{"id":1102,"date":"2010-04-09T02:53:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T09:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2010-04-09T02:53:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T09:53:19","slug":"seiu-starting-third-party-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/seiu-starting-third-party-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"SEIU Starting Third Party In North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not quite sure how to react to this.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"seiu\"<\/a> In a shot across the bow of Dems, the labor powerhouse SEIU is starting a new third party in North Carolina that hopes to field its own slate of candidates, part of an effort to make the Democratic Party more reliable on issues important to labor, I\u2019m told.<\/p>\n

SEIU officials setting up the new party, called North Carolina First<\/a>, are currently on the ground collecting signatures to qualify as a state party, SEIU officials tell me, adding that there are around 100 canvassers on the ground right now. The goal: To have the party up and running so candidates can run in this fall\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be lost on political observers that three House Dems who voted No on reform are from the state: Heath Shuler, Mike McIntyre, and Larry Kissell.<\/p>\n

The new project is an outgrowth of SEIU\u2019s earlier vow to hold House Dems accountable for voting against heatlh reform and against labor\u2019s interests in general. That said, presuming the party qualifies at all, it remains to be seen how much clout it will wield.<\/p>\n

For instance, it\u2019s unclear which districts the party might field a candidate in, and what the criteria for picking those districts will be. A lot of these things will be determined by availability of candidates and other local political concerns\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I\u2019m the first to agree that these cowardly Blue Dogs are not welcome in my cathouse.  They have to go!  But is this the right way?  The political deck is so stacked against third parties that SEIU might be better served to champion opponents in the Democratic party.  If they cannot win the elections, as a third party, they will split the Democratic vote and deliver the seats to the Republicans.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not quite sure how to react to this. In a shot across the bow of Dems, the labor powerhouse SEIU is starting a new third party in North Carolina that hopes to field its own slate of candidates, part of an effort to make the Democratic Party more reliable on issues important to labor, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}