The good folks at the Working Families Party are launching a mail campaign in support of endorsed challengers Eric Massa and Dan Maffei. The campaign is also part of their effort to urge people to vote for progressive candidates, from the top of the ticket on down, on Row E, the WFP line and to "Vote Change Like You Mean It." It's a campaign you'll surely be hearing more about in the next two weeks.
On November 4th, New Yorkers have a chance to do more than just vote for change. By voting for Obama on the Working Families ballot line - "Row E" - they can send a powerful message for universal healthcare, an end to war in Iraq, and for an economy that works for all us. It's a way to "Vote Change Like You Mean It."
As Katrina Vanden Heuvel put it recently in The Nation:
Some of us support Obama with unalloyed enthusiasm, while others regard his victory as essential simply to avoid the catastrophe of another four years of Republican rule. But all of us know that the real work doesn't end with a new administration in Washington. It will be more urgent than ever to organize locally and build a clear alternative to the neoliberal consensus that has dominated both parties. By supporting Obama and the Congressional Democrats on the Working Families Party line, New Yorkers can begin that work now. We urge our New York readers, and other readers with friends in the state, to spread the word on the value of voting Working Families - Row E - once again this November.
It's a message with particular resonance in Western New York, a place where working families have been besieged for decades and a real battleground for a number of really hot races up and down the ticket. Voting for progressive candidates on Row E says to the pols that you had better be putting working people first.
Well done, WFP.
The full Maffei mailer is on the flip.
On the web:
Working Families Party
Vote Change Like You Mean It
Dan Maffei for Congress
Eric Massa for Congress |
