The Working People’s Party Launches Biggest Recruitment Effort in Its 27-Year History

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the Working Families Party announced plans to recruit over 1000 working-class candidates for elected office at all levels of government. The project—“Working Class Wins”—will recruit both Working Families Democrats and independents to run for office over the next two years.

“Most of us can agree that our political system is out of step with working-class families. Republicans are screwing over workers with their cuts, and many Democrats are too deep in the pockets of their corporate donors to do anything about it,” said Ravi Mangla, National Press Secretary for the Working Families Party. “Our goal is to elect hundreds of new leaders, at every level of government, who will fight for working people, not do the bidding of billionaires and corporations.”

The Working Families Party has successfully elected candidates at nearly every level of government, in dozens of states and cities across the country. In Philadelphia, the Party serves as the Minority Party on City Council.

The WFP has drawn significant interest in the months following the election. The Party’s post-election mass call had over 100,000 attendees. Their response to Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, delivered by Rep. Lateefah Simon (CA-12), was widely praised in the media.

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The Working Families Party is regular people coming together to fight for a country that puts working people first. Founded twenty-seven years ago in New York, the WFP has expanded to over a dozen states and elected thousands of leaders at every level of government. The party has led—and won—state-level campaigns to raise wages for workers, establish paid sick and family leave, invest in public education, and tax the ultra-wealthy.