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Article: Pull that WFP lever. (support for Working Families Party candidates in New York State elections as way of establishing credibility of a new progressive political party)(Editorial)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- November 2, 1998
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In an otherwise desultory fall election, there is one lever New York voters can pull on Election Day that will make a real difference -- that of the Working Families Party and its gubernatorial candidate, Peter Vallone. The WFP is a new community-labor coalition whose core institutional support comes from the statewide Communications Workers of America, Regions 9 and 9A of the United Auto Workers, the Amalgamated Transit Union, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), Citizen Action of New York, the New Party's state branches and a dozen or so smaller union locals including the Teamsters, Laborers Union and the Buffalo Teachers Federation [see ...