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 started out in 1998 as a party only in New York state, has been expanding into other states. This year it has candidates for partisan office for the first time in Oregon and Delaware. It also has candidates in New York and Connecticut, as it did in 2006 and 2004.
In Delaware, the Democratic Party has exerted considerable pressure on all Democratic nominees, not to accept the nomination of the Working Families Party as well (Delaware permits fusion). However, this year in Delaware, three Democrats bucked their own party and accepted the Working Families nomination. The Working Families Party also cross-endorsed three Republican nominees for state house.
The Working Families Party tried to have nominees this year in South Carolina, but Democratic Party officials persuaded various Democrats not to accept the WFP cross-endorsement.
