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Purple (customary) |seats1_title = Seats in the Senate |seats1 = |seats2_title = Seats in the House |seats2 = |seats3_title = Governorships |seats3 = |seats4_title = State Upper House Seats |seats4 = |seats5_title = State Lower House Seats |seats5 = | website = (www.workingfamiliesparty.org ) | country = United States }} The Working Families Party (WFP) is a minor political party in the United States, founded in 1998. There are active chapters in New York, Connecticut, and Oregon, and it is growing, with initiatives in South Carolina, Delaware, and Vermont,〔http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/about/wfp-in-other-states/ WFP in Other States〕 and offshoots in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.〔(Pennsylvania gets its First Working Families Party office holder )〕〔http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/School-activists-Get-rid-of-the-SRC.html〕 New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a coalition of labor unions, community organizations, members of the now-inactive national New Party, and a variety of public interest groups such as Citizen Action of New York and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The party's main concerns are jobs, healthcare, raising the minimum wage, universal paid sick days, the student debt crisis, winning higher taxes on the rich, defending public education and energy/environment reform. It has usually cross-endorsed progressive Democratic or Republican candidates through fusion voting, but will occasionally run its own candidates. The state directors of the WFP are Bill Lipton (NY), Lindsay Farrell (CT), Kati Sipp (PA) and Karly Edwards (OR). Some of the party's most prominent endorsed candidates include US Senators Chris Murphy (CT) and Jeff Merkley (OR), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, and New York City Public Advocate Letitia James. ==Electoral strategy== Like other minor parties in the state, the WFP benefits from New York's electoral fusion laws that allow the party to support another party's candidate when they feel it aligns with their platform. This allows sympathetic voters to support a minor party without feeling like they are "wasting" their vote. Usually, the WFP endorses the Democratic Party candidate, but it has occasionally endorsed moderate Republican Party candidates as a strategy for spurring bi-partisan action on its policy priorities. The support of the WFP is sometimes quite important in Democratic primaries. In some cases, the WFP has put forward its own candidates. In the chaotic situation following the assassination of New York City councilman James E. Davis by political rival Othniel Askew, the slain councilman's brother Geoffrey Davis was chosen to succeed him in the Democratic primary. As it became clear that Geoffrey Davis lacked his late brother's political experience, fellow Democrat Letitia James decided to challenge him in the general election on the WFP ticket and won Brooklyn's 35th City Council district as the first third-party candidate elected there in 30 years. In 2006, the party began ballot access drives in California,〔(Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Working Families Party Qualified as “Political Body” in California )〕 Delaware, Massachusetts,〔(Ballot Access News » Blog Archive » Working Families Party of Massachusetts )〕 Oregon, and South Carolina.〔(Ballot Access News - June 1, 2006 )〕 In 2010 Oregon joined South Carolina and New York as states that allow fusion voting. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Working Families Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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