Sentences with phrase «tea party groups as»

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In the same article we reported that while the Citizens United case was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia Thomas, the wife of the Justice, created a nonprofit Tea Party advocacy group, Liberty Central, Inc., with a former lawyer for the Charles G. Koch Foundation, Sarah Field, acting as her General Counsel and a former Koch lobbyist, Matt Schlapp, serving on her board at inception.

But as we have seen with the Tea Party (another political movement Perry hopped aboard in its early days), the support of a constituent group doesn't come without strings.

Much of the media coverage has followed the Tea Party movement's own narrative, which describes it as a grassroots group of libertarian - leaning and independent - minded Americans who have grown disgusted with Washington - a group not beholden to either party, willing to buck conventional politics to get things Party movement's own narrative, which describes it as a grassroots group of libertarian - leaning and independent - minded Americans who have grown disgusted with Washington - a group not beholden to either party, willing to buck conventional politics to get things party, willing to buck conventional politics to get things done.

And the Tea Party, which started out as an ultra-Conservative economic group is now kissing up to the religious right - wing and Rubio is going right along with this.

Those who described themselves as members of the Tea Party came from virtually every single group of America... from ordinary (and extraordinary housewives) to Ph.D. s.

Also today, Paladino hosted an event at the Albany Crowne Plaza at which he was endorsed by a host of Tea Party groups, including (as per his campaign manager Michael Caputo):

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These two groups are unified however by key Tea Party - affiliated organisations and advocate groups such as Americans for Prosperity; FreedomWorks and Tea Party Express.

That's why an equally impressive array of national figures such as Dr. Henry Kissinger, and local organizations such as the East End's premier Tea Party group, the Suffolk County 9 - 12 Project, have wholeheartedly rejected your candidate and endorsed my candidacy.

Thompson is soliciting a «simple one or two sentence statement» from the various Tea Party groups statewide on whether they support Caputo's efforts, adding: «He can not be allowed to be seen as speaking for the entire TEA Party movement across the state.&raqTea Party groups statewide on whether they support Caputo's efforts, adding: «He can not be allowed to be seen as speaking for the entire TEA Party movement across the state.&raqTEA Party movement across the state.»

Tea party activists are struggling to rally behind a single presidential contender as disparate groups with conflicting priorities balance candidate viability with conservative purity on policies that extend well beyond the spending concerns that spawned the movement just two years ago.

A Wichita - based tea party group is attempting to revive a Kansas bill that would allow religious - based discrimination against gays, with the group saying the bill is as much a protection of LGBT rights as it is a protection of the rights of Christian... Read

Tenney, a conservative who has received strong support from Tea Party groups in the past, is viewed by Hanna as too extreme to represent the eight - county district.

In NY alone, Tea Party groups are picking and choosing who they want in as many races as possible.

As for the Tea Party, never has a more peaceful, less racist group gathered in public.

The protesters were comprised of an informal coalition, said organizer Joseph Seeman, from groups such as Citizen Action, MoveOn.org, Tea Party Patriots and the Green Party.

The independent conservative grassroots group, which has organized many of the larger tea party movement events over the past two years, is launching a campaign to expose «Jack Davis's record as a big government liberal.»

The measure is supported by groups as varied as the American Civil Liberties Union on the left and the Virginia Tea Party Patriots Federation on the right.

That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states.

The new polls make clear that more than a year of high - profile opposition to the Common Core from parent activists on the left and the right, as well as from tea party groups, celebrity comedians and politicians such as Jindal and Huckabee, has taken a toll.

As states moved to implement the new Standards (and aligned assessments), an anti-Common Core coalition arose first on the far right among Tea Party activists and then from the left, particularly among teacher advocacy groups.

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.

Our club is an active group involved in several events throughout the year, such as our annual Specialty Show, Boston Tea Party get - together, and holiday pParty get - together, and holiday partyparty.

Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.

The group was described in a 2012 article in Mother Jones as «one of the main political outfits of the conservative movement and an instrumental force within the tea party.»

We are starting to see the desperation of the industry and they understand the tea party as their radical group and now see a flood of equally committed radicals in the environmental movement.

The immense profitability of their carbon holdings depends on their freedom to pollute without consequence — a toxic freedom they have sold to the American public, and particularly the Tea Party faithful organized by the various Koch front groups, as inherent to the American dream.