Working Families

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 WFP’s campaign for a working families-friendly Congress is back at it. Help us send even more progressive champions to Washington this November.

The New York Sun notes last September’s primaries showed the WFP’s grassroots organizing prowess.

For Immediate Release: September 9, 2008
Party Helps Guide Insurgent Candidate With Blue-Collar Roots Through Tough Race
Western New York – The Working Families Party celebrated today Joe Mesi’s victory in the Democratic Primary, calling the insurgent candidate a “fighter for Western New York.”
“Joe Mesi knows the problems facing middle class families in Western New York because [...]

Electing progressive insurgents, and defending progressive incumbents. On Primary Day, we made headlines winning every single one of our priority races