Oregon: Fusion Voting is GO
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.
July 9th, 2009
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How Fusion Build Progressive Power for Working People
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 3% of Lindsay’s vote coming on the Working Families line. The WFP was the margin of victory, [...]
September 27th, 2008
Micah Sifry’s Spoiling For a Fight
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 support in American public opinion. Substantial numbers of Americans-in some cases majorities-support aid to poor children, cuts in corporate [...]
September 21st, 2008
How Fusion Build Progressive Power for Working People
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 3% of Lindsay’s vote coming on the Working Families line. The WFP was the margin of victory, [...]
September 27th, 2008
Micah Sifry’s Spoiling For a Fight
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 support in American public opinion. Substantial numbers of Americans-in some cases majorities-support aid to poor children, cuts in corporate [...]
September 21st, 2008
