Sentences with phrase «to be a partisan issue»

The conference was the latest in a series of events demonstrating that climate change need not be a partisan issue.

To be sure, this should not even be a partisan issue at all — it is one that speaks to our culture and to our humanity.

With all these benefits, universal preschool shouldn't be a partisan issue.

Charter schools «had not been a partisan issue in the polls we had been doing for a period going back a number of years,» said Steve Koczela, president of MassINC Polling Group.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli doesn't believe his push to re-assert the authority of his office over state contracting and procurements is a partisan issue, given the backing of Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature.

The difference is the Committee to Save NY is an opinion issue while supporting Mr. French is a partisan issue and his wife's job is a personal financial conflict of interrest.

We've heard from the insensitive clods (and Lindsay Lohan, who just might not know any better) who have either tried to sweep the sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein under the rug (again), blamed women for daring to be in the same room as men ever, and who think being a predator is a partisan issue...

«We can't let the education of our children be a partisan issue,» Moore says.

Climate change has long been a partisan issue, but when you see a parade of conservative candidates publicly recanting the apostasy of having acknowledged that global warming is real, you know you've entered Wonderland.

You think war is a partisan issue?

Rep. Earl Blumenauer: Reducing Pollution Should Not Be A Partisan Issue Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer makes the case for bipartisan action for cutting pollution, and applauds Pelosi for her efforts in weaning the Capitol Power Plant off coal.

«The thing is that climate change should not be a partisan issue in the first place.»

I'm glad that an arena full of Republicans stood up to applaud when I said I was proud to be gay, because gay pride shouldn't be a partisan issue.

The bipartisan nature of this passage shows us that religious freedom does not have to be a partisan issue but is rooted in our deepest commitments as Americans, and I hope that persecuted religious minorities around the globe will see that they have not been forgotten.

Since at the consumer level, I really don't think it's a partisan issue.

«It shouldn't be a partisan issue,» Caldwell said.

«Protecting our children should not be a partisan issue and we should be having reasonable and responsible conversations about all of these issues.»

It is confirmed Mark Barden, the father of a 7 - year - old boy killed at the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., will speak Wednesday afternoon about how gun control should not be a partisan issue.

«This is an issue that historically has not been a partisan issue,» Mr. de Blasio told reporters.

«The minimum wage should not be a partisan issue.

«This should not be a partisan issue.

In part, it's a partisan issue, with partisan consequences: As things stand, a rules change will be good for the Democrats and bad for the Republicans.

«Campaign finance reform should not be a partisan issue, but Senator Klein is a Democrat and intends to work with his colleagues in the I.D.C. and the party to ensure passage of meaningful campaign finance reform.»

«Voting access should not be a partisan issue.

«This should not be a partisan issue and senators from both parties should support it,» Gaughran said.

He said even former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, is in favor of raising the minimum wage and it should not be a partisan issue.

«Even in this political season, it is important to remember that the fate and direction of public education in this country should not be a partisan issue,» he said in a written statement.

Noting that education should not be a partisan issue, she urged educators to tell their stories to legislators and to encourage the media to report on substantive issues.

This can not be a partisan issue.

DeVos emphasized her belief that education freedom should not be a partisan issue.

Nor is this a partisan issue.

Boorujy, an artist devoted to highlighting and protecting our precious natural world says, «This shouldn't be a partisan issue!

«Being good stewards of the environment God gave us should not be a partisan issue,» says Dooley.

«This should not be a partisan issue,» he said of the effort to get Congress to extend the PTC.

Fighting climate change and modernizing our energy grid shouldn't be a partisan issue.