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The campaign contributed to outspoken support from 22 Democratic Senators, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Chair of the Democratic National Convention Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Caroline Kennedy and nine other co-chairs of President Obama's reelection campaign, and more than 40, 000 Americans who added their names to Freedom to Marry's online petition.
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In 1873, it became known that Allan had contributed a large sum of money to the Conservative government's re-election campaign of 1872 ; some sources quote a sum over $ 360, 000.
The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T. H.
The band contributed " Tippecanoe and Tyler Too ", a political campaign song from the presidential election of 1840.
The band contributed 14 original songs for the 2006 Dunkin ' Donuts ad campaign, " America Runs on Dunkin '", including " Things I Like to Do ", " Pleather " and " Fritalian ".
Although Harding was committed to putting the " best minds " on his cabinet, he often rewarded those persons who were active and contributed to his campaign by appointing them to high federal department positions.
He initially backed former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker for the presidential nomination, but when Franklin Roosevelt was chosen, Willkie supported him and contributed money to his campaign.
However, the slow pace of developments contributed in part to the ( wider ) political difficulties of the British government of John Major and the consequent reliance on Ulster Unionist Party votes in the House of Commons, led the IRA to end its ceasefire and resume the campaign.
The aftermath of the siege may have contributed to the transmission of smallpox into remote Indian populations ; as some Indians were reported to have traveled from beyond the Mississippi to participate in the campaign and returned afterward having been exposed to European carriers.
Hanna directly contributed $ 100, 000 to the nomination campaign of fellow Ohioan William McKinley, but recognized that more would be needed to fund the general election campaign.
The other was William Patten, who states that both he and Cecil began to write independent accounts of the campaign, and that Cecil generously contributed his notes for Patten's narrative of the Expedition into Scotland.
Serbia, with its campaign, was a major Balkan Entente Power which contributed significantly to the Allied victory in the Balkans in November 1918, especially by helping France force Bulgaria's capitulation.
The experts said a nationwide campaign encouraging people to stick with regular partners contributed to the fall.
Undoubtedly this contributed to the failure of the Ottoman campaign.
Actress Sophia Loren, friend and correspondent of Netherlands native Anthony Goossens, priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Llano, contributed to the church fund-raising campaign in 1975.
This strike was significant in the long campaign of civil resistance for political change in Poland, and was an important mobilized effort that contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of communist party rule in eastern Europe.
He eventually enrolled in the Totul pentru Ţară (" Everything for the Fatherland " Party ), the political expression of the Iron Guard, and contributed to its 1937 electoral campaign in Prahova County — as indicated by his inclusion on a list of party members with county-level responsibilities ( published in Buna Vestire ).
His " Junior Commando " project which he inaugurated some months ago, has caught on all around the country and tons of scrap have been collected and contributed to the campaign.
The 2nd Infantry Division drew its first blood in the nightmare landscape of the Battle of Belleau Wood and contributed to shattering the four-year-old stalemate on the battlefield during the Château-Thierry campaign that followed.
The burdens of the campaign and the destruction by fire of his factory contributed to his financial ruin, and he was forced to assign his firearm patents to others.
Butler contributed the title track as well as " Syrup & Honey " which was used in a worldwide Nivea advertisement campaign, produced " Please Stay " for " Telstar-The Movie " and co wrote " Smoke Without Fire ", to be used in the 2009 film, An Education.
If a reasonable person receiving a solicitation would construe the funds they contributed to be for the purpose of funding a campaign to pass or defeat a ballot measure, then they clearly come within the reporting and disclosure requirements.
Before his departure for Thonburi, the King conferred honours and distinction on those who had contributed to success of his campaign.
Like most large American companies, Bechtel and its employees have contributed large amounts of money to United States politicians ( over a million dollars in campaign contributions between 1999 and 2002 ).
However, poor British campaign planning for 1777 contributed to the failure of John Burgoyne's Saratoga campaign, which played a major role in the entry of France into the war.
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His campaign was notable for the high-profile coming out of his daughter Chrissy in People magazine, when she was helping him on the campaign trail, a subject they also discussed in interviews for the 2007 documentary film For the Bible Tells Me So ; he has continued to be an outspoken advocate for gay rights since the campaign, though still opposes same-sex marriage.
Akerman joined the Republican Party in the campaign for black-American citizenship and suffrage, and was an outspoken proponent of Reconstruction as a member of Georgia's 1868 state constitutional convention and as U. S. district attorney for Georgia ( 1869 ).
During the 1886 mayoral campaign in New York City, the outspoken McGlynn supported Henry George, the candidate of the United Labor Party who proved popular with labor organizers, radicals, socialists, and Irish nationalists.
Schlafly became an outspoken opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s as the organizer of the " STOP ERA " campaign.
He has been an outspoken opponent of nuclear power and has pursued a relentless campaign on the future of the Post Office network.
Coudert was an outspoken conservative and endorsed William F. Buckley's 1965 Conservative campaign for the New York City mayoralty over liberal Republican Congressman John Lindsay.
An outspoken critic of the Canadian justice system, Warren had in the past used his show to campaign on behalf of wrongfully convicted persons such as David Milgaard, Steven Truscott, James Driskell, Thomas Sophonow and on behalf of the families of victims of alleged serial killer Robert Pickton.
Eventually, Connerly enlisted the help of several outspoken members of the multiracial movement to assist with the campaign for the Racial Privacy Initiative.
Following the federal government's 1942 announcement of a national plebiscite on military conscription, Michel Chartrand became an outspoken opponent and joined the Bloc populaire canadien movement to campaign against conscription.
Hesmondhalgh has become an outspoken activist for trans rights, including becoming the first Friend of campaign group Trans Media Watch and as Hayley, she has heralded a new level of acceptance among people across the country.
He repeatedly tried to campaign on a reform and anti-corruption ticket and tried to profile himself as an outspoken critic of Arafat, although many observers dispute his personal integrity.
In 2004, she won the Parti Québécois candidacy for the coming by-election in her native riding, Laurier-Dorion, and began a campaign of outspoken left-wing and sovereigntist politics ( opposing the Charest government ).
The Czech Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and Green Party are strongly in favour of European integration, and would campaign in support of the Constitution, but President Václav Klaus is an outspoken eurosceptic, and refused to sign the constitutional treaty in October 2004 ( most countries, however, did not send their head of state to sign ).
Through his outspoken criticism of the conduct of the campaign, he was instrumental in bringing about the dismissal of the British commander-in-chief, Sir Ian Hamilton — an event that led to the evacuation of British forces from the Gallipoli peninsula which in turn contributed to the collapse of the Asquith government.
Wallace was an outspoken advocate of the state's internal improvement projects, and painted a rosy picture of the state's situation during his campaign for governor.
Prominent Move America Forward campaigns have included the closing of the US-Mexico border ( the MAF's " Secure Our Borders " campaign ) and the ending of amnesty programs to illegal immigrants ( through nomoreamnesty. com ), support of John R. Bolton — an outspoken critic of the United Nations — to serve as the US representative to the United Nations, and restricting the distribution of the Michael Moore film Fahrenheit 911.
It is associated with the national campaign of Joseph Chamberlain, the most outspoken and charismatic supporter of Tariff Reform.
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