The WFP also wants the incumbents and other candidates to embrace the tidal wave of migrants flooding the city, support more licensed injection sites for addicts and block charter schools.
, is known to provide foot soldiers and other financial resources to help candidates it supports.
The WFP endorsement query asks questions such as, “Going forward, will you work with advocates – including Working Families Party members and affiliates – as well as your colleagues to form a bloc and build a strategy towards a 2023 budget that decreases funding for the NYPD and instead increases funding for social services and programs? Please explain how.
“Mayor Adams has continued to mislead the public about the impact of New York’s bail reform laws,” the WFP questionnaire says. “The data on bail reform is crystal clear: bail reform has decreased jail populations, kept communities intact, reduced racial injustice, and has had no impact on crime.
As it did last year, the WFP also asks candidates if they will “refuse all donations” from law-enforcement unions, as well as the fossil fuel-and real-estate industries.The questionnaire asks if candidates support access to housing vouchers for all New Yorkers “regardless of immigration and work status” — which would make homeless migrants and illegal residents eligible for the benefit.
It then asks, “Do you support increased funding for housing, school support, and other services for recent immigrants?”
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