The Working Families Party of Massachusetts is about to start petitioning to get Rand Wilson on the ballot as its candidate for State Auditor. No Republican is running for that office, so it is very likely that Wilson will get more than 3% of the vote, and the Working Families Party will then be ballot-qualified in Massachusetts for 2008.
Does Massachusetts allow Fusion Candidacies?
I’m running for Auditor to help create a new political party — the Working Families Party.
My campaign will also promote the Ballot Freedom initiative which allows political parties to form ballot coalitions backing the same candidate, often called “fusion” voting.
The Working Families Party picked the Auditor’s race because it’s uncontested. There is no chance that my candidacy would inadvertently “spoil” the race and unseat the current incumbent.
Oh heavens no, the Working Families Party wouldn’t want to actually unseat anyone. Why then they might start to look like a political party rather than a gussied-up interest group with a ballot line.
Massachusetts does not have a simple fusion candidacy law. There is a state ballot initiative on the ballot this year to create one.
There is a mechanism to be the candidate of two major parties. You get on the ballot the normal way as your own party’s candidate. Then you enter the other party’s primary as a sticker (“write-in”) candidate, and win the primary without being on the ballot. This feat has been performed in living memory.
The Working Families Party is a deceptive wing of the corporate Democratic Party whose policies have hurt real working families. If the voters of Massachusetts want a real progressive choice at the ballot box that isn’t already capitulate to the Democratic money machine, they already have one- its called the Green-Rainbow Party
Is the Massachusetts Working party doing anything in the 2016 election? Is it still active at all?
It went off the ballot years ago.