The New York Times has this story about the Working Families Party’s victory in the May 5 special legislative election in Brooklyn. By contrast, when the Working Families Party scored a more impressive win for the Connecticut State Senate on February 24, 2015, the Times did not mention that. The Connecticut victory was more impressive because the Connecticut Working Families nominee defeated a Democratic Party nominee, whereas in New York the Democrats had no nominee on the ballot.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Don’t know what makes this such a big story. The winning candidate is obviously a liberal-Democrat at heart, and will support the Democratic agenda.
A real victory is for a populist 3rd party to win, and work start getting this country back to what it used to be. The liberals and secularists are going to destroy this republic. I had hoped that one day, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, and others of like-mind, would put aside their differences and build a strong 3rd party movement. I would encourage everyone to watch/listen to Alex Jones Info-Wars, and start learning the truth of what is going on in the world. In just listening to him while writing this post, he is telling of efforts to shut him and others down. We need to stop fighting one another and join together.
Ourcampaigns.com identifies Diana Richardson and Shirley Patterson as both being Democrats – Ms Richardson was the successful candidate of the Working Families Party, Ms Patterson was the Independence Party nominee.
http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=801147
One explanation may be that the New York Times is based in New York City where the WFP candidate just won the special election. Another may be space and other news items on any particular day. A third may be that the New York Times has been a Democratic Party mouthpiece since at least the Tilden/Hayes election.
This is an important neighborhood in Brooklyn, which is the best place to live in the world, not some piece of garbage like where you people live. Why anyone would live anywhere other than Brooklyn astounds me unless of course you are very, very stupid.
And people from Alabama or other third world countries are not fit to speak about anything related to Brooklyn. Come on, let’s get real: when you leave NYC, you’re camping out.
I’ve thought about it, and I realize that most Ballot Access News readers simply are too poor to live in Brooklyn. For them, there is hope in this Sunday’s New York Times Real Estate section: if they are priced out of Brooklyn, they can move to Manhattan! It’s second-best, but still better than elsewhere: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/realestate/priced-out-of-brooklyn-try-manhattan.html