Oregonian: Small party wants bigger say on ‘pocketbook issues’
May 22nd, 2010 by Ted Fertik
The Oregon WFP was featured in a story in today’s Oregonian. Have a look, and share the link with your friends.
The aim of the Oregon Working Families Party is to influence state policy by uniting rural and urban voters around kitchen table economic issues that matter to working people. The party . . . promotes itself as “the blue collar, pocketbook issues party,” says Jeff Anderson, a member of the party’s steering committee.
A powerful tool it will use to push its agenda is an electoral strategy called fusion voting, a version of which became legal again in Oregon in 2009. It allows political parties to cross-nominate candidates on the ballot — that is, to give their support to candidates from other parties.
“It allows us to endorse candidates and then hold them accountable,” said Barbara Dudley, party co-chair, “without running our own candidates who could function as spoilers.”
Read more at http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/05/small_party_wants_bigger_say_o.html
