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	About the Working Families Party
		The WFP is a grassroots, community and labor based political party with chapters throughout New York State.
		The goal of the Working Families Party is to more forcefully inject the issues of working-class, middle-class, and poor people—like jobs, health care, education, and housing—into the public debate, and hold candidates and elected officials accountable on those issues.
		The Working Families Party was launched in June 1998 by a coalition of community organizations, unions, and individuals.
	www.workingfamiliesparty.org /about.html (635 words)

	Encyclopedia: Working Families Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the 2002 election for governor of New York, the party cross-endorsed the Democratic Party candidate, Carl McCall.
		As of 2005, the executive director of the WFP is Dan Cantor.
		The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party [1]), is one of the two major political parties in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Working-Families-Party (2499 words)

	An exchange of letters on the Working Families Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The WFP is a political party that was formed in 1998 by labor unions (such as UAW and CWA) and ACORN.
		The WFP’s mission, you say, is to “revitalize the left in New York.”; In practice, however, this consists of a campaign by a section of the trade union bureaucracy to win support for politicians of the Democratic Party, while creating the illusion of an “independent” third party with a social reformist program.
		The WFP’s greatest claim to fame is having gotten 100,000 votes for Hillary Clinton in her successful bid for a US Senate seat from New York in 2000.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jun2002/wfp-j03.shtml (1499 words)

	WFP Blog
		Locally in New York City, the news is especially bad: "The only city with a million or more residents that exhibited a significant change in poverty level last year was New York City, which saw the rate increase from 19 percent to 20.3 percent," the AP reports.
		Well, by supporting Eliot Spitzer as a Working Families Party candidate rather than as a Democrat, for example, voters send the message that the issues Working Families champions -- universal healthcare, a living wage, strong labor protection -- are very important to a significant segment of their base.
		Working Families has become a fixture in local political races in the state's bigger cities and in the suburbs of New York City, delivering a get-out-the-vote apparatus and its progressive WF brand label in exchange for influence over candidates' policy agendas.
	wfpjournal.blogspot.com (1476 words)

	Working Families Party Fights For Working Families All Year - The Nine Line
		The Working Families Party is working on the local, city and state level to elect pro-worker, pro-community candidates who will push for the issues working families care about.
		The party conducts an extensive interview process, screening candidates on the issues important to our members and other voters, such as, increasing the minimum wage, providing quality health care and a solid education to all New Yorkers, strengthening the state’s workers compensation system, and making it easier for workers to join unions.
		The Working Families Party helps develop and run candidates up and down the ballot, picking races where it has a chance of running challenger candidates and cross-endorsing Democrats or Republicans when they are good on the issues.
	www.uaw.com /solidarity/rnews/r9/01/r9q3_1.html (654 words)

	Jobs With Working Families Party
		The Working Families Party is hiring entry level activists to work on national, state, and local issue & electoral campaigns.
		The Working Families Party has emerged as a distinct voice on the left for disgruntled Democrats and independent voters, and as a fast-growing force in city and state elections.
		And by promoting itself as the party with a social conscience, it has connected with a new generation of voters.
	www.jobswithwfp.org (321 words)

	New York American Reform Party Application
		Parties that previously had ballot access -- the Liberals, Greens and Right to Lifers -- are now too weak to overcome the state's arcane ballot access laws and the major-party lawyers to even get a whiff of being on the ballot here in Suffolk.
		My announcement is this: A new state party is forming affiliated with the national American Reform Party, and it will run independent and reform-minded candidates in Suffolk County (and hopefully elsewhere) in 2005 and statewide candidates in 2006, hoping to get the minimum number of votes needed to attain official ballot status.
		The natural consequence of such distaste, logically thinking should be the creation of a third major political party, a party that is centrist, addresses the broad spectrum of issues and produces true competition and superior government.
	www.americanreform.org /ARP-State-Affiliates/new-york.html (2777 words)

	Council Member’s Impending Leave Draws Contenders
		The Working Families Party is planning to throw its weight behind George Torres to replace Council Member Jose Serrano, who is giving up his Bronx council seat to move over to the state Senate.
		A member of the WFP’s executive committee, Wilfredo Larancuent, said yesterday in a statement that the party was endorsing Mr.
		Torres “because he is the most experienced candidate, with a history of working hard on issues we care about.” Working families has endorsed several other candidates in the past, including Letitia James, who won the seat of late Council Member James Davis after he was killed at City Hall.
	www.virtualboricua.org /Docs/nys25.htm (371 words)

	Spoiling for a Fight - Third-Party Politics in America, by Micah L. Sifry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It could, because it is another object lesson in how the two major parties have failed to look after the interests of the little guy, instead passing laws that made it easier for corporate swindlers and their helpers in the accounting and securities industries to go on a looting spree.
		The problem is that the two major parties have made it extremely difficult for upstarts, whether they're political independents or third-party candidates, to break into the big leagues.
		But we were regularly interrupted by all kinds of working people-deliverymen, repairmen, janitors-the kinds of guys who wear work shirts with their last name stenciled on them.
	www.spoilingforafight.com /qanda.htm (1873 words)

	village voice > news > Which Third Way? by Alisa Solomon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With nearly 15,000 registrants, the WFP is the smallest of New York's third parties (which, apart from the Greens, also include the Independents, Liberals, and Right-to-Lifers.) But the WFP has been building steadily, employing old-fashioned, shoe-leather door-to-door campaigning to build a party of upstate blue-collar whites, urban people of color, and suburban liberals.
		As those pols began to bristle under the third parties' growing power, the two major parties teamed up to outlaw the central means by which both were being influenced by the left.
		The party eventually became a personal patronage mill for Ray Harding—who parlayed the margin of victory the party supplied Giuliani into a cushy job for his son—and recently has been withering away.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0244/solomon.php (2447 words)

	Working Families Party endorses Dems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The party is endorsing Democrat Glenn Monto as its candidate for supervisor in the Town of Beekmantown.
		The Working Families Party is endorsing Democrat Samuel Dyer as its candidate for the Beekmantown Town Council.
		White said each of the candidates the party is endorsing went through a three-step process to receive that endorsement.
	www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2005/08_2005/082220052.htm (565 words)

	Working Families Vote Oregon - Working Families Vote Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Oregon Republican Party is backing off a complaint filed on Friday that questioned the registrations of some Multnomah County voters who signed up through the mail.
		In the latter piece, the canvassers worked under Sproul and Associates, a firm hired by the Republican National Committee.
		The professors hammered home the point that the tax cuts did not work, and argue that the income inequality inherant in a free-market scheme has been taken to an extreme.
	www.workingfamiliesvote.com (2457 words)

	Excerpts from Sue Bradford's Speeches on Future Directions (Working for Families) Bill - Green Party
		I believe the State should be neutral on whether single parents should have to work or not, and should also accept that it’s not a bad thing if one partner in a two parent beneficiary family works as a full time caregiver rather than being worktested and forced out to work.
		However, we believe that the way to deal with the transition is not by continuing to entrench the disparities between beneficiary and working families on the same or similar incomes, but rather through directing support to the working adult and their needs.
		The Green Party is tabling an amendment to Part 1 of this Bill in which we seek to repeal clauses 12, 23 and 25.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/speech7553.html (1778 words)

	A Budget for hard working families: The Labour Party: securing Britain's future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		family prosperity secured only if we also match a strong economy with investments to help parents balance work* and family life, to give every child the best possible start in life, and to deliver a fair deal for pensioners.
		Working with the Chambers of Commerce we will encourage take up among the 600,000 companies now eligible to benefit from this VAT simplification.
		I can announce today that in addition to the £250 and £500 downpayments families are already receiving, we will now consult on extending the child trust fund so that there are payments not just in primary school but in secondary school years too.
	www.labour.org.uk /3268 (6437 words)

	Links to Socialist, Anarchist, Leftist, Environmental and News sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The DSA is the official US full member party of the Socialist International (which includes Tony Blair's UK Labour Party, the French Parti Socialiste and 100+ other political parties around the globe).
		Grassroots Party --This Minnesota party of liberals advocates the legalization of marijuana and the establishment of a national system of universal health care (among other things).
		As a fortunate "silver lining" of the process, the Democratic party has delivered essential, basic reforms that ameliorate the worst of American capitalism and its racist, hierarchical culture: witness Social Security and the labor laws of Roosevelt, the Civil Rights laws in the 60's, and the environmental laws of the 70's.
	www.bergonia.org /links.htm (4417 words)

	Some lawmakers worried about funding third parties - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For example, the grant for a minor-party candidate could be tied to the minor party's performance in the last election.
		Jon Green, executive director of the Connecticut Working Families Party, said he understands lawmakers' concerns that a candidate with no intention of winning would receive public funds.
		However, his minor party, which supports public financing, doesn't want to see it and others shut out of the system.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2005/11/14/some_lawmakers_worried_about_funding_third_parties (811 words)

	New York - LeftyBlogs.com
		He was working for a Grant Street pizzeria, earning extra money to buy Christmas presents for his two kids when he delivered a pizza to a building on 15th Street where to vicious animal predators were lying in [...]...
		Pirro camp knocks Clinton for attending party honoring Byrd:Republican Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro attacked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday for hosting a birthday bash for West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, a one-time member of the Ku Klux Klan, last night at the Frederick Douglass House in Washington.
		WFPM reports that the Conservative Party in New York might snub Republican Jeanine Pirro, who was chosen by the Bush White House to challenge Hillary's Senate seat.
	www.leftyblogs.com /newyork (4763 words)

	New York City District 25
		The candidates are Chinese, Peruvian, Italian, Colombian, gay, straight, male, and female, and they work as a locker-room attendant, a district leader, a nurse, a lawyer, an organizer, and as school officials.
		He has worked hard in the district for years, and has even produced a children's book on Jackson Heights for fourth-grade students in the area.
		Many have been working on politicians' staffs and serving with community groups, clearly hoping someday to win their own elected office.
	www.gothamgazette.com /searchlight2001/dist25.html (4727 words)

	Green Party of New York State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		We were impressed with Mattera’s desire to use the power of the borough president’s office to challenge the Department of City Planning when their proposals are out of step with the community’s wishes, citing the recent rezoning of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront as a prime example of where she would have pressured the agency.
		Alice Green, the Green Party candidate for Mayor in the City of Albany, was endorsed today by the National Organization for Women (NOW) of New York State and numerous women activists.
		Her interests lie in seeing a city that is vibrant with the people who have made this place there home, the people who send their children to our schools, work here, socialize here and seek to have a safe, affordable and economically viable future.
	www.gpnys.org (2300 words)

	Questions for Oral Answer - Working for Families Package - Child Poverty - Green Party
		Hon Dr Michael Cullen: There are two measures of family poverty widely accepted internationally: one sets the threshold at less than 60 percent of the medium wage after housing costs and the other puts it at 50 percent.
		Using the lower 50 percent measure the Working for Families package is expected to achieve a 70 percent reduction in child poverty.
		A recent election suggests that parties that want to borrow their way into high interest rates will be punished by the electorate for that.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/other7947.html (801 words)

	Working Families Party
		Click here to see the candidates who have been endorsed by the WFP in 2005.
		a great article about the WFP in the September 12 issue of The Nation
		NEW: Discuss issues of the day through the WFP's lens at
	www.workingfamiliesparty.org (40 words)

	Working Families Party Endorsement Questionnaire Answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is an endorsement form from the Working Families Party driven by issues important to unions, workers, tenants and families.
		Given the continued fiscal crisis faced by the City, the --Party believes it would be highly irresponsible to roll back the PIT increases agreed to in 2003.
		While the --Party strongly supported this bill, the Party opposed the decision, late in the process, to remove recipients of economic development subsidies from the bill.
	parksforcouncil.20fr.com /custom3.html (959 words)

	Working Families Party Supporter, WFP Meetups, events, clubs and groups in your area - Meetup.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Working Families Party Supporter, WFP Meetups, events, clubs and groups in your area - Meetup.com
		18 Working Families Party Supporter, friends, and people who want to learn more.
		Meet other loal people interested in Working Families Party issues including ensuring a free public education for all, advocating for a living wage, and keep public officials accountable to the voting public.
	wfp.meetup.com (68 words)

	Joseph Tartaglia: D, L, and Working Families party lines by Carolyn James
		Tartaglia’s parents divorced when he was nine years old and he readily acknowledges the difficulties of seeing his mother walk out, leaving her children behind.
		When he’s not working or out riding his Harley, Tartaglia says he enjoys spending time with friends.
		A perfect day, he said, would be spending time around Massapequa with friends and then going back to his house for something to eat and to play baseball or horseshoes, a game he also learned from his grandfather.
	www.massapequapost.com /News/2001/1024/Front_Page/020.html (877 words)

	Jobs With Working Families Party
		The WFP is hiring campaign staff, mostly college students and recent grads, to work in WFP campaign offices in Brooklyn.
		Former campaign staff describe their campaign experience as one of the most rewarding, challenging and best learning experiences of their lives.
		It is an opportunity to work with a dynamic and fun group of people and to learn valuable skills like public speaking and event organizing.
	www.jobswithwfp.org /Summer_Jobs.shtml (120 words)

	New York City - New York City Race For City Hall 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The mayor's campaign recently supplied the party with a poll purporting to show that Bloomberg is popular among its members.
		Ferrer did not show up at the party's announcement last evening, due to a scheduling conflict, according to a Working Family Party announcement.
		When asked about it last night, Ferrer said, "An endorsement by the Working Families Party is an endorsement, and as you all know, the Bloomberg forces heavily contested this.
	www.nynewsday.com /news/politics/mayor/nyc-ferr0928,0,7045826.story?coll=nyc-mgarden-headlines (679 words)

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