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Sunday, June 1, 2014

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Cuomo Already Begins To Renege On Working Families Party Deal
Well, that didn't take long - not even 24 hours before Cuomo started walking back the promises he made in the deal with the Working Families Party: A day after securing the nomination of the Working Families Party, Gov. Cuomo said his support for their liberal agenda only goes so far. ... Cuomo, who endorsed a higher minimum wage with an option for localities to hike it further based on cost of li

Working Families Party Rank-And-File Call "Bullshit!" On Governor Cuomo
As in literally:For four hours on Saturday, the W.F.P.’s convention was a collective group therapy session, where dozens of members of the left-wing of New York’s Democratic party aired their long-building displeasure with Cuomo....It was a bizarro version of the Democratic convention earlier in May, where Cuomo was the unquestioned star and lawmakers carefully avoided criticizing him. At the Desm

Cuomo Gets 58% Of The Vote At Working Families Convention, But Booed And Jeered At Every Turn

First, there should be no surprise that the Working Families Party endorsed the "Charter School Lobbyist," one Andrew M. Cuomo, for governor.WFP receives an awful lot of funding from the unions and the union heads had made it perfectly clear in the past few weeks that Andrew M. Cuomo was going to get the WFP ballot line or they were going to stop giving money to the Working Families Part


5-31-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekThe UFT Sold You Out To CuomoThe next time you hear any jive out of the UFT or AFT leadership about holding Andrew Cuomo accountable for his policies, remember that the union leaderships helped to engineer the Working Families Party endorsement of Andrew Cuomo by threatening the party with financial "collapse" if Cuomo wasn't given the nod