"Though the WFP has just 42,000 registered members, the party nonetheless can deliver hundreds of thousands of votes. And so, facing a very credible threat, Cuomo reversed his opposition to localities unilaterally raising their minimum wage levels, setting the stage for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to raise his city’s rate to more than $13 an hour. On the political front, the governor also announced he would lead a campaign to electorally defeat the same Republican state senate leadership he had long embraced in a tacit alliance against the left.
“The convention proved the strength of our movement,” boasted Hector Figueroa, president of the WFP-affiliated Service Employees International Union’s 32BJ. Another union leader, SEIU 1199’s George Gresham, described the party’s pragmatic calculations a bit more bluntly, saying: “Yes, many people will say that the governor has not been a perfect governor. I can’t remember the last time we had a perfect anything.”
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/if-the-left-had-a-tea-party-107501.html?ml=m_pm#.U5H90Pl5PAw
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