On the evening of October 3, the Working Families Party state committee nominated Andrew Cuomo for Governor. See this story.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
On the evening of October 3, the Working Families Party state committee nominated Andrew Cuomo for Governor. See this story.
HOW MANY THREATS/BRIBES ???
There is no point to this bloody party anymore, if there ever was. They can stop pretending to be progressive and just admit to everyone they’re just Democrats under a different name. It’s such a stupid decision, and I hope every supporter of Nixon supports the actual leftist candidate in the race, Howie Hawkins of the Green Party.
“He said the focus moving forward will be to help the Democrats capture the state Senate so they can pass progressive legislation.”
The WFP is not a third-party if their goal is and they take solace in helping Democrats win. God, they make me sick. I’d rather vote for a losing Green/Socialist Action/Freedom Socialist/Liberty Union candidate over ever supporting a winning Democrat or any of their various off-shoot ‘third-parties’. If they need to nominate a corrupt corporate hack like Cuomo to keep the party existing, then they shouldn’t exist, period.
Did the party change their logo to the crawfish?
New York should switch to Top 2 and eliminate the con-fusion.
There are two purposes for the Working Families party.
In overwhelmingly Democratic cities with guaranteed minority representation in local elections they can shut out the Republicans. In other words, if a city council has 9 representatives, but no more than 6 can be from the same party, the Democrats will run 3 candidates on the Working Families line.
And they can be used as another financing vehicle for Democratic candidates so that campaign finance laws can be circumvented.
I hope tehy fall short of 50,000 and lose their line.
NONPARTISAN AppV for all exec/judic offices – pending Condorcet.
They have no principles at all. As much a I disagreed with the Liberal Party, at least they had some principles. WFP makes me miss them, and I never thought I’d say that.
I hope the WFP misses 50,000. I hope they lose their ballot line.
(OTOH, I’m hoping Larry Sharpe gets at least 50,000 votes.)
New York ought to simplify its procedure for having candidates taken off the ballot when they don’t want to run anymore, especially if it’s because they lost the nomination of one of the other parties they were hoping to get.
The way things are now, it’s kind of like how members of the British Parliament are not legally allowed to resign outright. Rather, they have to request appointment to become Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, a defunct position which has had no duties or salary for a very long time, and which is now only used as a formality for facilitating an MP’s departure from Parliament.
Perhaps the NY Hacks can create a new HACK office — monarch of some NY mountain [aka King/Queen of X Mountain] — with ZERO powers —
– or even secede and rejoin the Brits ???!!!
New York should eliminate party nominations. Political parties could still endorse candidates.
Working Families Party commercial: “Andrew Cuomo is our nominee. Andrew Cuomo has always been our nominee.”