It is time to admit that leftists have no influence in the Democratic Party: Known as Governor 1%, Cuomo was elected in 2010 with the endorsement of the WFP, a union-financed party who can run their own candidates but instead give Democrats an additional ballot line. Despite the endorsement, Cuomo made good on his threat to lay off state unionized workers and cut their salaries... The WFP is nothing but the Democratic party rebranded to appear more progressive than it actually is.
Here in New York state, the uselessness of the Democratic Party “progressive” wing is on full display. The Democrat in name only governor, Andrew Cuomo, was not only re-elected but did so by knocking the phony progressives down a peg and down a line on the ballot. The Working Families Party (WFP) has suffered a well deserved comeuppance, having spent the past year betraying the causes it claims to support.
Known as Governor 1%, Cuomo was elected in 2010 with the endorsement of the WFP, a union-financed party who can run their own candidates but instead give Democrats an additional ballot line. Despite the endorsement, Cuomo made good on his threat to lay off state unionized workers and cut their salaries. Cuomo said nothing when corrupt Democrats in the state senate switched sides and gave Republicans the majority in that chamber. He has made no secret of his liking for this arrangement and his disdain for other Democrats and for the WFP.
He temporarily said all the right things to win another WFP endorsement in 2014 and then promptly formed a rival party in order to punish them. The Women’s Equality Party (WEP) has a similar name which confused some voters, as it was meant to do. Cuomo didn’t need the new party to get re-elected but he did want to show the WFP who was boss.
