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(CNN)- New York City voters Tuesday elected a Democrat to the mayor's office for the first time in two decades, giving progressive city Public Advocate Bill de Blasio a victory over Republican nominee Joe Lhota, Edison Media Research projects.
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The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.
The WFP played a key role in helping the Democrats take the state Senate majority in 2008 and reached its apex in 2009 when it helped elect a handful of so - called «progressive» City Council members and its first citywide official, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
James, the city public advocate, said this week that she is focused on securing the Democratic nomination for state attorney general and would not seek the Working Families Party line at Saturday's nominating convention — a huge blow for the minor progressive party that has long considered her a close ally.
BY PAUL SCHINDLER Public Advocate Letitia James, who has assiduously cultivated a progressive profile in her years in government, is digging in her heels against calls that she break her ties to Bronx City Councilman Fernando Cabrera, who ---- in a YouTube video that surfaced this week ---- is seen in Uganda lavishly praising that nation's aggressively anti-gay government as «the righteous.»
And in a case of friendly fire, de Blasio's law department suggested James, his progressive ally and successor as city public advocate, was grandstanding.