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The Liberal Party's primary electoral strategy was rarely to run their own candidates. Rather, they generally cross-endorsed the nominees of other parties who agreed with key elements of the LP philosophy. By supporting agreeable candidates and threatening not to support disagreeable ones, the Liberal Party hoped to influence candidate selection by the major parties. Other currently active parties pursuing a similar strategy in New York include the [[Conservative Party of New York State|Conservative Party]] and the [[Working Families Party]].
In 1960, the Liberal Party endorsed [[John F. Kennedy]] for president. On September 14, 1960 he accepted the nomination, giving almost a 20-minute speech defending [[American Liberalism]] and his campaign. Here he also gave a famous quote about liberalism, stating "I'm proud to say I'm a Liberal."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kennedy|first1=John|title=JFK accepts Liberal Party nomination|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvHchXZjx14 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/rvHchXZjx14| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=Youtube|publisher=zencat999|access-date=27 July 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
[[File:Rally in support of John F. Kennedy for president. David Dubinsky is at the podium. (5279398400).jpg|thumb|Liberal Party rally in support of John F. Kennedy for president, 1960. Party leader David Dubinsky is at the podium.]]
While the
In 1969, Lindsay, the incumbent Republican [[Mayor of New York City]], lost his own party's [[primary election|primary]] but was reelected on the Liberal Party line alone, bringing along 'on his coat-tails' enough Liberal candidates for City Council to replace the Republicans as the Minority Party in city government. In 1977, after [[Mario Cuomo]] lost the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York to [[Ed Koch]], the Liberal Party endorsed Cuomo, who proceeded to again lose narrowly in the [[1977 New York City mayoral election|general election]].
Liberal Party candidates played the role of [[Spoiler effect|spoiler]] by being the possible cause of the defeat of Democrat [[Frank D. O'Connor]] in the race for governor in 1966 by naming [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.]] as its candidate in the race against incumbent [[Nelson Rockefeller]]; and again in 1980 when it endorsed Javits (who had lost in the Republican primary for United States Senator to his eventual successor, [[Al D'Amato]]). In the general election for Senator in 1980, it was assumed that Javits took [[Jewish]] votes away from [[Elizabeth Holtzman]], the Democratic candidate, as they both lost to D'Amato.▼
▲The Liberal Party
The Liberal Party declined in influence following the 1980 election. Its 1998 candidate for governor, Lieutenant Governor [[Betsy McCaughey Ross]], received less than two percent of the vote. The party endorsed [[Hillary Clinton]]'s successful campaign for the [[United States Senate]] in 2000, but this did not revive its fortunes. After a very poor showing in the 2002 gubernatorial election when former [[Clinton administration]] [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] member [[Andrew Cuomo]] abandoned his campaign before the election but remained on the ballot and failed to receive 50,000 votes statewide, the party lost its automatic place on the ballot and ceased operations at its state offices.▼
▲The Liberal Party declined in influence following the 1980 election. Its 1998 candidate for governor, Lieutenant Governor [[Betsy McCaughey|Betsy McCaughey Ross]], received
Another hurdle to the efforts to reestablish the Liberal Party is the formation in mid-1998 of the [[Working Families Party]], a party that enjoys, as the American Labor and Liberal parties did in their prime, strong [[labor union]] support.▼
▲Another hurdle to the efforts to reestablish the Liberal Party
The Liberal Party also suffered allegations of corruption and of abandoning its liberal roots in favor of a system of [[patronage]] and [[nepotism]] – Harding relatives were given appointments in the Giuliani administration, and it was argued that it was a ''[[quid pro quo]]'' deal, since Giuliani is not generally considered a "liberal" by New York City standards. In 1999, ''[[The New York Observer]]'' called it an "ideologically bereft institution more interested in patronage than in policy."<ref>Benson, Josh, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080724060034/http://www.observer.com/1999/liberal-boss-ray-harding-will-he-take-rudy-over-hillary "Liberal Boss Ray Harding: Will He Take Rudy Over Hillary?"], ''Observer.com'', 11/08/99.</ref> In 2009, Raymond Harding pleaded guilty to having accepted more than $800,000 in exchange for doing political favors for [[Alan G. Hevesi]], a New York politician who was a frequent Liberal Party endorsee.<ref>{{Citation| last = Hakim| first = Danny| author-link = Danny Hakim| title = Ex-Political Boss Pleads Guilty in Pension Case | newspaper = [[The New York Times]]| pages = A1| date = October 7, 2009| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/nyregion/07pension.html?scp=2&sq=Harding&st=cse| access-date = 2009-10-07}}</ref>
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