Working Families

The WFP is growing. Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski will sign a bill legalizing fusion voting – the WFP’s “secret weapon.” Oregon progressives are hard at work building a WFP of their own.

In 2001, Bill Lindsay, president of IBEW Local 25, ran for County Legislature in a Suffolk County special election, as a Democratic and a Working Families Party candidate.

Lindsay won in a squeaker – 50.6% to 49.4% – with…

Micah Sifry, an expert on third parties, takes a look at their problems and promise in his book, Spoiling For a Fight: Third Party Politics in America.  Here’s an excerpt:

Alternative points of view do not lack…