The Working Families Party endorsed Freddy Ferrer a couple of weeks ago. I attended that event, which included such stars as Major Owens, Letitia James and Chris Owens. Now WFP is trying to help Ferrer counter the huge amount of money Bloomberg is spending to buy the election:

We [WFP] don't often ask our network of supporters to donate directly to a candidate. Usually, we want your money invested in the WFP directly, as that pays longer-term dividends in terms of building our capacity.

Not this time. This time, we urge you to directly back the WFP-endorsed candidate for Mayor, Fernando Ferrer. He needs and deserves your support.

The incumbent Mayor is spending what can only be described as an obscene amount of money. He could just about give every voter another $400 property tax rebate for the amount of cash he is putting into his re-election.

This is called buying an election. It mocks the democratic process. Elections should be about ideas and values and the ability to articulate a vision...

The key thing right now is to increase the number of medium and small donors to Ferrer. He gets matching funds from the city at the rate of 6-1, and even though he'll never have Bloomberg-style dough, he can get enough to get his message out.

We know the incumbent mayor has a bottomless checkbook, and you don't. But PLEASE - open it and send $50 or $100 or $250 to the Ferrer campaign.

Doing so sends a message that the electoral process is not for sale.

Many thanks. And check out the item below from today's Village Voice!

This is followed by a plug for WFP itself. Since I am conveying their message for Ferrer, I will also include their plug for themselves. It's only fair.

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“One measure of the Working Families Party’s influence over the progressive movement in New York is the degree to which those who need to know rely on BACON & EGGS, the WFP’s free daily e-mail summary of what’s in the papers, to get their news. On issues like Social Security and the civil war in Big Labor, it can’t be beat. “

See today’s Bacon & Eggs here: www.workingfamiliesparty.org/news/bacon.html

And sign up for a free subscription here: http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org/news/baconsignup.html

Say NO to elections bought and sold by the welthy: donate to Freddy Ferrer. And support reform in NYC with Working Families Party.