Sentences with phrase «wage a campaign as»

Due to election law, assuming he doesn't change his party registration in the next couple months, Mr. Smith needs the support of at least three of the city's five Republican county leaders in order to even wage a campaign as a Republican in 2013, which is certainly no easy task when other GOP notables are also considering throwing their hat into the ring.

In Buffalo on Wednesday rallying for paid family leave, Cuomo referenced the wage campaign as well, underscoring how both issues are interconnected.

Not exact matches

Now union activists across the country are pressing companies for more in a campaign known as the «Fight for $ 15,» which has successfully spurred cities and private companies to establish higher wage floors.

Now, as FBI special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional intelligence committees continue to investigate Russia's election interference, evidence is emerging that the hacking and disinformation campaign waged at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin took at least four separate but related paths.

OTE'ers know that I'm far from uncritical of Fed policy, especially lately, what with their normalization campaign occurring as inflation is drifting down and wage growth is kinda stalled out at around 2.5 %.

Progressives once hailed natural gas as a «transition fuel» to renewables like solar and wind, but now they are waging a campaign to «keep it in the ground.»

Three MLAs crossed to the PCs during his time as leader and his leadership opponent MLA Sine Chadi waged a constant campaign to undermine his leadership.

With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

The candidate of the conservative party has a chance only if this election is waged as a campaign to enact Republican measures — measures he did not shape and can not explain.

As the Archbishop of Buenos Aires he waged a strong campaign in defense of life and the Church's teachings on the Christian family, despite enduring attacks from the militantly secular Argentine government and its allies.

In fact he so strongly feels the need to press his point that he has crossed over into the field of New Testament studies to wage his campaign there as well.1 And indeed Childs has performed a valuable and needed service in reminding us that what we have now is not just individual passages, nor is it just the «books» which as larger units give the individual pieces a place in the larger narrative.

Arriving in the West Midlands for # 9 million two years ago, he will be available for considerably less than that as Villa continue to look to chop numbers off the wage bill, with the Frenchman being a prime candidate for his lack of consistency during a relegation battle in the previous campaign.

But at least the Frenchman does have those memories of how a successful campaign was waged, as do other key figures in the Arsenal side like Petr Cech and Alexis Sanchez.

As many of you know, for the last week I've been waging a Change.org petition campaign against the oxymoronic notion of McDonald's «nutrition education» infiltrating our schools.

In 1994 - 5, whilst as Shadow Employment Secretary of State she formulated the policy for the National Minimum Wage, devising and campaigning for Labour's commitment to establish a Low Pay Commission.

He can blame Trump in part, but state Democrats used the race as a test market for the expected anti-Trump themed campaign they will wage in 2018.

The company has been waging a regulatory battle in New York at the both the state and city level over the last several years, which has spilled over into political campaigns as well and put the firms at odds with hotel chains and the influential labor group Hotel Trades Council.

Despite Gov. Andrew Cuomo not ruling out supporting Republicans this year, Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Chairman Mike Gianaris remains upbeat, telling Liz last night on the show that Cuomo will ultimately settle with the minority conference given their agreement on bread - and - butter party issues such as women's» health and increasing the state's minimum wage.

The wage - hike event doubled as a victory lap for Cuomo and a campaign rally for Clinton ahead of New York's April 19 primary election.

This year, he pushed through aggressive gun - control limits, raised the minimum wage by nearly two bucks, and extended a tax surcharge on millionaires, all the while wrapping up the budget before Easter, which used to be about as common in Albany as kudzu.1 It was his father who famously said (to this magazine, in 1985) that «you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.»

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

In a victory for reformers, campaign finance reform is high on the list, along with other progressive initiatives such as raising the minimum wage and changing New York City's «stop and frisk» policy.

The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

The Daily Gazette: New York's 2014 Legislative Session a Failure The New York State legislative session is ending this week without major progress on big - ticket issues such as campaign finance reform, minimum wage, and the women's equality agenda.

The New York Times» piece on Herbalife yesterday, which details how billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman is waging a PR campaign to destroy the supplement company for his own profit, buries the role of three of the city's most prominent Latino politicians in a massive campaign to cast Herbalife as a pyramid scheme targeting minorities.

The Conservatives will presumably have a different leader, a less cuts - ridden manifesto, and surely can not run as terrible a campaign as the one they have just waged.

Hawkins not only supports but organizes on issues such as a $ 15 minimum wage, a ban on fracking, 100 % clean energy by 2030, full public campaign financing, single payer health care, the legalization of marijuana, worker rights, taxing the rich, an end to the New Jim Crow and mass incarceration, universal child care... the list goes on and on.

«The governor has not shown the same level of enthusiasm for campaign finance reform, or closing the LLC loophole,» Kaehny said, «as he has for the $ 15 minimum wage or marriage equality or other major campaigns that he's championed.»

Cynthia Nixon, who is waging a Democratic primary campaign against Cuomo, criticized the measure as a cynical effort to shore up progressive support.

In the last two campaigns for governor, Hawkins pushed for a living wage for workers, a ban on fracking and a millionaires» tax - all positions that Cuomo later adopted as part of his platform.

As Monroe County Democratic Party leaders decide who has enough support to wage a campaign for Louise Slaughter's vacant congressional seat, a local political observer says it's in the party's best interest to not have a special election.

During the European parliamentary campaign of 2014 party Co-President András Schiffer described LMP as having a pronounced pro-integration position on environmental, wage and labour policy however, as supporting member state autonomy on the self - determination of local communities concerning land resources.

But while Cuomo was able to get several Republican Senators to vote to enact same sex marriage in 2011, he could not get them to budge on several issues that the Democratic left was pushing for, including, further increasing the minimum wage, allowing children of undocumented immigrants college aid known as the Dream Act, and public financing of political campaigns.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

«Those elected as Democrats should respect voters» clearly expressed intent and sit with the Democratic Conference to implement important progressive goals like standing up for women's health, passing real campaign finance reform, raising the minimum wage and enacting common sense gun laws,» said Senate Democratic spokesman Mike Murphy.

The bizarre excuses have been made public as part of a # 1.7 million campaign to raise awareness around the increase in the minimum wage coming into force in April that will take the rate up to # 7.50 per hour.

Cuomo amassed labor support from politically key unions to push for the $ 15 wage and conducted an advertising campaign for the measure as well.

In November 2011, Samia, as party chair, accused Dr Nduom of waging a relentless campaign to demoralise party supporters ahead of the 2012 elections.

As Senate Republicans push for an economic analysis of the impact of another increase in the state's minimum wage, supporters of the campaign for $ 15 target say there already has been an exhaustive enough look at the issue.

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

Cuomo has formed a campaign coalition named in honor of his late father to push for a $ 15 minimum wage after taking executive action this past summer to gradually increase the wage for SUNY and state workers as well as fast - food employees.

Bill Lipton, the party's state director, said the party decided to stick with Mr. Cuomo because he promised to support some of its top goals, such as raising the minimum wage and providing public financing for state political campaigns.

Commissioners are also examining the link between campaign donations and a real estate abatement program as well as a «carve - out» for a large retailer on the minimum wage increase enacted this spring.

Cuomo has said in the past that he backs public financing of campaigns, but has not pushed as actively for it as he has for other issues, like raising the minimum wage.

As Labor historian Nick Dyrenfurth notes, these events have helped prime minister Tony Abbott wage a political campaign against both the unions and Labor.

Len Bernardo, a member of the party from Ulster County who waged an unsuccessful campaign as a Republican candidate for county executive in 2008, apparently called each person and invited them to come to New Paltz to listen to Cuomo.

What's more interesting is that the same left - wing groups who have been so leery of Cuomo will now be speaking up in his favor as part of a $ 3 million campaign to win support for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage.

According to multiple sources, the governor advised the leaders of the new alliance to emphasize «progress on key issues,» such as campaign finance reform, stop - and - frisk and increasing the minimum wage.

Mr. Hawkins visited Times offices recently, making the drive from Syracuse in the Hyundai Accent that doubles as his campaign office, and spoke about his «Green New Deal» for New York, which would raise the minimum wage in the state to $ 15 an hour, establish a publicly funded single - payer health care program and provide public works jobs for the unemployed.

Austin Shafran, a spokesman for the wage campaign, known as the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, said Cox is out of step with New campaign, known as the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, said Cox is out of step with New Campaign for Economic Justice, said Cox is out of step with New Yorkers.