Working Families

The New York Times today featured the Working Families Party’s campaign online and in the streets to keep term limits in voters’ hands:

Fighting Bid to Extend Term Limits, Politician by Politician

By FERNANDA SANTOS

They are angling for the magic number: 26. That is how many City Council members it would take to defeat a bill introduced [...]

The New York Times reported today on the WFP’s newly launched campaign to keep the City Council and Mayor from extending term limits without the permission of voters who’ve approved term limits (twice!).  Don’t forget to visit http://itsourdecision.org and send your message to the politicians!
Union-Backed Party Opposes Term Limits Plan

By Fernanda Santos  | October 7, [...]

The Capital Region’s Metroland featured this week the Working Families Party’s campaign to push Democrats to hold Wall Street accountable and extend the bailout to the middle class:
Whose Bailout Is This?
The Working Families Party urges Congress to help the middle class get through the current financial crisis
Across New York state, members of the Working Families [...]

Dan Cantor, the Working Families Party’s Executive Director, was on WNYC’s Brian Show Lehrer Show today, calling for the bailout to include homeowners and working families and for sensible oversight – including capping Wall Street salaries at $1 million – for investment firms saved by the bailout:

At a breakfast panel hosted by the Drum Major Institute today, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine called on New York’s elected leaders to pass a Paid Family Leave program similar to the one passed in New Jersey this Spring. The New Jersey program will enable employees caring for a newborn or newly-adopted child or a [...]

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

The Daily News featured www.haltthehike.org, the WFP’s joint campaign with Straphangers to keep subways and buses affordable and reliable:

New battle launched to freeze subway fare
BY PETE DONOHUE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, August 4th 2008, 10:06 PM
Foes of the fare hikes that went into effect this year are reactivating their “Halt the Hike” battle cry.
The Working Families [...]

Friday’s New York Times details the Real Estate industry – normally Republican allies – campaign contributions to State Senate Democrats. They’re hoping to prevent or water down affordable housing legislation if the Democrats take back the Albany this fall:

Anticipating a Democratic takeover of the New York State Senate this fall, real estate executives have [...]

David Sirota’s new bestsellingbook, “The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington,” is a firsthand narrative account inside America’s new populist movement.
Chapter 4, “The Boss and his Fusion Machine” is an in-depth look at the grassroots organizing and strategy of the WFP.