Yes, I remember when Cuomo lost the gubernatorial primary to McCall but stayed on the Liberal Party line (instead of begging off the ballot through a judicial race) and didn’t campaign, thus killing off the Liberal Party when it didn’t get 50,000 votes. I didn’t know that the Liberal Party had been active in the early 2010s, much less that it had endorsed Bob Turner; but I’m not surprised that the last vestiges of the party were pro-Israel, given that the Liberal Party always had been heavily Jewish, and, in fact, was founded to provide Jewish garment workers with a way to vote for FDR without having to vote for the party of Tammany Hall.
Is there any chance - even a longshot chance - that we can dump NYC? Rob Astorino won in UPSTATE NY last time. They say we need NYC for financial reasons, but to that I say a conservative governor would give us lower taxes. Plus, NYC can keep it’s $$, and UPSTATE can keep it’s conservative principles.
My apologies to the conservatives who live in NYC, including my in-laws.
They still have a website up:
Part of the reason for their existence was to replace the American labor Party, a Communist-influenced party that wound up endorsing the Comsymp Henry Wallace for president. The Liberal Party did to the ALP what the Working Families Party eventually did to them.
If Nixon campaigns, maybe she can hurt Cuomo. If not, maybe she can manage to kill the WFP, just as Cuomo killed the Liberals. (But they’re still lurking out there.)
And remember, the Greens also have ballot status in New York.
Nixon and her running LT running mate have withdrawn as Working Family nominees by accepting nominations to different positions (Nixon for a an Assembly seat in Manhattan that she will not activly seek).
A petulant (he should have been grateful) Cuomo waited a couple days before accepting their nomination.