White Plains CitizeNetReporter - Working Families Party Denounces Own Judge Candidate

WPCNR Daily Sun. From Working Families Party Media Office and WPCNR. October 28, 2002:The Working Families Party today condemned in the strongest terms the decision of Mary Smith, WFP nominee for the 9th Judicial District, to accept the nomination of the Right to Life Party.

“Unfortunately, electoral law doesn’t allow us to remove Smith from our line at this point in the process,” said Marvin Allen, Chair of the Working Families Party’s Westchester chapter. “But our supporters should know we are absolutely opposed to her election. People should vote for the rest of our nominees on Row H, but they should vote against Smith."

Working Families endorsement policy discourages candidates seeking its line from running on the Conservative, Right to Life, Liberal, or Independence Party line, and Judge Smith had pledged not to take the Right to Life line on her signed endorsement questionnaire.

The official Working Families Party Statement of Principles includes ensuring “absolute security” for women’s access to the full range of reproductive services. The Party opposes any legislative restrictions on access to abortion.

A WPCNR reader has written to advise that all Democratic candidates in White Plains running on the Independence Party Lines, were also endorsed by the Working Families Party in the 2001 elections.

WPCNR readers have also pointed out that Thomas Dickerson and James Brands, two other judicial candidates, also are running on the Right to Life line, an endorsement they feel conflicts with any judge's sworn oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution.


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