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

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What exactly are her qualifications to be Governor? Like Cuomo or not, Nixon is not qualified to be Governor of a state. You don't just reach for an executive office without any political experience.

This is a silly argument. Perhaps the case can be made that there would be an "experience gap" for somebody running for president without any prior career in government, but offices below that are increasingly less relevant to that point. What "qualifies" someone to run for Congress? For statewide office? For mayor? For city council?

Why is Cynthia Nixon's extensive history as a political activist irrelevant? It's nearly as much a part of her public profile as acting.

She simply doesn't have enough experience being a corrupt establishment hack, duh.

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What exactly are her qualifications to be Governor? Like Cuomo or not, Nixon is not qualified to be Governor of a state. You don't just reach for an executive office without any political experience.

This is a silly argument. Perhaps the case can be made that there would be an "experience gap" for somebody running for president without any prior career in government, but offices below that are increasingly less relevant to that point. What "qualifies" someone to run for Congress? For statewide office? For mayor? For city council?

Why is Cynthia Nixon's extensive history as a political activist irrelevant? It's nearly as much a part of her public profile as acting.

She simply doesn't have enough experience being a corrupt establishment hack, duh.

It's not even about that. If this was a Republican actor or actress with no experience in government entering the race I think more people on the board would be of my opinion. This isn't even about ideology, it's about not turning government into yet another outlet of show business.

Do you argue this when Al Franken ran for Senate?

I never really followed that race, but considering how his tenure ended it would have been better to have someone else in that office.

But Alcee Hasting had plenty of experience being a federal judge, so he's allowed to stay despite sexual harassment. Hmm.

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Anyway, the skepticism of Nixon's qualifications just proves Hillary was right to tout her qualifications. A lot of people sneered at her for emphasizing that point, but a woman has to be better. Unlike a man, she can't go from state senator, independent socialist from a throwaway state, or reality TV star to the nuclear button in a handful of campaign years.

Wow, that was a pretty bad post. The same people who were called sexist in the Presidential primary tend to support Nixon. And Democrats would certainly have the Senate if they didn't think of certain states as throwaway.

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New York state politics seems weird as f**k. Very entertaining.

New York's politics would be about as infuriating as Illinois' or New Jersey's if not for the fact that third parties only need to get 50,000 votes in a gubernatorial election to qualify for ballot access everywhere. This means that every few elections, someone will astroturf a new party or activists will start a new one, and after the election, it will be taken over by opportunists who do what they want with it.

Does anyone remember the STOP COMMON CORE Party?

The worst is probably the 2014 "Woman's Equality" party, some bullsh**t Cuomo came up with even though he had just stopped there from being the first woman governor.

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Very normal.

https://twitter.com/ZackFinkNews/status/986988742421426176?s=19

But no punishment for the IDC that he had to get to pretend to be Democrats for the next 6 months. Such a hypocrite.

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A lot of people I know are registered as an independent or 3rd party and so are sh**t out of luck in voting in this primary thanks to New York's ridiculous laws that you had to change parties 11 months before the primary.

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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.

But that Brooklyn voter purge during the 2016 primaries was totally fine, right?

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How TF can Biden say this with a straight face....c'mon

https://www.twitter.com/NickReisman/status/999677259962372096

Not a single time?  

What is "Marijuana Legalization"
What is "The Independent Democratic Conference"

Also, what is "A gerrymandered State Senate map with 10% population deviation".

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I'm sorry, I just can't get over that Miranda from Sex in the City with zero political experience wants to be Governor of a state with 20 million people. It doesn't matter what she says. It will be good entertainment to see her go down in flames, though.

You just don't get more New York than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XOMnPVPaLY

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Cuomo stopped probe into Harvey Weinstein 6 days after being paid $25,000 by his attorney.

https://www.salon.com/2018/08/29/cuomo-collected-25000-from-weinstein-attorneys-firm-six-days-before-suspension-of-probe-report/

But me too hero Kristin Gillibrand endorsed Cuomo so it's all OK.

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Nixon won’t win but this won’t  be the last we see of her. I think she will run against Carolyn Maloney in 2020

Agreed. This won't be the last of her.

It technically won't even be the last of her this cycle, as the Working Families Party will have to put her on the ballot somewhere in NY State to get her out of the governor's ballot if she loses and doesn't die or move out of NY. The talk is that Nixon is going to be put on the WFP line for Assembly in her Assembly district if she loses. That's not quite the usual Upstate judgeship that she can't win.

Speaking of Cuomo, his refusing to stand down killed the Liberal party in 2002. But I'm sure Nixon would easily break the 50,000 needed to keep the WFP ballot status without campaigning.

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The NY State Democratic party is sending mailers out that basically say that Nixon is an anti-semite. Disgusting.

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Got a poll, but.....its only for Queens.

Cuomo leads 60%-15% in Queens in gubernatorial race, in Attorney General's race Letitia James leads with 25 percent, Sean Patrick Maloney in second place with 13 percent, Zephyr Teachout with 11 percent, and Leecia Eve with 5%. (Poll of Queens only, not statewide)

Wait ... Zephyr's still in the political business? She still thinks the people want her? What an obstinate case! 😒

She's got a better chance than Nixon.

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If you want to know how insanely bad NY's election laws are:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JonCampbellGAN/status/1039882192959270917

It's almost the same 49 counties that Bernie won. Only 4 differences out of 62.

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Teachout and Maloney split the vote here - I think either one of them would have had a shot to beat James alone.

That's why I'm mad that Maloney decided to run for AG. He had no reason to.

He's a very right-wing Democrat who pretended to be progressive. I suspect he was there to split the vote.

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So what's so bad about Dilan exactly? He's the only non-IDC incumbent losing.

Incredibly close to developers and landlords.

Teachout and Maloney split the vote here - I think either one of them would have had a shot to beat James alone.

That's why I'm mad that Maloney decided to run for AG. He had no reason to.

He's a very right-wing Democrat who pretended to be progressive. I suspect he was there to split the vote.

He never branded himself as a "progressive". He was running a pretty bland centrist campaign to appeal to upstate voters.

Well, I know someone who thought he was progressive and was going to vote for him until he heard Bernie endorsed Teachout.

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Scary moment in last night's AG debate, for the dozens of people watching:

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This is disqualifying.

I oppose state-sanctioned executions, but they aren't always a make-or-break issue for me.

But someone who claims to oppose them, but with special exceptions for cases in which retribution becomes politically convenient? That person is dangerous. The prospect of having one as our Attorney General is actually frightening.

Yeah, that is ridiculous and awful.

I'm a Jew and I don't even want Bowers to be executed. Capital punishment accomplishes nothing practical. It's just wasteful cruelty. This was a bad answer by James. She should have just said she was against it. Done. She's a Democrat running in New York. She doesn't need to pander to Jews like this, if that's what this was in fact about.

James is probably also for the death penalty for parked cars that she walks into.