Sentences with phrase «progressive base»

«I am running for Lieutenant Governor because unfortunately we have people in power now who act as progressives based on polls,» Williams said.

On the Democratic side, the presidential primary has set the region's robust grassroots progressive base backing Bernie Sanders against establishment figures and Hillary Clinton partisans like County Executive Mike Hein and Ulster County Democratic Committee Chairman Frank Cardinale, making for an unusually bitter intra-party brawl.

On the Democratic side, the presidential primary has set the region's robust grassroots progressive base backing Bernie Sanders against establishment

The moment was a microcosm of Clinton's primary campaign: singing in harmony with the Democratic progressive base while she seeks the party's nomination, but not quite the same tune in the way that Sanders does.

Personally, I think LSUC fees should be increased, and made progressive based on licensee income, in order to fund LPP and other A2J - enhancing initiatives.

Sam Arora (D - Montgomery County)-- who raised a ton of cash from the gay community and progressives based on his stance on marriage equality and who is a co-sponsor of the same - sex marriage bill now about to come up for a vote — tweeted, «Hearing from constituents, friends.

Public exchanges will be added on a gradual, progressive basis.

For Democratic presidents, Jewish justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer) are seen as ironclad liberals by the party's progressive base, based on American Jewry's decades - old record of liberal activism.

She is gunning for the progressive base, focusing much of her efforts so far on New York City.

It was only after the administration's tax cut deal with Congressional Republicans enraged liberal Democrats that repealing DADT became a last - minute priority for the White House, which badly needed a legislative victory to soothe its progressive base.

Cuomo, a Democrat, embraced the wage hike as he strengthens ties with the institutions in his progressive base after a lackluster re-election effort.

The no - new - taxes pledge has made him a firm ally of the Senate Republican conference on fiscal measures, but has cost him some support among members of the Democratic Party's progressive base.

But even a respectable finish could illustrate the strength of the progressive base and keep the proposals that Teachout and Wu have been fighting for alive.

This emphasis is based on her attempt to preempt the progressive base of the Dem.

Cuomo backs the expiration of a surcharge on those making $ 200,000 a year, but the stance has stirred concern within the progressive base of the Democratic Party.

Closer to home, de Blasio thrilled his progressive base, and the mayor's camp believes he has seized the moral high ground against Cuomo.

Members of the state's progressive base, inflamed by the election of Trump and frustrated with the party's milquetoast response, have set their sights on taking Cuomo down.

To win big, he needs the support of New York's progressive base.

A former chair of the State Democratic Party and current chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party, Mr. Wright boasts a decent relationship with the governor and significant ties to the city's progressive base.

It put a little space between Murphy and Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street firm where he worked for more than two decades, and it gave Murphy an edge over John Wisniewski, who was also running for governor and was hoping to inherit the progressive base as Bernie Sanders» New Jersey campaign chairman.

Perhaps because Sanders stumped for de Blasio during the mayoral campaign, where he referred to de Blasio as «the opposite» of President Donald Trump — a characterization undoubtedly popular with de Blasio's progressive base.

But not everyone, even in his progressive base, is happy with Ryan.

While party insiders, perhaps wary of offending the progressive base, have largely framed the race as one between Clinton's pragmatism and Sanders well - meaning idealism, Sanders supporters have launched a sustained assault on Clinton's record and character.

Howard Dean's short - lived juggernaut had galvanized much of the party's progressive base, sapping whatever support Kucinich might have been able to muster in the early contests.

The fact the poll was even commissioned is another sign that Cuomo's biggest troubles in his reelection year could come from the progressive base of his own Democratic party.

The progressive base is fired up.»

There's little doubt that the progressive base will be champing at the bit to get rid of «TrumpChoice.»

In Paris, he represents only his own ambition and the green component of the progressive base.

AW: The progressive base is about 25 % of the population, slightly larger than the conservative base.

Obama now has a perfectly reasonable excuse to deny the pipeline, to place blame on the Republicans for playing fast and loose with Americans» public health, and to score some direly needed points with his progressive base.