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In her first speech as the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, Clinton will criticize Trump's positions on women's issues — a signal to the Democratic base that she intends to anchor the general election in the same slate of progressive issues she campaigned on in the primary.
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Campaigning on issues related to the March 2015 provincial budget, Progressive Conservative leader Jim Prentice spent most of his week travelling around rural Alberta in his party's campaign bus.
One progressive Catholic group made political hay out of Santorum's weak showing among Ohio Catholics, emailing reporters a statement titled «Santorum campaigns on divisive wedge issues, promptly loses Catholic vote.»
Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.
After spending the last hour looking through the majority of the progressive / lefty political sites in the blogads network, I was surprised at how few different issue and campaign advertisements I saw.
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De Blasio, who served as Clinton's campaign manager for her 2000 Senate race, ran for New York City mayor on a progressive platform and has been working to bring progressive issues to the attention of the national Democratic Party.
In March ’17 we launched our Money Talks campaign, aimed at the NYS budget, to educate the public about the issues at stake in the budget negotiations and bringing attention to the progressive bills passed in the NYS Assembly that were either defeated or never brought to a vote in the State Senate.
Cynthia Nixon's campaign issued a response, saying «Cuomo will do absolutely anything to win except become a progressive».
Bernie Sanders, her main rival in the Democratic primary, has made finance reform and inequality the central issues of his campaign, which has won impassioned support from young people and progressives.
Instead, the perennial candidate from Syracuse, who on Thursday quietly announced his candidacy in Albany to handful of reporters, is hoping his campaign will help build the party's infrastructure and continue to move the state forward on progressive issues.
Single - payer health care, progressive housing policies, changes to campaign finance and redistricting laws that have suppressed the vote — these are all issues a Democratic state government could tackle.
«Scott Stringer has spent his career as a progressive reformer,» campaign manager Sascha Owen said, «taking on the issues that matter to everyday New Yorkers.
(CNN)- Campaign finance reform is the issue that the Tea Party and progressives can agree on — at least in new ads designed to drum up support for the Fair Elections Now Act.
Local 1500's understanding of how to advance important, progressive issues and projects mirrors my candidacy and campaign.
Mr. Lander believes that the effort late in the campaign to discredit candidates linked to Data and Field Services, the consulting wing of the Working Families Party, was fueled by resentment that the «WFP has been so successful at promoting progressive issues for over a decade, and has supported very good candidates.
But in 2015, the Campaign for One New York decided not to register as a lobbyist because the group was mainly focused on launching The Progressive Agenda, de Blasio's somewhat failed effort to make income inequality a central issue in the 2016 presidential elections.
Sources Friday evening said Cuomo and the leadership of the party had reached a tentative deal for the incumbent Democrat to take the labor - backed line in exchange for pushing on key progressive issues such as the Dream Act, the public financing of political campaigns and the women's agenda.
«It was also a validation of the progressive issues that are driving Bernie's campaign and which have come to define this entire primary race — issues of economic, racial, and social justice.»
Effective New York is starting a series of campaigns advocating more progressive approaches to issues.
The question there is whether the rank - and - file activists, who are unhappy with Cuomo for his fiscal conservatism and lack of movement on progressive issues — mainly creation of a public campaign finance system — will buck party and labor leaders who are more pragmatic and want to endorse the governor for re-election.
Cuomo, in exchange for an endorsement from the left leaning Working Families Party, promised to help reunite the two Democratic factions in order to achieve passage of several progressive issues, including public campaign financing, a women's equality act with an abortion rights provision, and a measure to give college aid to children of undocumented immigrants, known as the Dream Act.
«I think progressives are looking for him not only to talk about progressive issues, but to talk about them with authenticity and sincerity,» said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which bills itself as representative of the «Warren wing» of the Democratic Party, a reference to Sen. Elizabeth Warrprogressive issues, but to talk about them with authenticity and sincerity,» said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which bills itself as representative of the «Warren wing» of the Democratic Party, a reference to Sen. Elizabeth WarrProgressive Change Campaign Committee, which bills itself as representative of the «Warren wing» of the Democratic Party, a reference to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.).
Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.
«This historic endorsement, by this storied Democratic club is further proof that my campaign is gaining momentum as more attention is paid to it and progressives disaffected with Governor Cuomo and Albany corruption are finding a home in my campaign and where I stand on the issues.»
«Her Excellency Aisha Buhari has appealed to the ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC not to renege on their campaign promise of paying N5, 000 to 25 million unemployed Nigerians and giving school children one free meal a day,» read a statement issued on her behalf by Adebisi Olumide, her media aide.
Hochul went on a defensive publicity tour Thursday, packing her schedule with appearances in Cheektowaga, Niagara Falls and Buffalo, issuing a three - minute long campaign ad re-explaining her progressive values to voters.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - State Sen. David Valesky said progressive issues like raising the minimum wage and public financing of campaigns will have a better chance in the New York State Senate if his small group of breakaway Democrats aligns itself with the traditional Democratic conference next year.
Before joining the King campaign, Perry served as Pinellas County chair for Women's March Florida, mobilizing thousands of volunteers and activists around key progressive issues.
A Tory majority government could be well beyond Cameron's grasp and the centre of gravity would shift away from the right in a campaign where two progressive parties challenge Cameron's Tories - rather than the two - on - one attack on Labour (on eye - catching issues such as ID cards and Heathrow), which we are currently on course for.
Teachout, a law professor at Fordham University, has built her public profile as a vocal activist on progressive issues, like hydro - fracking and campaign finance reform.
«This governor doesn't talk about progressive issues, he actually gets them done,» said Bill Mulrow, chairman of the Cuomo 2018 campaign.
New York state Senate Republicans dampened expectations that their new governing coalition would move quickly on progressive issues championed by Democrats, including a minimum wage increase and public financing of campaigns.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made the second stop in his «Where Do We Go From Here» tour in Albany Friday afternoon, where he told a small but loyal group of supporters that he'll fight to get key items into the national Democratic Party platform, including a nationwide $ 15 minimum wage, and has been in talks with Hillary Clinton's campaign over a greater focus on progressive issues.
Mayor Bill de Blasio convened a group of progressive leaders at Gracie Mansion on Thursday to announce a new national effort to force his signature issue of income inequality into the upcoming presidential campaign.
For the long - shot gubernatorial campaign of Cynthia Nixon to make headway, the candidate must hit Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo hard on issues that resonate with progressive New Yorkers who dominate the Democratic primary.
In May he announced the launch of national campaign to further his «progressive agenda,» to push policy makers further to the left on issues like minimum wage, paid leave and universal pre-kindergarten.
Amy has worked on local and national election campaigns and organized for health care reform, climate justice, and other progressive issues.
Just months after the cancellation of his planned presidential forum in Iowa focusing on progressive issues, the mayor and first lady Chirlane McCray announced they're going to the state this week to campaign for Hillary Clinton.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee Co-founder Adam Green was reacting to a statement by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the issue of a public option in a health care bill.
Giambra now goes further on other progressive issues, promoting public campaign financing and legalization of marijuana.
When it comes to issues and policies of a more intangible, progressive nature — such as the decision to make Albany a sanctuary city — Commisso is playing the middle in his campaign, nearly teetering on the conservative edge.
«It's been really good for progressives that there's been kind of a race among potential presidential candidates to not just be on board, but be leaders on issues like Medicare for all, fighting for Dreamers and fighting against Trump's giveaways to billionaires and giant corporations,» said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group.
«Deep populist progressives are on the rise, and they so frustrated with Democrats like Andrew Cuomo who can't run to the right fast enough on economic issues, so I don't think he's a very serious candidate,» Teachout said during a «Capital Tonight» interview in early June, about two weeks before she formally announced her gubernatorial campaign.
I recently returned from an international solidarity mission to Cambodia, where so many of the issues that progressive rights - based civil society origanisations campaign on slap you right in the face:
Abstract: I recently returned from an international solidarity mission to Cambodia, where so many of the issues that progressive rights - based civil society origanisations campaign on slap you right in the face: Land grabs: -LSB-...]
As campaign issues go, promoting preschool for poor kids is about as close to a no - brainer as it gets among progressives.
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