Sarah Ganong wants baristas and burger-flippers to know what hours they’ll work each week without having to rush in on an hour’s notice, or lock up at night only to open back up at 6 a.m.
She also wants you to consider running for elected office if you’d like to help make that and other improvements in working people’s lives become possible.
Ganong is making that pitch in her new role as state director of the Working Families Party.
Her mission is to recruit candidates for local and state office who support measures to improve working-class families’ lives, from increased wages and workplace conditions to progressive taxation, universal health care, affordable housing, and a cleaner environment; and to promote that agenda at the state Capitol.
She’s casting a wide net rather than recruiting and supporting candidates in only deep-red districts.
“We don’t think progressives can’t win in purple districts,” Ganong said in an interview Thursday on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven” program.
Ganong, 31, is a familiar face both at the Capitol and in New Haven and Hamden. She organized local volunteers for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign; then she recruited them to elect progressive challenger Josh Elliott to a Hamden state representative seat the same year. She ran for mayor in New Haven in 2017 to secure the WFP a line on the municipal ballot. She has worked on the state WFP staff on both legislative and electoral campaigns since 2017, and was recently promoted to the...
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