i am not that far removed from four years at suny fredonia. i also hope to go back to school possibly at ub in the near future. so when i heard about tuition hikes it made me recall how for every year while i was in college the state tried to raise tuition costs on suny students. each time it was shot down. governor david paterson has proposed a tuition hike starting in the spring that wou......
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five months ago governor david paterson and the four leaders from the new york state legislature held a press conference i described at the time as a dysfunctional press conference for a dysfunctional legislature. it was entertaining to watch because of the bickering but the feeling of nothing getting done was there and it wasnt a good feeling. this state has a lot of issu......
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todays the day for the special session in albany lets hope the senate does the right thing nothinga the working families party the people who worked hand in hand with tom golisano to help the democrats take over the state senate issued a statement yesterday calling for tax increases. he is their statement tomorrow governor paterson is asking ......
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this is why i love the working families party we wake up today with a real opportunity the best in our lifetime to transform america and new york. it goes without saying but say it we will if we want to transform yesterdays results into a real break from the shipwreck of the last thirty years we have to start by realizing that this election was just round one. and round two......
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consider this an open thread and an i voted roll call to see how many members of the tap community have voted. i voted for barack obama on row e the working families party line today. i then traveled up to row a to vote for alice kryzan . i also voted on row e for justice john michalek and tracey bannister. i did end up voting for two republicans. i voted on row e for......
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...t to vote for one of the most exciting presidential candidates of our era but for a party that shares your progressive vision of what america and new york can be. find out more at httpwor kingfamili esparty.or gobama see wfpendorsed candidates where you live httpwww .workingfa miliespart y.orgelec tionsendo rsements need to know your polling place httpsvo terlookup. elections. state....
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...ote. bring a child to vote with you. take a photo of your ballot i did. make your vote count more ny only by voting on row e the working families party line http www.work ingfamilie sparty.org obama41 double your vote by dragging someone along. volunteer whatever hours you have left. make phone calls httpmy. barackobam a.compage ... or wherever you are httpwww .domoretha nvote.o...
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the above note hangs on the wall of the norristown pa obama office where my sister has been working. a grandkids plea...so heres mine need it be said go out there and vote. bring a child to watch you vote. bring a friend and double your vote. bring an umbrella a book a sound system make it a party as color of change recommended to its list to keep people......
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with some help from my friend matthew athe working families party in new york is a decade old alternative to casting a simple vote of yes or no left or right.ain new york we have something calleda afusion voting. ait allows one candidate to run as the nominee of more than one party in an election. it creates the possibility that third parties can thrive wi......
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the saga over alice kryzans placement on the working families party line is over she will not appear on the ballot tomorrow . a threejudge panel of the u.s. second circuit court of appeals in new york city ruled this afternoon that jon powers cannot be removed from the ballot on the working families party line for the 26th congressional district meaning that alice kryzan has lost ......
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a message from the working families party new york isnt a swing state but theres still one thing we can do to make sure our votes really count vote for barack obama on the working families ballot line row e. working families votes for obama count the same but they send a powerful message that we dont just want a change of party in the white hou......
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fox news never met a community organizer they didnt hate.a desperate to exacerbate the gops recent attacks on acorn fox is fueling the fire of misinformation about the nations largest grassroots community organizing group.a they attacked acorns chief organizer bertha lewis last thursday for endorsing barack obama in a video claiming acorn should not be allowed t......
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...ates on the working families party line it will boost a major instrument of power for the progressive movement in one of the largest states in america. so if you live in new york state go to www.workin gfamiliesp arty.org and sign up to pledge to vote for barack obama on the working families partys row e on the ballot. then tell all your friends and neighbors to do the same. you may be liv...
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the hill reports a federal court ordered alice kryzan d not to appear as a third party candidate potentially changing the game in new yorks hotly contested 26th district. a federal judge sided with new york republicans and blocked kryzan from appearing as the candidate of the working families party wfp leaving primary opponent jon powers d on the ......
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in fridays new york times an article on page a25 profiled the working families party a party founded in 1998 that is unique to the new york region even though it is being built right now in oregon south carolina and delaware 8221 .a it was subtitled a field operation with a liberal agenda and described the partys strategy for achieving its goa......
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in a surprise twist alice kryzan will be on the working families party line after all. court knocks powers off ballot boosting kryzan the appellate division of state supreme court ruled late thursday that a lower court erred in deciding that powers kryzans former rival for the democratic nomination for the seat must stay on the working families line even though he had moved t......
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if you are a regular reader than i expect that you can guess what im going to say when it comes to choosing the next president of the united states. if you call yourself a liberal or a progressive or a lover of individual liberty and reproductive choice if you want quality affordable healthcare to be accessible to all americans if you want to restore some modicum of equity to the tax code ......
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...ork actvists from bob fertik when you vote for barack obama on tuesday november 4 i hope youll join me in voting for obama on row e the working families party. httpwww .workingfa miliespart y.orgobam a voting for obama on row e is exactly like voting for him on the democratic party line only it lets you make a statement that youre a progressive democrat who supports economi......
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...gobama tell your friends fellow activists and every new yorker you know. the more votes the more progressive power. to contact the wfp about helping directly email dan levitan at dlevitanw orkingfami liesparty. org sincerely phillip anderson and robert harding the albany project michael bouldin daily gotham justin krebs political organizer......
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...obama tell your friends fellow activists and every new yorker you know. the more votes the more progressive power. to contact the wfp about helping directly email dan levitan at dlevitanw orkingfami liesparty. org sincerely phil anderson and robert harding the albany project michael bouldin daily gotham justin krebs political organizer......
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...l you about my search for an accurate definition of what a working familyais. first i discovered that there is actually a working families political party.a www.workin gfamiliesp arty.org a surely i thought this organization would provide a reasonably precise definition of a working family that includes everyone who has a family and that works hard to support them.a i was sadly mistaken.aai...
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i just fell in love with bertha lewis the chief organizer of acorn. listen to her for just a minute well a minute and a half and see if you dont fall in love with her too she makes an interesting point about voting for obama under the working families party rather than on the democratic line. im going to do this. yeah yeah i know its just a token gesture i......
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newly promoted chief organizer bertha lewis who wrote in this space last friday took a minute to express acorns thanks for the pushback to the progressive movement and we in the netroots. ive been working on the side to help acorn in the last few weeks and i am also truly thankful everyone pitched in. the pfaw ad in the nytimes was stunning and i think paul rosenbe......
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somehow this slipped between the cracks the united federation of teachers is signing on to a letter urging the department of education to make dramatic cuts to at least five of chancellor joel kleins hallmark programs. joining the signatories list which also includes time out from testing the working families party and class size matters was the third thing the un......
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