<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/nyregion/working-families-party-calls-on-elizabeth-warren-to-run-for-president.html" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/nyregion/working-families-party-calls-on-elizabeth-warren-to-run-for-president.html</a><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="margin-bottom:20px"><h1 style="font-size:2.125rem;line-height:2.375rem;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:italic;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Working Families Party Calls On Elizabeth Warren to Run for President</h1><div style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(226,226,226);padding-top:2px"><p style="margin:4px 45px 0px 0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;float:left"><span style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.75rem;font-weight:700;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif">By ALEXANDER BURNS</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="margin-bottom:20px"><div style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(226,226,226);padding-top:2px"><p style="margin:4px 45px 0px 0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;float:left">FEB. 8, 2015</p></div></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;font-size:16px"><div style="float:none;clear:none"><span style="display:inline-block;line-height:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;width:16px;min-height:16px;background:url(http://a1.nyt.com/assets/article/20150204-175116/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.png) -496px 0px no-repeat"></span></div><div style="width:91px;float:left;clear:left;margin-bottom:15px"><ul style="margin:0px 0px 11px;list-style:none;padding-left:0px"><li style="margin-left:15px;font-size:0.625rem;line-height:1.5625rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(226,226,226)"><span style="display:inline-block;line-height:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:10px;width:16px;min-height:16px;background:url(http://a1.nyt.com/assets/article/20150204-175116/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.png) -225px -20px no-repeat"><br></span></li></ul></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">Leaders of New York’s <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/working_families_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Working Families Party." style="color:rgb(50,104,145)" target="_blank">Working Families Party</a> on Sunday urged Senator <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/elizabeth_warren/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Elizabeth Warren." style="color:rgb(50,104,145)" target="_blank">Elizabeth Warren</a> of Massachusetts to seek the Democratic nomination for president next year, formally calling on her to enter the 2016 race for the White House.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">By voting to encourage a Warren candidacy, the Working Families Party became the latest liberal group to support her as a potential primary challenger to former Secretary of State <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Hillary Rodham Clinton." style="color:rgb(50,104,145)" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton</a>, who has not formally announced that she will seek the Democratic nomination but is the presumed favorite.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">Several organizations on the left, led by MoveOn.org and Democracy for America, have already organized a campaign designed to lure Ms. Warren, with her brand of economic populism, into making a bid for the presidency.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">“We know a champion for working families when we see one,” said Bill Lipton, New York State director of the Working Families Party. “The only thing better than watching Elizabeth Warren take Wall Street to task from the Senate would be helping her bring our issues to the center of the national debate.”</p><span style="width:1px;min-height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Photo</span><div style="margin-bottom:7px"><img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/09/nyregion/09WARREN/09WARREN-master180.jpg" alt="" style="max-width:100%;display:block;width:180px"><div style="border-radius:6px;border:1px solid rgba(200,200,200,0.8)"><span style="display:inline-block;line-height:0;vertical-align:middle;width:38px;min-height:38px;background:url(http://a1.nyt.com/assets/article/20150204-175116/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.png) -178px -64px no-repeat"></span></div></div>Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, speaking on Jan. 21 on Capitol Hill. <span style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:1rem;display:inline-block;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="width:1px;min-height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Credit</span>Susan Walsh/Associated Press</span><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">Ms. Warren, who is beloved among liberals as a fierce critic of what she sees as the abuses of the financial industry, has repeatedly ruled out running for president in 2016. Lacey Rose, a spokeswoman for the senator, reiterated that stance in an email on Sunday. “As Senator Warren has said many times, she is not running for president and doesn’t support these draft campaigns,” Ms. Rose wrote.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">The Working Families Party, led by a coalition of activists, liberal advocacy groups and labor unions, deliberated on an early-evening conference call before voting to encourage Ms. Warren to join the campaign. Party officials declined to share the tally of the vote.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">The pro-Warren vote comes at a potentially awkward moment for New York Democrats, who have sought to draw their party’s 2016 presidential nominating convention to New York City. Mayor Bill de Blasio has aggressively promoted the bid on the national stage, where Democrats aligned with Mrs. Clinton hold powerful sway.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">Although Mr. de Blasio has a longstanding relationship with the Working Families Party, party officials said that neither the mayor nor his staff had played a role in the group’s deliberations involving Ms. Warren.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">Several Working Families leaders stressed that the vote was not meant as a rejection of Mrs. Clinton, who twice earned the party’s endorsement as a candidate for the United States Senate.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">“It’s a vote in the context of two undeclared candidates for president,” said Ed Ott, former head of the New York City Central Labor Council. “What the Warren vote reflects is that people want a Democratic Party with a spine.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em 120px;font-size:1rem;line-height:1.4375rem;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;width:495px;max-width:540px">Javier Valdes, executive director of Make the Road Action Fund, a Latino-oriented liberal group, characterized the vote as a statement of enthusiasm for a competitive primary. “Secretary Clinton has had a strong track record with our community and what we really want here is a strong debate about Democratic values and working family values,” said Mr. Valdes, a Working Families Party leader.</p></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>
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