Brad Lander, who is already being called the front-runner for City Council Member Bill deBlasio's seat in the 39th district, told me this might happen during our breakfast a couple of weeks ago, one of my Breakfast with the Candidates stories that I am working on and planning to post next week. He said he was hoping to get the nod from the Working Families Party, an important endorsement i these parts.
A senior fellow at the Pratt Center for
Community Development, Brad is considered one of the city’s leading advocates for
affordable housing and sustainable communities. Previously, he was the director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, a not-for-profit community
development group in Brooklyn that creates and preserves affordable
housing, good jobs, and livable neighborhoods. He is also the Housing
and Community Development Chair of Brooklyn’s Community Board 6.
Lander is a smart, strategic, hardworking fighter who has a great track
record of results on the issues that matter to working families,” said
Dan Cantor, executive director of the party. “He has already been a
leader in so many efforts – creating and preserving tens of thousands
of units of affordable housing, making sure our tax dollars create good
jobs, fighting for a fair share approach to funding our public schools,
and helping to create the green economy. To tell the truth, we’ll be a
little sad to be losing him as one of the city’s leading progressive
policy advocates … but he’s exactly the kind of candidate we want to
see in the City Council.”
Families Party.” said Lander. “The WFP has led the fight on so many
critical issues in our community – for a fair share approach to stop
devastating cuts to our public schools, subways, buses, and hospitals,
and against Mayor Bloomberg’s extension of term limits without a public
vote. I’m thrilled to be part of the best progressive team in the
state.” This is the WFP’s first endorsement in a regular 2009 City
Council election.
Advocate. Brad has also been endorsed by State Senators Daniels Squadron and Liz Krueger, City
Councilmembers Rosie Mendez and Melissa Mark-Viverito, UFCW Local 1500,
Community Board 7 Chair Randy Peers, and dozens of community leaders.
Having been exposed personally to the ongoings of Working Families for the past few years, I have concluded that WFP is nothing but a bunch of liars and legal thugs. They preach certain ideas of “reform” for working families and middle class families but they are just using them as “strength in numbers” to ascertain their power in NYC politics.
Beyond that, the party has many characteristic of what can be called a cult. Namely the group’ use of a specific set of mind control tactics to control their “product”, the summer canvass. Secondly their preoccupation with two things; recruiting more members and fundraising.
The summer canvass is used to carry out “political operations” and spread WFP’s ideals. They pay canvassers less than minimum wage, a Field Rep. receives roughly $300 a week for a 40 hour week. They hire mostly “hip” and young impressionable teens and twenty somethings who are extremely subsceptible to the party’s supposed “ideals” and are attracted to the party’s partying ways.
The party encourage canvassers to socialize after work hours and the party’s night life is designed to keep the canvass in the dark and to daz, confuse, and brain-wash. A typical night after work in WFP consist of beer drinking(often underage), illegal marijuana consumption in public places, and often dubious sexual activities. The WFP Staff Night, held every Thursday after work in the nearby Brooklyn Tavern, is a perfect example of this. After the summer, the canvass is cut down to the minimum and a core group trusted by the WFP higher ups remains.
Books can be written about the legal and illegal misconducts and violations of WFP and just a few of them can easily topple down this political cult.