Working Families

From autoworkers to online activists, WFP supporters are a diverse bunch.  Here’s an open letter from New York bloggers calling for the ‘netroots’ to “vote change like they mean it” by voting for Barack Obama on the Working Families Party ballot line (“Row E”):

Help Us Build Progressive Strength in New York
by: Justin Krebs
This open letter [...]

A great news item on our sister party, the Connecticut Working Families Party:

Cross-endorsement allows minor party to hold power

By SCOTT WHIPPLE , Journal Register News Service
According to Joe Dinkin, Working Families Party’s communications director, the party will have knocked on 50,000 doors in targeted Congressional and legislative districts by Nov. 4.
Established in 2002 in Connecticut, [...]

Dan Cantor, Working Families Executive Director (left) and Councilmember Bill de Blasio (right) discuss the term limits after the Council’s vote:

Contact: Dan Levitan
Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Executive Director issued the following official statement today after the City Council’s vote to extend term limits without a public vote:
“While we came up short on the floor [...]

The Working Families Party fought long and hard to keep the City Council from overturning the public’s preference for term-limits – a preference expressed in two public referendums.  We didn’t win, but through our grassroots campaign, thousands New Yorkers got to make their voices heard.
Here’s Dan Cantor, Working Families Executive Director (left) and Councilmember Bill [...]

Contact: Dan Levitan
Viewers of tonight’s presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain will be invited to make their voices heard in another debate – the fight over extending term-limits in New York City.
Timed to launch on-air during coverage of the third presidential debate at Hofstra University this evening, the [...]

We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves. The Nation magazine has joined the call to vote for Barack Obama on the Working Families ballot line:

By Katrina vanden Heuvel
“In an otherwise desultory fall election, there is one lever New York voters can pull on Election Day that will make a real difference – that of [...]

WNYC’s Amy Eddings and the Albany Times Union’s Rick Karlin and Irene Liu take a look at the chances the Democrats (with an assist from Working Families) have to retake the State Senate after a generation of Republican control.
Senate Republicans have blocked nearly every important piece of reform that working families in New York need, [...]

The New York Times today featured the Working Families Party’s campaign online and in the streets to keep term limits in voters’ hands:

Fighting Bid to Extend Term Limits, Politician by Politician

By FERNANDA SANTOS

They are angling for the magic number: 26. That is how many City Council members it would take to defeat a bill introduced [...]

For Immediate Release: October 8, 2008
The Working Families Party released today the following statement on Ron Lauder’s announced support of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to change term limits legislatively. It can be attributed to Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Executive Director:
“There’s something profoundly wrong with our democracy when the opinions of the city’s billionaires are [...]

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Contact: Dan Levitan
Working Families Party launches www.itsourdecision.org where New Yorkers Can Tell Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council Not to End Term Limits Legislatively
NEW YORK- Leaders of the Working Families Party gathered today at City Hall to announce a campaign to oppose Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed legislative extension of [...]