Sentences with phrase «liberal icon»

When Cuomo took office in 2011 the Democrat and son of liberal icon Mario Cuomo seemed to take a page from his Republican counterpart across the river.

While he's the son of liberal icon Mario Cuomo, the current governor has hewed closer to the more centrist model of his other mentor, Bill Clinton.

The ex-governor, once a national liberal icon who was considered a potential presidential contender, was denied a fourth term 1994 by then - GOP Sen. George Pataki.

This year, the first to step up to the plate is Anthony Mele (pictured), 51, a Rockland - based businessman and Army vet who solidly identifies himself as an organizer with the burgeoning and conservative tea party movement that was credited with putting Republican Scott Brown into the vacant Massachusetts senate seat held by the late liberal icon Ted Kennedy.

In what truly is an embarrassing defeat for Democrats, the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by the late liberal icon Ted Kennedy has been won by Republican candidate Scott Brown.

This is exactly why I brought up the example of Jesse Jackson, as an archtype liberal icon.

Breaking Fox news: liberal icon Jesse Jackson calls Hurricane Irene a good reminder that humans are not in control and that we should be humbled by God.

As Christopher Blum has recently reminded us, liberal icons from Locke to Mill to Tocqueville consistently held up slave societies as among the most «progressive» in the modern West.

Many rank - and - file Republicans remember how he pulled the party back from the brink and helped propel a then - little - known state senator, George Pataki, to victory against liberal icon Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994.

Demos worked on Pataki's 1998 re-election campaign — the one in which Pataki cruised to victory against his Democratic opponent, former NYC Council Speaker Peter Vallone, after coming from pretty much nowhere (the back bench of the state Senate) to oust liberal icon Mario Cuomo from the governor's office four years earlier.

The author crafts a unique perspective of Cuomo as liberal icon — especially as his day's most vocal and eloquent counterbalance to Ronald Reagan and the conservatism he championed.

(His sister's middle name is «Adlai,» after the diplomat and liberal icon Adlai Stevenson, a onetime governor of Illinois and two - time Democratic presidential candidate.)

This has similarly been a central message of the great free - market Austrian School economists, most notably Ludwig von Mises (another personal classical liberal icon), who in his 1949 magnum opus Human Action claimed:

Instead of explaining why I am not worried about getting cancer from my cleanser, it is easier to just point out that another trusted liberal icon happens to endorse silica.

The son of liberal icon Mario Cuomo, the younger Cuomo rode into office promising to rein in state spending and reduce taxes that he says have driven businesses (and people) out of state.

Astorino often compares himself to Pataki, who was a little - known state senator way behind in the polls when he surged to an upset victory on Election Day, ousting a national liberal icon, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage «steal» $ 2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to Empire Center for Public Policy President E.J. McMahon.

Liberal icon and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she was «troubled» that ex-President Obama will pocket $ 400,000 for a speech to a top Manhattan investment firm.

Christie himself heaped praise on Cuomo, noting the «son of a liberal icon» is pushing policies that mirror his own — including the superintendents» salary cap.

«We get fired up about different issues,» the liberal icon told the annual Netroots Nation gathering here Saturday morning.

It seems that our Liberal Icon of a mayor got some rich guy in Texas with no history of donating to campaigns in New York to cut a $ 100,000 check to the Putnam County Dems.

The liberal icon famously scorned what he considered «vanity» acts by politicians.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo insults the legacy of his late father, liberal icon Mario Cuomo, by claiming that businesses paying the minimum wage «steal» $ 2 billion from taxpayers because their workers can get government subsidies, according to one of the state's best - known fiscal analysts.

The son of a liberal icon who has cast himself as a centrist, Cuomo has treated New York's financial services sector with kid gloves, quietly pushing through favorable policies and, a bit more loudly, holding the line against others» calls for tax increases.

Mario Cuomo, New York's 52nd governor and a national liberal icon, passed away on New Year's Day — the same day his eldest son, Andrew, was sworn in for a second term, and exactly 32 years after he was first inaugurated.