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
November 20th, 2008
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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…
November 19th, 2008
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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:

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November 19th, 2008
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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…
November 17th, 2008
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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…
November 17th, 2008
Related: Budget, Center for Working Families, education, Healthcare, real tax solutions
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%…
November 14th, 2008
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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.
November 14th, 2008
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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…
November 14th, 2008
Related: City Council, Elections 2009, WFP in the News
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…
November 12th, 2008
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The WFP knocked on over a half-million doors to help defeat the decades-old Republican State Senate majority.
November 5th, 2008
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