New York Working Families Party Makes Fewer Nominations This Year Than at Any Time Since It was a Qualified Party

Posted on by November 3, 2024

The New York Working Families Party has made fewer nominations for Congress and state legislature this year than ever since it first became a qualified party. It qualified as a party in November 1998.

This year it only made nominations in twelve U.S. House seats (the state has 26 seats). This is the fewest ever, in the years in which it was a qualified party. All its U.S. House nominations are for the Democratic Party’s nominee except in one seat, where it has its own nominee. However, in that case, the party leadership would rather have nominated the Democrat, but an outsider won the party’s primary.

The party made nominations for 27 U.S. House seats in 2008, when New York had 29 seats.

For the legislature, this year the party made a nomination in only 94 seats. New York has 213 seats up. The party was most active with legislative nominations in 2018 and 2010. In those years, it had 146 legislative nominations.

For Justice of the Supreme Court, the party only made four nominations, out of36 seats up this year.

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New York Working Families Party Makes Fewer Nominations This Year Than at Any Time Since It was a Qualified Party — 24 Comments

  4. Since they put the Green Party out of business, the Democrats no longer have any use for the WFP.

  5. They are losing a lot of members to the Traditionalist Workers Party / Patriotic Socialist Front / National Worker’s Union of America.

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  16. https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/11/supreme-court-will-hear-case-on-second-majority-black-district-in-louisiana-redistricting/

    SCOTUS NEWS
    Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting
    By Amy Howe
    on Nov 4, 2024 at 11:27 am

    The justices added two cases to the 2024-25 term in a list of orders on Monday. (Katie Barlow)

    The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest chapter in a protracted dispute over race and redistricting in Louisiana.

    In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Friday, the court announced on Monday morning that it will review a pair of appeals from a decision by a three-judge district court, which had struck down a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state.

    ***
    Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais began as challenges to the congressional map, known as S.B. 8, that the Louisiana legislature adopted earlier this year.

    The legislature drew the map after a federal district court ruled that the prior plan, created in 2022, likely violated Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act, which prohibits election practices that result in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote based on race, by diluting the votes of the state’s Black residents.

    Under the 2022 plan, only one of the state’s six congressional districts was a majority-Black district while, based on 2020 census, a third of the population is Black.

    The 2024 map created a second majority-Black district.

    It begins in the northwest corner of the state near Shreveport and stretches 250 miles southeast toward Baton Rouge.

    A group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” went to federal court, where they argued that the new map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander – that is, it sorted voters based primarily on their race.

    A three-judge federal district court agreed with them and barred the state from using it in future elections.

    In May, a divided Supreme Court put the district court’s decision on hold, clearing the way for the state to use S.B. 8 in the 2024 election.

    The state and the voters who had challenged the 2022 map appealed to the Supreme Court this summer.

    The state described itself as the ball in “an endless game of ping-pong”: It will be sued for racial gerrymandering, it contended, if it adopts another map with two majority-Black districts, but it will also be sued for violating the Voting Rights Act if it adopts a map with only one such district.

    Stressing that “this redistricting saga must end,” the state argued that the solution is for the Supreme Court to enforce its “promise that a State need only have a strong basis in evidence for concluding that the Voting Rights Act required its action.”

    The voters echoed that argument, telling the justices that if the district court’s decision is allowed to stand, it will “further inject the federal courts into the redistricting process and deprive states of the necessary flexibility to take account of other legislative priorities when they act to” fix violations of Section 2.

    In holding that S.B. 8 was unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, they said, the district court never tried “to disentangle the effect of the Legislature’s political objectives” – for example, protecting incumbents such as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and Rep. Julia Letlow – “on the specific lines in the challenged plan.”

    The voters challenging the 2024 plan urged the justices either to dismiss the appeal or affirm the district court’s ruling without additional briefing or oral argument, emphasizing that the district court’s ruling was correct.

    Both the legislature and the state’s attorney general, they wrote, conceded that “a racial quota of two Black-majority seats was Louisiana’s prime and uncompromisable criterion.”

    The voters rejected any suggestion that this case presented a conflict between the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution.

    The state and the voters challenging the 2022 map did not offer any evidence or experts to show that Louisiana had a good reason to believe that the Voting Rights Act required it to draw this majority-Black district.

    And any political considerations only came into play after the legislature decided to create a second majority-Black district, they added, at the expense of one of the five Republican-held seats in Congress – even though the state’s Republican-controlled legislature opposed losing that seat.

    The court will hear the two cases together in one hour of arguments sometime early next year, with a decision to follow by late June or early July [2025].
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  22. The Connecticut Working Families Party nominated 83 candidates for federal and state office. I don’t know how this compares to previous years. Keep in mind, just because Connecticut is a small state does not mean its state legislature is small.

    But 82 of 83 are also on the Democratic line (CT has fusion). None are also on the Republican line. For the single outlier, no one is on the Democratic line in that race, apparently.

    I also asked you guys to rate the name of the Cheaper Gas Groceries Party, but no one replied. 🙁

    https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/sots/electionservices/2024/candidate-list/2024/november-5-2024-candidate-list-91724.pdf?rev=dd7c4635052f4bcb96362d9cedd21feb&hash=2260DDB5275DAD43587180E5601BB356

  23. @Will,

    It was in NY-17 where Anthony Frascone defeated Mondaire Jones in the Working Families primary 287-197. It is alleged that some Republican voters changed their registration so they could vote in the WFP primary. Democrats and Working Family voters tried to get him knocked off the ballot because he had a misdemeanor conviction.

    In New York’s con-fusion system a candidate can run for the nomination of another party with permission of the party leaders. Incumbent Democrats might ask for the nomination of the WFP. If there is a contested Democratic primary, the WFP party might signal a preferred candidate.

    New York permits write-in voting in all elections. But if there is only one candidate, the election is cancelled. Voters may petition for the Opportunity To Ballot (OTB), where “ballot” is a verb meaning “vote” In that case, the race will be on the ballot even if there are no filed candidates or one candidate. In NY-17 there was no Democratic, Republican, or Conservative primary because there was only one candidate (the Conservatives cross-nominated the Republican incumbent Michael Lawler).

    But in the WFP primary, Frascone petitioned to face the cross-nominee of the Democratic party Mondaire Jones.

    In 2022, Lawler won the general election with 50.3% of the vote, which was considered a Republican pickup in a district that had been considerably modified by redistricting. In a close race in 2024, it would be advantageous for a WFP candidate to peel off some votes from the Democratic candidate. Since continued WFP ballot access is dependent on WFP nominee Kamala Harris getting 2% of the vote, urging straight party WFP votes risks electing the Republican in NY-17. But apparently the WFP is urging voters to vote a straight Democratic ticket including Democrat nominee Kamala Harris.

    This is an interesting video about when Working Party activists visited the residence of “their” nominee at his home, and met an affable gentleman as they tried to be polite, but became increasingly stressed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MliTRGey_CE

  24. W-H-O told you earlier than AZ that eating pets and Puerto Rico were going to be key to this year’s election? Name one person….

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