The New York city mayoral election this November will probably include six candidates on the ballot. The Working Families, Conservative, Libertarian and Socialist Workers Parties will each have their own nominee, in addition to the Republican and Democratic nominees. Incumbent mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Republican, is expected to win the Republican Party and also have the nomination of the Independence Party and the Liberal Party.
This will be the first important elected office for which the Working Families Party has not cross-endorsed the Democratic nominee (the Democratic nominee will be chosen in a September primary). The Working Families Party has already decided to run its own candidate, Kevin Finnegan. The Conservative Party has also decided to run its own candidate, Tom Ognibene.
Beside the parties listed here, Theo Chino is trying to petition on the ballot as the Green Party nominee. In addition, Seth Blum is trying start the Education Party, and writer and performer Andy Horowitz has started the Blog Party. I think the deadline for petition to be submitted is August 17.
Is Finnegan a real candidate or a placeholder who will be nominated for judicial office so he can be replaced by the Democratic nominee? The Village Voice has suggested the latter. I think the WFP did this once before.
There are two Greens circulating nominating petitions: Chino and Tony Gronowicz. Neither has been endorsed by the regional group of the State Committee.
Is the Liberal Party working on re-gaining ballot status?
Michael Bloomberg is circulating petition to try to get the Liberal Party back on the ballot. Check out the second to the last item on D.C.’s Political Report’s August 2 newsletter, titled “Alternative Party News – New York Liberal Party”
http://www.dcpoliticalreport.com/members/2005/082005.htm#080205
The Liberals are indeed trying to re-gain political party/primary status, but getting Bloomberg a line in November will help HIM now but THEM only as a practice run for 2006. Under NY state election law, party status is gained ONLY by a candidate for governor getting 50,000 votes on that party’s line. The Liberals (and the Right to Life and Green parties) lost theirs in 2002 by gathering only 16,000 for Andrew Cuomo, while the Working Families party qualified.
I doubt that the Liberals will be successful in 2006. Carl McCall, the Dem gubernatorial candidate in 2002, made it one of his campaign objectives to extinguish the Liberal ballot line, and in that he succeeded. Furthermore, the Dems are now hostile to their candidates running on the Liberal line, preferring the WF cross-endorsement instead. Unless the Liberals can find a well-financed, serious, independent candidate 2006 will mostly likely see their final demise.
Check http://www.liberalparty.org for their latest doings.
Howard Hirsch
Dayton, Nevada
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