Sentences with phrase «opponents made some hay»
Stephen Harper's political opponents make hay over report that Canada is in midst of technical recession
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What followed is pretty illustrative of the value of such pledges: his political opponents made some hay out of it for a while, late - night comedians had a field day with it, and then some other news happened and everybody pretty much forgot the whole thing.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer's GOP / Conservative opponent, Jay Townsend, is trying to make hay from the senior senator's endorsement today of state Sen. Eric Schneiderman for attorney general, calling it a «dog bites man» story that proves the veteran Democrat is a political insider.
The Barrons, with their Panther past and Garveyite «anti-gentrification» platform, will surely make hay of their opponent's ties to moneyed interlopers.
Their primary opponents — both Democrats and Republicans — are trying to make hay of that.
While DeRosa pledged to recuse herself from any issues where relatives had a stake, the perception of this web of connections can't help Cuomo when an opponent in Iowa makes hay out of it.
Several of Rice's Democratic primary opponents have tried to make hay of the fact that she used to be a Republican, and now are jumping on the no - voting bandwagon.
Indeed, one colleague of Cameron has told the Spectator's political editor that politics doesn't get much better than «making hay while the sun shines and your opponents are in disarray».
McLaughlin apologized for the incident, but his Democratic opponent, Andrea Smyth, tried to make political hay of it, saying the assemblyman's behavior made him unfit to lead.
«My opponents, and in trying to make political hay on something that I felt heartfelt on my part, and an expression of that.»
In the fight over expanded casino gaming, Cuomo's opponents have made hay over the financial involvement of gaming interests in his Committee to Save New York.
Charter opponents are trying to make hay with allegations that some charter schools are «cream - skimming,» either by discouraging certain kids from enrolling in the first place or by pushing them out once they struggle.