Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

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Going to be kind of a heavy one because, well, today ending in why, and we are still living as

human beings in America. So last night, I was a panelist on a forum that was hosted by the

Working Families Party. Shout out to them. It is a third party that I absolutely support and

appreciate. And they're not like the third parties that only parachute in to try to have presidential

candidates. They actually do things on the ground. So they run candidates at the local level. They fight

for families. This is a black led organization. Shout out to Maurice Mitchell and the other amazing

people who are doing the work

of spearheading this current edition of the Working Families Party. And I will also say that

this is an example of a third party that actually does amazing good work and they function

really well within our existing system. So for those of you who have heard me talk about the

Working Families Party before and we've had Maurice Mitchell on my show before, probably we'll have him back.

But you've heard me talk about them before because they're extraordinarily effective because they do all the work on the ground.

So what I mean by that is when you're running local candidates, like, say, Attorney General Letitia James, when she was running for New York City Council before she became our Attorney General,

she ran as a Working Families Party candidate. And so this is a party that basically will,

oftentimes when you're going into the voting booth in New York City, you will see the Democratic

candidates and the Working Family Party candidates are often one of the same. Not always, but often

one in the same.

And the Working Families Party has allowed for community members, voters to have a political party that is going to be much more centered on the needs of working families.

And so we're in a situation where we appreciate what third parties can do. Sometimes third parties are

complete spoilers like a Jill Stein or Dr. Cornell West. I know, you know, Dr. Cornel West scholar,

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