[Peace-discuss] NYT: Working Families Party Calls On Elizabeth Warren to Run for President

[Robert Naiman]

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> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/nyregion/working-families-party-calls-on-elizabeth-warren-to-run-for-president.html
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> Working Families Party Calls On Elizabeth Warren to Run for President
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> By ALEXANDER BURNS
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> FEB. 8, 2015
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> Leaders of New York’s Working Families Party
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/working_families_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org> on
> Sunday urged Senator Elizabeth Warren
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/elizabeth_warren/index.html?inline=nyt-per> of
> Massachusetts to seek the Democratic nomination for president next year,
> formally calling on her to enter the 2016 race for the White House.
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> 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 Hillary Clinton
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
> who has not formally announced that she will seek the Democratic nomination
> but is the presumed favorite.
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> 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.
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> “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.”
> Photo
> Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, speaking on Jan. 21 on
> Capitol Hill. CreditSusan Walsh/Associated Press
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> “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.”
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> 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.
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