[lbo-talk] NYC mayor: no WFP endorsement yet

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 21 15:31:37 PDT 2005


[from a mass email to friends of the Working Families Party from party boss (just a joke!) Dan Cantor - v interesting that Ferrer doesn't have a lock on the nomination]

The WFP has not yet made a decision whether to make an endorsement in the state's highest profile race, that for Mayor of New York City. Our NYC Coordinating Council - 114 votes in all - tabled the discussion until next week.

At the moment, Fernando Ferrer has more than 50% of the vote on the Council, but less than the 2/3 required under our rules for city-wide endorsements. It's anybody's guess how it's going to turn out, and there is a lot of internal debate going on.

Fortunately, the debate has been passionate and civil at the same time. The culture of the WFP is that you fight hard for what you believe in, but everyone knows that we have to live and work together afterwards. Candidates come and go. The aim of the party is to build something that transcends individual candidates and changes the terms of debate in the broader society. Easy to say, hard to do, but we're making progress. Stay tuned for the outcome on this one.



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