Sentences with phrase «more of our progressive agenda»

On Sunday de Blasio told reporters, «I think this is going to be a real decisive moment in terms of changing the State Senate and getting a lot more of our progressive agenda done.»

Not exact matches

Progressives will be expecting the government to deliver on its ambitious social agenda, and will note that this could be easily funded on the revenue side by implementing a modest corporate tax increase, by scaling back the so - called middle class tax cut, and by setting more ambitious targets for the promised Liberal review of tax loopholes for the most affluent.

What we are supposed to be open to always fits a progressive moral - political agenda of ever more individual freedom and equality.

And I can't see that using «the new progressive politics of the family» to «take on the right's agenda» amounts to very much more than stealing «education, education, education» from Romano Prodi in 1997 or Obama's dog whistle use of «change» in 2009.

[in support of a more progressive agenda that will protect women's rights, safeguard the environment and ensure that those who can most easily afford it pay their fair share.]

The Democratic Convention ended in Philadelphia having integrated much of Sanders» progressive agenda into the Democratic Party Platform of 2016, and solidified a more than ninety percent rate of support from those who had voted for Sanders in the primaries.

In 2011, people from all over New York came forward to help us raise over $ 2 million in support of a more progressive agenda that will protect women's rights, safeguard the environment and ensure that those who can most easily afford it pay their fair share.

Koppell had been pushing for a more progressive agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion agenda including a higher minimum wage and public financing of campaigns, passage of the Dream Act, which would allow students in the country illegally access to state financial aid, along with all 10 points of the Women's Equality Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion Agenda, which includes a contentious abortion plank.

And the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party is unhappy with the coalition, saying it makes it harder to move ahead a more progressive agenda.

De Blasio has proposed a package of housing ideas that would make state rent regulations more tenant - friendly and alter a state tax - rebate plan that's intended to subsidize affordable housing, all to advance his progressive agenda.

Politically, much of Mr. Cuomo's agenda for 2015 seems designed to appeal to his party's progressives — not the hardliners, to be sure, but those slightly left of center who might find themselves looking for a presidential candidate next year if Hillary Clinton decides that eight years of living in the White House was more than enough, thank you.

Cuomo, to chants of «four more years», promised to deliver in his next term on a mostly progressive agenda, including enacting a number of items that were stalled in the State Senate over the past couple of years, like an abortion rights provision as part of a women's rights agenda and public financing of political campaigns.

Since the formation of the IDC in 2011, mainline Democrats have howled that the IDC's partnership with the GOP has blocked consideration of key progressive agenda items such as the development of a single - payer health care system, campaign finance reforms, abortion protections and more.

Teachout has a pretty bold progressive agenda — get the rich to pay more of their fair share, raise the minimum wage, boost education funding by a lot.

«We need more people in Congress like Rory Lancman — elected officials who will promote a progressive agenda and do what is necessary to improve the lives of working people and rebuild the middle class.»

Transparency and comparison of performance against local plans, strategies for support and intervention for struggling areas, and mechanisms for patients to achieve change both in their own care and in local services more widely would all need to be part of a progressive reform agenda.

«We wish to advise the DSS to pay more attention to the growing insecurity in the country, instead of acting as an arm of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to pursue the evil agenda of destabilizing the Fayose - led government.

The mayor first convened a panel of progressive leaders at Gracie Mansion in April and announced plans to create an agenda similar to the Republican's «Contract With America» effort of the 1990s but focused more on income inequality.

ICYMI: Allies of the Senate Democrats, who are anxious to see a Democrat - controlled upper house in order to more easily pass what they have deemed a «progressive» agenda, are now injecting race into the equation, noting a coalition between the Republicans and Independent Democratic Conference will be dominated by white men.

Whether the principal goal of the campaign is to win the election, secure a ballot line, expand the scope of public discourse, force other candidates to adopt a more progressive platform, or expand and strengthen the party, the campaign is the means by which we submit the Green agenda to the voting public.

I know we finished part of our progressive agenda, but there is so much more to do.

In an interview Wednesday evening, Klein said that the central problem with trying to come together before November's elections was more basic: a lack of votes on the unaccomplished progressive agenda items.

Gordon Brown's conference speech contained one announcement which is perhaps more important than many people realise: the prime minister's commitment to legislate for the goal of ending child poverty offers an important example of how entrenching Labour's legacy, defining its future agenda and testing the Conservative claim to be «progressive» all go together.

There are the Independent Democrats, a breakaway group of eight legislators who control the State Senate in partnership with Republicans — an arrangement the Independent Democrats say empowers them to sway legislative priorities to the left, but that mainstream Democrats blame for blocking a more uniformly progressive agenda.

A cynical theory has it that the teachers unions like recruiting future teachers from the bottom of their classes because they will be more compliant than their sharper classmates, thus making it easier for the unions to foist their socially progressive agenda and other dictates on them.

It seems to me that the recent slew of «make Dark Souls easy» articles are done for either the ease of reviewers or to perpetuate the progressive agenda, where the now popular Souls community has to be more inclusive.

Help define the skill sets, competencies, and talents that lawyers and other department members (whomever those people might be) might need in order to add value to the company's progressive business agenda if an increasing amount of routine and repeating legal work might be more likely to be handled with automation / technology;