In our state’s 242 year history, we’ve never sent a woman to the governor’s mansion. Today, we’ve got a chance to remedy that with a great candidate who is credible on the issues and has the conviction needed to fix all the institutional problems in Albany.
She’s got an unabashedly progressive agenda, one that New York residents sorely need. It addresses:
And much more. It’s why Indivisible, Daily Kos, 350.org, Working Families and Our Revolution have all endorsed Cynthia Nixon
We have the highest levels of income inequality in the country, some of the most extreme funding gaps in our schools, our infrastructure which was once the envy of the world is crumbling. All of this can be fixed, but it needs a governor who isn’t deeply indebted to the special interests seeking to block progressive legislation.
New York, it’s time for a change.
Get out, and vote for Cynthia Nixon, Zephyr Teachout and Jumanee Williams.
If you needed some extra motivation, there’s a late breaking story that underscores just how embarrassing and scandal prone the Cuomo administration has been.
Despite earlier denials, it turns out that a Cuomo aide drafted the language attacking Cynthia Nixon and his top lieutenant approved it.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s former top lieutenant approved an inflammatory flier that suggested his Democratic rival, Cynthia Nixon, was anti-Semitic, the campaign said on Wednesday. And it was another former aide to the governor who crafted the mailer’s language, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
Lawrence S. Schwartz, the former secretary to the governor, inadvertently signed off on the flier after its language was drafted by David Lobl, a former special assistant to the governor who was volunteering with the re-election campaign, the campaign said. Mr. Lobl suggested the language for the mailer in an email to two campaign aides, who helped create the flier.
The correspondence, dated Sept. 1, shows Mr. Lobl outlining text that was later replicated almost verbatim on the back side of the mailer, which was sent to 7,000 households shortly before Rosh Hashana and days before Thursday’s primary.
It reads:
“CN doesn’t want to fund yeshivas
CN is pro-BDS
CN has been silent on anti-Semetisim,” misspelling anti-Semitism. [...]
Ms. Nixon is not Jewish, but she is raising two of her children in the Jewish faith. The claims in the flier were untrue, including the reference to the BDS movement, which seeks to punish Israel with boycotts, divestment and sanctions.
The flier, which was paid for by the New York State Democratic Committee, was strongly denounced by Mr. Cuomo’s fellow Democrats. — www.nytimes.com/...
Just as with so many other things about the Cuomo administration, their deals with the turncoat IDC, corruption at the highest levels and millions from NY real-estate, this too is shady. Of course, this is not a surprise. Andrew Cuomo was his father’s campaign manager when the infamous “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo” posters appeared. Cuomo is campaigning on “opposing Trump”. Yet he’s been soliciting campaign donations from Trump for decades. And to round this all out, what is the state’s Democratic committee doing sending out attack ads in a hotly contested primary? Just how obvious does this awful machine politics get under Cuomo?
— @subirgrewal