The Colorado Working Families Party recently announced its primary round of endorsements for the 2024 general election, supporting 42 candidates and taking positions on 25 state and local ballot measures.
In a press release last week, the party endorsed 42 candidates, including Democratic Party nominee River Gassen in Colorado’s 5th congressional district, 20 candidates for county, district, and state offices, and 21 candidates for legislative positions. Research by Independent Political Report shows that all endorsed candidates are appearing on the ballot under the Democratic Party line.
While the state party did not make an endorsement in the presidential election, the national Working Families Party endorsed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential bid in July. The national party reported that 95% of its members supported the endorsement.
The Colorado Working Families Party also took positions on 25 ballot initiatives, including 13 of the state’s 14 statewide measures. Among those it supports are a constitutional right to abortion access, a 6.5% excise tax on the sale of firearms and ammunition, and a proposal to change deadlines for filing initiative and referendum petition signatures. The change would eliminate one week from the petition process to allow the secretary of state an additional week to certify ballot order and content, along with an extension for election officials to transmit ballots.
Conversely, the party opposes an amendment to the Colorado Constitution establishing a right to school choice for children in kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as the adoption of a top-four ranked-choice voting system, among other initiatives. On one statewide measure—the establishment of a veterinary professional associate—the party remains neutral.
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That’s how real life is, funny and sad (at the same time).
Because conominating parties have a function – they don’t necessarily endorse every single candidate of their usual larger partner party, thus exerting pressure on the larger parties. Although rare, they also reserve the right to endorse the other larger party’s nominee, but their biggest influence is on who they do NOT endorse or threaten not to in return for concessions.
If it was me,I’d only cover them in states where they get a separate ballot line, but I only comment here. The shoe having been before on the other foot, I’ll cut whoever does the largely thankless tasks of posting these lots of slack and say thank you if anything.
Additionally, the crash test dummy candidate mission is not the only way an alternative smaller party can have an outsized impact. And when it is, it’s often by what the bigger parties pejoratively term spoiling but in reality is exerting leverage. There are a several ways to expert leverage with second line third parties being one.
Yes, there are many shades of gray – not 50, but an infinite number. It is black and white which rarely if ever actually exist. Even in the Marianas trench there is the faintest smidgen of light, but especially when any human is there to see it – although it would look unfathomably black to any of us who have not been. Likewise, white isn’t in real life so pure. Thus the same in politic.
Takaya zha nastoyashay zhizn, smeshnaya y grusnaya, rebetyash.
More importantly, the WFP here in CO makes it obvious they are not an independent group that supports any candidates other than the Democrats…if they are just another branch of the Democratic Party why are they getting ink or attention on this platform – i.e. why is this even a story for the INDEPENDENT POLITICAL REPORT…. ?
I’ve been at this for 3 decades first as a Democrat and now as a true INDEPENDENT candidate for US CONGRESS….this isn’t that difficult…you either affiliate and run as one of the 2 major parties or you are INDEPENDENT from the 2 major parties… it’s fairly black or white….
pretending there is a gray area in the middle only drags this separation out for years if not decades into the future…that’s why whatever RFKJ did to help RFKJ actually undermined the entire 3rd party / INDEPENDENT movement and why I am not supportive of it….you’re either in or you’re out….there’s no in between….
ron tupa
independent unity party candidate for US CONGRESS
colorado congressional district 7
rontupaforcongress.com
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These three recommendations seem to be correct, from a libertarian perspective:
Vote YES – Amendment J (Repealing the Constitutional Definition of Marriage)
Vote NO – Proposition 130 (Funding for Law Enforcement — Allocate state revenue to a new fund, called the Peace Officer Training and Support Fund, for law enforcement recruitment, retention, training, and death benefits)
Vote NO – Proposition 131 (Concerning the Conduct of Elections — Establish top-four primary)
Vote NO – City of Colorado Springs Ballot Issue 2D (prohibiting retail marijuana establishments within the City of Colorado Springs)
In other words, if you’re in Colorado, look at their ballot issues positions and vote the opposite.