By Matthew Hamilton
In 2014, Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino formed the Stop Common Core Party
in an effort to give voters who felt they couldn't vote for him on the
GOP line a place to cast a ballot against incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo turned around and created the Women's Equality Party,
the idea being that those supporting women and the 10-point Women's
Equality Agenda could elect candidates on that line. Political observers
also noted that the party's initials "WEP" are quite similar to the
Working Families Party's
"WFP," with whom Cuomo has had an icy relationship).
Both gubernatorial candidates received 50,000 votes on their
respective third party lines (small chunks of much larger overall
totals), giving their parties automatic spots on the ballot through next
year.
But the future of these and other third parties can be an uncertain, and sometimes volatile, one.
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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)
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