“Women's Equality Party (New York)”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Women's Equality Party is a New York political party active only in that state. It was founded in 2014.

History

Andrew Cuomo, the incumbent Governor of New York, created the party in July 2014 under New York's electoral fusion laws, which allow votes on any ballot line to count toward a ticket's overall vote count.^[3] The party's name came from the Women's Equality Act, a bill that Cuomo was attempting to push through the New York State Legislature but stalled after he and the bill's supporters demanded a clause codifying Roe v. Wade be included even as the Republican-led New York State Senate refused to include the clause (the Senate did pass the rest of the bill, but the rest of the legislature refused to consider the bill without the Roe clause).

From its beginning, the party was met with controversy. Zephyr Teachout, who was challenging Cuomo in a primary election, accused Cuomo of blatant pandering, since Cuomo was not a woman.^[3] (Cuomo used Kathy Hochul, his female running mate, as the public face of the party.)

The party attained over 50,000 votes for the Cuomo–Hochul ticket in the 2014 gubernatorial elections, granting it automatic ballot access as a full political party under state law. Cuomo and Hochul submitted a set of rules that has twice been challenged: once by a pair of Republican clerks who noted that the rules were not approved by a majority of the WEP's statewide candidates (the judge threw the challenge out for lack of standing), and again by former State Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, who submitted her own set of rules in an attempt to become chair of the party.^[4]

In 2016, the party was led by acting chair Rachel Gold. In January 2018, Susan Zimet became chair of the party.^[5] Despite the change in leadership, and the fact that he is once again being challenged by a woman (Cynthia Nixon this time), the party supported Cuomo's 2018 reelection.^[6] The party is widely believed to still be controlled and funded by the Cuomo gubernatorial campaign as a front organization, with the party having minimal independent operations.^[7]

The party's acronym (W.E.P.) is visually close to that of the Working Families Party (W.F.P.), a left-wing New York third party that endorsed both Teachout and Nixon in the Democratic primary. Political observers accused Cuomo of creating the party to confuse voters who may have otherwise supported the WFP.^[8]

In 2018 gubernatorial election, the party lost its automatic ballot line after failing to capture 50,000 votes for Cuomo.^[9] At the time it lost ballot access, it had approximately 1,100 registered members.^[10]

References

1. ^¹Candidate Pledges
2. ^Women’s Equality Party Announces over 100,000 Signatures to be on the Ballot This Fall
3. ^¹{{cite news | last = Lovett | first = Kenneth | title = Zephyr Teachout blasts as cynical ploy Gov. Cuomo's creation of Women's Equality Party line | url = http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/gov-cuomo-create-new-women-equality-party-ballot-line-sources-blog-entry-1.1869930 | work = New York Daily News | date = July 17, 2014 | access-date = July 22, 2014}}
4. ^{{Cite news | last = Mahoney | first = Bill |url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/08/8575522/tkaczyk-explains-takeover-attempt-cuomos-womens-party|title=Tkaczyk explains takeover attempt of Cuomo’s women’s party|work=Politico New York|date=August 31, 2015|access-date=August 31, 2015}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/279713/susan-zimet-takes-over-as-womens-equality-party-leader/|title=Notebook: Susan Zimet takes over as Women’s Equality Party leader|date=January 8, 2018|work=Capitol Confidential|access-date=May 22, 2018|language=en-US}}
6. ^{{Cite news | last = Mahoney | first = Bill |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2018/03/13/womens-equality-party-under-new-management-still-likes-cuomo-311509|title=Women’s Equality Party, under new management, still likes Cuomo|work=Politico PRO|date=March 13, 2018|access-date=May 22, 2018}}
7. ^{{cite news | last = Bellafante | first = Ginia | title = Cuomo’s so-called Women’s Party | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/nyregion/cuomos-so-called-womens-party.html | work = The New York Times | date = May 24, 2018 | access-date = May 27, 2018}}
8. ^{{cite news | last = Goldberg | first = Michelle | author-link = Michelle Goldberg | title = The Women’s Equality Party is a joke | url = https://www.thenation.com/article/andrew-cuomos-farcical-womens-equality-party/ | work = The Nation | nopp = yes | page = blog | date = October 24, 2014 | access-date = November 11, 2018}}
9. ^{{Cite news | last = Goodale | first = Steve |url=https://newsgrowl.com/reform-party-new-york-ballot-status/|title=Reform Party of New York & Women's Equality Party lose ballot status | nopp = yes | page = blog|date=November 7, 2018|work=News Growl|access-date=November 7, 2018|language=en-US}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/285843/libertarian-numbers-grow-in-new-york/|title=Libertarian numbers grow in New York|work=Times Union (Albany, NY)|date=February 5, 2019|first=David|last=Lombardo|accessdate=February 5, 2019}}

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