The various state Working Families Parties generally don’t run their own nominees for statewide office. They prefer to cross-endorse the Democratic nominee, for statewide office. However, the Oregon Working Families Party is running its own member-nominee for Attorney General. She is Ashlee Albies. The Oregon WFP will benefit from her candidacy, not only because she has sterling qualifications, but because she certainly will poll more than enough votes to keep the party on the Oregon ballot. Furthermore, the Republicans have no nominee in the Attorney General race, so the Democratic nominee can hardly complain about the WFP’s running its own nominee.

The only other time a state Working Families Party ran its own nominee for a statewide office was in Massachusetts in 2006. However, this year the Massachusetts WFP has no nominees for statewide office, and so will lose its ballot-qualified status.