Sentences with phrase «tea party activists»

But that hasn't stopped a bunch of tea party activists and otherwise ambitious challengers from stepping forward early in the 2012 election cycle.

But many tea party activists don't agree with the strategy.

The coalition is drawing attention because it has the potential of providing the infrastructure for a grassroots conservative movement that now includes tea party activists and social conservatives.

Cantor has compiled a solidly conservative voting record in his tenure, but he was sometimes viewed with suspicion by tea party activists who said he had been in Congress too long and was insufficiently committed to blocking immigration legislation.

Both Lee and businessman Tim Bridgewater, who have significant support from Tea Party activists in the state, got more votes than Bennett did in the first round.

Yet the same was true of Tea Party activists in the spring of 2009, and we know how that turned out.

* The New Jersey Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by tea party activists in New Jersey to recall Sen. Bob Menendez (D - N.J.).

The billionaire real estate mogul and «Celebrity Apprentice» host, an early presidential favorite among tea party activists, has decided not to run in 2012.

Saturday's rally was spearheaded by local Tea Party activist Rus Thompson and the Shooters Committee On Political Education, a gun advocacy group.

Washington (CNN)- As Tea Party activists mounted protests in Washington and announced a list of Congressional Democrats they're targeting for defeat in November, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the group's impact on Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections and argued the Tea Party could hurt Republicans.

Brat offset the the cash disadvantage with endorsements from conservative activists like radio host Laura Ingraham, and with help from local tea party activists angry at Cantor.

Backers of Obamacare are hoping to generate enough of their own events this summer to counteract any repeat of August 2009, when tea party activists swarmed town hall meetings to try to stop what was then still a health reform bill with a shaky future in Congress.

Tenney received a boost when the state Board of Elections removed Tea Party activist Michael Kicinski from the GOP primary ballot in the 22nd Congressional District after ruling his nominating petitions invalid.

It was a cultural clash between an elite and much of the public, between liberal intellectuals and the Obama administration on the one hand and the mass of Tea party activists on the other.

Wagner has recently run into trouble with conservative Tea Party activists.

This year, the black - helicopter set made common cause with Tea Party activists concerned about an over-reaching government, and more mainstream politicians are taking notice.

Western New York Tea Party activist Rus Thompson was arraigned on voter fraud charges in State Supreme Court Thursday.

(CNN)- Tea Party activists marked Tax Day with a high - profile rally in Washington, DC, and other protests across the country, but President Obama says the anti-tax movement actually owes him a thank you.

Frankly, the question itself is enough to raise my hackles, and probably send Tea Party activists into convulsions.

Caputo also urged support for Cuomo's first budget deal, which caused another former Paladino campaign aide and WNY Tea Party activist, Rus Thompson, to accuse Caputo of going rogue and acting without Paladino's permission.

But last year, challenger Bob Turner took almost 40 percent of the vote in his battle against six - term incumbent Weiner in a year in which Tea Party activists and others opposed to President Barack Obama's policies exacted a heavy toll on Democrats across the country, costing them control of the House.

On that sweltering summer day, he was confronted by several angry tea party activists aggitated about the impending health care overhaul.

Walsh's endorsement angered several tea party activists who say Altschuler's former company, Office Tigers, sent jobs to Asia.

Since the repeal debate began, protesters have made direct confrontations with elected officials a central part of their opposition to the Republican bill — copying what worked for tea party activists, who packed Democratic town halls during the lengthy 2009 - 2010 Affordable Care Act debate.

In his victory speech tonight, Paul — a Republican as well as a favorite of Tea Party activists across the nation - declared, «Tonight there's a Tea Party tidal wave.»

Kimball's win was a boon for New Hampshire's tea party activists after several of their candidates had fallen short in recent statewide races.

Boston (CNN)- Tea Party activists cast their cause as a patriotic movement from Americans fearful about the nation's direction during a rally Wednesday in Boston's Common.

Washington (CNN)- In a speech to college students on Tuesday in Chicago, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said that Tea Party activists make up «a third or more» of the voting age population.

But Tea Party activists also found themselves on the receiving end of criticism from a smattering of anti-Tea Party protesters in the crowd.

In Washington State, Palin had backed Tea Party activist Clint Didier in his bid for the Senate over businessman Dino Rossi, the favorite of national Republicans.

Tea Party activists attacked Common Core, objecting to what the Heritage Foundation called the Obama administration's intent to nationalize «the content taught in every public school across America.»

For Tate, the RNC's recommendations are the latest move in a power grab that began at the Republican National Convention, when Ron Paul supporters and Tea Party activists teamed up to fight changes to the state nomination process that similarly consolidate power with the national committee.

Paladino enjoyed the support of many Tea Party activists while Lazio was considered the choice of establishment Republicans.

Participants said their primary goal was simply «to be heard» by the party establishment and to make clear to Steele that Tea Party activists want the national party to stay out of local races.

(CNN)-- Thousands of tea party activists gathered Wednesday outside the Capitol in loud protest of the Internal Revenue Service, seeking to keep the beleaguered agency's scandal afloat nearly six weeks after the news first broke.

Searchlight, Nevada (CNN)- As thousands of Tea Party activists rally in his hometown of Searchlight, Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is burnishing his Second Amendment credentials.

My, my, my... There are disturbing problems with the GOP Tea Party Activists... the shot of Santorum with this article is the same group shot President Obama had with the Bapists Ministers during the 2008 Campaign.

Like Democrats who dismissed Tea Party activists as they prepared to vote to create the Affordable Care Act, Republicans are making a big mistake.

Strategists for front - running gu bernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo have concluded that they prefer wealthy, bomb - throwing Tea Party activist Carl Paladino to nearly bankrupt and lackluster former US Rep. Rick Lazio as their GOP opponent, The Post has learned.

The administration's aversion to popular mobilization on behalf of healthcare reform, either by progressive groups or the Obama - aligned Organizing for America (OFA), backfired spectacularly when Tea Party activists organized against the bill in the summer of 2009, catching Democrats off guard.

In many other states, radicals created caucuses inside the Democratic party similar to what Tea Party activists have done recently in the Republican Party.

New York's 22nd District Tea party activists — and some Democrats — spent the last month or so talking up state Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, a primary challenger to Republican Rep. Richard Hanna.

Rus Thompson, a Western NY Tea Party activist who wants to run for state comptroller on Paladino's Taxpayer line, wrote on his blog that he is «bending (Paladino's) ear every chance I get», and has been for weeks, in hopes that he would reconsider.

-- There's a candidate — Steve Cohn — using the TEA Party name Paladino's campaign rejected for fear of insulting Tea Party activists who consider themselves a movement and not part of an organized political entity.

Earlier in the day, a small group of tea party activists went to the Senate office buildings to plead their case.

At a small gathering this morning in Upper Senate Park, Tea Party activists sang The 12 Days of Christmas, refashioned with lyrics about the problems under President Obama.

The minor party is also expected to name former tea party activist Frank Seabrook of Wading River against State Sen. Kenneth LaValle of Port Jefferson, who is a cousin of the GOP county leader.

Independent tea party activists called a press conference to announce the formation of a Central Florida Tea Party Council and demand that Peg Dunmire, the «Florida Tea Party candidate» against * Grayson, drop out of the race.