At The Hankster, Nancy Hanks has been following news on the federal probe of the New York Working Families Party very closely, stating “the Working Families Party is taking the heat for becoming relevant in NYC’s recent election.” Over the last week, she has highlighted fourteen articles on the party and the probe . . . writing:
- More incoming councilmen acknowledge being approached by feds concerning Working Families Party (BY ELIZABETH BENJAMIN AND CELESTE KATZ, DAILY NEWS)
- Williams: WFP Probe Result Of ‘Sour Grapes’ (BY ELIZABETH BENJAMIN, Daily News/Daily Politics)
- Mayor Jolted—Will It Continue? (Western Queens Gazette) The Working Families Party could be a headache for the mayor in his third term. The party backed several new councilmembers who were elected in November, some of them from The Bronx. They were among The Bronx delegation members in the coalition that coaxed lawmakers from other boroughs to join in defeating the Bloomberg-sponsored project by an eye-opening 45 to 1 vote.
- SI probe of Families $$ (By DAVID SEIFMAN, NY Post)
- Pols vow to help Working Families Party probe (BY CELESTE KATZ, DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU)
- Preet the Terrible (By Reid Pillifant, NY Observer)
- Is the WFP’s game up? (NY Post)
- Former Suffolk WFP Chair Will Campaign To Oust Master, Lewis and Williams As WFP State Chairs (By Edward-Isaac Dovere, City Hall) “The plan here is to elect a new slate of chairmen, co-chairmen. It’s time to put the party back in a healthy direction,” Pohanka said, announcing his intentions in an exclusive interview with City Hall. “I want to run for state chairman in September and be able to open up the books for everyone to see, just like every other party—what their salaries are, to know where the money’s going from one campaign account to the other, to simplify it.”
- The ACORNing of the WFP (by Casey Seiler, Albany Times Union/Capitol Confidential)
- Woeful families matters (By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief, NY Post)
- Working Families Party Documents Subpoenaed (By DAVID W. CHEN, NY Times)
- Feds asking WFP for ‘information‘ (By DAVID SEIFMAN, City Hall Bureau Chief, NY Post)
- WFP Subpoenaed (BY ELIZABETH BENJAMIN, Daily News/Daily Politics)
- U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Working Families Party, and Bill de Blasio Too (By Azi Paybarah, NY Observer)
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1 Trent Hill // Dec 18, 2009 at 2:54 pm
It certainly isn’t looking for them. I don’t think they’ll suffer much electorally–but their little pool of money/organizations is going to come up on a hard break.
Luckily, they’ll still likely have the support of the state ACORN and SEIU 1199–an incredibly political local labor union which contributes some $100,000 per year to the WFP budget.
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