Sentences with phrase «progressive majority»

«That's why we need to win two special elections at the end of this month, why we need to win primary challenges to IDC members, and why we need to elect progressive majorities in both the State Senate and Congress come November.»

But the 2016 election saw a new progressive majority emerge on the North Carolina Supreme Court, prompting the Republican - controlled legislature to hatch a scheme to add two seats to the court and have the lame - duck Republican Gov. Pat McCrory fill the seats.

«Whether we can pass them today, next month, or next year depends on whether Democrats from both conferences can unite to build a durable progressive majority.

WFP State Director Bill Lipton crowed over the news that Klein et al would be forming a «new progressive majority coalition» that (theoretically) will enable passage of a host of blocked bills — from the Women's Equality Act to public campaign financing.

He can chase after a non-existent progressive majority, or he can try to bring middle and working class Tory voters home to Labour.

«Over three years ago, the governor promised the WFP State Committee to bring the IDC back, build a strong progressive majority, and pass legislation in a host of critical areas,» Lipton says.

Overnight a perceived progressive majority of 16 million has been turned into an 18 million voting bloc for the centre right.

Britain's progressive majority needs a voice now more than ever.

And it set the stage for Obama's Democratic majority not being as aligned with his policies as a more progressive majority might have.»

A bill that would fully repeal the SAFE Act was killed in the Assembly Codes Committee, which is dominated by progressive Majority.

I once worked for Progressive Majority, and was a senior staffer for Congressman Dennis Kucinich, arguably the most progressive member of Congress, and certainly the most progressive presidential candidate we have had in over two decades.

Tyner, a five - term Dutchess legislator, will attempt to remain relevant — if he ever was — via a splinter group he formed called «The New Progressive Majority.»

The divisions already in evidence before 1965, and the widely acknowledged crisis of the years that followed, were not the result of a revanchist minority's ongoing effort to thwart the enlightened aims of the progressive majority.

«There is also a progressive majority in Britain and I believe it could be in the interests of the whole country to form a progressive coalition government.

«Shelley Mayer's race is a must - win to build a progressive majority in the state senate and pass an agenda that puts working families first,» said WFP State Director Bill Lipton.

Brian has proven himself to be one of the most effective legislators in Albany, and we need someone who knows how to get things done in the Senate and will fight to grow the progressive majority we need to resist the Trump Republican agenda.»

There has been, essentially, a progressive majority in the UK.

So much for a progressive majority.

For the progressive majority within Labour, the time has come to stand up to such pernicious small - mindedness.

Though Labour remained officially neutral, he in a personal capacity supported the ultimately unsuccessful «Yes to AV» campaign in the Alternative Vote referendum on 5 May 2011, saying that it would benefit Britain's «progressive majority».

There is a progressive majority in this country.

The progressive majority has not been shut out of power in this Parliament.

The LD leadership, through their bad / stupid / venal decisions are responsible for betraying the «progressive majority» just as much as those Labour figures who oppose any change.

Brian has proven himself to be one of the most effective legislators in Albany, and we need someone who knows how to get things done in the Senate and will fight to grow the progressive majority we need to resist the Trump Republican agenda,» said Bob Master, Co-Chair of the New York Working Families Party.

This is not a history of the Liberal Party, but a contribution to what some Lib Dem and Labour politicians would see as the progressive majority.

Can you contribute $ 3 to elect a progressive majority in the State Senate?»

«That's why New Yorkers are coming together to choose a progressive majority for the State Senate that will pass the Women's Equality Act.»

It is clear to me that there is a progressive majority in Britain and I believe it could be in the interests of the whole country to form a progressive coalition government.

«It would be a disservice to the progressive majority in New York to exclude the only progressive choice on the ballot in November from the debates,» Hawkins said.

If «progressive» includes tanks progressing through the streets if Basra, then yes, there is a progressive majority — Labour and the Conservatives.

«The governor has consistently failed to unite his own party against Trump Republicans and to fully support those fighting for a progressive majority in the state senate,» WFP State Director Bill Lipton.

On the plus side, Jan Royall and Steve Bassam [Labour leader and chief whip in the Lords] have both said that they think it will pass and that there is a progressive majority for it.

There was a conversation about strengthening the primary process, so we can build towards not just a Democratic majority, but a progressive majority in Congress.

«I don't think the IDC played a definitive role in any of that,» Lipton said, «and I think a progressive majority in the state Senate could have gotten much better raise the age legislation passed, could have gotten a much stronger minimum wage bill, not to mention all the stuff that's left undone.»

Whenever I hear arguments that call for PR on the basis there is a progressive majority I always think..

There is a progressive majority in Britain.

A new Labour project aims to unite the progressive majority; but is it a serious strategy or a blue - sky daydream?

The great Labour governments from 1945 to 1997 all won power because they became the voice for that progressive majority.

But I am also confident that Labour can again be the standard bearer for the progressive majority at the heart of British society.

If you want to understand the anger of Vince Cable and Chris Huhne you have to understand that their great hope of a new British politics dominated by them in alliance with left - wing parties has been defeated, defeated for a generation and defeated in large part by the Labour party that they had hoped would be their partners in building a progressive majority.

A section of the Labour movement has long believed that there is an anti-Tory majority in Britain and that this so - called «progressive majority» is disenfranchised by First Past The Post.

So the progressive majority turns out to consist of two English University seats, two Scottish constituencies which - I'm told - contain a large number of students, plus a number of central London boroughs.