Helen Gym For Philly Mayor!

Experiencing campaign withdrawal?  Have I got a candidate for you!  Helen Gym has been endorsed by Pennsylvania’s Working Families Party, and she’s the real deal.  With a great chance to get elected.

Here she is in her own words:

I’m a Philly mom, a former public school teacher, a long-time community organizer, and a former city councilmember.

Now I’m running for Mayor of Philadelphia because I’m a proven fighter who has taken on our city’s toughest challenges — persistent violence and poverty, under-resourced public schools, an eviction crisis, inhumane conditions for young people in the juvenile welfare and justice system — and delivered solutions that improve working people’s lives and are national models of success.

Today, I’m humbled and honored to receive the support of the Pennsylvania Working Families Party. WFP has had my back since I first ran for office in 2015 and they’ve been in the trenches alongside me and other progressives across the country fighting for a future that works and cares for all of us.

Before I share more about myself and why I’m running, I need to ask: Will you split a contribution between my campaign and WFP today? Your support helps elect local leaders like me, who are changing the political landscape for issues long neglected and overlooked, and will stand up for working people.

No other candidate running for Mayor has fought harder for Philly’s working families than me. Together, we’re running an inclusive, multiracial campaign to raise up Philadelphia block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood, and with the strength of families and our youth.

I’ve passed transformative laws replicated around the country for public safety, stronger schools, affordable and safe housing, and an inclusive economy for every neighborhood.

From winning a groundbreaking law to give 100,000+ hourly workers the right to a fair, predictable work schedule to my work to bring air conditioning, clean water, and remove lead and asbestos from schools — I’ve organized alongside everyday people to change communities for the better. Just last week, the White House made my law protecting renters a cornerstone of its national Renters Bill of Rights.

I’ve fought against status quo politics and career politicians who refuse to move the needle. I’ve fought austerity bureaucrats who sign off on school closings and library closures. And I’ve fought to make sure essential issues like a fair economy, quality schools, and affordable housing isn’t treated like mere charity from the ultra wealthy.

We deserve cities and local leaders that work for us, not against us.

I’m running to finish the job I started in communities more than two decades ago: to build a city where prosperity is shared among all of us, not just a privileged few, where lifelong residents can afford to stay, and where others will want to come.

My work in Philadelphia has shown that cities write the blueprint for the nation, and people deserve mayors who fight for them, not corporations or special interests. Split a contribution between my campaign and WFP to invest in leaders like me who will always fight for you and other working people.

Thanks for being a part of this,

Helen Gym

BTW, the Philadelphia Inquirer recognizes WFP as a legit powerful force in Pa. politics:

The Working Families Party, a liberal third party that has also backed Democrats, announced Monday that it has endorsed Gym, one of the leaders of the city’s progressive movement that has notched a handful of electoral wins over the last five years.

A similar coalition helped lift progressive District Attorney Larry Krasner to office in 2017, and it has boosted City Council members and state lawmakers. Representatives from a handful of organizations gathered for the endorsement Monday, including from Reclaim Philadelphia, a left-wing group that’s elevated some of its own members to office.

Gym said the alliance “has been working for years and years to rise up for people who have often been left to the margins by career politicians, austerity bureaucrats, and too much of the wealthy and privileged in Philadelphia.”

I made a contribution split between Helen Gym and WFP.  Feel free to join me.