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UNLIKE THE millionaire Cuomo, Howie Hawkins is a working Teamster from Syracuse and a member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. He's running with Brian Jones, a leader of the opposition in the New York City United Federation of Teachers and a member of the International Socialist Organization. They have carved out a platform to meet the needs of working people, including a $15 an hour minimum wage, a ban on fracking, and fully funded public education through the college level.
The spectacular rise of Hawkins' Green Party campaign for governor threatens to eclipse the Working Families Party on the New York political scene. Just in the past few weeks, Hawkins-Jones has been endorsed by six teachers' unions and five New York City Democratic Party Clubs.
When the East Williston Teachers Association endorsed them, it stated: "Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins and his running mate for lieutenant governor Brian Jones have produced an education platform that is completely in sync with what we believe and know to be sound education policy...A vote for Hawkins/Jones represents a vote for education and faith in the job that each of us performs each day in the classroom."
The Downtown Independent Democrats, the latest Democratic Party Club to come out for Hawkins, said, "Hawkins' stances on the minimum wage, public education, single-payer healthcare, municipal taxes, clean energy and public transportation make him the only candidate New York progressives can support."
Hawkins is currently polling at 9 percent, which is unprecedented for a progressive third-party candidate in New York. If that holds up, the Green Party will catapult over the Working Families Party and the Conservative Party to "Row C" on the ballot behind only the Democrats and Republicans.
full: http://socialistworker.org/2014/10/27/the-working-families-party-charade
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