Working Families Party Elected Two Members of Hartford, Connecticut City Council
November 25th, 2007At the November 6, 2007 election, two Working Families Party nominees for Hartford, Connecticut, city council, were elected. They are Luis E. Cotto and Larry Deutsch.
Hartford, like some other Connecticut and Pennsylvania cities and counties, as well as Washington, D.C., provides that for certain multi-winner elections, no political party may run a full slate. Hartford was electing nine city councilmembers (at large), but provides that no political party may run more than six nominees. At the November 2007 election in Hartford, 6 Democrats, 1 Republican, and 2 Working Families Party nominees were elected.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:49 am
That process is a crock because the Working Family Party member are really Democrats.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
And I’m guessing the Republican was not a particularly conservative one either, as many of the Democratic voters must have picked a ninth candidate (and enough Republican votes went to that candidate to rule out the third WFP candidate from getting elected.)
That’s a very strange rule in the first place.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
That Republican winner is an incumbent who has excellent constituent service. Also the Hartford Courant endorsed that one Republican, and the newspaper also endorsed the two Working Families members who won. The newspaper did not endorse the third WFP candidate, and she lost.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:24 am
If the current endorsed them that proves they are liberal Democrats at the core.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:17 am
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