Sentences with phrase «many liberal activists»

He also joined Bain Capital, which is hardly the ideal launching pad for a quest to win over liberal activists.

NEW YORK, March 19 - Actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars of the «Sex and the City» television series and movies, announced on Monday she would run for governor of New York, challenging incumbent Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic nomination.

This time the pen was wielded by Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a sharp» tongued liberal activist only too happy to discover new rights in the penumbras, emanations, and hitherto undiscovered corners of the Constitution.

Democratic politicians and liberal activists went to work, learning from the political and policy mistakes of the Clintons and preparing for the next opportunity.

Americans no longer love their own nation because the liberal activists didn't teach US history right.

Mabel, you've been brainwashed by the liberal activists in public schools.

I'll post what I can of the 21st century manifesto below (don't want to detract from the wonderful liberal activist hate video below... remember they aren't going to discuss Mitt's religion (they're just going to lie about it)

Those maligning Mia for her religion are liberal activists.

Filmmaker Michael Moore, a liberal activist and avowed supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, says he'll support Hillary Clinton if she's the Democratic presidential nominee.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings, and he encouraged Democrats to back a movement to award Electoral College votes to the national popular vote winner.

Liberal activists had long sought a Democratic majority in the Senate and some, including the Working Families Party, were not pleased with the timeline for the unity plan to come fruition.

The proposal appears to be the latest effort by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to show his public intent at uniting Democrats in the Senate, a fractious chamber that has become an increasingly sore point for liberal activists in New York that was heightened in the wake of President Trump's election.

But Democratic and liberal activists who have been pushing for an end to Republican control say it's not moving fast enough.

This angered liberal activists, which has been pressuring the governor to call a special ASAP because they don't want to see the Republicans continue to control the Senate through what is shaping up to be a protracted budget battle.

Will the new business bring in enough revenue to make up for the liberal activists who are now feeling outright betrayed by Change?

Democrats are facing an open breach between the demands of their political base and the strict limits of their power, as liberal activists dream of transforming the health care system and impeaching Trump, while candidates in hard - fought elections ask wary independent voters merely for a fresh chance at governing.

Liberal activists have blamed Cuomo for the arrangement in the Senate that led Republicans to retain power.

The now - defunct Progressive Media USA, a liberal activist group, had done polling on the potential line of attack and concluded that it alone would have little impact against McCain, whose «brand» as a maverick Republican has proved difficult to crack.

Ellison, who had lost his bid for DNC chairman against former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, had drawn the ire last week of liberal activists in New York when he posed for a selfie with IDC Sen. Marisol Alcantara.

«While it is obvious the progressive blogosphere is superior, we are being out - organized on Twitter,» said Gina Cooper, a blogger who helped organize Netroots Nation, an annual gathering of online liberal activists that met last week in Pittsburgh.

Liberal activists who have been critical of Cuomo on education and other issues think an insurgent with greater name recognition could provide a stronger challenge, even though polls say Cuomo is still popular among Democratic voters statewide.

With the level of attention the nominations were getting from liberal activists, Gonzales said, «confirmation votes could be one important measure of a candidate's dedication to opposing the current president.»

Gipson is considering a run for governor, hoping to harness liberal activists to propel him to victory over Cuomo.

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Actor and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon has made Cuomo's ties to the IDC a major part of her primary challenge to the two - term governor.

It sets up a longshot bid pitting an openly gay liberal activist who has never held political office against a two - term incumbent with a $ 30 million war chest and possible presidential ambitions.

Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»

The Green Party nominee had initially proposed this year that the labor - backed Working Families Party should endorse his candidacy in order to present a united liberal front against Cuomo, who liberal activists remain deeply skeptical of when it comes to economic policies.

The move would require a waiving or change of the Green Party's rules against fusion ballot sharing, but Hawkins suggested the discontent with Cuomo among liberal activists could help both the Greens and the WFP.

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.

In April 2015, Blake and State Senator Gustavo Rivera, along with liberal activist Groups, blasted the police for shoving and arresting activists in demonstrations seeking to express solidarity with protests in Baltimore, Md. over the mysterious death of black civilian Freddie Gray while in police custody.

Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting organized by a liberal activist group last week.

In the telling of liberal activists, who hope New York will become a left - leaning bulwark against Mr. Trump, Mr. Cuomo has made only a watered - down effort at establishing a solid Democratic majority in the State Senate.

Mainstream Democrats, liberal activists, and the Working Families Party were out to punish IDC members for having empowered Senate Republicans and for preventing a progressive agenda from advancing in the New York State Senate.

Karen Scharff, one of the state Capitol's most ubiquitous liberal activists, runs both the Education Fund and Citizen Action.

Liberal activists were left seething over his feeble efforts to help fellow Democrats.

Attorney and commentator Alan Dershowitz tore into actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon on Twitter as an anti-Israel bigot, before and after she officially launched her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New York.

LAS VEGAS — It wasn't lost on the 2,100 liberal activists gathered in Las Vegas at Netroots Nation for the annual four - day confab that the only Obama administration official who made the trip this time was Treasury Secretary Ray LaHood — a Republican.

Liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore believes President Trump is on track to win reelection in 2020 despite his low approval poll ratings.

Alan Dershowitz tore into actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon on Twitter as an anti-Israel bigot, before and after she officially launched her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New York.

Liberal activists have been unhappy with Cuomo's business - friendly election - year budget, but no obvious candidate has emerged to take the governor on from his left.

Liberal activists are furious with Democratic senators after most of them agreed to reopen the federal government without a firm path to shielding young immigrants from deportation.

By this time he was a Liberal activist and became a public affairs consultant, among other things advising emergent democracies in Bosnia, Lithuania and Albania and also becoming director of an internet company.

I'm not going with that guy,» said Lewis, the founder and president of The Black Institute and the former head of the defunct liberal activist group ACORN.

A longtime liberal activist and ally to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Nixon has recently hinted at a primary run to Cuomo's left.

She spoke Friday to an audience of about 250 labor leaders, elected officials, candidates for elected office and liberal activists at the annual Labor Day Breakfast held by the Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, AFL - CIO.

In recent weeks, Cuomo has approached his traditional donors, public and private sector unions as well as a host of mega-donors and check - writers from the business elite, including uber - rich liberal activists George Soros, Agnes Gund and Bernard Schwartz, sources said.

The cheering from liberal activists who hate the governor, and from Democrats who've been on the receiving end of his pettiness, had to be heartening.

Should Perez have fallen short, the impact on Cuomo could have been even worse for the ire focused on Cuomo by liberal activists.

Among the groups that it gave money, according to the outlet, is Indivisible — a group that sent liberal activists to Republican town halls last year.