the media elite (major reporters and executives at ABC, CBS, and NBC news, Time and Newsweek, and the New York Times and Washington Post) confirmed what everyone who pays attention to such things had already known: the men and women who give us the news are, as a group, politically more liberal, morally more permissive, and religiously more indifferent than the general public.

The only groups within Christian history that are not evangelical at bottom are those who deny apostolic Christianity or those who so thoroughly reinterpret it through their conceptual grid (i.e., Gnostics, anti-supernatural liberals) that it ceases to retain integrity with apostolic intent.

There are tragic victims, cover - ups, false allegations, demands for money, denials by those who can not face up to what has happened, campaigns by those who see tolerance of paedophilia as a liberal concept and by those who seek to use every anecdote, particularly of clerical abuse, to keep the story going and smear an entire group.

The survey found that resistance to Mormon candidates was even higher among two groups: liberal Democrats and evangelicals, who overwhelmingly vote Republican.

When faced with unplanned pregnancy there are pro-choice, liberal, secular women who have abortions and then there are pro-life, conservative, religious women who plan adoptions; both groups may parent, but this choice also comes with its fair share of stigmas and judgments if made under socially unacceptable circumstances, like being a young, single, or impoverished).

But the dairy groups make liberal use of the academy's name in its chocolate milk promotions, as well as the names of pediatricians who are «appointed» as «unpaid advisors» to the dairy industry when they rise to positions of influence.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

The party is hesitant to come out with something that pleases one group and alienates the other as it attempts to hold together a shaky coalition of city - dwelling liberals and comparatively socially conservative, but economically left - leaning, voters who're more likely to reside in smaller towns in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

In particular, things have looked up for the most talented members of the Osbornites, the group of pro-market Conservative MPs who share the chancellor's broadly liberal and metropolitan instincts and have been happy to do his bidding, either in the Commons or on the TV.

The IDC is rebuffing calls for unity from Democrats and liberal pressure groups to re-join the mainline conference of Democrats in the state Senate — calls that have intensified after the election of Brian Benjamin, who gives Democrats a numerical majority in the chamber.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

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

The Maryland Democrat faced sharp criticism from liberal groups Thursday after The Intercept reported Hoyer encouraged Levi Tillemann, who worked in President Barack Obama's Energy Department, to drop out of the race in Colorado's 6th District.

An open letter was published by a group called #LibDems4Change urging fellow party members to elect a new leader «who will get a fair hearing from voters about Liberal Democrat achievements and ambitions for the future».

«We are a group of Conservatives who believe in a modern, fair, and inclusive politics, an open, aspirational and liberal economics, and a strong, just, and pluralist society.

[155] The group's leader for seven and a half years was the South West England MEP Graham Watson, who was also the first Liberal Democrat to be elected to the European Parliament when he won the old Somerset and North Devon constituency in 1994.

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.

The latest executive actions have bolstered Cuomo's support among engaged liberal advocacy groups, ranging from LGBT organizations thrilled with his plan to write regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers to labor groups who have pushed him for years to take action on the minimum wage through the previously little - known power of the Department of Labor wage board.

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.

He could appeal to white ethnics in swing states, or rally the social liberals who admire him for having been out ahead of his party (and his president) on same - sex marriage, or perhaps headline a few fund - raisers with the wealthy New York donors who have stocked his own campaign coffers and funded the super PAC - like group dedicated to running pro-Cuomo advertising.

In 2014, he was still a new mayor, one who had ridden into City Hall on a hard progressive platform and a 73 percent electoral tsunami, who had installed the Council speaker of his choice and built a line of political credit with Gov. Andrew Cuomo by securing him support from liberal groups over the summer.

Sir Menzies Campbell and Lord Ashdown among group of senior Liberal Democrats who write letter to the Guardian in support of North Norfolk MP

The comments earned Cuomo — who has pointedly refused to return the $ 64,000 Trump and his family have donated to his past campaigns — ire from liberal groups, and apparently prompted him to backpedal furiously on social media this morning.

Flanagan and his members also have to contend with the pressure by liberals who want to see a group of eight breakaway Democrats led by Bronx Sen. Jeffrey Klein quit their leadership coalition with the GOP and form a new one with the mainline Dems.

The Anti-Corn Law League brought together a coalition of liberal and radical groups in support of free trade under the leadership of Richard Cobden and John Bright, who opposed militarism and public expenditure.

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.

Liberal groups are eager for the expiring rates to set the table for a debate on increasing taxes on the wealthy, essentially defined as the 1 percent of top earners in New York, or those who make $ 665,000 and above.

Also getting a good spot at the front is Baroness Sal Brinton, the wheelchair - bound Liberal Democrat president who previously chaired the party's diversity engagement group aimed at increasing the number of black and female Lib Dems.

The real problem though is that Baader Meinhof was a brutal and murderous group who were a bunch of naive German liberals who convinced themselves that what they were fighting for was justified.

The plans have provoked the ire of environmental groups and the Liberal Democrats, who claim it is a measure of the government's tenuous commitment to lowering carbon emissions.

In finding novel ways to commingle church and state, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, has carved himself a niche as a more inclusive kind of liberal, one who is willing to embrace religious groups rather than treat them as adversaries.

A liberal group on Wednesday will release a report calling on elected officials who have received donations from businessman Dan Loeb and his wife to return the money after his racially charged remarks made on Facebook this month.

All of which has raised the stakes for Sampson and Duane, who are feeling the heat from their liberal colleagues and gay - rights groups, which themselves are grappling with the frustrations of their financial backers.

Mr Adey, who represents Trumpington ward, stepped down from the Liberal Democrat group on both the city and county council.

Tactically, it means there is no longer a large group of centrist MPs who might be open to being folded into an electoral pact — as the former Liberal Party agreed to with the SDP, running as the Alliance.