![]() ![]() ![]() In the end, when the floor-fight drama died down, the boisterous crowd dispersed and all the #wfpconvention tweets subsided, the leaders of the once-obscure party insisted that their brinksmanship was successful, even if they stood down and backed the incumbent. Andrew Cuomo or run a third-party candidate against him. Though the Working Families Party’s conventions are typically low-key affairs, this one had drawn 800 activists and operatives and most of the New York press corps-all to see if the party would endorse conservative Democratic Gov. Suburban Albany is not known for its rip-roaring weekend scene, but this most recent Saturday night, it was the momentary center of the political universe, as an underfunded political party was using its quadrennial convention to try to force America’s most powerful and best-financed governor to submit to its demands. David Sirota is staff writer for PandoDaily, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and the author of the books Hostile Takeover, The Uprising and Back to Our Future. ![]()
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