The New York Working Households Occasion, 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 yr’s election cycle.
Brannan, a term-limited Metropolis Council member representing Brooklyn, is squaring off towards Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine in June’s Democratic comptroller major, and the WFP endorsement offers Brannan an enormous increase because the marketing campaign season heats up.
The WFP, a powerhouse of progressive politics, is thought for launching intensive 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, may even get his identify 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 known as it a “true honor” to have the social gathering’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 truth 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 essentially the most money within the race to this point, 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 social gathering 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 social gathering’s anticipated to endorse within the mayoral major, too. The social gathering has already stated that as a part of that endorsement it should urge all voters to not rank Adams wherever 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
