Working Families

In 2001, Bill Lindsay, president of IBEW Local 25, ran for County Legislature in a Suffolk County special election, as a Democratic and a Working Families Party candidate.
Lindsay won in a squeaker – 50.6% to 49.4% – with 3% of Lindsay’s vote coming on the Working Families line. The WFP was the margin of victory, [...]

With the Working Families Party going strong in New York and Connecticut, and new parties being built in Oregon and Delaware, the Working Families Party will appear on ballot in four states across the country. From the always informative Ballot Access News:

Working Families Party Has Candidates in Four States
September 24th, 2008
The Working Families Party, which [...]

The Capital Region’s Metroland featured this week the Working Families Party’s campaign to push Democrats to hold Wall Street accountable and extend the bailout to the middle class:
Whose Bailout Is This?
The Working Families Party urges Congress to help the middle class get through the current financial crisis
Across New York state, members of the Working Families [...]

We did it! But Obama’s historic win is only Round One in the fight for working families.

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Dan Cantor, the Working Families Party’s Executive Director, was on WNYC’s Brian Show Lehrer Show today, calling for the bailout to include homeowners and working families and for sensible oversight – including capping Wall Street salaries at $1 million – for investment firms saved by the bailout:

Votes on the WFP ballot line count the same, but they send a powerful message about the world we want to see. Learn more.

The WFP’s campaign for a working families-friendly Congress is back at it. Help us send even more progressive champions to Washington this November.

Micah Sifry, an expert on third parties, takes a look at their problems and promise in his book, Spoiling For a Fight: Third Party Politics in America.  Here’s an excerpt:

Alternative points of view do not lack support in American public opinion. Substantial numbers of Americans-in some cases majorities-support aid to poor children, cuts in corporate [...]

Real property tax relief for working families who need it most, without jeopardizing our schools.