Cynthia Nixon was endorsed yesterday by the Working Families Party of New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who ran on the Working Families line in the past, didn't even try for the endorsement. Instead, two unions that supported Cuomo pulled their support from the minor party and left in a huff. In a comment on the result, Nixon had this to say: "The last eight years under Andrew Cuomo have been an exercise in living with disappointment and dysfunction and dishonesty." Remember Cuomo has led what seems to be the most corrupt gubernatorial regime of the last fifty years, and in New York, that really says a lot. Nothing with which the governor is involved has seemed to improve under his tenure. Taxes are higher; people are leaving the state; transportation services are faltering and failing; things are not good in NY.
Still, it does seem a bit strange to have as the other candidate for the Democrat line an actress who has never held public office (although she may have played one --or at least slept with one -- on TV.) A new governor for NY would be best if he or she were able to separate totally from the corruption of Albany and lead a true revolution across the Empire State. New York should not be a collection of the wealthy and those supported by the state; it ought to be a society where individuals are able to work hard and prosper on their own merits. Nixon would not be the one to do that.
Still, it does seem a bit strange to have as the other candidate for the Democrat line an actress who has never held public office (although she may have played one --or at least slept with one -- on TV.) A new governor for NY would be best if he or she were able to separate totally from the corruption of Albany and lead a true revolution across the Empire State. New York should not be a collection of the wealthy and those supported by the state; it ought to be a society where individuals are able to work hard and prosper on their own merits. Nixon would not be the one to do that.
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