Sentences with phrase «of liberal groups»

But the coalition of liberal groups want Cuomo and the Legislature to go further and back a «mansion tax» on real estate transfers.

«The Catholic bishops and their allies in the Republican Party are increasingly isolated,» James Salt, executive director of a liberal group called Catholics United, said in a statement over the weekend supporting the White House's contraception rule.

A leader for the group Indivisible, who has partnered with a number of liberal groups around the United States for town hall events since last year, slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Thursday on Facebook for endorsing one candidate over other Democratic candidates in the primary.

The Working Families Party is part of a growing chorus of liberal groups hoping the agreement on a $ 15 minimum wage isn't watered down at the expense of upstate voters.

King has emerged as a response vehicle of sorts for the governor, holding a counter news conference in Manhattan as protesters from an assortment of liberal groups demonstrated outside of the governor's office.

A leader for the group Indivisible, which has partnered with a number of liberal groups around the United States for town hall events since last year, slammed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Thursday on Facebook for endorsing one candidate over other Democratic candidates in the primary.

Other supporters of Cuomo's opponent include the Yonkers Firefighters Union and a variety of liberal groups such as the Sierra Club and the National Organization of Women.

Leaders of liberal groups including Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee decried Hoyer urging Tillemann to leave the race and called on Hoyer to step down from Democratic leadership.

«Are the grassroots voters aligned with the organizers of these liberal groups and is there a movement?»

The WFP had been among a range of liberal groups and organizations seeking to push the IDC and Brooklyn Democratic Sen. Simcha Felder to align with the mainline Democrats in the Senate and apply pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the same time to broker a compromise.

«So many of these liberal groups don't adequately inform their members... When you have misinformation or lack of information put into their head's, it's a disservice to them and to me,» Obey said

The greater transparency of liberal groups has helped drive a perception that liberal billionaires, not conservative ones, have been the biggest political donors this cycle.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee today joined the chorus of liberal groups urging Cuomo, who leads the state Democratic Party, to use his considerable institutional and political clout to unify the splintered caucuses.

Murshed Zaheed, political director of the liberal group CREDO Action, said Democrats» decision shows Schumer's willingness to betray progressives.

Plaintiffs in the suit include One Wisconsin Institute, the research arm of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund.

Public employee unions, which are overwhelming supporters of liberal groups and Democrats, would be strengthened under Demos's plan, to the detriment of students and taxpayers.

At the same event, Paul Marshall, founder of liberal think tank CentreForum, also noted how Boris Johnson seems to have captured the imagination of this liberal group of voters, but asked «why should they be generation Boris, they should be generation Jeremy!»

The governor, a second - term Democrat facing re-election in the fall, has been aggressive in fending off Ms. Nixon's unexpectedly vigorous primary challenge, which was announced in mid-March, and has since garnered endorsements from a handful of liberal groups.

Flanked by a collection of liberal groups and labor leaders, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday announced a raft of proposals on social issues, among them a plan that would raise the minimum wage to $ 11.50 an hour in New York City and $ 10.50 an hour in the rest of the state.

Yet one major Democratic donor, the Virginia real estate developer Albert J. Dwoskin, said the fluidity in the universe of liberal groups would cause some donors to sit on the sidelines «to wait to see which ones have any legs whatsoever.»

Calls for open enrollment across districts are usually the province of liberal groups, said Kevin Carey, director of education policy at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research group.

A coalition of liberal groups, including Citizen Action of New York, meanwhile, are applauding the resolution for not including a merging of the bank tax as proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his $ 142 billion spending plan.

Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, called the program «the gold standard for failure and lack of accountability.»

Health care is the talk of the town and starting today, an assortment of liberal groups are holding «People's Filibuster» rallies on Capitol Hill to oppose the Senate Republican effort to repeal the 2010 health care law.

This lawsuit was filed by a variety of liberal groups, most notably the Washington Educators Association, the state teachers union, who also happened to be major campaign contributors to every Supreme Court justice who sided with their organization.

Pastor Greg Edwards has the backing of a number of liberal groups and Sen. Bernie Sanders, who campaigned for him earlier this month.

A coalition of liberal groups is releasing new polling to show that health care could be a key issue in the midterms, and that a vote for the Republican health care plan last year could come back to hurt GOP incumbents.

A coalition of liberal groups and organizations is forming a new campaign to push for a «true» millionaires tax, the same day Wall Street Journal's report that Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering a reshuffling of the state's tax code in order to achieve a more progressive system,

A coalition of liberal groups will start a pressure campaign designed to warn against providing tax benefits and other inducements to Amazon as state economic development officials seek to bring the online retailer's next headquarters to New York.

(CNN)- Five weeks after Tea Party enthusiasts rallied in Washington and one month before mid-term elections, a coalition of liberal groups will have their turn on the streets of the U.S. capital.

Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Now, on Thursday also reacted to the State Journal report, saying Republican lawmakers «are willing to sell out our public schools» in exchange for campaign donations from pro-voucher supporters.