Working Families

We couldn’t be more proud! The WFP’s own Urania Petit (you may recognize her from the rotating quotes above) became Connecticut’s first-ever third party Registrar of Voters, beating her Republican opponent by 200 votes in Hartford.  Here’s the Courant story:
Working Families Party Candidate Makes History in Hartford
By JEFFREY B. COHEN
November 7, 2008

Add Urania Petit’s [...]

The Fairfield Weekly takes a look at the meteoric rise of the Connecticut Working Families Party.  On the ballot statewide for the first time in 2008, unofficial returns show our sister party in the Nutmeg State pulled in over 75,000 votes – just over 5% of the total vote!

Taking on the Republicrats
The Working Families [...]

Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor argues the merits of raising taxes on millionaires to help close New York’s budget gap in an op-ed today in the Daily News:

To help stop budget bleeding, raise taxes on the rich
By Dan Cantor
Wednesday, November 19th 2008, 4:00 AM
After a week of posturing [...]

Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party today released the following statement on tomorrow’s special legislative session. It can be attributed to Bob Master, Working Families Party Co-Chair:
“Tomorrow, Governor Paterson is asking New York’s working families to swallow billions in budget cuts. The cuts will negatively impact millions of New Yorkers: SUNY and CUNY students, [...]

Studies Buck Claim of Millionaire Tax-Flights
WNYC’s Bob Hennelly highlights a New Jersey study showing a half-millionaire’s tax there did not cause the rich to leave the Garden State.

A very helpful new fact sheet from the Center for Working Families debunks some of the key myths surrounding the millionaire’s tax debate. At issue is whether [...]

Here’s a great Op-Ed from Barbara Dudley, Co-Chair of the budding Oregon Working Families Party. Unofficial results show the Oregon WFP’s candidate for Attorney General, Ashley Albies coming in with an incredible 159,625 votes – nearly 10.67% of the total statewide vote.  The WFP has real potential in the Beaver State, and we can’t wait [...]

This year, the Connecticut Working Families Party had our best showing at the polls yet — by a lot. Our statewide vote total has more than tripled since 2006 — we pulled in a remarkable 75,000 votes.

City Hall takes a look at the WFP’s coming effort to elect more progressives to the New York City Council next year.  (Note: Working Families Party members are yet to endorse anyone for next year’s races and endorsement interviews won’t be held until this Spring).

Relative Progress for Working Families Gives Hope for Greater Muscle [...]

Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party released today the following statement on the Governor’s proposal to shrink the budget gap through severe spending cuts.  It can be attributed to Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Executive Director:
With New York facing a $2 billion deficit this year and another $12 billion next year, everyone – [...]

The WFP knocked on over a half-million doors to help defeat the decades-old Republican State Senate majority.