By KAYLA DEMICCO
Staff Writer
For the New York State Gubernatorial elections coming up later this year in November, it looks like current Governor Andrew Cuomo has some competition with Cynthia Nixon, former “Sex in the City” star and New York native.
Nixon is really serious about it. About a month ago, Nixon announced running for New York governor via Twitter saying, “I love New York, and today I’m announcing my candidacy for governor.”
In NYMag, she said, “We’re a deep-blue state. We’re Democratic. I’m sure those people in Albany are doing the right thing and taking care of us.”
According to NYPost, she is trying to avoid to be confused with former President Richard Nixon as she has already registered her campaign as “CynthiaforNewYork” (cynthiafornewyork.com).
The homepage for her website shows her performing tasks as an average New Yorker would and all of the most notable scenes around New York City. The section on her website entitled “Why I’m Running” says, “For the last 17 years, I’ve traveled across this state to fight for better schools, LGBTQ equality, and women’s health care, including the right to choose.” She talks about how New York still has areas of inequality by talking about wages between women plus black and latino families and how they earn less than men.
“Sex in the City” co-star, Sarah Jessica Parker told People Magazine that she’s excited for Nixon and how she’s proud of her. She followed that statement by saying that she plans on endorsing Nixon’s campaign.
Fox News has reported on the political action she has taken within her years of activism. She has been a huge advocate for public schools (which her and Cuomo have had disagreements with), breast cancer awareness, abortion rights and gay rights. These are among some of the issues that she holds close to home as an openly, bisexual woman who has graduated from a public school in her past.
Despite being a Democrat, she told Wendy Williams on her show that Donald Trump’s win in the 2016 election inspired her, she described it as her “wake up call,” to run for Governor as it was “astonishing.”
On the show, she promised to tackle the relevant and urgent issues of infrastructure, what to do with gun control and legalizing marijuana.
New York Times is supportive of Nixon and saying that she can “Save The Democrats” as they are saddened by Hillary Clinton’s loss and the downfall of Bernie Sanders in the primaries. Not being too enthusiastic about how New York politics are dealt with, they slam Cuomo on the “centrist” decisions he has made since 2010 and call him a sexist bully.
They say that the he only makes his progressive choices based on the activists that protest in fear of losing their support. Unlike Cuomo, Nixon is looking to support single-payer health care and stands with Sanders on putting more taxes on the rich.
Even though there is speculation going around that Cuomo might run for President in the 2020 election and he’s definitely running for re-election later this year, I believe that Nixon has a pretty good chance of winning as long as liberals in New York that are looking for a change are registered to vote and actually show up at the polls.
