The Conservative Party Survives, But Jerry Kassar Was Still Yammering
The Independence Party and the Green Party have been formally kicked off the NYS ballot.
Third Parties needed 130,000 votes or 2% of the votes on it’s ballot line this year. (Other years it only needed 50,000 on the ballot line).
Some believe that Cuomo changed the limits because he was attempting to kill the Working Family Party.
The political parties that deserved to be discontinued were The Working Family Party (WFP) and The Conservative Party – but those are staying on the ballot.
Remember three years ago, Jerry Kassar was involved in the “Placeholder Candidate” nonsense and Mike Long threw him under the bus for because Long did want to be blamed for those shananigans! (Info here and here)
In Bay Ridge, two years ago we saw the Working Family Party NOT support the community’s candidate, Mathylde Frontus. Rather the WFP supported an out-of-district candidate (Mark Treyger’s candidate, Ethan Lustig).
Kassar was on Channel 1 News tonight complaining even though his party is safe. He was talking about how the number of political parties in NYS has been reduced from 7 to 4.
Why does Kassar care? Because he can no longer fool voters into thinking his candidate was endorsed by Independence Party. People here confused the Independence Party with being an Independent voter.
The real loss was the Green Party. Howie Harkins from the Green Party said the Green Party was not cross endorsing and they weren’t up for sale or cutting deals.
See how politics eliminated decent people from running for office.
Hugs,
marlene
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December 3rd, 2020 at 11:34 pm
In reality we could do without the Conservative or Working Families Party. Both of them contribute very little in terms of political candidates. Their argument is they drag the dems or republicans more to the left or the right is weak. If New York ever does away with fusion voting they’d be gone in a New York minute.
December 4th, 2020 at 8:17 pm
Absolutely!