Cynthia Nixon of "Sex in the City" fame pulls up on Cuomo, announces run for Governor

[AnonymityX1000]

I'm more interested in how you will:

• Pass progressive policies without working with Republicans
• Judge a governor who accomplishes little because they only work with the minority
• Willing to give up to get what you find to be the most important

Umm, I don't think she posts here man. I mean maybe, but I doubt it.

 

[Pressure]

Umm, I don't think she posts here man. I mean maybe, but I doubt it.

I am asking you since these are your talking points.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I am asking you since these are your talking points.

You appeal to the constituents who are generally behind theses issues and request they put pressure on their elected officials.

 

[storyteller]

What’s Pulling Cuomo Left? Could It Be ‘the Cynthia Effect’?

Rumors that Cynthia Nixon would mount a challenge to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in New York’s Democratic primary began to surface in early March; by the 20th she had announced her candidacy, and by mid-April she had secured the endorsement of the progressive Working Families Party, which backed the governor, after some sturm and drang, in his two previous elections. Ever since her emergence, the governor has seemed — how to say? — terrified out of his bomber jacket, and has been moving to establish New York as the liberal paradise of a certain kind of voter’s imagination: the kind of voter who would vote for Cynthia Nixon.

Her supporters have described the governor’s increasing shift leftward — delineated below — as “the Cynthia effect,’’ an interpretation of recent events his allies adamantly deny. “The governor’s long record of progressive accomplishment is irrefutable,’’ as Abbey Fashouer, a spokeswoman for the campaign put it (forgetting perhaps that a few years ago, Mr. Cuomo bragged that, fiscally speaking at least, his administration had managed the state “in a way that any Republican would be proud.”


Before Cynthia: Pot Is Terrible. After Cynthia: We’re Just Going to Have to Live With It

Early last year, Mr. Cuomo, who had supported medical marijuana use, said he remained opposed to pot as a means of a good time, calling it a “gateway drug.” In January, he proposed that a commission be established to look at legalizing it. In April, immediately after Ms. Nixon made a case for legalization as a means of reducing racial inequity in the criminal justice system, Mr. Cuomo came forward saying that the situation with marijuana had changed dramatically because so many states near New York had legalized it or were about to and that essentially it was “here anyway.”


Before: Plastic Bags, Schmastic Bags. Now: We Need to Worry About Plastic Bags.

In February 2017, the governor signed a bill killing a law that would have levied a fee of five cents a piece on plastic bags in New York City. Then, late last month, he said he would like to ban all plastic bags in the state because of “the devastating toll on our streets, our water and our natural resources.”

the partnership dissolved, with Mr. Cuomo announcing the new arrangement — Democrats with Democrats — at a Manhattan news conference.

Let’s Restore Voting Rights to the Disenfranchised

On April 18, the governor announced that he intended to restore voting rights to felons on parole, potentially creating 35,000 new voters in the state. Previous efforts to enact this legislation had gone nowhere but now the governor said he was “unwilling to take no for an answer.” He would issue an executive order.

Let’s Remind Everyone How Much We Love Puerto Rico

It is true that the governor has long loved Puerto Rico. He was on the first flight down after Hurricane Maria. On April 29, he announced the New York Stands With Puerto Rico Recovery and Rebuilding Initiative which will deploy hundreds of students from the state’s public university system to do volunteer work on the island beginning in June. They will clean, restore and construct homes and receive academic credit for doing so.

Oh, and Teacher Evaluations Should Be Friendlier

For a long time, one of the signature elements of Mr. Cuomo’s education-reform agenda had been tying teacher evaluations to the test scores students received on state exams. But that metric lost its efficiency as the opt-out movement grew in 2016, with parents keeping their children from taking the tests altogether. The governor knew then things had to move in a different direction. On April 26, the governor announced that he was on board with legislation that would entirely disentangle test scores from teacher assessment. The announcement came immediately after Ms. Nixon had called for a repeal of the evaluation system. The Cuomo camp argued that the legislation had been in the works for a long time.

To be fair, I don't know where him wanting to completely stomp out Nixon stops and wanting a nice look for future prospects (presidential run) starts but just with how he handled the union endorsement ish, it's clear he's not sleeping on Nixon plus some of these shifts (the IDC being the glaring one) are pretty damned hard to separate from her jumping in this race.

 

[DirtyD]

I'm more interested in how you will:

• Pass progressive policies without working with Republicans

You start by electing someone who doesn't lie about disbanding the IDC, a group of rogue Dems who are allied with Republicans and prevent the party from having a true majority, and then does a fundraiser for them a week later.

• Judge a governor who accomplishes little because they only work with the minority

Again Cuomo is helping the IDC fundraise which will keep Dems with progressive policies the minority, a good portion of the IDC is located in NYC where more progressive legislation wouldn't result in losing votes.

• Willing to give up to get what you find to be the most important

Not sure what you mean by this.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

If there's one positive about this, is that now that Cuomo is on record taking new left leaning positions, he'll have no choice but to answer to the flip flopping if he ever dares to run for the WH

You stupid fukk...it's the start of your ending

 

[tru_m.a.c]

If there's one positive about this, is that now that Cuomo is on record taking new left leaning positions, he'll have no choice but to answer to the flip flopping if he ever dares to run for the WH

You stupid fukk...it's the start of your ending

Don't worry. He wouldn't notch any support from the black community. There is no path to the WH.

 

[King Static X]

I think using "reparations" was the wrong word. I agree with her sentiment but that was a terrible choice of words.

She knows how this country feels about reparations towards African-Americans.

Simple things like that can derail a promising campaign .


BTW: I'm not even a supporter of recreational marijuana (decriminalize it definitely, I don't know about the rest)

 

[storyteller]

 

[Captain Crunch]

I don’t fukk with politics, but if Nixon is going to do something tangible for blacks sign me up

 

[Jhoon]

I don’t fukk with politics, but if Nixon is going to do something tangible for blacks sign me up

Can we talk about a few things? First, please start fukking with politics. Another thing is why not contact the campaign and figure out what they can do for you?

 

[Jhoon]

What’s Pulling Cuomo Left? Could It Be ‘the Cynthia Effect’?



To be fair, I don't know where him wanting to completely stomp out Nixon stops and wanting a nice look for future prospects (presidential run) starts but just with how he handled the union endorsement ish, it's clear he's not sleeping on Nixon plus some of these shifts (the IDC being the glaring one) are pretty damned hard to separate from her jumping in this race.

Most people know when death is near.

 

[Pressure]

Don't worry. He wouldn't notch any support from the black community. There is no path to the WH.

He won't.

But he's always flirted with being left then pandered to conservatives during his tenure. As governor some of that reflects the makeup of the NY legislature.

As a white male I don't see him losing. If he follows through with his commitments this is good.

If voters. Move the legislature further left he'll go along and that's another win.

 

[Jhoon]

He won't.

But he's always flirted with being left then pandered to conservatives during his tenure. As governor some of that reflects the makeup of the NY legislature.

As a white male I don't see him losing. If he follows through with his commitments this is good.

If voters. Move the legislature further left he'll go along and that's another win.

Isn’t this going to highlight the truism that democrats are their own obstacle?

 

[AnonymityX1000]

"There is a special place in hell for women who don't support each other." Ha ha