Now he and his donors must try to achieve their goal in court without invoking the constitutional provision they believe gives their cause legitimacy.
If the Occupy Wall Street protesters ever choose to recognize a person who gave their cause its biggest boost, they may want to pay tribute to Anthony Bologna.
Many housing advocates and nonprofit housing groups thought that squatters gave their cause a bad name, and many residents of the increasingly gentrifying neighborhood resented the squatters, some of whom used drugs, dirtied the streets and attracted an already unpopular police presence.
"They make a living preying upon the good nature of reporters like you, who give their cause prominence," she argues, adding (rather quotably) that they also prey upon "that portion of the population that thinks Prohibition might not have been a bad idea".
A group trying to get California to secede from the United States said the results of the presidential election gave their cause new momentum.
A group trying to get California to secede from the United States said the results of the presidential election give their cause new momentum.
A group trying to get California to secede from the United States said the results of the presidential election gave their cause new momentum. .
As I sent her off to college, I wanted to say how sorry I was that we had messed up her world, sorry we not only didn't defeat the terrorists the way Grandpa did the Nazis but, by our actions, gave their cause new life and endless new recruits.
To some of those groups, Mr. Paterson's absence from the luncheon only underscored their concerns that the new administration would not give their causes the same level of attention given by Mr. Spitzer's.
But given their potential to cause side effects and their modest benefit, they aren't the first choice.
