The New York Working Households Get together, which holds vital sway in native Democratic primaries, is throwing its weight behind Justin Brannan’s comptroller marketing campaign, the group’s first citywide endorsement on this 12 months’s election cycle.
Brannan, a term-limited Metropolis Council member representing Brooklyn, is squaring off in opposition to Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine in June’s Democratic comptroller major, and the WFP endorsement provides Brannan a giant increase because the marketing campaign season heats up.
The WFP, a powerhouse of progressive politics, is understood for launching in depth get-out-the-vote efforts for its candidates, together with door-to-door canvassing. If he wins June’s major, Brannan, who chairs the Council’s Finance Committee, can even get his title on the WFP line on November’s basic election poll due to the endorsement.
Brannan has acquired the WFP endorsement for his earlier Council campaigns, and he referred to as it a “true honor” to have the occasion’s backing within the comptroller race, too.
“As we face an existential threat from Donald Trump and his band of unelected oligarchs, I will be a bulldog fighting for working people and I’m proud to do it side by side with the Working Families Party,” he stated after touting his function in reversing deep price range cuts enacted by Mayor Adams.
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Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine in 2023. (Barry Williams for New York Every day Information)
Levine, an ex-Council member, has netted WFP’s endorsement for a few of his earlier campaigns, a reality Archila acknowledged.
For his comptroller bid, Levine has been endorsed by influential politicians like Reps. Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman. He has additionally by far raised probably the most money within the race so far, sitting on greater than $2.3 million, most of it public matching funds.
The Brannan endorsement marks the kickoff for WFP’s operations within the 2025 election cycle. Archila stated the occasion will begin hitting the streets for Brannan as quickly as this week as a part of the poll petitioning course of.
The comptroller’s race is aggressive as a result of incumbent Brad Lander is foregoing a reelection run to problem Adams in June’s mayoral major as a substitute.
The occasion’s anticipated to endorse within the mayoral major, too. The occasion has already stated that as a part of that endorsement it should urge all voters to not rank Adams anyplace on their ballots because the embattled mayor stays politically wounded amid the Trump administration’s controversial effort to drop his corruption indictment.
Initially Printed: February 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM EST
