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Working Families Party = ACORN
What Will AG Cuomo Do?

By Roger J. Stone

Media coverage of ACORN and that organization's illegal activities in New York, California and elsewhere has largely ignored one of ACORN's most successful projects; New York's Working Families Party (WFP).

Because of the unique nature of New York State election law, candidates are allowed to be endorsed and appear on the voting machine ballot as the candidate of multiple parties, winning the cumulative total of all votes cast for that candidate on multiple party lines. Minor parties such as the Conservative, Liberal and Right to Life Party have played significant roles in New York politics.

The Working Families Party is not about working people or families and it isn't really a party. The WFP is a wholly owned subsidiary of ACORN. Bertha Lewis co-chair of the Working Families Party is the Executive Director of New York ACORN. New York ACORN leader, Steven Kest was the moving force in forming the party and WFP headquarters are located at the same address as ACORN's national and New York office at 88 Third Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.

WFP is essentially a money funnel which pays for an aggressive door to door canvas. Largely funded by unions, the WFP is ACORN's "political arm" in New York State. Candidates supported by the Working Families Party and issues supported by ACORN are both advocated on the door steps of target voter homes as they share one major voter canvas.

The Working Families Party has no county organizations or county committee men or women and no local structure beyond its top leadership and an army of paid canvassers. Since the major parties no longer have the man power to organize an effective voter canvas, Democrats have turned to the WFP for their door to door campaign activities.

But more importantly, the Working Families Party is a criminal enterprise utilizing a for-profit political consulting firm, Data and Field Services (DFS) to skirt New York City election laws regarding public finance and campaign spending limits.

It's the classic "pay to play" politics. Candidates like Democrat Bill de Blasio pay the Working Families Party and this shady "consulting firm" which operates from the same address as the WFP and New York ACORN. The city Campaign Finance Board recently said "there are no apparent firewalls between them." The New York Daily News has called the relationship between candidates endorsed by the WFP and DFS an "election funding scam."
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What’s the story? Lurking just beneath the surface is Gillibrand’s connection to the most malignant force in New York and America’s politics, the Working Families Party (WFP).

Before being elected to Congress Gillibrand was a generally apolitical liberal working in Washington, and initially she tried being a Blue Dog, even voting correctly a gun rights issue.

Working Families is ACORN

Gillibrand’s Blue Dog days ended when her Senate seat was handed to her. She promptly sold her soul to the Working Families Party the anti American political arm of ACORN.

When she voted to continue funding ACORN, a group could end up being collapsed as a RICO organization, she was ORDERED to by the Working Families Party.

Gillibrand voted to give herself campaign money through the WFP.

This site warned about the Working Families Party two weeks ago explaining it has worked for ACORN to take over the NYC Council. In NYC’s Democrat primary Tuesday WFP backed candidates beat five incumbent Democrat Councilman. Now WFP owns the Council.

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For Immediate Release





December 3, 2009

WHY ISN'T ANDREW CUOMO INVESTIGATING THE WORKING FAMILIES PARTY?

New Yorkers for Growth Says Newspaper Series Demands Investigation

New York, NY--New Yorkers for Growth, the leading fiscal reform group in New York State, today--for the third time in five months--called on New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (D-WFP) to open up an investigation into the highly questionable inner workings of New York's Working Families Party and its myriad not-for-profit and for-profit entities.

NYFG has been calling for an investigation by the Attorney General's office since August, when an investigative series by City Hall Newspaper began revealing possible illegalities on multiple fronts by the WFP and its intertwined network of confederates.

Links to the City Hall reports can be accessed here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

"The New York State Attorney General has an obligation to investigate credible allegations of political, campaign finance, and not-for-profit fraud," said New Yorkers for Growth spokesman Bill O'Reilly. "We understand that the politics of this may be touchy--the Working Families Party backed Mr. Cuomo--but public duty has to supersede political considerations. New Yorkers for Growth is confident that the Attorney General will do the right thing."



To learn more about New Yorkers for Growth, please visit http://www.newyorkersforgrowth.com.

New Yorkers for Growth was founded to return New York State to firm fiscal footing. It recently launched a statewide petition to oppose the "Job-Killing Tax: in New York. To learn more about New Yorkers for Growth or to sign the petition, visit http://www.newyorkersforgrowth.com.



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