The Working Families Party Endorses...
May 28th, 2009
The Working Families Party has issued a slew of endorsements for the fall elections but still has not weighed in on the mayoral races. In the other citywide contests, though, it backs John Liu for comptroller and Bill de Blasio for public advocate.
In the boroughs, the party has endorsed John Luisi over incumbent James Molinaro in Staten Island. All the other sitting presidents get the party’s nod. In the hotly contested Manhattan district attorney contest, the party decided on Richard Aborn.
Many incumbent City Council members seeking re-election also won the party’s approval, although it has not issued a backing in a number of races. The party did endorsed seven challengers: Danny Dromm, who is running against Helen Sears; Frank Gullisco, a Democrat who hopes to unseat newly minted GOP Councilmember Eric Ulrich; Maritza Davilla opposing Diana Reyna; Mark Winston-Griffith, who is taking on Al Vann; and Jumaane Williams, who is challenging Kendall Stewart. On Staten Island, the party is backing two challengers: Janine Materna, who opposes Vincent Ignizio, and Debi Rose, who lost narrowly to Kenneth Mitchell in a special election earlier this year and is hoping to reverse those results in September.
In open contests, the party’s gave its seal of approval to S.J. Jung (District 20), James Van Bramer (26), Lynn Schulman (29), Steve Levin (33) and Brad Lander (39).
By Gail Robinson on May 28, 2009, 11:31 amIn category: Gotham City | 2 Comments »



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May 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
The challenger’s name in the 34th Council District is spelled Maritza Davila. I would appreciate if you fixed that.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Thank you for catching that! It should be fixed now. (P.S. the WFP release had it wrong, too, so you may be seeing this mistake elsewhere.)