Sue Altman, executive director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, (See footnote below), wants to push for a new “Moderate Party.” Surprisingly, she has the support of some Republicans. Basically, they want to get Tom Malinowski on the Moderate Party ballot this November in addition to his being on the Democratic Party ballot. They’re so intent on this unprecedented move they’re actually suing to get it done. By the way, Altman, recently moved from Camden to Lamertville, which is in Malinowksi’s district to circulate petitions in her new district in a bizarre effort to gain support.
This is obviously a stunt to help Malinowski under the guise of something bigger. A three party system? Malinowski is, guess what, definitely on board in this double jeopardy move for
Rest assured that this likely not to get “resolved” before November anyway. The thousand-foot view shows that this is one of the two court challenges that would upend the way New Jersey has long structured its ballot. In the suit, a judge actually allowed a challenge to “the line” which is mostly legally approved by county political parties.
Altman and two law firms are working on both of these cases which may show a conflict of interest, after digging deeper into what, if any relationship, she, or the activist New Jersey Working Families Alliance has with the firms. I’m thinking Hillary. In the county line lawsuit, it’s the Moderate Party that will be primary on the general election ballot.
Working Families already has Moderate Party ballot lines in New York and Connecticut, two neighbor states to New Jersey that allow this so called “fusion voting.” It should be no surprise that the activist organization is pushing for one here in New Jersey.
Harking back to my previous article on Bill Stepien for a minute, on his videotaped stand in for his absent personal appearance at the January 6th sub-committee hearing yesterday he said, “I can work under a lot of circumstances for a lot of varied candidates and politicians. But a situation where — and I think along the way, I’ve built up a pretty good, I hope, a good reputation for being honest and professional. And I didn’t think what was happening was necessarily honest or professional at that point in time. (Auditing election results, lol). So that led to me stepping away.”
Parts of the video were aired by the committee investigating Jan. 6 . (Stepien didn’t testify in person because his wife was in labor). The sub-committee has been cherry picking video from the January 6th “insurrection” to support their farcical investigation including refusing to allow thousands of surveillance videos into evidence. I certainly hope the truth comes out, but Schumer and Pelosi have proven to be not exactly proponents of the truth. As time goes by and they and the media are increasingly scorned by the citizens of the USA, I doubt if they would support a new “Moderate Party” as they come under increasing attacks by the “Squad” for not being socialist enough and polls saying they’re to socialist. So, any way you look at it, no one is moderate enough for any party. Good luck Sue and Tom. Especially in New Jersey. Can’t wait ’til an epic November.
Footnote:
The Working Families Alliance is a 501(c)(4) political organization headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and affiliated with the Working Families Organization, a left-wing political organization and offshoot of New York’s labor union-backed Working Families Party. Working Families Alliance is aligned with labor unions like the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Communications Workers of America (CWA), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), as well as left-wing advocacy groups like Sierra Club, Garden State Equality, and BlueWaveNJ.
The Working Families Alliance endorses left-wing political candidates, advocates for left-wing economic and social policies, and has taken a proactive part in the “Resistance” movement opposed to the Trump administration. In truth, the WFP is far-left; it endorsed independent socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the Democratic primaries for President in 2016. For his part, Sanders praised WFP as “the closest thing there is to a political party that believes in my vision of democratic socialism.”