Liberal groups hoping to narrow the «enthusiasm gap» with the Tea Party and
other conservative organizations before Election Day are mobilizing for a big rally in Washington D.C. on Saturday.
Having witnessed his performance today at the Values Voter Summit hosted by Family Research Council and several
other conservative organizations, I can't help but feel that America has been missing a fantastic public speaker and master of political rhetoric.
Not exact matches
A striking example is
Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, who has spoken out forcefully and passionately against Bill C - 377, a discriminatory, anti-union piece of legislation that would swamp unions (but not corporations and
other organizations) with paperwork, and violate the privacy of nearly everyone doing business with them.
Other religious expressions and traditions were almost forced off the air totally by these (now) wealthy
conservative Protestant
organizations.
I railed against institutions and
organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the
other way, steering towards seminary,
conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.
He joined an opposition
organization (primarily made up of aristocratic and military
conservatives) that planned to arrest Hitler and thereby transfer power to
others in an orderly, Lutheran way.
(This was an interesting period for the council administrator, who was told by some that his
organization was too tradition - bound and
conservative and by
others that it was too radical.)
Even the right - wing
conservative behemoth Focus on the Family, not exactly fans of any kind family
other than a nuclear one, has a Blended Families page on its website, where the
organization concedes that «with the right resources and the help from God, family, and friends, your step - family can find encouragement and hope.»
The
organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the
other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by
conservatives who argued she was too moderate).
Gibson, who served three terms and is not seeking re-election because of self - imposed term limits, joins more than 60
other local and state leaders, committees and
organizations who have endorsed Faso in the race, including state and local GOP and
Conservative party leaders, elected officials from the 11 - county district, CNBC television host Larry Kudlow, noted political science professor Dr. Gerald Benjamin and the state
Conservative Party, among
others.
Nor is there an obvious consensus «progressive» position to promote, beyond the one these groups were all touting in the last few weeks (along with many
others, including some
conservative organizations), which was the need to bring the question before Congress.
Although we are not formally affiliated with any
other national
conservative organization, we are recognized as the influential New York branch of the American
conservative movement and maintain a close and cordial relationship with
conservative organizations and public officials both in
other states and Washington, D.C.
The remainder registered under third party
organizations as follows: Independence, 4,673;
Conservative, 1,892; Working Families, 439; Green, 187; Women's Equality, 30; Reform, 28; and
other, 96 total.
Representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox rabbis and
other conservative religious leaders fought the measure, and their GOP allies pressed hard for stronger legal protections for religious
organizations.
The measure has been opposed by the state chapter of the National Organization for Women as well as
conservative religious
organizations, but was supported by
other women's groups and the state Women's Bar Association.
The Club for Growth (CFG) is a fiscally
conservative 501 (c)(4) nonprofit
organization with an agenda focused on taxation and
other fiscal issues.
The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management
organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in
other words, what
conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).
If there is a ground zero for the religious right in this country, it is Colorado Springs, home to Focus on the Family and dozens of
other conservative Christian
organizations.
Conservative organizations, think tanks, and
other right - wing activists backed by corporate donors including the Koch brothers, the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and the Bradley Foundation, have long been preparing for a case like Janus as part of a larger campaign to break unions.
In March of 2012, North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and ten
other state lawmakers flew to Florida on the dime of Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC), an
organization known for endorsing
conservative education reform initiatives, including school vouchers.
Although former Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist and
other Democrats were part of the black alliance, the
organization also was funded by such
conservative - leaning
organizations as Milwaukee's Bradley Foundation, the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation.
According to 2013 Canadian Federation of Humane Societies» statistics, more than 119,000 cats, 53,000 dogs and 15,000
other animals were admitted to shelters in 2012 (a number the
organization says is
conservative, since it is estimated from the responses of only 102 shelters that responded to a survey).
Commenting on the
conservative organizations requesting that Pruitt revoke the waiver, Nichols told Desmog, «They're the same groups that've been supporting Pruitt through all this
other stuff.»
Those who push using RICO laws against «corporations and
other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change» («
other organizations» meaning
conservative think tanks and any skeptic climate scientist having any association with such entities) are likely emboldened because they've never before encountered push - back on the very core of their accusation.
The Koch brothers» effort was bolstered by massive spending by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and
other conservative and anti-regulatory
organizations, including the National Rifle Association.
But by bringing in real experts who actually study this, and not a hodge podge of those who ran to it from
other disciples (or outside science) because of ideological drive and who fundamentally don't know the issue and, in further flourishes of rhetoric, represent them to the world as «large lists,» and denounce the basic consensus - as Curry has erroneously bought into — implicitly or directly calling the National Academy of Sciences, a stodgy
conservative organization that by it's nature (and the nature of caution in scientific assertion) understates, part of the large plot or hoax..
While Trump may well take Iowa tomorrow, it's widely acknowledged that Ted Cruz has the strongest grass - roots level of
organization among
conservative evangelicals and
other conservatives, in contrast to Marco Rubio's weak
organization that relies on media rather than putting people in the field.
Senators Kaine, Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI), and
others have banded together to attack the alleged «web of denial» that appears to be made up only of
conservative organizations that they claim are funded by ExxonMobil and
other fossil fuel corporations that they consider immoral — even though the energy they provide has been indispensable to lifting and keeping billions of people out of poverty, and even though ExxonMobil has not given any of these groups a dime for a decade or more.
Google, Facebook and
others can support
conservative groups or politicians if they feel it necessary without lending their brand, their integrity, and their money to
organizations that actively deny climate science and fight to maintain oil, gas and coal industry supremacy.
The Steely resume template is well - suited for financial planners, bankers, hospital administrators, and those in the legal field when applying for positions within government, nonprofits, law firms, and
other organizations with a more
conservative personality.
Some are large
organizations with a broad mission of promoting
conservative values, while
others are small, local groups who work to establish abstinence - only - until - marriage programs in schools.