‘Pro-union’ WFP’s far-left hypocrisy

Amid cops being shot and killed by violent parolees, the left-wing Working Families Party — which claims to fight for the interests of blue-collar workers — has declared war on the unions representing uniformed officers.

The WFP is pressuring candidates who seek its endorsement in 2022 elections to shun support from law-enforcement unions representing beat cops and correction officers, as revealed by the party’s 2022 candidate questionnaire, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.

The party — which is loosely allied with Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez’s Democratic Socialists of America and has sway in electing Democratic candidates across the state — also wants candidates to oppose charter schools, which serve mostly black and Hispanic children of working-class parents.

Anti-charter schools

“Will you oppose increased state aid to privately run charter schools, the expansion of charter schools in New York City, and requirements for NYC to pay rent for new or expanding charter schools?” the questionnaire asks.

“Will you refuse all donations from corporate PACs, real estate developers, police and corrections associations, and the charter school industry?” question No. 44 asks.

The questionnaire also urges candidates who want the party’s backing to go easier on criminals and defendants — including blocking any changes to the controversial bail law.

“Will you fight to ensure there are no further rollbacks to bail reform?” it asks.

The WFP also asks candidates to support eliminating “mandatory minimum sentences” for serious crimes, relax parole rules to release convicts sooner and decriminalize low-level drug offenses.

In another filter, the WFP asks candidates if they support legislation allowing legal noncitizens such as green-card holders the right to vote in state elections, following approval of New York City’s controversial law.

And the questionnaire asks candidates if they support spending nearly $500 million to provide health coverage to undocumented workers and steer $3 billion more to the $2.3 billion “Excluded Workers Fund” to provide pandemic emergency relief to “essential workers” who are undocumented.

Soak-the-rich query

The party — which was instrumental in electing state Attorney General Letitia James on its ballot line when she first ran for City Council and Bill de Blasio to the mayoralty — also asks candidates for legislative office or governor to support bills that would impose a staggering $50 billion increase in taxes on high-income earners, capital gains, inheritances, businesses and Wall Street transactions.

Last year, state lawmakers approved $4 billion in tax hikes on corporations and the wealthy and Albany is now flush with surpluses, not projected deficits.

Moderate and conservative Democrats said they were appalled by the WFP’s “out of touch” agenda.

“The Working Families Party has gone off the deep end. They are

competing with the Democratic Socialists of America, as to who can come up with the craziest and most radical agenda,” said Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein (D-Brooklyn).

Political analysts consider the WFP the force that drags the New York Democratic Party to the left.

State Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs said the answers the WFP questionnaire seeks would be “divisive” and “very problematic for Democratic candidates running in the suburbs and upstate.”

“The direction of the questions would seem to be out of touch with current realities,” said Jacobs, also the Nassau County Democratic leader.

Asked about the WFP urging candidates not to seek backing from police unions, Jacobs said, “Now is not the time to create divisions.”