Sentences with phrase «old party activist»

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«This is more like the old politics than the new,» says a disgruntled Lib Dem source who believes that Clegg, like Tony Blair in his pomp, will strike a confrontational pose at the party's annual conference in Liverpool and face down activists unhappy with the Budget and his political marriage with the Conservatives.

A lifelong third - party activist and veteran of Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1972 presidential campaign on the long - forgotten People's Party ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political caparty activist and veteran of Dr. Benjamin Spock's 1972 presidential campaign on the long - forgotten People's Party ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political caParty ticket, the 61 - year - old Hawkins is hoping New York's 125th Street and Lexington Avenue — a familiar spot picked out by Credico — proves to be his lucky corner, just as 116th Street and Lexington Avenue proved to be the late Fiorello H. La Guardia's «Lucky Corner» during his long and colorful political career.

If Mahama has any genuine plan for unity, he should assembly the old guards and the all disaffected party activists for a true party reorganization.

The party first suspended Clarke's membership pending an inquiry after a 21 - year - old Tory activist, Elliott Johnson, accused Clarke of bullying him before killing himself in September.

The Democratic majority was only three weeks old, but by Jan. 26, the grass - roots and Net - roots activists of the party's left wing had already settled on their new enemy: Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D - Calif.)

«This is the first time that we have an opportunity to get somebody who's not actually a part of the system, to become a part of the system, to be able to possibly make changes,» said Manuel Alarcon, a 46 - year - old Conservative Party activist on Long Island.

Ellen Abbot took a closer look at Ursula Rozum, a 28 - year old activist who works for the Syracuse Peace Council and is running in the race for the newly redistricted 24th Congressional seat as the Green Party candidate.

Having discussed old issues facing Labour with centrists in my local party, I am fearful that any keen new members will either rapidly become disillusioned by the inertia within local party activists, or that they will be thwarted by those that have made comfortable life styles out taking up local council seats and going along with the flow.

His promotion to party enforcer is a huge leap for the 40 - year - old businessman and Tory activist who became an MP in 2010.

Obviously polls like this do pose a risk of any old person pretending to be a party member to skew the results, or getting a very skewed group of activists, but the polls of Conservative party members done by Tim Montgomerie over on ConservativeHome did get their leadership election right, so we do at least have a precedent for a website running polls of party members in this way and getting good results.

The Democratic Party has its own tensions to resolve under an ideological tent that tries to accommodate both old - line labor unions, which instinctively oppose school choice, and a younger generation of black and Hispanic activists who demand it.

Sandra Lowe reminisced about the good old days as she addressed a roomful of Democratic activists at the California party's annual convention last week in Sacramento.

* «Old Labor» people in the more conservative unions and the Labor Party who take a narrowly economic view of workers» interests and have a dislike of environmentalists and other new social movement activists which is affective rather than intellectual — indeed, is anti-intellectual.

«I really feel a tangible difference,» said Jack Shifrel, a longtime activist in the Broward Democratic Party whose first political involvement was as a 22 - year - old, living in New York and working on Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign.