Sentences with phrase «local tea party groups»

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.

That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states.

In May, Mourdock toppled longtime Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar in a bitter primary contest with the support of national, state and local tea party groups.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

Not exact matches

Religion News Service: Nuns on the Bus meet Tea Party protests in Ohio The «Nuns on the Bus» have been a consistently popular and effective faith - based tool for religious progressives this campaign season, but on Monday a group of demonstrators apparently organized by a local Tea Party affiliate met the nuns at a stop in Marietta, Ohio, and provided a far different welcome than the sisters usually receive.

That's why an equally impressive array of national figures such as Dr. Henry Kissinger, and local organizations such as the East End's premier Tea Party group, the Suffolk County 9 - 12 Project, have wholeheartedly rejected your candidate and endorsed my candidacy.

Saturday's rally was spearheaded by local Tea Party activist Rus Thompson and the Shooters Committee On Political Education, a gun advocacy group.

Conservative and tea - party groups demand local control of schools, while the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, like other business groups nationally, argues the standards will build a better workforce.

In this way, left - leaning interest groups like local teachers unions are ideologically aligned with Tea Party Republicans.

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