Actress Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City to run for NY Governor

[Chief Justice Keef]

Nixon's lack of "qualifications" is a nonfactor. Frankly, there are activists like Nixon that would make far better politicians than many current officeholders. If she has good policies, which she does and Cuomo does not, then she would have my vote. Should we penalize all the veterans running for Congress as Democrats because they didn't occupy a State House/State Senate seat beforehand?

Having these qualifications is purely meritocracy. It's ludicrous to think that politics is a skill you need to learn, because it frames it as a managerial issue rather than an issue of policy, aims and values. Any Governor or President will have advisors anyways. In any case, Cuomo would be considered a "qualified" governor because of his time at HUD and being the state's top attorney, but he's run NY into the ground (don't believe me, take a ride on the NYC subway).

[Chief Justice Keef]

Nixon's lack of "qualifications" is a nonfactor. Frankly, there are activists like Nixon that would make far better politicians than many current officeholders. If she has good policies, which she does and Cuomo does not, then she would have my vote. Should we penalize all the veterans running for Congress as Democrats because they didn't occupy a State House/State Senate seat beforehand?

Having these qualifications is purely meritocracy. It's ludicrous to think that politics is a skill you need to learn, because it frames it as a managerial issue rather than an issue of policy, aims and values. Any Governor or President will have advisors anyways. In any case, Cuomo would be considered a "qualified" governor because of his time at HUD and being the state's top attorney, but he's run NY into the ground (don't believe me, take a ride on the NYC subway).

You know, I'm highly tempted to replace she with he, Cuomo with Clinton, and Nixon with Trump and just repost the argument. If you did though, you would realize how weak this argument is though.

But the problem with Trump isn't his lack of experience, it's his ideology and temperament.

[Chief Justice Keef]

lol Cuomo is going to lose isn't he

[Chief Justice Keef]

11 months is a ridiculous amount of time. Who besides us nerds are even paying attention to electoral politics 11 months before a primary?

At the Maine Democratic Convention in 2016, I had a Bernie delegate tell me he was in favor of closed primaries with a 6-month cutoff. It was surprising coming from a Bernie delegate and I think even that 6 months is stretching it. I’m thinking 2 months top.

Lack of early voting and felon disenfranchisement are much bigger problems.
If Berniecrats really care about democracy they should start from there.

Why not fix both of those and also move up the registration deadline to election day? We have same-day registration in Minnesota and we happen to have the highest turnout rate in presidential elections in the country.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Nixon just came out in support of abolishing ICE.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Nixon just came out in support of abolishing ICE.

Something the Governor if New York has absolutely zero power over. A sign of how bad her campaign has been, often running on things the office doesn't deal with.

It might work as a rallying cry for her campaign.

[Chief Justice Keef]

This is hard for a socialist like myself to get past, but defenders of Cynthia Nixon insist that her comments were taken out of context and she was really attacking pro-Cuomo unions from the left

https://ucommblog.com/section/state-politics/cynthia-nixon-starts-campaign-governor-attacking-unions

She's going after corrupt union bosses who are backing Cuomo, not union workers.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Miner's incompetence during all this doesn't exactly give me confidence that she could've defeated Katko.

I'll take Balter over her, anyways.

[Chief Justice Keef]

this is ridiculous and something no rational person should support.

Okay concern troll

[Chief Justice Keef]

Vote For The Homo!
Not Mister Cuomo!

This is wrong on so many different levels.

You should ask Andrew Cuomo, who coined "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" back when his daddy ran for NYC mayor against Ed Koch.

[Chief Justice Keef]

https://twitter.com/KathyHochul/status/1025469775949049856

Nice going, Kathy. Shaming someone for not being wealthy and living outside a cushion of insane wealthy privilege while using the "angry black man" picture to rouse her voters.

[Chief Justice Keef]

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1029113886325268480

[Chief Justice Keef]

LMAO Cuomo is constantly getting booed by the debate audience. What a joke.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Cuomo looked like a fool tonight, it's pretty clear why he didn't want to have this debate in the first place. The "you are a corporation" back-and-forth was one of the most humiliating parts of this campaign. If anything, tonight showed that he's out-of-touch and losing ground.

Nixon might not be able to pull off an upset in September, but tonight certainly helped her chances.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Even in places where Nixon wasn't at the top of her game, Cuomo looked worse. During the whole "you are a corporation" scuffle, Nixon's response that she asked for helicopters not to fly over Shakespeare could've come off as out of touch if Cuomo wasn't desperately searching for an attack line.

Nixon was not perfect last night, but Cuomo outright shat the bed.

[Chief Justice Keef]

When have socialists ever cared about governing competently? Their favorite country was Venezuela, until, you know, it failed. Like all socialism does.

What about Bolivia?

[Chief Justice Keef]

Just found some time to watch the debate. I was actually friendly towards Nixon's candidacy and may have voted for her if I were a NY resident. But the debate changed my mind. She was very rude and seemed unprepared for the office and the work on policy. I thought she was a fresh new face and alternative to the flawed Cuomo. I was wrong. I'd probably take a look at both again, but currently I lean towards keeping Cuomo in office. Reluctantly.

I mean if a debate is enough to make you turn a blind eye to corruption and complete mismanagement of the state of New York then you're lost.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Just found some time to watch the debate. I was actually friendly towards Nixon's candidacy and may have voted for her if I were a NY resident. But the debate changed my mind. She was very rude and seemed unprepared for the office and the work on policy. I thought she was a fresh new face and alternative to the flawed Cuomo. I was wrong. I'd probably take a look at both again, but currently I lean towards keeping Cuomo in office. Reluctantly.

I mean if a debate is enough to make you turn a blind eye to corruption and complete mismanagement of the state of New York then you're lost.

It may be unfair to lump Nixon with other actors that have run states, but that profession has a piss poor track record when it comes to governing.

Cuomo also has a piss poor track record when it comes to governing.

[Chief Justice Keef]

All the "experience" talk doesn't matter if the people who have those valuable credentials are bad at governing.

[Chief Justice Keef]

How much does the endorsement by the New York Times help Cuomo? I would imagine a lot as even though its not the strongest endorsement it does point out how flawed a candidate Nixon is.

It's an incredibly tepid endorsement, but the details don't really matter. Voters will see the headline and that's that.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Nixon isn't going to win, but this isn't a Cuomo +40 race, and nothing about the Cuomo campaign's last-minute push suggests that. If anything, he wins by 10-15.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Yes, it's atrocious.

But let's remember that if Nixon were a Republican, all of her fans online would be ordering bagels with lox and capers to own the libs.

[Chief Justice Keef]

Predictions for IDC vs. Democrats state senate primaries tomorrow?

Liu, Ramos, Myrie, Robinson, Jackson, Biaggi and maybe May win. In that case, Carlucci is the only IDC member that survives.

[Chief Justice Keef]

The Cuomoslide is probably going to drag the IDC over the top tomorrow. I don't expect Forum D's to be very happy in 24 hours.

Nah, most of the left's energy has been focused on the IDC races. I'd say it's more likely the opposite happens and the anti-IDC candidates push Nixon over the edge.

[Chief Justice Keef]

https://twitter.com/theseantcollins/status/1040271488178429952

It's happening again.