Sentences with phrase «progressive validator»

The appearance, at the National Press Club alongside senator and national progressive validator Elizabeth Warren, was part of a concerted push by de Blasio to become a watchdog for liberal economic values on the national stage.

Just one Democratic chair, a woman from New Hampshire who spent years on the Upper West Side and said she knows Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, considers de Blasio an important progressive validator on the national stage — the presumptive rationale for de Blasio holding out his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, his former boss.

The progressive validators were for a purpose: Cuomo is lobbying for the W.F.P.'s endorsement later this month, and pointedly promised during his speech to push for a public campaign finance system — the party's biggest priority at the moment — before the Legislature adjourns in June.

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Unions are a key Democratic constituency and have become a major validator of any elected official's «progressive» bona fides.