Katrina vanden Heuvel: De Blasio for Mayor—On The WFP Line!

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(The Nation) Bill de Blasio will be the next Mayor of New York City. His run has attracted progressive energy and media attention not seen since Elizabeth Warren’s equally important run for Senate in Massachusetts last year.

His core theme throughout the campaign was New York City’s staggering inequality. He talked early and persuasively about the need to tax the wealthy, about requiring (not just asking) developers to build more affordable housing, about stop and frisk. For those reasons and others, The Nation endorsed Bill de Blasio for mayor.

In a remarkable campaign, De Blasio won big in the primary, and then ignored the conventional wisdom that after a primary, Democrats must pivot to the right. He describes himself as an “unapologetic progressive,” and recent polling has him with a strong lead (up by more than 40 percent).

Now, it's tempting to think that a big progressive win is sewn up. But in fact, the opposition to the de Blasio agenda will be real and extremely well-funded. It’s important for him to have a mandate when he takes office, and the best way to show your support is by boosting the tally he gets on the Working Families Party line. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/176859/de-blasio-mayor-wfp-line