Open doubts as W.F.P. prepares to meet

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By Jimmy Vielkind and Will Brunelle

ALBANY—Andrew Cuomo has made some progress recently with the labor leaders who make up the Working Families Party's executive committee.

But among the activists in the party's state committee, who vote to determine the party's gubernatorial nominee, there's apparently still considerable doubt about the governor.

“The people I've spoken with, there isn't anybody supporting Cuomo,” Dorothy Siegel, the party treasurer and chair of the W.F.P.'s South Brooklyn chapter, told Capital. "Something could happen, but I don't know what it would be."

Contrary to the more transactional calculations of the union leaders, who after all have their members to think about as they consider whether to back or oppose the man who is overwhelmingly likely to win re-election, Siegel suggested principle would be the determining factor.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2014/05/8546015/open-doubts-wfp-prepares-meet

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1. WFP Convention Keynote To Focus On Income Inequality

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/05/wfp-convention-keynote-to-focus-on-income-inequality/

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2. EXCLUSIVE: Mayor de Blasio privately asks Working Families Party to back Gov. Cuomo for reelection

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-mayor-de-blasio-asks-working-families-party-back-gov-cuomo-article-1.1807766

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3. wfp platform

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/226743700?width=1024