New York Governor- 2014- Astornio vs Cuomo

[Lief 🗽]

Great piece about the history of the WFP and their dilemma in deciding whether or not to endorse Cuomo: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/05/which-working-families-party/

[Simfan34]

ugh

EDIT: Also, what the [inks?]

[Lief 🗽]

ugh

EDIT: Also, what the [inks?]

Hm? It's not surprising that a progressive candidate would win a significant amount of the vote in a race against two Republicans.

[Paul Kemp]

Mayor de Blasio privately asks Working Families Party to back Gov. Cuomo for reelection.

[Lief 🗽]

Mayor de Blasio privately asks Working Families Party to back Gov. Cuomo for reelection.

Well, yeah, he can't really piss off Cuomo, unfortunately.

Luckily, there's this: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/05/8546043/dem-fund-raiser-leaning-toward-anti-cuomo-lg-run

[Lief 🗽]

Encouraging news: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/working-families-party-eyeing-diane-ravitch-challenger-gov-cuomo-blog-entry-1.1808233

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Mayor de Blasio privately asks Working Families Party to back Gov. Cuomo for reelection.

Well, yeah, he can't really piss off Cuomo, unfortunately.

Luckily, there's this: http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/05/8546043/dem-fund-raiser-leaning-toward-anti-cuomo-lg-run

Why not?

[Paul Kemp]

"Unless there is a significant new development in the next 24 hours, I don’t expect the state committee to endorse the governor," said the co-chairwoman, Karen Scharff, who as executive director of the liberal advocacy group Citizen Action of New York wields considerable influence in the party.

[badgate]

Go Zephyr Teachout!

Despite your weird name!!!

[badgate]

Her website is up: http://zephyrteachout.com

[henster]

RIP the WFP this may be the end of them, doubt Teachout gets 50,000 votes.

[IceSpear]

RIP the WFP this may be the end of them, doubt Teachout gets 50,000 votes.

They probably would. This is the 2010 results:

Green Party - 59,906
Libertarian Party - 48,359
Rent Is Too Damn High Party - 41,129

Assuming a similar turnout, 50,000 votes is only about 1.1% of the total vote.

[SWE]

RIP the WFP this may be the end of them, doubt Teachout gets 50,000 votes.

Yeah, third parties that poll ~30% never do better than 1.1%

[Paul Kemp]

Apparently, Cuomo and WFP are now working on an endorsement deal:

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[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Still not impressed. Actions speak louder than words, and nominating Kathy Hochul of all people does not give me faith that a DREAM Act is high on Cuomo's agenda.

Still deciding on Teachout or Hawkins. If he was a real Democrat he would have done more to stop Judas Kline's sale of his party.

[Lief 🗽]

From the WFP convention:



FFs

[nolesfan2011]

WFP is a Dem stalking horse joke, they are absolutely pathetic and this whole Cuomo thing proves it, all they do is undermine genuine progressive support for a Dem party alternative and function as a labor caucus and cloak for corporate Dems to claim to care about actual progressive values.

If the WFP was real they would simply endorse Hawkins with their fusion and work with him, but instead they do this and are trying to split the anti Cuomo vote or just endorse Cuomo.

[henster]

Cuomo has just clinched the WFP nomination with 58% of the vote over Teachout.

[Maxwell]

Cuomo has just clinched the WFP nomination with 58% of the vote over Teachout.

link?

[henster]

Cuomo has just clinched the WFP nomination with 58% of the vote over Teachout.

link?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacobfischler/cuomo-deals-way-passed-tight-vote-for-new-yorks-progressive

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

Labor alternative my ass.

Cuomo should have helped elect Democrats as is. That's his goddamn job as governor. Shame on the "Working Families" Party for selling out the left-wing, and shame on Bill de Blasio for appeasing Cuomo instead of having some sort of fortitude and standing up to him.

I hope they lose their ballot line. Maybe then they can join the Democrats instead of shill for "Democrats" who are to the economic right of Susan Collins.

[IceSpear]

At least they managed to give him a scare and extract some decent promises from him. It's possible he could go back on them, but that would make him look pretty bad to potential primary voters.

[Anti Democrat Democrat Club]

At least they managed to give him a scare and extract some decent promises from him. It's possible he could go back on them, but that would make him look pretty bad to potential primary voters.

Considering he picked the most anti-immigration House Democrat for LG and one of his promises is making DREAMers feel welcome in their own country, I'm not optimistic.

The only way he can pull off a greater con than this is by convincing the country's Democratic electorate that he's the best for the middle class.

[Hatman 🍁]

Terrible news, I was hoping this would make for an interesting election...

[SWE]

RIP WFP