Our Timeline & Approach
How Candidates Become Considered for Endorsements
CUFFH Action endorsement committee includes CUFFH Action members, Board members, staff, & clergy (non-voting). All candidates have to be approved by the full Board.
CUFFH Action will review all applications and determine who to progress to the next stage of our endorsement process.
CUFFH Action will send questionnaires to candidates in races important to CUFFH and CUFFH’s members, as well as any candidates who specifically request a CUFFH Action questionnaire.
For new endorsements, we like to schedule a brief endorsement interview with our endorsement committee in order to get to know candidates and their platforms better. If a candidate has already been endorsed by the Working Families Party (WFP), CUFFH Action members will attend WFP endorsement committee meetings.
CUFFH Action employs a holistic consideration process for candidate endorsements, but we will be strongly reluctant to consider candidates:
Accepting corporate PAC money, real estate money, police money, or money from senior executives in the fossil fuel industry
Are not aligned with our organizational values, as defined within our questionnaire & values statement page.
During screenings, CUFFH Action will share expectations for endorsed candidates + CUFFH’s realistic capacity within their race.
Timeline
Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, but the first batch of applications will be reviewed by January 8th, 2025, and the questionnaire will be open until the end of January.
We will announce our endorsements beginning in February 2025.