Working Families Party Begins Endorsement Process

Progressive Third Party Makes Questionnaire Available Online

(Utica, NY – May, 2010) The Working Families Party recently announced the beginning of its annual endorsement process with the release of its online candidate questionnaire. Hundreds of candidates for local and national office around New York are expected to vie for the progressive third party’s endorsement.

“We want to know where every candidate, whether they’re running for State Assembly or Congress, stands on the issues that matter to Working Families,” said John Furman of the Herkimer – Oneida Counties Chapter of the Working Families Party. “The questionnaire gets at the heart of the Working Families Party’s priorities: affordable healthcare for all, economic development and living wage jobs.”

Candidates must complete the questionnaire, which can only be done on the WFP’s website, by May 21st. Afterward, candidates are screened throughout May by Working Families Party Chapters around the state. Each local chapter then votes to recommend endorsements to the statewide Executive Committee, which can only overturn a chapter endorsement with a two-thirds vote.

“The Working Families Party was founded 11 years by a coalition of grassroots activists, labor unions, and community groups,” said David Millbower of the local chapter. “The goal of 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 questionnaire is available at:

http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/elections/

Candidates are also encouraged to send a letter and a resume to Working Families Party, c/o David Millbower, CWA, 427 Main Street, New York Mills, NY 13417. For more information, please contact John Furman at (315) 725-0974 or Dave Millbower at 736-1126. The email address is uticaromewfp@gmail.com.

Working Families Party Begins Endorsement Process

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