Theoretically I am for the WFP - I'm for increasing minimum wage, and I'm for publicly financed political campaigns. I'm against fracking. So I am generally a 'progressive' Democratic.
So theoretically I like having the WFP line on the New York ballot. The continued existence of the WFP could - in the future - help move New York State Democrats away from Cuomo's triangulist corporatist policies. They failed to do so this year when they endorsed Cuomo. But there's always next year and four years from now....
So my first question is - what does it take to keep the WFP line on the ballot? My understanding is that they can remain automatically qualified for the statewide ballot so long as they get 50,000 votes for any statewide office. Is that correct? Would 50,000 votes on the WFP line for just one of the offices of the Comptroller and/or Attorney General and/or Governor be sufficient? I just don't know.
I'm thinking of voting for Democrat Tom DiNapoli (Comptroller) and Democrat Eric Schneiderman (Attorney General) on the WFP line. I don't really know if I'll vote for Governor and don't really want to discuss that now.
And then my second question is - should we want to keep WFP going? Or has it been co-opted forever.
I'm just interested in the two questions -
(1) The NYS election law question - are 50,000 votes for the A/G race and/or the Comptroller race enough to keep the WFP going?
(2) Is there any hope that good will come out of keeping the WFP going?