Sentences with phrase «liked on both sides of the aisle»

But he is nevertheless well - liked on both sides of the aisle.

He's universally well liked on both sides of the aisle.

I just wish there were more like him on both sides of the aisle.

Not exact matches

Our audience is on both sides of the aisle, and we're hoping that this film can be just a way for everyone to be like, «Okay, we can agree on that.

And like Adams, Frank Wolf drew the affection and respect of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle, who know that the House is losing one of its unsullied moral reference points when Frank Wolf retires.

What's really at work here is something members don't like to discuss: Monserrate's involvement in the 2009 Senate coup soured members on both sides of the aisle and set them against him, making it all the more easy to expel him from their ranks.

The corruption is equivalent on boths sides of the aisle like my son's Little League team is on par wth the New York Yankees.

In the last week or so, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have clashed over what they'd like to see in the gun safety proposals.

We are confident that he will be able to work with like - minded legislators on both sides of the aisle to deliver on this agenda and truly create a New New York.

The elder Liggan has a reputation as an easygoing character and coalition - builder who is well - liked on both sides of the political aisle in this sometimes - deeply - divided town.

«If Cuomo were to think that Preet might be attorney general, it would be like kryptonite to Superman and would have the same effect on legislators on both sides of the aisle,» said Curtis Sliwa, a New York City talk radio host and activist who said he reached out to Bharara to offer him the Reform Party ballot line, which he controls.

Meanwhile, Mr. Smith might be best known for his zoot suits complete with suspenders and pinstripes, picking strange political battles like a press conference denouncing the rapper Dwayne «Lil Wayne» Carter, and his somewhat surprising decision to seek City Hall's top job on the other side of the partisan aisle without actually changing his voter registration.

On the other side of the aisle, residents like Scott Sommavilla, president of the Westchester Gun Owners Association, feel the ban, and rhetoric surrounding it, paints an unfair picture of how gun purchases in the county, and statewide, work.

Think more like the seats in an F - 16, bolted into a Spartan cabin: three rows, a seat on either side of the aisle and two windows per passenger, one to the side, the other overhead.

It now charges the national debate, around all policy, with a third - rail - like electricity on both sides of the aisle.

But in 17 years of working with policy makers on both sides of the aisle, Maass, a former superintendent and principal in Milwaukee, says he's never seen anything like last week's backroom deal to bring voucher schools to his community.

The NM State Plan has been widely recognized as one of the best in the country by independent groups and commissions on both sides of the aisle, and I would like to extend our state's appreciation to the Collaborative for Student Success & Bellwether Education Partners, the Alliance for Excellent Education, Results For America and other leading educational organizations that have weighed in with both praise and critique in the spirit of advancing student outcomes.

The decision to work with SRCP was made after meeting «with a variety of vendors on both sides of the aisle,» said Public Charter Schools» general consultant Jim Conroy, noting that the company has experience working in New England and on ballot questions like this year's charter referendum.

The reason there aren't more bad air quality days like this for Aaron and for millions of others was because, in 1970, Republicans on one side of the aisle and Democrats on the other side of the isle reached their hands across the partisan divide to create the Clean Air Act.

As to whether skeptics will «misrepresent or twist» the draft, some will, some won't... just like it will be twisted in the anti-clockwise direction by some folks on the other side of the aisle.