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unusual facts about Party line




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Božo Ljubić

In April 2006, the rift between Ljubić and the main party line escalated, and he led the formation of the Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ 1990).

Connie McCready

A Republican, she was noted for her maverick political views which often deviated from the party line, including staunch support of the Equal Rights Amendment and gay rights.

General line of the party

Once the Central Committee formulated a statement about the party line on a particular issue, it was republished in major newspapers, such as Pravda.

Ittifaq al-Muslimin

The party was formed after The First Congress of Muslims of Russia and the party line was similar to Kadets.

Jean Poperen

Disagreeing with the PSU's party line, he founded the Union of Socialist Groups and Clubs (UGCS).

Joe Glazer

He recorded "In Old Moscow" ("My Darling Party Line"), a song which ridiculed the Communist Party USA's Stalinist reversal following the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Kendall Stewart

Stewart was defeated in the September 2009 Democratic primary by more than 1,100 votes by a newcomer, Jumaane Williams, but ran in the November 2009 general election on the Independence Party line.

Liberal Party of New York

In 1969, Lindsay, the incumbent Republican Mayor of New York City, lost his own party's primary but was reelected on the Liberal Party line alone, bringing along 'on his coat-tails' enough Liberal candidates for City Council to replace the Republicans as the Minority Party in City government.

Madison Township, Daviess County, Indiana

To the even greater surprise of local Democratic leaders, Perkins refused to vote the party line in the presidential election of that autumn, instead supporting John C. Frémont, the Republican candidate.

Nancy Larraine Hoffmann

Hoffmann defeated Dadey in the Republican primary and faced a general election with Oneida-based Democrat David Valesky and Dadey, who ran on the Conservative Party line.

Nazi views on Catholicism

Once in power, the Nazi leadership co-opted the term Gleichschaltung to mean conformity and subservience to the Nazi Party line: "there was to be no law but Hitler, and ultimately no god but Hitler".

Neoconservatism in Japan

The neoconservatives generally eschew traditional party-line factionalism, form alliances with lawmakers connected to defense, and create their own study committees.

Savka Dabčević-Kučar

In December 1971 Tito held a party leadership conference in Karađorđevo, Serbia, and publicly turned against the Croatian Spring in the form of "comradely critic", (an internal communist way to openly criticize its party members when they, according to majority opinion, do not follow "the party line").

Southern Australian

As private secretary to Governor John Hindmarsh (as well as holding a number of other government appointments) Stevenson espoused a strong party line in the pages of the Register.

Taxpayers Party of New York

Rus Thompson, Gary Berntsen and Michael Caputo, who helped organized the party line, orchestrated an attempted ballot access campaign for David Bellavia in the New York's 26th congressional district special election, 2011, but because Paladino and Leonard Roberto endorsed Republican nominee Jane Corwin, the organization used the name "Federalist Party" for Bellavia's petitions instead of the Taxpayers Party.

Vote-by-mail in Oregon

1989 A House bill to extend vote-by-mail to include the 1990 primary elections was defeated in a 33–27, non-party-line vote.

William Gormley

Though the courts would restore the party line years later, the legislation paved the way for Tom Kean to win the Republican gubernatorial primary against the Republican establishment candidate, Paterson Mayor Lawrence “Pat” Kramer.

Zeitgeist: The Movie

In Tablet Magazine, journalist Michelle Goldberg criticized Zeitgeist: The Movie as being "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories," and called the Zeitgeist Movement "the world's first Internet-based cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity."