Progressives go way back in history from America to Germany
The Progressive Party, popularly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé turned rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft. The new party was known for taking advanced positions on progressive reforms and attracting leading national reformers. The party was also ideologically deeply connected with America's radical-liberal tradition. After the party's defeat in the 1912 United States presidential election, it went into rapid decline in elections until 1918, disappearing by 1920. The "Bull Moose" nickname originated when Roosevelt boasted that he felt "strong as a bull moose" after losing the Republican nomination in June 1912 at the Chicago convention. As a member of the Republican Party, Roosevelt had served as president from 1901 to 1909, becoming increasingly progressive in the later years of his presidency.
The new and improved Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is expected to pass the City Council by the end of the year, City Limits reports, giving organizations dedicated to preserving affordability the first opportunity to purchase a building when it goes up for sale.
“COPA gives qualified nonprofit organizations and community land trusts a real opportunity to take land and housing off the speculative market and bring them into permanently affordable community control,” Deyanira Del Rio, executive director of the New Economy Project, explained in a statement; but landlords and small-property owners are raising the alarm, saying that the bill adds a layer of confusion to an already confounding system.
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