By:  Mario Mancini

Efforts are underway to create a “Moderate Party” in New York state and elsewhere in a scheme to aid Democrats punished at the polls in last year’s midterm elections over what critics claim are left-field, soft on crime policies, The New York Post has exclusively learned.

One of the organizers of the campaign to establish the new party is Dan Cantor, a founder and former director of the Working Families Party that has been accused of pulling Democrats too far to the left and is currently fighting more moderate Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s agenda reports Carl Campanile.

The campaign to get the Moderate Party on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election year is portrayed as an attempt to woo centrist voters disgusted by the polarization of the two major parties into backing more like-minded candidates.

“It’s cynical,” a source with knowledge of the plan told The New York Post. “The Democrats can’t be everything to everybody,”

Under such “fusion” voting, a nominee running as a Republican or Democrat for president, governor or legislative offices could hypothetically seek to back more centrist policies to be cross-endorsed by the Moderate Party and run on its ballot line as well.

A new party needs to collect 45,000 voter signatures to qualify for ballot status and obtain at least 2% of the total vote in statewide races for governor and president to maintain it, under a law approved in 2020. The more onerous requirements disqualified the Independence Party, Green Party and Libertarian Party.

While promoting the Moderate Party campaign, Cantor does not denounce the left-leaning WFP. In fact, he cites it as a success, a source with knowledge of the plan said to The New York Post.

“It’s ridiculous. It’s absurd. It’s laughable,” the source said.

“These are the people in the Working Families Party who created this mess. They’re trying to trick people with another party. They think voters are so stupid they’ll just vote for a Democrat on another party line.”

The source added, “The reason for the Moderate Party is for the Democrats to win back power in Congress. It’s cynical.”

The leftist Working Families Party is pushing City Council candidates to fight Mayor Eric Adams’ agenda by offering up endorsements if they back its pet causes such as defunding the police and bail reform.

The WFP, according to The New York Post, also wants the incumbents and other candidates to embrace the tidal wave of migrants flooding the city, support more licensed injection sites for addicts and block charter schools.

It is indeed quite odd, that a far left, extremist, Marxist, entity such as the Working Families Party would want to push for a new “moderate” 3rd party, but was silent as former Gov Cuomo, literally eliminated most 3rd parties in NYC, by slipping in, anti-American laws which essentially make NY an exclusively 2 party state,  (along with the WFP and Conservative party which are essentially extensions of the Democrat and Republican parties) Cuomo eliminated the Green and Libertarians, making NY state a place which  excludes the voices of hundreds and thousands of tax payers.