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 Party have filed petitions with Congress calling on the body to resist pressure from the White House and the international financial community to unconditionally hand over $700 billion to bail out the nation’s ailing financial industry.
More than 10,000 members have launched petitions through the WFP to New York’s senators and the representatives in the House.
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“Right now the Democrats are saying some of the right things,” he continued. “Our point is that they need to spine up and really commit to use this crisis to do something for middle-class families, too. Don’t back down. The problem with Democrats is not that they don’t know what is right. The problem is that they don’t actually follow through. And that’s always been the role of the Working Families Party-to be a pressure from the left when push comes to shove, and it is shoving right now.”
-Chet Hardin
