The Working Families Party has been circulating a petition to place its statewide nominees on the Connecticut ballot, and has over 9,000 signatures. The deadline is in early August and 7,500 valid signatures are needed.
The Working Families Party’s statewide nominees are the same individuals as the Democratic Party nominees. Because the identity of some of the Democratic Party nominees is not yet known, the Working Families Party statewide petition has some temporary nominees. Connecticut permits substitution when the final nominee is known.
It is odd that the Working Families Party in Connecticut already is ballot-qualified for all 5 U.S. House districts, and 15 of the 36 State Senate districts, and 49 of the 151 State House districts, yet it isn’t ballot-qualified for any statewide offices. Connecticut is the only state in which a party’s qualified status is determined office-by-office. The Working Families Party has never before had any statewide nominees on the Connecticut ballot. It is virtually certain that the party will poll over 1% for each of its statewide nominees this year, and then it will be ballot-qualified for all statewide offices except President.
How can they consider themselves a real party when they are going to nominate Dems no matter who they are?
For state legislature they sometimes nominate candidates who are not Democratic Party nominees. In 2008 in Connecticut, they had their own member-nominee in one State Senate district, and 4 State House districts. Also they cross-endorsed Republican nominees for State Senate.
And in municipal partisan elections they have run plenty of their own member-nominees and even elected a few.
If that was the 16th senate district there was no Dem in the race. The do pick a token Rep or two also. The also have had to run candidates in the past due to the election law now the do not have to run any of their own let see how many candidates they run against Dems. My statement earlier was based on what they planned to do for state wide office. It would seem to me that the proper approach would be wait til the primaries then examine all candidate that will be on the ballot to see whether they can endorse one of them or need to nominate their own candidate.
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