Bill de Blasio, one of many candidates for public advocate, recently scored a crucial, and unusually early endorsement from the labor-backed Working Families Party.
The endorsement will provide de Blasio a significant boost of campaign support with months still to go before the September Democratic primary. But the race is a heavy lift.
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Bill de Blasio, one of many candidates for public advocate, recently scored a crucial, and unusually early endorsement from the labor-backed Working Families Party.
The endorsement will provide de Blasio a significant boost of campaign support with months still to go before the September Democratic primary. But the race is a Read More
The Working Families Party has endorsed Ruben Diaz Jr. for Bronx Borough President.
“Ruben Diaz Jr. has always been there for the people of the Bronx when they needed him, and we know we can count on him to continue that work as Borough President,” said Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Executive Director in a Read More
The Working Families Party has endorsed Ruben Diaz Jr. for Bronx Borough President.
“Ruben Diaz Jr. has always been there for the people of the Bronx when they needed him, and we know we can count on him to continue that work as Borough President,” said Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Executive Director in Read More
As the details leak about what David Paterson will propose Tuesday in his budget for 2009 – a budget which will have to bridge a $15 billion deficit – State Senator Malcolm Smith's words to a coalition of progressive supporters who met at New York University Friday were improbably upbeat.
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Two things stand out about the Working Families Party’s announcement that they oppose changing the term-limits law, which the party formally announced at a press conference on the City Hall steps a few minutes ago.
The first is that they will not withhold an endorsement from any City Council member who votes in favor changing Read More
Dan Cantor, executive director of the labor-backed Working Families Party, makes the case in an email to supporters:
Sometimes the candidate who’ll fight for working families is a challenger, sometimes it’s an incumbent who’s been doing it for years. Think about Teddy Kennedy if you want the best example of such a person at the Read More
The executive director of the labor-backed Working Families party just released a statement reiterating his opposition to the property tax cap that was passed in the State Senate today, saying it was wrong for those senators to “side” with Governor David Paterson on the plan. Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the Working Families Party Read More
The executive director of the Working Families Party, Dan Cantor, showed support for Sheldon Silver in an interview with OpenLeft published today, calling attacks from the left on the incumbent Democrat “intellectually shallow and politically naive.”
It’s not a total surprise–Liz notes that the W.F.P. has often lined up with establishment Read More
Dan Cantor wants to emphasize that while media reports (including mine) have emphasized the tax increase included in the Working Families Party economic agenda, there is a bigger picture.
An increase in personal income taxes is levied against those who earn more than $250,000, but it is part of an effort to Read More
